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Oscar Volney is dead.

In this centuries -old city that is the capital of his now captive European

country, the father of democracy in the Balkans today appears for the last time

before the countrymen who revered and loved him.

Virtually under house arrest for the past five years, yesterday morning in

gray hours of dawn, Oscar Volney plunged to his death from a 12 -story hotel

room.

Minister of Interior Franz Schreck, in an official government statement, called

Oscar Volney's death Suicide.

And so the shock world mourns not only the tragic death of Oscar Valny, it

mourns the knowledge which died with him.

Valny's private record of statements which might have rocked the world.

Of course, Valny's government was still only saying his death was a suicide.

Minister Shrek expresses his regrets, but we expect local exiles from that

government to talk quite differently.

We're hoping to get a statement here today from... Shrek regrets?

Do you know what Shrek regrets?

that he did not kill Oscar Valny years ago, Elio.

You think Shrek found out Valny was writing his papers? Of course!

The truth in Oscar's own words would destroy Shrek and all the rest of the

corruption that swallows up our homeland.

Papa, we don't know. We don't even know if there was such a thing as the Valny

papers. Oscar Valny sent me words.

Soon, Elio.

Soon, dear brother in liberty.

You will have the truth from me.

My testament in writing to the freedom that we lost.

Elisa, baby.

You never knew him.

A giant among men.

Can't you get rid of those reporters outside, Mr. Richards, please? As Papa's

friend? I wish I could, Elisa. As a newspaper publisher, I'd like to keep

everything your father says exclusive.

No!

Everyone must hear. The whole world must know the truth.

If one of you will speak for the rest, Mr. Laban will try to answer your

question. There have been rumors of a book, an expose, the so -called Volney

Papers. What can you tell us about them?

Tyranny and truth cannot coexist.

Oscar Volney had to die to keep the free world from learning the truth.

You think the Volney Papers died with him? The Volney Papers were destroyed as

Oscar Volney was destroyed.

But Franz Schreck labeled Volney's death as suicide. The Minister of Interior is

a liar.

And a vicious assassin.

Shrek is due in Los Angeles a month from now on a trade commission.

Will you confront him? Confront him?

If I get my hands on him, I'll kill him, you hear?

I'll kill him! Kill him!

He's resting quietly now.

No. You can't believe it.

Not Oscar.

He would do such a thing?

He didn't.

What? Oscar Valny died two weeks ago.

A bullet in his brain.

The suicide was staged.

Who?

Who?

Franz Schreck himself did the killing.

The reporters.

Stop. I'd only deny telling it to you. Who are you? What do you want?

The Volney papers are still in existence.

How would you like to get your hands on them?

Each of us is involved in the nation Oscar Volney created and gave his life

Ties of business, of ancestry, the bond of having worked together to restore

that nation's freedom.

We all possess a big stake in what I'm about to tell you.

An official of our country's People's Party has the Volney papers and is

prepared to turn them over to me.

What? For a price, Mr. Valdemar.

Yes, for a price. And what is the going rate for a People's Leader to betray the

people this year?

Half a million.

Five hundred one thousand dollar bills, Mr. Tyson?

Unmarked. Just a minute, please.

I'm delighted to have you meet on my boat and to be associated in your

as an unofficial attorney.

But I must warn you, all of you, that you're playing with international

political dynamite. But we think the Volney Papers may be more than

Mr. Hillman.

They may expose secret and illegal business deals.

If so, one of those deals could send a prominent American to prison.

Amos, how much would the Volney Papers earn published soft cover by your

Waldemar Press for widest distribution?

No royalties.

My company recouping costs only better than half a million, I am sure. But how

will we know the material is authentic?

Papa was a member of Oscar Volney's cabinet and a good friend.

He'll authenticate the papers.

Tyson, if your bank will accept it, I'll sign a note for it personally.

As president of the Sherman Oaks Bank, I personally guarantee that 500 $1 ,000

bills, unmarked, will be ready for you when you need them, Mr. Laban.

Good. Now, there is only one problem.

The official insists that he will make the transfer of documents for money with

only one person, an OSS man he met during the war.

The OSS man's code name was Herr Umdrehen.

Now, Amos, you had something to do with the OSS.

I know of the agent.

But I was a political refugee like you, Eli. You used only as an occasional

specialist advisor. I would not know where to begin to look for this Herr

Umdrein. Herr Umdrein. Mr.

Turnabout. It's not bad.

Garrett, you were connected with the OSS. Do you think you can locate this

Umdrein? I've already started inquiries.

Good. Mr. Laban, this patriot who's about to sell out his country.

Who is he?

He is not Zenos who contacted me.

but the bitterest enemy I have in the world.

A man whose principles have always been for sale.

His name is Shrek.

Minister of Interior, Franz Shrek.

Mr. Richards.

Elisa.

Herr Ungrian, you know who he is? Tell you, it took me three and a half weeks,

but now I know.

The man who used the name Umdrayan was evidently one of our most decorated and

efficient agents.

He met Shrek behind the lines on a top -level mission during World War II. I

imagine that's why Shrek is willing to trust him now.

When can we speak to this man?

Well, he lives here in Los Angeles now, fortunately.

He'll telephone you, Eliou, just you alone.

Now you tell him what you want and let him decide if he'll see you, if he'll

help. If? This is important.

It is also dangerous, Elisa.

This man was wounded three times, almost lost his life, spent six months in a

hospital.

The decision is his, I'm afraid.

When will he call?

Today.

Sometime this afternoon.

Yes. You are Herr Undren?

Thank you.

Sir, I am grateful. When you told me on the telephone you would help... Why

don't you time for thanks when I put the Volney papers in your hands? Now, Shrek

will be here in two days. We haven't got much time. This is Shrek's itinerary.

The schedule of the places he will visit in Los Angeles.

It's the copy that you asked for.

Ah, law book.

You're an attorney? According to this itinerary, Shrek will only be in Los

Angeles one day. But what a day.

He's scheduled to appear at factories, trade exhibits, banquet at night. Shrek

will be watched every single moment of the day.

To make the transfer will not be easy.

Shrek wants and needs that half a million dollars bad enough to put his

political neck on a chopping block. We'll manage.

One other thing, sir.

The committee, such a big sum of money is involved.

They naturally feel the need of some assurance.

You want to be present to authenticate Oscar Volney's handwriting on the Volney

papers before I turn over the money?

Please.

Yeah.

Where'd he get Shrek alone?

Away from his bodyguards.

They keep the two of you from slitting each other's throats.

Sure, why not?

The tunnel of love.

What?

He's scheduled to visit an amusement park.

What? This is no joke.

Right here, Mr. Laban. Right here at 12 noon. We'll make the exchange.

An amusement park?

The Tunnel of Love.

Dark amid the blaze of noon, Mr. Laban.

A perfect setup.

Perfect.

Now,

you realize one thing.

The inside of these tunnels will be pitch black, completely without light.

hold this.

Now, when the car with Shrek in it comes around that turn, turn before this one.

This light will go on.

That light's your signal.

You'll be holding this metal bar.

When that light goes on, this is what you do.

Take the end of the metal bar, lay it across these wires like that.

Let this end of the bar drop in the metal rail like this.

And what does that do?

That short -circuits the electrical system on the entire ride.

Everything comes to an immediate halt.

The fuse box is on the other side of the building.

Now, from the time you drop that metal bar until the attendant replaces the

fuse, we have only three minutes. Three minutes only to effect the transfer, you

understand?

Let's go over there.

As soon as you drop that metal bar and the ride stops, you come into this

workroom.

You open this trap door and wait.

I'll bring you the papers. You check them as quick as you can. If they're all

right, you give me the money.

What then?

You take that ladder down to the beach. Get away from the park as fast as you

can.

And you?

I'm replacing the technician on duty here tomorrow.

I'll make the transfer and cover you until I'm sure you're away from the park

with the Balney papers. But, Herr Andrean... Suppose, suppose, Shrek does

take the ride or does not take it alone.

This man who contacted you set up the deal.

Ulrich Zinus, he said his name is.

Will he be coming to Los Angeles with Shrek?

Yes, he's one of his bodyguards.

Good.

Get a message to Mr. Zinus.

You tell him who, when, and where the exchange will take place.

A message?

Tomorrow at the airport when the plane comes in.

Mr. Laban, you're going to be an angry picket.

First day off in a month and I get tagged for special duty.

Wet nurse to a VIP.

Factory stockyards all make sense on a trade mission.

But why an amusement park, Andy?

The new status symbol, maybe.

Didn't Papa Bear want to see Disneyland?

Hurry.

Yes or no? Yes, yes, I'm sure.

Give me the money.

Here. Down and out fast.

Franz Schreck is dead.

Mike, turn the back.

A briefcase.

By manuscript.

It's a faulty papers.

We have your briefcase.

There's no manuscript inside.

We did find $501 ,000 bills in it, though.

And the bloody knife you must have used to kill Franz Freck.

No, Mr. Laban is mistaken.

I never brought him any message, and I was never at his house.

The one and only time that I saw Mr. Laban was when he tried to attack Franz

Freck at the airport. That's not true.

Papa gave you a note at the airport telling you when and where the voting

would be picked up.

There was no note.

And there aren't and there never were any Volney papers.

Mr. Richards, he's lying.

Miss Lavin, my investigators believe that it's your father who's lying.

No, no.

It's all right, Elisa.

Mr. Berger, what do we do now?

Well, sir, have you got counsel for Mr. Lavin?

Hillman, Lewis, and Callison.

Any criminal action?

Oh, they've made arrangements for Perry Mason to handle the actual trial work.

And Phil Hillman has assigned one of the firm's attorneys, Bruce Jason.

Bruce Jason?

Mr. Berger, my father's old and not in the best of health.

Can we have him released on bail?

I'm afraid not, Miss Laban.

Your father is being charged with murder in the first degree.

Bruce Jason.

Oh. I read his name in Hollywood gossip columns for years.

Movie Land's most eligible bachelor.

Well, I was upset about it when Garrett Richards mentioned his name in Mr.

Berger's office.

Why, Mr. Hillman, why Bruce Jason?

Mr. Hillman, my father is still practically a stranger in this country.

And I've tried to take care of him and look out for him, and I don't think

Jason is the lawyer for him.

Jason is very good.

when it comes to nightclubbing or holding hands with some dumb, blonde,

temperamental starlet. Oh, I bet he's good, all right.

He's also good at labor negotiating, drafting a gross profits participation

contract, or arbitrating the most impossibly difficult industry

But this is murder, Mr. Hillman. It's the practice of law, Miss Laban.

Now, additionally, I'm going to have Perry Mason's staff working with him on

this. And later on, Mr. Mason himself will take over if necessary.

I don't know what to say.

Of course, I respect your judgment.

Well, where is he?

Where is Mr. Bruce Jason?

He knew I was coming here. He knows my father's waiting to see him. I suppose

he's been unavoidably detained somewhere.

There, I asked Mr.

Jason... Do me a favor, would you, Baron? Call the tennis club. Tell them

be over there as soon as I can.

Unavoidably detained.

Hi.

I'm sorry I'm late.

Mr. Laban's statement to the police and a certified true copy of the complaint

filed to the presiding magistrate.

That's about it, Mr. Jason.

Well, I haven't read Mr.

Laban's statement as yet. Keep that out for me, would you? Thank you, Mr.

Street.

Paul, did you get the men started?

They're checking on everyone Ms. Laban said was involved.

Fine. We don't want to scare anybody off, so I tell you men not to get too

close.

He means no closer than the other side of the net on a tennis court.

I take it you don't play the game, Miss Laban.

Oh, I haven't had the time, Mr. Jason.

Nor the time for having my picture taken in nightclubs. Or even getting engaged

six times in one year.

Or was it seven?

Well, press agents have to earn a living, don't they? Is advertising

attorneys?

Oh, I'd say about on the par with murder for refugee politicians.

I'm sorry, that was uncalled for, wasn't it?

Look, I'd really like to be friends.

But can't we give it the good old college try?

Papa.

Alisa, baby.

Papa, this is your lawyer, whom I've just been very rude to, Mr. Bruce Jason.

You.

You left me for the police to find.

It was you who hit me.

It was you who killed Franz Schreck.

Must have been quite a shock for you.

Well, I've never represented a suspected murderer before.

Do they usually say you did it? Well, I don't think there's any question but

that you're right.

Laban's so upset he doesn't know what he's saying or what he saw or what

happened. Well, it's not an easy life that he's had, Perry.

Up and down, chased, tortured.

His family living in terror.

And being a refugee, have you any idea what it's like? Of course, it's also

possible Laban's mind has invented this whole story about you just so he won't

have to face the realization that he did commit murder.

Well, I'll let the next attorney figure that one out.

Laban certainly don't want me around anymore.

Not so fast.

I just talked to Phil Hillman on the phone.

He'll have a replacement for you, all right, but not for a couple of days.

Phil knows I'm not quitting the case. I still have an investigation going on.

That the only reason you'd like to stay on is Laban's lawyer?

I'm meeting Paul Drake down at the beach.

It's about closing time down there now at the amusement park.

You know something?

It's too bad we couldn't work together later on. I mean, think of the billing.

Defense by Mason and Jason.

That sounds like a high wire act, doesn't it?

I thought you had better sense than to hide it here.

Let's just say this.

I was taught never to point a gun at anybody unless I intended to shoot them.

You and I went to the same school.

Wow.

It's nice not to just share the customs, but the language of the country. You

don't sound like a foreigner.

I cut my political eye teeth on your labor movement.

Well, better for our labor movement if you and yours have cut your throats

instead. Is that the kind of language you use when you're negotiating, Herr

Umdregen? What are we negotiating for, Mr. Fiennes?

The Volney Papers.

Where are they?

The newspaper pictures showed you holding Shrek's briefcase when you found

dead.

And you emptied that briefcase after you made him dead.

Home drain, I want those papers.

Hey! Hey, Bruce!

Is

this

what they call reconstructing the crime?

Oh, that's very funny.

You get him? Who?

The man who hit me.

You know, that workroom's got to be haunted.

You and Laban both getting clobbered by the little man who wasn't there.

He was there, all right. He wasn't so little.

Zenas.

Mr. Laban must have been telling the truth about meeting him.

I doubt it.

Why do you say that?

Well, Zenas flew into town the night Laban claimed to saw him, all right, but

not to see Laban.

Zenas had a meeting with the president of the Sherman Oaks Bank, Mr. Darius

Tyson.

You get me out of bed in the middle of the night to come down here for what?

To play straight man to an amateur Sherlock Holmes?

Frankly, I was upset too.

But I am a little more interested in hearing from this Mr.

Jason.

Waldemar's attitude is sensible.

We'll all have to answer questions in court.

All right.

Zenas did come to see me.

But there's nothing criminal or subversive about that.

Why did Zenas come to see you?

To present an offer from his government.

To purchase the license for certain manufacturing rights.

What you mean is, Zenas' government wanted to recover the patent rights

Transbalkan once sold to an American corporation, isn't that correct?

Your investigation was thorough, Mr. Jason.

Yes, the rights were sold to an American company before America got into the

war.

There's nothing mysterious or evil about it. Bruce, we've been told that an

American citizen face is present because of what the Volney papers contained.

Exactly.

And I want to find out who that person is.

But why?

It could be anyone, could it not?

Anyone?

Anyone with the right connections over there.

Tell me, Mr. Tyson, was Franz Schreck involved in the original selling of

rights by Transbalkan?

Schreck?

But we know that is not very likely, don't we, Mr. Jason?

Considering how Schreck cooperated with the Allies in sabotaging two of the

Transbalkan plants during the war?

What I'm driving at.

And what I'm driving at is you, Mr. Jason. You are surely a man with

connections.

Well, if you're referring to the fact that I once made contact with Shrek on

OSS mission. Once?

Strange, Mr. Jason.

You see, the OSS sent me along on that trans -Balkan sabotage mission to assist

their top agent.

To assist the only man Shrek would recognize on sight.

Mr. Waldemar.

At the time those plants were sabotaged, I was more dead than alive in an

English hospital, so I... But like so many other things you have said, that

cannot be the truth, can it?

And considering the time we spent together in those days, I do not

why you cannot or will not recognize me, Mr. Jason.

But let us tell the other gentleman, shall we?

The OSS man with whom I parachuted behind enemy lines, the man Shrek, knew.

Because you, of course, had owned Ren.

You can come out now. Would you prefer to wait till I call the police?

Oh, for the love of Pete.

What are you doing in here, and how'd you get in here in the first place?

There was something I had to find out.

I told the apartment manager I was your sister.

Now, there's an original approach.

So I discovered.

The manager told me I was the fourth visiting sister in a month.

I like big families.

But not tonight.

Goodbye, Miss Laban.

Mr. Jason.

Look, I've had it with you, your father, and the whole bit.

I've been called a thief, a liar, and a murderer, and I've been sapped over the

head until I'm almost as batty as the rest of you. Go, sister, go.

But I want... Put me no buts. Just leave me alone, huh?

No.

All right.

All right, suit yourself.

Me?

I'm going to bed.

Mr. Jason.

You denied seeing my father here in this apartment.

Then how do you explain the fact he was able to describe this place and

everything in it?

Extrasensory perception.

Answer me. Look, how do I know? Maybe he eats mushrooms and has vision. Will you

listen?

Look, Mr. Turnabout, maybe you do present two faces to the world, but you

have two bodies.

If you didn't meet my father here, then who did?

Bruce, answer me.

Maybe those other sisters weren't the only ones to visit this apartment when I

was gone.

Sure, that's it.

That's what?

Lisa, I love you. I love you like a brother. Now, you stay here and mind the

store, and if any other sisters show up, you tell them you've got a corner on

the market. I don't understand. Trust me, Lisa, that's all. Just trust me.

are you going?

Well, first I'm going to go down and see your father and do anything that I must

to convince him that I have to handle his hearing.

Then I'm going to take a little trip to Washington, D .C., check through a few

records so that I can...

Say hello to my doppelganger.

Mr. Richards, because of your refusal to answer direct questions, I'm going to

be forced to treat you as a hostile witness.

Now, isn't it a fact that when the defendant, Elihu Laban, was confronted

representatives of the press in your presence some six weeks ago, that he in

truth... threatened the life of Franz Schreck. That is ridiculous, Mr. Berger.

L .E .U. Laban said no more to those reporters than you, I, or anyone else

have said under similar provocation. The question is not why he said it.

The question is not whether somebody else with the same provocation might

said it.

The question is...

What did the defendant say to the press after the announcement that Oscar Balney

was dead and that Franz Schreck was coming to this country? Of course he

commented on whether Balney's death was a suicide, and then there was the matter

of the Balney paper. Please, Mr. Richards, what were his exact words,

I will kill him. Thank you.

Now, the defendant, Mr. Laban, claimed in his statement to the police...

that he was visited that same night by a certain Ulrich Zinus. Did you see

Ulrich Zinus at the Laban home that night?

No. To the best of your knowledge, had you or anybody else aside from the

defendant ever been contacted by Zinus or anybody concerning the purchase of

so -called Vonley Papers?

No.

I think it was you, Mr. Richards, who put the defendant in touch at his

with a former OSS operative.

who during World War II was known by the name Herr Umdrayan.

Yes, I did, but only to the degree that I left a message for Herr Umdrayan to

call L .U. Laban. And do you know whether Herr Umdrayan ever made that

No. Did you ever speak to Herr Umdrayan about the purchase of the Volney Papers?

No. Were you or anyone else, to the best of your knowledge, ever present when

the defendant spoke or saw Herr Umdrayan?

No. Do you actually know as a matter of fact, of fact, Mr. Richards, whether

Elihu Laban ever saw Ulrich Zenas or Herr Umdreyan at all? Or whether this

business is a figment of his imagination?

Your Honor, the question is argumentative and calls for a conclusion

of the witness.

Is that an objection, Mr. Jason?

Only for the record, Your Honor.

Defense wants the question answered.

Witness will answer.

I don't know.

I don't really know if L .A .U. dreamed all this or whether it actually

happened.

Thank you.

Your witness, Mrs. Jason.

Tell me, Mr. Richards, who supplied the half a million dollars to be used in the

purchase of the Volney papers? Darius Tyson's bank. To be repaid, understand,

out of the profits from the publication of the papers after recoupment of costs

by Baltimore Press.

With no more security than the potential profit from an unknown manuscript.

I... I signed a personal note for the money.

And why did you underwrite the loan? Because I believed L .E .U. Laban.

I believed it was important that those papers be published.

And do you still believe Mr.

Laban?

Yes, I do.

You testified that you did not see Mr.

Zenas visit Mr.

Laban in his home.

Tell me, Mr. Richards, since you and the defendant's daughter spent a

considerable amount of time on the front porch, if Mr. Zenas had entered and

left the home by the rear window, could you have seen him?

Of course not.

Who is Herr Umdrean?

You are, Bruce Jason.

And even though you testified that you were never present when it happened, Is

it not entirely possible, Mr. Richards, that Mr. Laban did see and speak to me?

Entirely possible.

Now, let's go over this again, Lieutenant Tragg.

First of all,

Elihu Laban physically attacked Franz Schreck at the airport. Is that correct?

He tried to.

Lieutenant Anderson restrained him. Now, in the first place, the money. You

testified that the $500, $1 ,000 bills were found in the briefcase belonging to

the defendant.

Yes, sir. And second, the knife, which was identified by the medical examiner

the probable murder weapon. This knife, as well as the money, was found in the

defendant's briefcase.

Yes. And finally, on the iron crowbar, which was used to short -circuit the

amusement park ride and stop Shrek's car in the dark tunnel, you found

fingerprints which were identified as those of the defendant, Mr. Laban. Yes,

sir.

As a precautionary measure, the public was kept out of the park during the

visit. In addition, every exit and every entrance was guarded by the police.

And after the murder was discovered, Lieutenant Anderson, was the amusement

searched? Yes, sir, every square foot of it, including the inside of every

concession building and every ride.

Now, the defendant claimed in his statement to the police that there was

man, a Herr Umdre, inside the ride.

Was any such person found in the park?

No, sir, he was not. Lieutenant, in your investigation of this case, did you by

any possible chance check on the whereabouts of Mr. Bruce Jason?

From the time the defendant said he visited his apartment up to and

the time of the murder?

Yes, sir, we did.

Mr. Jason told several people he was leaving on a skiing holiday.

You're a witness, Mr. Jason.

Do you know who was with me on that skiing trip in the High Sierras,

You were alone from what you said before you left.

Do you know as a matter of fact and not conjecture that I actually was in the

High Sierras, not back here in Los Angeles?

Well, no.

No, not as a matter of fact.

Again, as a matter of fact and not conjecture.

Do you know whether I was in the amusement park when Franz Schreck was

If you were there, if, Mr. Jason, you must have flown away.

Because you certainly didn't walk past any of my men, I guarantee you.

Lieutenant, is it possible that I... swam away?

What?

No further questions, Your Honor.

I have nothing on redirect, Your Honor.

You're excused, Lieutenant.

Call your next witness, Mr. Berger.

My next witness is Mr. Bruce Jason.

One moment, Mr. Berger.

You can't be unaware that in calling him to the stand, Mr. Jason would be put in

the position of an attorney testifying against his own client.

Even as defense attorney, Your Honor, Mr. Jason happens to be a material

in this case.

And as such, he is subject to be called to testify just like anybody else.

But an attorney cannot be forced to disclose privileged communications.

Your Honor, please.

Even where the privilege exists, it can be waived.

Especially since I did not and do not object to testifying in this hearing.

The rule in regard to privileged communication is for the purpose of

the defendant, not his attorney.

Only the defendant will be permitted to waive it. And then, only with advice

from independent and competent counsel.

Now, with that understanding, you may take the stand, Mr. Jason.

And Mr. Jason...

You were with the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, during World War II.

that right, sir?

Yes, I was.

I believe that you were decorated four times for valor.

And in addition, you received a personal citation from the President of the

United States?

Yes. While you were a member of the OSS, did you operate with a code name?

Yes, I did.

Could you tell this court, Mr. Jason, what that name was?

Herr Umdrean.

Means Mr. Turnabout.

Did Elihu Laban phone you to solicit your aid in obtaining the so -called

Papers? No. Did Elihu Laban visit you at your apartment?

No. Did Elihu Laban accompany you to an amusement park to go over the procedures

to be used in obtaining the Volney Papers?

No. Mr. Jason, were you in or about that amusement park at the time of the

decedent Franz Schreck's visit there?

No. Thank you, Mr. Jason.

Thank you very much.

I have no further questions of this witness.

Mr. Jason, in lieu of cross -examination, the court would be

you to make a statement for the record.

At this time, if you wish.

Thank you, Your Honor.

I have nothing to say.

Witness is excused.

Burger?

Your Honor, the prosecution believes that it has presented a prima facie case

and moves at this time that the defendant, Elihu Laban, be bound over

in superior court on a charge of murder in the first degree.

Mr. Jason.

We have no defense to offer at this time, Your Honor.

Motion granted.

Defendant is remanded to the custody of the sheriff, bound over for trial in

superior court.

on a charge of first -degree murder.

This court is adjourned.

Trust me, Lisa, that's all. Just trust me.

Yes, what do you want?

I read in the paper you were leaving today.

I've been waiting to talk to you. Go ahead and talk.

My husband has something I think you're looking for.

Go on.

He thought the two of you might... Might what?

Go into business together.

Now what is it your husband has he thinks I want?

Ballroom papers.

Whatever she told him, he's interested, all right.

You must know.

Know what?

Enough of what was in those volume papers to realize that whoever got them

wasn't exactly playing political cops and robbers.

You mean that business about an American facing prison?

Yep.

Somebody was sweating blood for fear of what might be in that package Shrek

brought here.

Brother, how Zenas would like to know who that somebody was and is.

Look.

I won't have to yell what we're going to talk about.

The last time we talked, I held the gun.

I never spoke a word to you in my life before now.

But in the tunnel... Jason, what kind of game are you playing?

The name's Viocolo.

Conrad J. Viocolo. Jersey City in the Jersey. That's my wife.

I don't get this.

You look exactly like... Bruce Jason.

I found that out 20 years ago when they flew me from Fort Dix to England to take

Jason's place in an OSS mission.

Take his place?

Jason was wounded in the hospital.

The mission couldn't wait.

The only contact was Jason.

There was somebody that would be accepted as Jason. That second mission,

contacting Shrek, destroying those plants, it was you, not Jason, who

in with Amos Waldemar.

Now you're smart.

Then Jason did go on that skiing trip.

It was you who met Laban in Jason's apartment.

You must have... Killed Franz Schreck?

Yeah, I killed him.

You got the volley papers?

No. But... I know who asked.

You're not alone in this. There's someone else.

Same man.

Dug me up 20 years ago.

Take Jason's place, found me a couple of weeks ago to do the same thing.

Who hired you?

Those papers are worth a fortune. You tell me why they're worth killing for

I'll tell you who's got them.

We share information.

And the proceeds.

All right.

All I know is what Shrek told me was in those papers.

Something about... international patent rights that used to belong to

Transbalkan.

They were never sold to an American before the war.

The transfer was made during the war with forged papers.

Forgery was done by two men.

One who's become a high official in my country and an American.

Ask if only he found out about it.

Made it part of the expose in his papers, huh?

That's right.

But you never saw the name of that American.

Why do you say that?

Because you wouldn't be here now.

Sure.

Sure, that's why that man hired me to get those papers.

Keep his name out of print.

Keep himself out of federal prison.

You still haven't given me the man's name.

Tess?

Here, you take this paper.

You read what's on it into the form.

Only what's on the paper, nothing else.

This is Ulrich Wiener.

I know what the Valny papers said about Transbalkan.

Meet me aboard the Bonny May in an hour.

The Bonny May, that's a boat. That's right.

It's the only way it could be done.

The boat had to be anchored offshore near the amusement park.

After I killed Shrek, I swam out to the boat with the papers.

I was supposed to be paid off with cold, hard cash.

Instead, I wound up with two slugs and a bath in the Pacific.

The man you're going to meet, Zenas, he thinks he killed me.

Mr. Zinus.

Garrett Richards.

I telephoned the pier. They told me this boat... Well, I've been renting this

boat from Phil Hillman for the past month.

What is it you want to see me about?

The Volney Papers.

And I told you.

Now I know what they must have said.

You killed Franz Schreck to get those papers.

The Volney Papers.

Why, yes.

They're locked up in my safe at home.

They expose the patent rights forgeries. They name your country's trader.

But they do not mention my name or the name of the company I used to register

those patents.

Mm -hmm.

And why did you have Shrek killed? I couldn't take a chance.

I didn't know my name wasn't mentioned until after I got the papers.

But what interests me now, Mr. Zenas?

Is how you knew my name.

Oh, Conrad Vicolo told me.

But that's impossible.

Oh, is it?

You're just saying those things to me because you're trying to get rid of me,

too.

Mr. Richards, Vicolo is waiting.

He's going to call the police if I don't come back.

It won't work.

Conrad Vicolo is dead.

Oh, no.

Oh, you shot him twice and you threw him overboard.

Shot him? What are you talking about?

I strangled Yukolo with my bare hands right here on this boat.

I put his body in a weighted sack and I dumped him ten miles at sea. He swam

back, Mr. Zenas.

You're lying.

You're lying!

No, he isn't, Mr. Zenas.

We may never recover Yukolo's body.

Without him, we have no way of proving who killed Shrek.

Those Volney papers in your safe, Mr. Richards, you should have dumped them

overboard, too.

After what witnesses heard you say here, they're part of your one -way ticket to

the gas chamber.

Wait a minute.

If you're not Vucolo... Mr. Zenas, some trial lawyers are frustrated actors.

How did you know about Vucolo?

You told me yourself, Gat.

Me?

Mm -hmm.

20 years ago in that English hospital, remember?

I finally did.

As my commanding officer presenting me with a citation, you casually dropped

fact that you'd called my doppelganger.

Doppel... Doppelganger.

It means a person exactly like somebody else.

A double.

You know, it's a pity.

I never met mine.

Bruce, I just finished reading the first installment.

By the way, did you see the dedication?

It says to Bruce Jason, who twice fought for freedom and who twice was the

victor.

Well, congratulations, Bruce.

And again, good luck.

So long, Perry. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it.

And thank you, Mr. Laban, for the kind words.

By the way, Bruce, there was another call for you from the Beverly Hills

It seems that one of your actresses got into an argument with a neighbor over a

Siamese cat.

Well, never mind the rest of it. I told her that you now handle them in the most

important and serious cases.

And what's not important about a Siamese cat? Of course he'll take her case,

won't you, Bruce?

My daughter is learning, Mr. Hillman. The big affairs of the world are only

is big to each person.

Everyone needs help.

Oh, you're right, Mr. Laban. But Phil's right, too. Now, if you gentlemen will

excuse me. Now, Lisa.

Where are you going?

Well, like you said, Phil, I've got more important things to do.

Lady, it's time for your first tennis lesson.