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Yes, Gratz Very beautiful. Did you ever see such wonderful frames? They dance like the lovely girls of the belly, huh? Gratz Tonight will be a turning point in history. I have no interest in history. Mr. Dietrich I'm an artist and but with good business sense Now that my work is done. There's that matter of the 50,000 marks. You have earned your money well Gratz When you put the torch to the Reichstag You've started a flaming symbol that will rage for years to come That was February 27th 1933 the infamous Reichstag fire in Berlin And though Hitler's Germany has since been crushed Sparks of that fire still smolder the greed and ruthlessness that started it still survive and flourish Three weeks ago in Tangier, North Africa Carl Dietrich still calm still arrogant waited in his sumptuous office Your phone call to wolf in new york is ready. Mr. Dietrich. Thank you me man Hello wolf Dietrich, uh, did uh, did you get my message mr. Dietrich? Yes, Ms. Campo decoded it properly Ah, then I'll go right ahead and destroy the account books as I said in the message You'll do nothing of the kind but the federal grand jury meets here in new york at the end of next week They're going to investigate all exporting companies. Oh, you said wolf. They'll subpoena our books They'll have a record of all the transactions. Don't let it worry you But don't you see they'll find out that my exporting company is just a a dummy for supplying your combine with potential war materials Just leave it to me wolf. Oh, what can you do mr. Dietrich? You're thousands of miles away. I'll be ruined. I I'll kill myself before I let them put me in jail. Stop talking like an idiot I'll handle everything. I'm taking the first plane for new york All right, peter switch that message to channel four just to speed of the turn table right mr. Harding His electronic decoder is the laboratory boys develop certainly save time and we have to decode in a hurry Oh, hold it peter You started from the beginning Agent robes and counter spy transmitter lc4 tanjiro north africa to harding head-to-gear time According to passports their destination that tip you passed along the grapevine to eric wolf in new york works That is looks out of way peter. He's certainly peg wolf of the jittery type He smells trouble and right away he sends for papa Dietrich That was a smart stunt not to pull wolf in for questioning Well, wolf's only a small cog in Dietrich setup peter He's just the man who ships the supplies to the marshal flan countries and you want the big boys Dietrich. Yes It's Dietrich who engineers the trick of getting such war potential items as oil steel and chemicals Trans ship to his customers and nations outside the marshal plan Well, it looks like we'll be able to reel in the big fish now Yeah, as long as Dietrich was operating from his tanjiro headquarters. He was out of our reach Now what we have to do is nail him when he steps off the plane in new york Well, i'm not having Dietrich picked up peter's yet. Hmm Dietrich the shrewd operator. We need direct evidence against him. So we go to new york there That's right peter. We go to new york and we stand by until Dietrich and wolf give us the evidence we want Go ahead j-12 If the three have juxtaposed wolf, you'll join us in a drink, huh? Uh, no, no, thank you, mr. Dietrich You need a huge one The usual mr. Dietrich Mr. Dietrich the grand jury convenes at the end of the week. Yes wolf, I know Haha, how can you be so calm? I have a calm nature I won't have a chance my books were They'll expose everything. I'll be finished. Something's got to be done. You've got to save me mr. Dietrich I haven't said well stop that disgusting whining Here's your drink, me now. Thank you, mr. Dietrich Well, don't you realize I have as much to lose as you have More You think I ran the risk of coming here just for pleasure? I have millions at stake But if our account books are taken before the grand jury that Let me worry about those books wolf That should be grass The gentleman I'm expecting Me now, let him in please Of course mr. Dietrich I'm Nina Yes mr. Dietrich Keep that door to the foyer closed In case it is not grass Certainly Hello Nina God, well, come in Why you dressed in overall It was Dietrich's idea of precaution I'm posing as a hotel utility man And mr. Dietrich's name is Hotel utility man And mr. Dietrich's in the other room waiting for you And you Nina This will give you an idea Oh Nina darling We shouldn't take chances like this God, how long do I have to go on working for Dietrich Nina you took the job with Dietrich so We'd have inside information on anything especially good But what's wrong with his knowing about us Then Dietrich wouldn't trust you That we're going to get what we want He must have complete faith in Nina darling, I promise you Enough money to be free of Dietrich forever Now help me with these overalls I better get inside I want you to meet mr. Wolf There's mr. Gratz Mr. Wolf? Of my old friend Gratz Going to attend to your account books He's going to destroy them What? Destroy them Well that would give us away you said so yourself I believe you have a supply Of kerosene oil on hand In your warehouse Yes, for export next week That kerosene is not going to be Exported Your warehouses going up in smoke I had Gratz come up from Argentina Especially for the assignment Gratz specializes in fires The Reichstag was my masterpiece Tomorrow morning wolf Gratz will visit you at your warehouse He will pose as an insurance inspector He will show me through the building And I will select the best way to approach the problem The evening after next wolf Your warehouse will be destroyed An unfortunate Accident But mr. Dietrich What if they find out it isn't an accident Wolf I, Hans Gratz I'm a perfectionist When I create an accidental fire Believe me it's accidental Peter's in patrol car Through the Harding New York field office Go ahead Peter Wolf just came out of the hotel Tremont He visited Dietrich for an hour All right Peter, have J-12 Keep on Wolf's trail Also tell J-9 to stick close to Dietrich When and if he leaves the hotel And one more thing Peter I sign a man to shout out Dietrich's secretary I'm curious to see where Nina Campo Fits into this picture Gratz, I waited for you this afternoon At your hotel, what happened My work at Wolf's warehouse took longer than I expected I was going to call you here at your hotel But I didn't want to take a chance With Dietrich around But he'll be coming out of a living room in a minute At least I want to know something Anything darling If you said last night that after this deal We'd be free of him We will, I promise But he's paying you only $5,000 Darling that's not enough money for us To get away and live I have a plan Nina A plan that will build that 5,000 Into 100,000 Oh Mr. Dietrich Sorry to keep you waiting Gratz Did uh Miss Campo keep you entertained I'm afraid I'm dull company Mr. Dietrich I don't think Gratz thinks so Do you Gratz? Miss Campo is always Pleasant to be with Well Nina you see Well Gratz how did your inspection Club go? Excellent, excellent I'm going back to the warehouse tonight And uh Wolf understands What his part is to be I don't want any mistakes Gratz Mr. Dietrich there'll be no mistakes Tomorrow night Everything will go according to plan On the radio telephone With the report for him Good This is Harding, relay J-12 In on circuit 5 Go ahead J-12 We'll stand by J-12 There's an iron on our way down This may be it Peter You think Wolf's going in with warehouse for his records Dave? Well that's the way I expected him to react If he does take those books out he may deliver them To Dietrich, let's go Three minutes sleep Wolf I waited outside a little First you told me to make sure I wasn't Seeing coming in here Is everything ready Gratz? Of course Amazing how simply Mr. Dietrich Solved such difficult problems I'll never get out of this difficulty But soon my worries will be over Yes, Mr. Dietrich is a remarkable gentleman Uh, hadn't we better get over to the kerosene Drums so you can start the fire Fire will start right here With this pile of Excelsior But the kerosene's at the other end of the building Near the office where the account books are Gratz we can't take a chance The fireman may get here and put the fire out Before it gets that far I told you Wolf I'm a perfectionist I'm going to save this warehouse Once I put a match to this Excelsior How can you be sure? How can you? My dear Wolf There are secrets to every trade For example, look over there On the floor behind you What do you mean? I don't see anything particular As you said before Wolf Soon all your worries Will be over You were right You and all your Worries are going up in smoke Back to counters by in just a moment But first Pepsi Cola hits the spot Two full glasses that's a lot Lots more value, lots more zest Why take less when Pepsi is best? More and more among fellows and girls Among mothers and dads You hear that scene and sensible question Why take less when Pepsi is best? No budget, no allowance, ever had a better friend Than tangy, sparkling Pepsi Cola Because one big 12-out Pepsi bottle Gives you two delicious drinks That's twice as much tangy taste Twice as much delicious Pepsi To go just twice as far That's why more and more families say Why take less when Pepsi is best? Yes, families like yours and mine Families all over America They're all saying Why take less when Pepsi is best? 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And now, back to counters by The street before the Wolf Warehouse Is a black mass of people As three fire companies fight the towering flames Back of the fire lines, David Harding In a counters by patrol car With his assistant, Harry Peters Is receiving a report from another agent I was waiting outside the warehouse For Wolf as you ordered About five minutes after he had entered I saw the flames I tried to get in there to save Wolf But no goal You better get those burns on your hands Right, chief, I don't get it Wolf walks into that warehouse And five minutes later, it goes up like a matchbox It's got the fire marshal puzzle too, Peter That warehouse was equipped with Every fire prevention device Including a sprinkler system The only angle I can see is that Wolf became panicky He was afraid we were getting too close So he decided to get rid of his books By faking an accidental fire But he was trapped in the warehouse You go along with me? Wolf got out by a rear exit We should have had an agent at that rear exit Yes, but Dave, you agree with me about the books Yes, Peter, but I'm holding off any other speculation Until we get a laboratory analysis of that fire Nina, come in, darling I can only stay a minute, Gus I told Dietrich I was going for a short walk He said you told him everything went according to plan Hmm, almost Dietrich said it was perfect It was, Nina, for us But not for Dietrich Thank you I told you I'm going to build that $5,000 Into $100,000 Remember? Yes In that fire tonight Dietrich got only one of the two things he wanted Wolf's death Unfortunately, the second thing The account books They were not burned in the flames What do you mean? I removed the account books from the warehouse They are now right here in my closet Oh It would have been a crime to destroy them For only $5,000 After all, Nina, such valuable documents Really a crime, don't you agree, darling? Yes, yes Dietrich could play anything to get his hands on those books Wouldn't he? $100,000 will be enough We mustn't be picked Oh, Gus Gus, you're wonderful Nina, I can hardly wait to see Karl Dietrich's face When I tell him the price, he is $100,000 $100,000 And well worth the price, Dietrich, don't you think? $100,000 Black man I have to think I once trusted you, Grats We all make mistakes, Dietrich Some are more expensive mistakes than others Yours will cost you $100,000 And what if I don't pay? How can you afford not to pay? The illicit trading business is worth millions of dollars to you Why should you jeopardize it for a paltry $100,000? A grand jury meets Friday, Dietrich I shall give you until Thursday to deliver the money It's right away, Dave. What's up? The laboratory analysis on that fire is ready for us, Peter First, that warehouse was set ablaze by probably the cleverest arsonist in the business Next, the flames spread quickly because of oil in the warehouse That black smoke, huh? We guessed that last night But here's something we didn't guess Our chemist found globules of kerosene oil in the sprinkler system pipes and valves The sprinkler system was apparently loaded with kerosene instead of water As the lab reconstructed, the arsonist started a small fire in the rear of the warehouse The heat opened the sprinkler valves and the kerosene took care of the rest That's right The real professional job Well, now about Wolf Craces of human bone were found in the ruins There's no doubt Wolf died in that fire There's a good possibility he was murdered Yeah It might have been convenient for Dietrich to get Wolf out of the way Very convenient Dietrich would be burning two birds with one match We can't pick Dietrich up on that Raph, chief According to our reports, he was in his hotel room all evening Yes, I know, but there's another... No, just a minute Harding J-12 reporting, sir Go ahead, J-12 Nina Campo left her room at the Tremont Hotel She's now visiting room 907 Okay, J-12, let me have a full report when Nina Campo returns to the Sergeant Right Nina Campo Hotel Sergeant, what's that about this? Dietrich's secretary, Nina Campo, left her hotel last night, Peter You think maybe she's the one who put the torch to the warehouse? No Nina Campo walked out of her hotel at 11, almost an hour after the fire began Where'd she go? The same place where she is now Room 907 in the Hotel Sergeant And Peter's the occupant of 907 is a man named Gratz Gratz? A check-up shows he arrived in New York Sunday on a plane from Argentina Then maybe Gratz is the fire bug It could be There's more J-12 got into the room next to his He overheard Nina Campo and Gratz making arrangements to meet there this afternoon again It's too bad we haven't got a detector phone in there But we have, I had it installed this morning Oh, I might have known Peter, I'm very anxious to hear the recording of the conversation between Gratz and Nina Campo There's no telling what interesting things those two are saying to each other What did Dietrich say, Nina? You'll get the money tomorrow, Gratz Hmm, that's very sensible of Dietrich Now it's wonderful to see him squirm Gratz, are the books still in that closet? Yes, of course, Swine Well, they mean so much to us I was concerned about you leaving them here They're perfectly safe, Nina Oh, you could never tell Nina, except myself Only one person knows where those books are And I can trust you, can't I? Of course, darling Always Well, Peter, Dave, this record winds it up for us Not quite Aren't you ever satisfied? Yes, when I'm sure that people like Gratz and Dietrich get what they deserve, the electric chair Then what's next? Well, I thought to Gratz And the way he feels about Nina Campo What do you mean? Well, something Gratz said to Miss Campo He said, and I can trust you, can't I? Peter, I have an idea that Gratz's faith in Miss Campo is going to be sadly twisted Come in, Gratz You haven't brought the books with you, Gratz I have the money ready, but you were to bring the books I brought this instead What do you expect to accomplish with a gun? Hold me up Talk about it in the other room Move along Very well Stand right there As you say Where's Nina Campo? By Where is she? In the next room Tell her to come in here What is she to do with it? Dietrich, this gun can do ugly damage Tell Nina Campo to come in here Nina, come in here please Not really, Gratz, what is this all about? I wonder if you didn't know Yes, Mr Dietrich, what is it? I was taken aback by Gratz's gun too, Nina I don't understand, Gratz You can stop acting both of you Mr Dietrich, what's the matter with Gratz? Nina, you really had me fooled Every minute you spent with me was for him Gratz, I don't know what you're talking about You were just using me all the time Please, I don't understand Where are they, Nina? The books, Wolves' account books The ones you stole from the closet in my hotel room I didn't, Gratz You must believe me, I didn't A nice scheme Dietrich had, Nina Using you to keep tabs on me, very clever Believe me, I didn't steal those books You were the only one who knew where they were And that's why you were so worried yesterday You were afraid I'd hidden them somewhere else And when I was out this morning you came into my room That's not true Ask Mr Dietrich Tell him, Mr Dietrich Tell him I haven't left here all day But, Nina, you did That's a lie You know I wasn't out of here Tell him the truth, Mr Dietrich Nina left the hotel this morning And was gone for an hour Mr Dietrich, he'll kill me What a pity, Dietrich It's a pity for both of you Believe me, Gratz, I have nothing to do with this It's all quite new to me Evidently, Nina has played us both for fools It won't work, Dietrich You're both going to die Wait, Gratz, don't shoot Oh, I'm not going to shoot What? I'm a perfectionist, remember I deal in fire Dietrich, you and Nina will have the same Accident, which disposed of wool You see this metal tube and incendiary All I do is release the cap Then log this door from the outside In no time at all it will be over for you too Drop that gun, Gratz Never Oh, my hand Get his gun, Peter Beside that chair Got it, sir He was going to kill us Thank heavens you arrived Whoever you are Dietrich, I don't think you'll like who we are What? This is David Harding, chief of the United States counter-spies Counter-spies? Those are count books of wool They're in the Counter-Spy New York field office Ready for presentation to the federal grand jury in the morning What? Yes, Gratz, we got them out of your room, not Nina Campo I had an idea that their sudden absence would provide the evidence I wanted And it did Evidence, Gratz, that will finish both your career and Dietrich In the electric chair When your friends drop in, be generous But be thrifty, too Serve plenty of delicious Pepsi Cola Pepsi's big 12-ounce bottle gives you not just one sparkling glass full, but two Get a carton of six and serve 12 delicious drinks Yes, Pepsi is America's biggest cola value You get twice the tangy taste Twice the refreshment Twice the Pepsi So why take less when Pepsi's best? Whenever you reach for refreshment, remember Pepsi Cola hits the spot Two full glasses, that's a lot Lots more value, lots more zest Why take less when Pepsi's best? 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