 Let me know what you're going from to work for a living and brother. I mean work Oh, but I love it and if there was some insurance problem that I could use as an excuse But there is there That I had a look into yeah, they give it to me quick, but unless I know what it is what companies involved Incidentally the fish are fighting like that Okay, what am I waiting for? Fighting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yes, truly Johnny dollar Gator Johnny dollar to the greater Southwest insurance company Los Angeles office attention. Mr. Royal Jay Harkins Honoring us the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation as a frantic fisherman matter Why kid about it when I started this trip I had no way of knowing that your company was involved knowing about the favor I honestly figured that his mention of an insurance angle would just to give me a good excuse But when you've read the fact of this report, I'm sure you'll agree that greater Southwest should pay the old expense account without questions Yeah, and probably a nice extra fee to boost all right Item one a hundred fifty-four fifty night flight from my trip to New York to Las Vegas, Nevada Item two fifty bucks deposit on a rental car I headed south and east to Lake Mojave resort This place is the answer to a fisherman's prayer The lake itself is over a 60 miles long averages about a mile wide The resort is at the lower end complete with modern accommodations cafe doc Well, just about everything you can ask for And perhaps the general manager of us to favor in his wife Marilyn as a salt of the earth And because of it the customers are a pretty fine line without exception almost Good Seven foot right now that's right in a Mitchell three fifty loaded with four-pound test So as soon as you can change your clothes, we'll hit the lake. Okay. Now. This is all very nice But there and I'll be changing about five minutes, but good. I'll be waiting at the back What I'm telling you tell me what the insurance angle is for my coming out here where I'm gonna charge my expense account Oh sure that was all just an excuse to get me on it a fish wrong as long as I'm here or might as well Wrong Then start talking sure out on the lake That's there. I'll meet you at the dock Except the lake at an easy very nice But it was clear the weather war I got a hundred ways to break out the track and get stuck But that's it Instead we kept going five or six miles up beyond the power line And then finally goes into a long narrow L-shaped coast It extended back from the main body of the lake a couple hundred yards flat rocky walls on either side At the end of the angle off to the left for perhaps a hundred feet I know there was a very deep hole there, but if we either did tortoise I noticed another boat back there and the man in it seem to be using a mighty strange fishing technique We had a long heavy saltwater rod in it man, and from the bend in the tip of it No, how about that somebody feed us into this spot? Swing around in the post of that man fishing down there at the end I'll let you know this would be good night on him Johnny Good morning. You know I can't say that that name is Otis Hellman You know the group in Los Angeles You can see the way he was speaking up the water with that wheezy Yeah, I wondered about that Reggie, but he stopped the man we were running to take Could you see what he had on the end of his line? No, he let it drop down in his book He'll just have to work until he gets back to the dock How many did you say? That's right, if you asked me, fishermen met her Kever and I wanted to cut your rock there on Lake Mojave. We caught fish plenty of them Nice big lunk of bass We also kept an eye open for the man who'd been so frantically working the little cove on the way up Using heavy salt water tackling, a rather peculiar way At one time we saw him pull out and head back to Lake Mojave Resort So we followed him and set our feet to arrive at the dock just ahead of him What's up Jim? Take care of these fish bars Yeah, oh, buddy got Jim Mr. Hellman, how'd you do today? Y'all can meet the paper, other things Didn't I see you in the long narrow cove above the power line? Yes, yes, sure Well, I'll take care of the tackle myself Sure, anything you say? Anything you say? Hellman quickly stepped the tackle from the end of his line into a fish bag But I caught a glimpse of a couple of huge, triple hooks with lead collars They were big enough, heavy enough to catch a whale A respectable freshwater bass couldn't even get one of them into his mouth Back in my room over a scotch and soda, Buster and I talked about it Hi, I'm Johnny The first day he came here, he muttered something about trying to snag some carp with that rig Snag some carp? But if you noticed up there in that cove before he saw us looking at it Yeah, he was right over the deep hole at the end of it The only place I've ever seen him fish in If you can call it that Well, he was apparently dropping those heavy gang hooks down to the bottom And then scraping them up the rocky side Like, like a grappling hook, Johnny? Right He's trying to snag something down there, all right, Buster? But it's certainly not carp Have you tried dropping a line down there to see what you might hook onto? Well, you can't get near the place because he's always there Even at night? Well, no, but Johnny, you know what I think it is And he just got out of jail, too, remember? I remember Well, Johnny, I think there's a body down there And for some reason, he's trying to bring it up It's very well-being Yes, sir And that's where I call you Well? Okay, Buster, I'll see what I can do Buster had said that Helmings came here from Los Angeles But there was a man in the lab with a bird of a sound of information Well, G. Harkins, the greatest Southwest insurance He was leaving now, so I put him in a call with Hall I tied him through 85 cents, and he had 20 for me Of course I know who Otis Helmings is, Johnny When he and that partner of his walked out of McKinney Mining Supply with $60,000 And in cash, mind you We had to make good on it Is that why Hummel was sent to prison, Roy? Maybe his partner was the one who really did it Who was the partner? Another old prospector named Oscar Kirkman Kirkman? Is he still in jail? No, he disappeared, Johnny Just before he was to go to trial And the money? Not a penny of it was ever found So if you have any ideas about how and where you might recover it Sorry, Roy What if you're interested in Kirkman's body? I might be able to find that for you What? Or what's left of it And yet, how can I be sure? I mean that it was a body that Hummel was trying to locate up there in that deep little hole Well, there's only one way to find out, and I needed some special equipment for it The earlier the next morning, I climbed into my rental car Roy shall be sporting goods up in Las Vegas, Johnny That's the closest place you know, huh? I'm afraid so Okay, then here I go Ordinarily, there'd be dozens of folks around here who could loan it to you But most of the people right now are either fishermen or water skiers Incidentally, did Helman go out in his closest morning? No, Johnny, and listen, Cal Maybe my imagination is working overtime, but listen, Cal Helman had breakfast blue early, over in the cafe Then he sat by the window and looked over at your room Mr. Junkie doesn't cut the crawfish, does he? But he didn't budge until you came out off When you did, when you went over for breakfast You sort of carried me walks down to the boat house And you just stood around down there, still keeping an eye on you Well, I don't like it Hmm, somebody must have told him where I am Not one of the helps, Johnny I want him not to before you arrive I don't think any of the guests know him That's the same, I think, Helman's suspicious of me And Johnny Oh, stop worrying about me That's the same, Johnny Keep an eye on him I'll see you when I get back from Las Vegas It was nearly a hundred miles to Vegas And I made it in two hours flat There it shall be sporting goods I spent item four, $169.18 For a complete skin diving outfit Fins, face plate, diving tank, and regulator A powerful waterproof headlamp And yeah, a passionate pair of sun trunks There you are, pardon me Are you going to do your skin diving over like me? Ah, Donna Mahave Well, last time I outfitted a man for down there Was a couple of years ago A man called himself a miner A prospector Oh, yeah, man It was $150 bucks worth of stuff to him And never got it back I will You know what his name was? Sure Quite the fact that he gave me a phone even It was right after that that his picture Was all over the papers with his partner Another crook named Goldus Helman And his name rings a bell, doesn't it, partner? It sure does Sure While Helman took a rap, this one disappeared Name was Oster Kirkman Mr. K, you've just given me a wild idea That's all Just wild enough to make some sense Yeah, and help me solve a case Solve a case? What kind? Who knows? Maybe murder Among other things I drive down to Lake Mahave Resort I stop in Goldus City at the office Of the National Park Commission There I got hold of a topographical map Of the whole area before Lake Mahave was filled up by David Stanton Then back in my room at the resort I went over it very carefully Only got a minute, Johnny Before I'd drive over to Bullhead City But I saw you come raring in a minute ago And what do you get there? Hey, come here Huh? Look, Buster Take a look here on this map Yeah? Before the new dam filled up the lake a few years ago Uh-huh Over here There Now look here Well, yeah That's where that long cove is now Where Oster Helman's been working With that funny rig of his Uh-huh In the deep hole at the end of that cove Kirkman Farley That is right Kirkman hit a mine there Before the lake was filled When it was all just desert land By the side of the Colorado River And right there Is where Helman is grappling for something Right Kirkman disappeared, Johnny Yes But what really happened Is as old as Helman cured him And stuffed him down there In that underwater mine Maybe But while he wants to bring him up again Whatever it left him Buster, I want to use your boat Sure And if Helman hasn't gone out fishing Has he? Oh, he's still hanging around down at the dock All right, good Somehow you've got to keep him from following me Well Helman's seen you and me together so much But I can have Jim fill up the fuel tank On Helman's boat And Meantime take out one of the sportsplugs Something like that All right, good He'll have plenty of chances Because Helman will be watching me When I take off What are you going to do? A little skin diving Over the end of that cove And don't be surprised At what I may bring up Helman was still at the dock And I thought he kept his eyes only on me As I piled the skin diving stuff Into Buster's boat Meantime Jim went through the motions The feeling of his motor And I took off And with the throttle wide open And drove up the lake In a long L-shaped cove At the end of it Where the deep hole was I tied up to an overhanging rock But on swim trunks Faithfully Flippers and tanks And gently left myself over the trunks I've done a lot of skin diving here and there But this is something new The bright desert sunlight from above Filtered through the clear, cool water And blended almost eerily The colors of the rocks And the narrow canyon That made this little cove Where the tremendous forces of nature Over millions of years That stood up in the very face of the earth And melted, then cooled and crushed And twisted the rocks Into strange and wonderful shapes And the fish, Fancy, Croppy, And bluebill Even a lazy old cop They're watching without fear As I glide it down beside them Move gently aside Then follow them A huge catfish Casually turned aside As I flipped down the parcel beam Of the headland I can almost imagine a look of disdain On this phase As you slide this Indian beam In a world above And then I found What I was looking for The entrance to the old Kirkman Mine Carefully boarded up But I managed to plow One of the boards loose And I found a package Wrapped in heavy plastic With a heavy coating of wax But I could see the color of money inside I swam back up to the surface with it To the shadow I thought Was stuck in the boat Passing off my gear I flung it in the package Into the boat and grabbed the dummy Don't bother about coming up Boarding Mr. Dollar Wow, what's that help? I can read the scheme That you should replace The spark plug in my motor That you had to remove Well, good for you You saved me a lot of trouble Dollar Locating and recovering the money for me Now that I have it If you lame that thing yet away Did you also find the remains Of Oscar Kirkman there? Now listen, Herman Yeah, it doesn't matter After I've killed you You're gonna join me down there With these anchors tied to your feet Thanks again, Mr. Oh, no, you won't I kicked with all I had And overturned the boat At the end of the water Herman fired again A concussion hit his boat But he dropped the gun And with the help of the fins Of my feet I was able to turn it To grab it around the neck And drag him down I had taken a deep breath Before capping his boat And he was an older man than I But it seemed like hours Before he finally put struggling And with my lungs almost bursting I carried him back up to the surface He was still alive But hunked When he saw Helman Follow me up the lake So he'd borrowed a boat And was waiting for it There at the end of the course Oh, there's Helman? Well, that's up to the court The money, of course All $60,000 of it Will go back to the company Small expense account total Including all the incidentals I could think of And a couple of days Of good fishing $6.50, $85 Yours truly, Johnny Dillon Here's our star To tell you about next week's story Next week, a call from an old friend Yeah, to meet with Jess In the desert Showing us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dillon Origination Hollywood And it's written Produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Third in our cast Were Barney Villas Sam Edwards Bartlett Robinson Horace Lewis And Ralph Moody You could have joined us next week Same time in station For another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dillon This is Jim Matthews speaking