 From Hollywood the mutual network and cooperation with family theater presents the adventures of Amy Starring Jean Cagney to introduce the drama. Here's your host Jack Haley Thank You Tony LaFranco Family theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives If we're to win peace for ourselves peace for our families and peace for the world Family theater urges you to pray Pray together as a family And out of our drama the adventures of Amy starring Jean Cagney It was 635 central standard time as we dropped through the overcast and leveled off on our approach to runway number three at the Chicago Midway Airport Looking down through the early evening darkness. I could see the criss-crossing pattern of runways come nearer and nearer and Then we were on the ground and I felt happy And a little sad I Had reached a sort of milestone as air stewardess Amy Wilson. I had just completed my 200th commercial flight I hope you enjoyed your trip Mr. Eden. Oh, did young lady always enjoy a North American flight and especially when you're in charge You wouldn't be taking flight back to New York Sunday would you afraid not? I'm here until Tuesday and then we go down to Kansas City Well, give my best at that ball headed skipper of yours. Maybe I'll catch you next month Bye, Mr. Eden. Good luck on that contract. Thanks. Oh by the way when you do get back to New York I wonder if you'd return this book to the library at the terminal. I'd appreciate it. Of course, Mr. You'd not be happy to thank you. I'll see you Amy. Bye Excuse me stewardess. I I hope I didn't frighten you. No, I I just thought everyone had left the ship. Well, I waited. I Wanted to ask a favor. Well, certainly, Mr. Carson. That's right I imagine this is a little irregular, but I I wonder if you or maybe one of the pilots or purses would Would run a little errand for me. Well, you see I promised to deliver this briefcase to a man at the Sherman Hotel I I said I'd get it to him by eight o'clock tonight. It's rather important and I'm going to be jammed up on time I've got a business appointment out south. Oh, I'd be glad to do it. Oh, that's wonderful. I sure appreciate this I'm staying in the loop anyway. Now. I want you to take this $10 bill for cab fare and here I'll write down the man's name. It's Jason Hugh Jason There at the Sherman and just leave it at the desk. Oh really mr. Carson? I can't take sure you can it's for the cab fare That's only right now Here's the briefcase and and thanks again. I'm late now. I'll just see you. They get to find a clock. Goodbye Before I could say another word he turned hurried down the steps and disappeared in the rain I looked at the briefcase. He'd handed me It was a new one with a zipper top Rather heavy for its size and over the class probably holding it shut was a small brass padlock What do you got there daughter something for the lost and found? Oh, please I was just coming forward to show this this thing to you one of the passengers gave it to me That's the difference between a stewardess and the chief pilot We get all the gripes and you get the gratuities. It's not a gratuity. Thank you I'm running an errand for someone, you know, you're gonna get in trouble someday doing favors for everybody Who gave you the $10 bill? It's a short story, but I'll stretch it out. Come on. Let's catch that cab So what do you make of my mr. Carson plate? Oh, not a thing. Yes, you're running an errand. You're running an errand But there was something I don't know something funny about it though The way he waited in the plane until all the others were gone. Yeah, just imagining things Clayton plumber I take your advice on a lot of things mainly because I respect your judgment also because I'm old enough to be your father But even by you I won't be told I'm having hallucinations Very well miss Amy This guy Carson is an escaped Transylvanian and the briefcase contains the crown jewels. Oh go climb a tree Okay, what's the freight captain Okay, Clayton, I'll get it. No, no, it's all right. I'll get it. That's what he gave me the money for Driver take it out of this tin. Okay lady. Look since I can't buy you a ride How about coming up to my sister's for dinner? Lots of young handsome pilots drop around and talk shop all night. No Excuse me, but you know where you got this bill. Why is there something wrong with it? It's hot hot. Yeah stolen Yeah, look see the list of series numbers on this card. Are you kidding? No, the Treasury Department puts it out hackies are getting bad money pushed at them all the time That's why I keep this card. You mean counterfeit money counterfeit hot both kinds Now you see the series numbers on this tin you gave me here hold it down by the meter. Yeah Well now look at that number on the card second from the bottom. I Told you there was something funny about Carson. That's what you did daughter You know the guy who passed you this we just brought him in on a flight from New York Well, you better report him to the police that dough's been stolen probably from a bank Well, does it say that in your card? No, but they don't fool around with nickels when they give a series numbers like this to watch for it Means there's been a whole block of dough left it up in the thousands Clay took the $10 bill back in the CAD drive and paid him off in singles And then we ended the lobby of the hotel all the public phones were in use. We had to wait in line Great great. What's the matter? Look the dame and that phone booths getting ready to drop another dime There it goes give the lady a big fat cigar clay. I just thought of something What about this briefcase? Hey, maybe we ought to turn that over to police too, huh? But well if if there's really nothing wrong with Carson I mean suppose he took the bill innocently from someone else. Well, then he hasn't got anything to worry about Yes, but I promised I'd deliver this to his friend here by eight o'clock He said it was important and it's almost eight now. Amy. What's the name of the fellow you're supposed to give it to? Oh, I got it written down here Jason Hugh Jason. Hmm. Carson to Jason sounds like two-thirds of a double play. Well, haha That's his name or better yet an advertising agency. Let's see Thank you enough for all this help you're giving me. All right. Now look here's what you do What I'm calling the police you get on a house phone Tell this guy Jason who you are that you've been delayed at the airport Mm-hmm See you'll arrive here at the hotel in about 20 minutes You'll give him the briefcase then doing which time the police will get here. We wash our hands of everything. That's it So looks like a palace gonna spend the night in that phone booth after all now look on it You get a hold of Jason. I'll be through here in a minute. Meet you over by the reservation desk I Was still carrying the briefcase as I started across the crowded lobby toward the roll house phones along the opposite wall Cluster of five or six men were standing in front of the cigar counter smoking and looking at magazines I didn't know there was anyone following me until I felt the pressure on my arm Well, you keep walking this don't make a move. Just keep walking. Mr. Carson was we're going upstairs in that elevator if you start a fuss. You'll be sorry Oh, but I promise you miss you will be sorry Now let's go There are only three other people in the elevator counting the man who ran it the two passengers get off at the fourth floor We get off at the age Do you mind telling me what this is all about? I'll take that briefcase Of course, who's that pilot you're with calling on the phone downstairs? Just a friend Why didn't you leave the briefcase at the desk as soon as you came in? We had to telephone. Now listen Tell me the truth. Is that pilot calling the police? What? No, why would he do that? It's important that I know Miss, do you know what's in this briefcase? No, almost $60,000 I stole it. I work in a bank and I stole it I'm telling you this because I want to give it back I want to turn myself over to the police, but I want to do it my way Well, if you want to give yourself up, I don't see what difference it makes a lot of difference to me I'm not in this all by myself, and I'm not going to take all the blame for it So either we handle things my way or not at all now, which is it I didn't have any choice Mr. Carson, the man who would give me the $10 bill in the briefcase was desperate He disgraced himself and he ruined his career and now he was sorry Sorry and frightened. I'll admit it. I'm afraid of Hugh Jason He busts the whole operation and if he isn't caught my life won't be worth a plug nickel And he he's in this hotel right now. Yes, that's why I wanted you to live their money to him I was gonna call the police and they'd catch Jason red-handed with the stuff Well, isn't there any other way you could have implicated him? No, he fences the money. What? He sells it. He's pretty clever All right All right, I'll help you What do you want me to do? Ten minutes later. I stepped out of an elevator into the lobby again I barely had time to look around before clate and a tall lanky man in a brown suit rushed up to me Honey, where have you been? You wouldn't believe me if I told you young lady. My name is lieutenant Robinson Amy police department. Oh Oh, how do you do? Pretty good miss Wilson. Where's the briefcase Carson gave you? I gave it back to him. He he's upstairs We know he's upstairs. He just put a call through to the lobby You should have hung on to that briefcase. Well after all it was his briefcase. Oh, you folks are a stick to flying airplanes Hey, I'll sign that statement. Who was Carson calling the police didn't know we were already here. Oh Oh, I I guess you know as much about this as as I do then We know he robbed his own bank in New Jersey and says he wants to give himself up Did he say anything about a man named Jason? Yep, and he wants 15 minutes before we close in on Bootha Well, all the hotel entrances are blocked I guess we might as well give it to him So mr. Carson got his 15 minutes We stood there in the lobby at the wall clock over the reservation desk Watching mr. Carson's time go by and listening to lieutenant Robinson I talked to the president of the bank this evening about him on the phone, but Carson says he's really brilliant I mean phenomenal add a column of five figures that kind of thing never make a mistake And like during the war they had him in Washington these cogs and ciphers, you know, yeah enemy codes He had an eye for it a mind for it could cut right through the gibberish and figure things out smart phone Makes you kind of wonder doesn't it man with that kind of a brain. He winds up in a mess like this At 9 0 5 Lieutenant Robinson and his men started upstairs to room 612 the room that mr. Carson had told them Jason was occupying 10 minutes crept by Then 20 what are you so fidgety about well, they should have come down by now I'll bet something's gone wrong. Oh, you worry too much Look the place is crawling with cops if there's any trouble they can handle it Maybe Jason gave him the slip now. How could he all Carson has to do is point him out and the party's over What do you say we go into the coffee shop and get a sandwich? I'm starving But supposing Carson hasn't pointed him out who else would know him on site a lieutenant Robinson hasn't ever seen him Amy Everywhere in the world you do this Cairo London Wichita You got to stick your nose into something if something has gone wrong like what like Clay let's go upstairs and see there's nothing to see upstairs, but a lot of cops But I've got an idea. I got a better one. Let's have a sandwich. I'm going upstairs Are you coming with me or not daughter? Well, you just once quit trying to save the world very well I'll go by myself In the elevator an idea struck me if the police hadn't closed in on Jason yet That might mean it was because he wasn't in his room And he was still waiting for him to arrive there And if that was so I could only think of one other place in the hotel where he might be Walked down the empty hallway to the room I'd seen Mr. Carson enter almost an hour ago. I tried the door It was locked. I was just about to turn and leave when I heard a key in the latch and the door swung open Yeah, sir. I was looking for for mr. Carson. So was I ma'am. I guess we're both too late looks like he skipped out Oh, don't take my word for it step in see for yourself I walked into the room and the pleasant-looking little man with the white hair closed the door after me He told the truth. There was no sign of Carson although The briefcase I given back to him was lying at the foot of his bed You were a friend of mr. Carson's man. Well in a way are you he wouldn't think so I'm an investigator for that bank you robbed. I Um, I see you recovered the money. Oh, oh, you mean briefcase. Yeah got that back anyhow Just a shame. I couldn't have nabbed Carson in the bargain All of a sudden I realized there was something wrong He hadn't seemed surprised at all that I knew Carson kept the money in that briefcase And he made no effort to explain why it should have been left behind There was only one conclusion This small soft-spoken gentleman with the twinkly eyes Was Jason. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned miss But how is it a nice girl like you knows a man like Carson? You meet him on one of your airplanes. Well, yes, he was a passenger on the flight in from New York this evening Did you know him very well mr. Williams Clarence Williams? No, not too well miss just Professionally, oh, I see Well, I guess I'd better be getting this money down into the hotel vault. Oh by the way Did you round up the other man who was in on the robbery other man? Who's that? Oh, I thought you knew Mr. Carson told me all about him. His name is Jason Just for a second his face froze In another moment it was warm and friendly again, but I had learned what he didn't want me to know Just what is it? He told you about this Jason fellow miss Well that he'd helped to organize the robbery and he was just as guilty as mr. Carson himself mm-hmm Anything else? Did he describe Jason? No, but well now let's see I Started talking about anything everything that the Carson had told me I was stalling for time and I was scared The friendly blue eyes began to harden and then suddenly For no reason that I can explain I I noticed the calendar What are you looking at that on the floor? It looks like a piece of cardboard sticking out from under the door of that closet from where? From here under the door of this closet. Yeah, let me see that. It's just a calendar or part of give it to me He snatched the torn piece of cardboard out of my hand and stared at it Then he flipped it over on the other side and I saw what it was The lower half of one of those calendars you find tacked up in every hotel closet in the country Amy Amy you in there Who's that a friend of mine? You better let him in You all right when I told tenor Robinson you were upstairs. We started looking for I'm glad you did who's this man miss Wilson Yeah, my name is Williams. I'm a bank investigator. He is not. He's the man you're looking for he's Jason my dear young lady Let's see your credentials Williams. Why certainly Hey, you are lieutenant Hey look all right. I've been chasing Carson ever since he left, New Jersey Don't you believe him lieutenant that briefcase? He's got is the one that Carson gave me. It's full of money Well, of course it is and you're trying to get out of here with it I intend to turn it over to the manager of this hotel for safe keeping lieutenant believe me He's Hugh Jason miss Wilson this man's credentials are in order. Well, have you found Jason yet? He didn't show up What about mr. Carson? We haven't found him either. I think he skipped out lieutenant as I was telling this young lady You got to believe me this man is Jason everything. He's done has been suspicious. Why why even this calendar? For the first time I I noticed something significant about it It had been ripped exactly in half And then I saw what it meant Perhaps it was because of what lieutenant Robinson had told us about Carson down in the lobby About his mind and how quickly it worked and and how good he'd been at breaking codes and ciphers during the war Anyway, I saw it Clip the closet look in the closet Now what's the closet got to do with it lieutenant Robinson? Please look in the closet cheese out of her head It's locked say what goes on here. Oh break it open, please. This is ridiculous break it open mr. Carson's in there I know he is awesome. That's the silliest thing I ever heard of you stick right here Williams. We'll see how silly it is Carson he's out cold looks like he's been drugged He's alive all right Let's get him on the bed. Let me give you a hand That's it Phone down for a doctor and Jason you stay right where you are. I Want to see my lawyer. I got a hunch. You'll be seeing plenty of him from now on Wilkins take this guy down and book him. Oh You want to sit down daughter? Oh, I'm gonna have to clean I'm just gonna have listen young lady. I I'm very grateful for this But what happened? How did you know for sure that Carson was in the closet and this guy was Jason? Yeah, explain it to me. It was It was the calendar calendar the message in the calendar He was trying to name the person who drugged him. There's no message on this Not a thing written on either side of it as far as I can see all he did was turret in half That's right, but it was the lower half those last six months He pushed out from under the door before he became unconscious Okay, miss Wilson. So this is the last six months. Well, what does that give you Jason? Daughter, I think the strain of all this been just a little too much for you It has not Lieutenant Robinson said mr. Carson was good at codes and ciphers during the war didn't he? Well, what other? Lieutenant did Carson have anything in there? He could have written with a pen or a pencil. I doubt it He's in his shirt sleeves well that proves it He couldn't write down Jason's name. So he did the next best thing when he found this calendar. Hmm now look look at the lower half Yeah, the last six months with December torn off July J August a September s October o November n j a S on Jason Well, I'll be grounded. Oh, I don't know what the Commission is going to say about this Well, you asked mr. Carson when he comes to if that isn't what he meant July August September. Oh brother Do you like it mr. Plummer? Not just yet daughter Well, I advise you to stop liking it right away because from now Oh, don't say it every time you tell me to stop trying to help now Amy whether we're in Rome or London or Sioux Falls Well, well, I just won't pay any attention This is Jack Haley again You know we have family theater wish to express again our gratitude for your letters of appreciation and criticism of our family theater productions It is we know not always convenient for you to write us But we ask that you be conscious of the fact that the satisfaction we feel in receiving your letters is not only Reflected in the production of stories that you want to hear But is so satisfying and that it proves to us that the purpose of this program is being met a purpose which has but one goal Family prayer if this goal can be brought about by good entertainment stories that you want to hear then we are encouraged in our purpose Family prayer is not solely the province of adults But it serves as the best example we can provide our children for children should be taught to pray and They learn best by seeing and doing that is why week after week. We ask you to pray Pray together as a family that is why week after week. We sum up our purpose with the statement that the Family that prays together stays together More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of From Hollywood family theater has brought you the adventures of Amy starring Jean Cagney Jack Haley was your host others in our cast were Howard Culver Leo Cleary Billy Baccham Jack Krushen and Francis Yuri The script was written by John T. Kelly with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for family theater by Joseph F Mansfield This series of family theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who feel the need for this type of program By the mutual network which has responded to this need and by the hundreds of stars have stayed screen and radio Who gives so unselfishly of their time and talent to appear on our family theater stage to them and to you our humble thanks This is Tony Lofrano expressing the wish of family theater that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home and Inviting you to be with us next week when family theater will present a kind of treasure Starring Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood join us. Won't you? Family theater is broadcast throughout the world and originates in the Hollywood studios of the world's largest network This is the mutual broadcasting system