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Barnaby Jones, a Quinn Martins production, starring Buddy Epson, also

Lee Merriweather, with guest stars, in alphabetical order, Sharon Acker,

Diana Douglas, Charles Durning,

Hayden Roark, Barry Sullivan,

special guest star, William Conrad.

Next episode, The Deadly Conspiracy Part 2.

I put together all the pieces, Tom. I've got proof.

My peerless leader, Mr.

McKenna himself.

He's involved in a criminal conspiracy, and it's heavy.

All right, give.

The complications, Tom, it's close to unbelievable.

Hold a second, please.

We have intercepts on every line in or out of the building, sir.

What?

Your face was badly scratched by Doris Grady.

They set me up, Mr. Cannon.

They put me in a box.

I didn't do it. I didn't do anything. I couldn't do anything.

I'm not a man anymore, Mr. Cannon.

I'm impotent.

Obstinate.

And a very super lady.

I understand how you feel, Tom.

Why did you call me?

She said she had proof that the man she worked for, Bud McKenna, was involved

with something criminal and big.

I don't want to talk to Gordon. Not yet. Not until this is all over.

Not with what you tell me about these men, these investigators.

Cannon and Jones?

Relax, Bud.

You messed up letting Doris find that memo.

But it's covered.

He is expecting a call.

Oh, Bud, hello. It's good to hear your voice.

I've got an old friend of yours here, Matt Vanna, who's still refusing to sell

us his company.

Nothing personal, Gordon, but Montana uranium's my baby.

I are eyes big enough to buy the whole state of Montana.

Just leave me my little bit.

Is he still refusing us, Gordy?

He's still holding out, but I'm not giving up.

Matt, I'm ready to sweeten the deal.

Not enough sugar and all those Hawaiian acres are yours.

My father's dead, Mr. McKenna. I've faced that.

And the fact that I've inherited his shares in our company.

I know IRI made him an offer.

More than just an offer, Miss Vanner.

We had a number of very good meetings.

I'll look over this offer.

But, frankly, I don't think we're going to be interested.

I thought sure with him gone.

We underestimated the power of genetic inheritance.

Well, the Vanners are an unlucky family.

Laura's no mining expert.

An accident isn't unlikely.

He won't accept your call.

What? I told him you were already half south.

Cordy set you on me.

His own secretary.

His own lousy spy.

But you can tell him to me.

That if he won't accept my call, the next one will be from the police.

Now get out!

But... Oh!

Because of him, I'm dead! I'm dead!

I'm dead!

I

must

have been desperate.

Safety glasses aren't real.

What do you write?

Acid.

Either fuming nitric or a type of hydrofluoric. A man facing indictment

murder might commit suicide.

But he wouldn't bother to weaken his windows with acid first.

But all of the evidence pointed to Bud McKenna.

Then we'll just have to look past him, dig out new evidence.

That's three murders now.

Doris Grady, Matt Benner, and Bud McKenna.

And we still don't know why.

McKenna had to hit that glass pretty hard.

He either had to be pushed or thrown against it.

Pushed? By whom? There was no one in the office.

Except his secretary, Alice Parks.

Thomas Parks? The only other human being in the office, and that's the reason

you're going to investigate that lady.

He used to be a top -grade legal secretary, Betty. I'm sure the IRI would

delighted to hire you. They've told Chuck he has some friends and personnel.

We'll arrange for an opening in a legal department for you near Miss Parks.

And we'll start digging into the life and times of Bud McKenna.

Lord, grant forgiveness to the troubled spirit.

of Bud McKenna.

Now that he is free of the agonies that led... I just got word this morning,

sir. Miller has been placed in a psychiatric facility.

Out of mind, out of sight.

His spirit will find rest.

The government contract notification on Tammy Uranium today, God.

I'm very happy.

Providing she's sensible.

She sexed my offer, we get Montana uranium.

If she doesn't, that contract will go right up in her face, and we get Montana

uranium.

Bud McKenna is mourned deeply by all of us, but especially by his brother,

who loved and cherished as only a brother can.

For what bond is so deep as common blood?

Now I take this time to...

Asked Mr.

Gordon McKenna to carry out his final wish.

Continue your thought, Lieutenant.

Look, Barnaby.

I told you, as far as we're concerned, Bud McKenna committed suicide, and until

there's any real evidence to the contrary... I happen to have here the

analysis of the window glass in McKenna's office, which indicates that

been weakened by acid.

I think that warrants investigation.

IRI might not agree.

IRI can pressure me.

But they don't give me orders.

All right.

I'll open it up.

Sorry I messed up your report.

Oh, that's all right. Oh, Barnaby.

Do you have any other evidence?

No, but I might come up with something soon.

Like why McKenna got himself killed and how that ties in with a mining operation

in Montana.

Laura, be reasonable. We need capital.

Not anymore.

I've just confirmed the go -ahead on a major government contract.

Oh, yeah?

What kind of delivery schedule?

We don't have to make a delivery date.

We're going to be licensed to set up our own uranium enrichment operation right

here, with government financing.

Oh, wow.

We're not equipped to handle enriched uranium.

That stuff's hot, really dangerous.

We're not going to build an H -bomb, Roy. Just make the government happy.

And us a little rich.

Sounds good.

Tanner, we're going to be jealous. This is Frank Cameron. Hello.

I told you earlier.

And I told you then, my father died accidentally.

In a plane owned by International Redevelopment, just after he'd turned

their offer to buy your company.

You said you didn't have any proof.

Just a few coincidences.

But McKenna was handling the negotiations for IRI, wasn't he?

Yes, and I told him we weren't for sale.

The refusal must have been a big disappointment to him because he stepped

a 23rd floor window.

Suicide? Or murder.

Again connected to Montana Uranium.

This still doesn't make any sense.

Now, we're a small company.

IRI could acquire 10 Montana Uraniums and it wouldn't be worth any more than a

footnote in their annual report.

I understand you have a brand new government contract.

For enriched uranium, yes.

That's the stuff they use in military atomic explosive devices.

That makes you a rather special company.

Who did your company deal with in Washington?

The Pentagon, of course. And one of my dad's personal contacts, Senator Dan

Knox. Knox arranged Tom Lochner's transfer to Washington.

We checked Senator Knox out this matter.

He's tied to IRI closely.

Of course. They do a lot of government business.

Dan Knox was a friend of my father's for over 15 years.

I'm sorry, I just can't believe in some insane conspiracy.

Oh, you don't want to believe it, Miss Banner?

I'm sorry, gentlemen.

My new contract means a lot of work. I've got to get at it.

No reason, no logic.

But another dead end.

Yeah, up here, so far.

Maybe Lieutenant Biddle has come up with something new on the, uh, kind of

murder. Murder, huh?

You saw the technical evidence, John. Yeah, your evidence.

And on the basis of that evidence, I stuck my neck out and reopened this

That winter glass was treated with acid.

It certainly was.

And so was the glass and seven other windows on this floor.

Well, I gotta admit, this kind of throws me.

You got any explanation?

Very logical.

These windows are washed automatically twice a week.

Somehow acid got mixed in with the detergent.

By whom?

The company's checking their records now, and I must say they're being very

cooperative.

That's fine, Miss Enright.

I'll just show you where the photocopy machine is.

This is Lieutenant Biddlesire. Tell him.

I'm real sorry. We used this acid to clean the stone surface.

I don't know how it got into the detergent. I was real careful when I

up.

We'll analyze it, Mr. Corcoran, and I'm sure it'll check out.

I'm very grateful.

Glad to be of help.

I had no idea that that was switched.

I think you'll find it checks out, Lieutenant, on account of what was

On seven other windows?

Of course, to make McKenna's phony suicide stick.

Maybe it wasn't phony.

My problem is trying to explain to my superiors why I ever opened up this can

worms. I'll give you one warning.

Any more meddling, and I will be forced to do my damnedest to get both your

licenses lifted.

Face closed.

Check.

And mate.

Don't want to play another, do you?

I'm afraid I'm not much of a match for you.

Well, I'm expecting a long -distance call.

See you back at the office.

Okay.

Well...

Not easy, but I think she's beginning to trust me. We're even going out to

dinner tonight.

Did you learn anything?

I thought you'd never ask.

Alice Park was Gordon McKenna's private secretary for over ten years.

And his... Well, when the chairman of the board

gets his private secretary to work for the vice president, that could mean he

wanted her to spy for him.

If she didn't die, she might have kept records.

Well, she has all her confidential notes in a memo pad, which she takes home

with her every night after work.

You say that she's invited you to dinner tonight, Betty?

Mm -hmm. You think you can keep her busy for a couple of hours?

Well, it shouldn't be any problem. She's also invited me to go with her to her

health club. She's a fanatic about exercise.

What time would you be going to the health club?

Oh, dinner about 7, 8 .30, I imagine.

Why don't you give me the address of the place? I'll just sort of mosey by

around 8 .30.

Mr. B there?

Good.

Don't give me time to get in and take a good look at the lady.

So, 1132 South Motor.

Alice, why so early?

I'm famished. It's healthier to eat after you exercise.

You'll feel marvelous.

Okay?

One, two.

One, two.

Grief, Alice, you've got to be made of rawhide and piano wire.

Well, I try to keep limber.

Come on.

And here we are.

We use this room for self -defense exercise.

It's really perfect.

Listen, Alice, I am... I'm dead tired.

And I really am hungry.

Could we just go and eat?

But I promised to show you some holds.

It'll only take a few minutes.

It's a marvelous sport.

Here, let me demonstrate a simple hip throw.

Oh, you didn't land well, dear.

One of the key things is learning how to fall.

Alice, this is a superb way of keeping fit.

I really don't want to. Never try to grab, dear. You could be taken by

You know, I was surprised to learn how curious you were about me.

Of course.

I must be very careful with this kind of training.

Somebody could get seriously hurt or even killed.

Why were you so curious about me?

What is it you wanted to know?

I have friends who know where I am.

Your father -in -law, Mr. Jones?

Mr. Cannon?

They won't be worried about you for quite a while yet.

So, tell me, Betty, why are they so curious about me?

What information do they have that makes them so nosy?

I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, come on, Betty, be honest.

It'll prove that you killed Bud McKenna. We know who gave the order.

Problem is a messenger, nothing more.

Oh, it's time to go for the more event.

What's going on here?

Oh,

Betty, what a thing to say.

You're lucky there were no witnesses to prove you a liar.

We were having such a fun time, Mr. Jones.

I'd like a little more of an explanation on that.

Oh, you were having a lesson in the art of self -defense.

So useful for a woman of my age.

I hope I wasn't too enthusiastic, dear.

I think I can make it out.

It's in her own style, but it's all based on standard shorthand.

Then get to translating, Betty. I want that woman in jail.

All the action plans on Montana Uranium were in my notes, Gordon, in detail.

And now Jones and Cannon have them.

That's bad.

We'll have to stop them.

No, not really.

They were Bud's notes for Bud's plans, and Bud is dead.

Alice, you can't be held responsible. You were a secretary who simply took

notes.

Nevertheless, it might be a good idea for you to take a trip.

Europe, maybe?

No. I won't be shipped off like that, Gordon.

No, no, Alice.

A vacation.

A vacation with pay.

Lord knows you deserve it.

Let's say a quarter of a million dollars.

And a regular stipend.

But I want to be with you.

Gordon, I know things can't be the way they were between us, but...

The world is full of pathetic little people, and you're so much more. You're

going to change history, and I want to be part of that. I want to share that.

Alice, I want you with me.

We'll go to Europe first, and maybe Africa.

You'd better get your passport ready and all the necessary inoculations.

First thing tomorrow morning?

Mm -hmm.

I've always loved you, Gordon.

I'll never change.

In the morning.

She means that.

Unfortunately, she could have killed that girl. She's completely unreliable.

Handle it.

Alice?

I don't mean kill her.

Handle it gently.

I deserve that.

I want to thank you all for being here today, General Stanford.

That's a big step, Miss Vanner.

The first uranium enrichment facility under civilian control.

Montana Uranium's a pilot project for the whole industry.

Figured the least I could do is give it sort of a starting cheer.

Everything's ready, Laura.

Onward and upward.

Where do you like it?

What was happening?

I don't know.

It was

sabotage. And I can't prove it.

Was anybody hurt or killed?

No, thank heaven.

The accident wrecked a totally automated section.

The only damage was that.

And it's covered by insurance.

You think IRI wrecked it?

I can't prove it.

Officially, the accident is my fault. And now, of course, the banks and my

of directors are going to be pressured to move me out and accept IRI's offer.

Sell my company.

I don't care about the company.

They killed my father. What can I do?

Well, we haven't been able to put this puzzle together yet, but we do think

one of the big pieces is Senator Daniel Knox.

I've finished transcribing.

Anything? A lot more details on how they plan to take over Montana Uranium. You

know, it really sounds like a military operation, including the plan to remove

Mr. Vanner.

I'm sorry.

I know Dad was murdered, Betty.

What about motive?

Why does IRI want Montana Uranium so badly?

It's never mentioned in here.

The new enrichment process?

I don't see how.

It might add, oh, a million and a half to our annual earnings, but IRI takes

that much in every eight hours.

What about military value?

After the uranium's enriched, it's under military guard, and it's countered by

the gram.

I'm sorry. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

IRI was ready to do just about anything to get Montana uranium.

Now, there's only one man in their organization with the power to arrange

and that's the chairman of the board. That's Gordon McKenna.

You think he killed his brother?

Yeah, Corcoran probably arranged it.

Don Corcoran, Vice President, Public Relations at IRI.

An unlikely job for a retired Marine Corps colonel with a brilliant military

record.

McKenna buys only the best.

Anything on McKenna in there?

No, uh... Oh, wait a minute, yes.

Meeting scheduled for the 18th.

Mr. Gordon, McKenna will chair it personally.

The 18th?

It's tomorrow.

There's just a name here.

Damocles. You said Damocles as in sword of Damocles?

As in threat?

That could be a place, a person, or a code.

What if Tom would know anything about that?

Hello, operator.

I'd like to talk with Mr. Tom Lochner in the United States Attorney's Office in

Washington, D .C.

And if he doesn't have an idea, we run into the same dead end.

Now, we've got no choice. We've got to do some pushing on the one person who

took those notes, Alice Parks.

I know it'll never stand up, but if you swore out a complaint against her for

assault and battery, it might just give us enough leverage, huh?

It will be my pleasure.

I've got two sore arms, Alice.

Well, then you'd better hurry up, Sam, because I've got to get my passport

reduced yet.

Hello.

One of the girls at the office told me. I checked it out. She's definitely been

here in the hospital, in isolation.

Any reason to give them?

Dr. Zora, her name is Hobertson. Samuel Hobertson.

You can't see Ms. Parks. The doctor left strict orders.

Dr. Hobertson, these men insist on... Seeing Ms. Parks.

I'm sorry, that's impossible.

Then we'll have to get a court order, doctor.

It's tragic. She had a violently toxic reaction to a combination of

inoculations. This effect is permanent.

Severe brain damage.

Poor Miss Clark.

Of all effects and purposes, she's a bit...

Gentlemen, well, I got a piece of an answer anyway. Right out of Senator

office. I told him I had to contact him on business, committee business.

Is he attending McKenna's meeting?

Absolutely. Left Washington yesterday.

Only I couldn't find out where the thing held.

Had he even a smell of it?

Well, I think it's being held on the ocean somewhere.

His legislative assistant told me he brought some seasickness.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Dammit, please.

By the way, that has to be his ship.

That has to be registered.

Come on, let's go.

So the mine can be back in full operation inside two weeks, Mr. McKenna.

the damage to a minimum.

You did a clean job, Dennis.

We should complete the Montana uranium acquisition by July.

You'll continue as chief engineer.

Six months, you take over the present.

Thank you, sir.

We've had a number of meetings. We've all talked.

I think enough to begin to understand how our interests might fit together.

Interesting.

Thompson, nickel, magnet.

Let me show Jonathan the others.

Sulfur, chemicals.

And shake, Habib Kuri.

I own nothing. I rule.

May verily man is aggressive in wickedness when he sees himself

wealth.

Habib Kuri, gentlemen.

His people, his people who sit on top of the sand, who sits on top of 60 billion

barrels of oil.

Together, gentlemen, we all control, influence, and offer the world's

to influence the world.

Power. Certainly.

But I am already powerful.

Why join with others to get more?

To do more.

Gentlemen, we are the only sane members of the multinational organizations.

We can enforce that, sir.

We can create a golden age at all.

Gentlemen, we make the future impressive.

But there is one necessity.

Why?

For a price.

Big hurry.

I'm prepared to pray.

You said that a year ago, six months ago, again and again.

You were...

I like the wind.

Yes, but the words are done.

IRI is acquiring Montana uranium. The government has licensed them to enrich

nuclear fuel.

I'll be procuring, I can guarantee you, within a year, enough enriched fuel to

give your nation full atomic capability.

Military capability?

Exactly. Creating a new balance of power in the Middle East.

Not yet.

I've heard about the killings, all the trouble.

I've heard all the promises.

I must have proof.

Gentlemen, I believe you all know Senator Daniel Knox.

Gentlemen, I've gotten the legislation.

Montana Uranium will be in charge of an enriched uranium facility.

Your military in control.

Exactly.

Gentlemen, I'd like you all to meet General Todd Stanford.

I just returned from Montana Uranium's number three mine.

It'll be in production inside of a month.

We'll be able to deliver in three.

In the name of God.

Be merciful.

I agree.

Mrs. Nielsen, shipping.

And well, Habib Khoury.

He's somewhere between 50 and 100 billion barrels of oil.

Are you saying McKenna's the link -up IRI?

That's right, Mr. Calvelli. The meeting was held on his boat right after his

company took over Montana Uranium.

I see, but you've got no proof of any conspiracy.

Yeah, but what does all this add up to, a music festival?

With Senator Knox and General Stanford.

Well, that's terrific.

You want me to send the antitrust division against the United States

the Pentagon?

Why don't you start with IRI?

You get Gordon McKenna and the whole thing will fall apart.

For meeting with a group of very powerful men?

There's nothing illegal about it.

We don't know that there is any agreement, cartel, or conspiracy.

Habib Khoury doesn't have to join with anybody.

He's got it all.

Look, McKenna has to be offering him something. What does Khoury want?

Not money, Alan knows.

Luxury? No.

The man's aesthetic.

Power.

Power to bend the Middle East his way.

Nuclear weapon?

Mr. Jones, that material is highly guarded.

Yes, by General Todd Stanford.

Dear God.

That's why they wanted my company.

And sabotaged your plant to get it. While that plant was operating under a U

government contract, I buy that.

You know something? You're all innocents.

This man here is a heavyweight.

Knox.

The odds are this whole thing would get quashed, no matter what I did.

So you're not going to do anything?

Did I say that, Mr. Jones?

Did I?

You know, my father runs one of the finest apple orchards in Conowema

I can always go back to picking.

It happens that I'm a government bureaucrat.

It's no job for a sane man, right?

Except it happens that I'm here because I care about this country.

So do we, Mr. Calvelli.

I'm going to open a full -throttle investigation of IRI, including the

alleged murders.

Thank you, Mr. Calvelli.

More than that, I want your help.

Now, you know your plant inside out.

I want you to go up to Montana.

I'll contact the FBI there to assist you.

I want you to bring back evidence of that sabotage.

Calvelli? Oh, he can be rough if he gets on a crusade. Are you positive?

We have a friend in the Department of Justice.

Covelli met with Cannon, Jones, and your staff investigator, Tom Lochner. And

they're cooking up an investigation.

Oh, no, Gordon.

I can't squash a Justice Department investigation. I'd be crucified.

You'll have to risk it, Daniel. I've got political enemies.

You have a marriage position.

You want to risk your career and your marriage against those photos?

All right.

I'll squash the investigation.

I'll try.

And you'll manage. I trust you, Daniel.

What about Jones and Cannon?

I want them terminated.

They'll raise a stink, Mr. McKenna.

I want them dead.

Jones and Cannon left Montana late this morning.

Your pilot's failed, Corcoran. He's in jail for attempted murder.

It is possible he talked, told them he was hired by me.

Oh, no.

I'm assuming that Jones and Cannon are coming here.

Good. A pilot can always change the story afterwards.

After what?

After I killed Jones and Cannon.

You know, that's a curious thing Calvelli said.

He thinks he could bust IRI, but he doesn't think he can take down McKenna

personally.

Murder, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder. Except it all points to

Corcoran.

McKenna's still in the shadows.

Here you go, Frank.

I got it. I got it.

You roll out, I'll be the big one, okay?

Test the media campaign first in several mid -sized cities.

Cincinnati, Omaha, St. Louis.

Right in America's heartland.

God, if we can move public opinion, it will help me get the legislation to

Congress. Daniel, we don't move public opinion. We create it.

Now, is that easy?

It will be. It will be.

Mr. McKenna?

Your man Corcoran is dead.

He gave us a dying statement that nails you to the wall.

Have you had an accident, Mr., uh...

Jones. Barnaby Jones.

Yes, yes, of course. Yes, I've heard of you. In connection with the murder of

Doris Grady? Or Matthew Vanner?

Or your brother?

It's a cheap and ugly innuendo, Mr. Jones. You've had an accident, yes, but

that's no excuse for slander.

Slander, McKenna?

We have Cochran's statement that you ordered those three murders.

He's going down, Senator.

You still have time to turn government witness, unless you want to drown with

him. You're saying that Mr. Corcoran committed these crimes?

Frankly, I find that very difficult to believe, but even the mere possibility I

find chilling.

Yes, I gave Mr. Corcoran considerable authority. He had my trust.

But you're asking me to believe that he abused that trust and committed these

crimes on behalf of IRI.

You're saying he committed those three murders on his own? All I'm saying, of

course, is I knew absolutely nothing about any of these actions. I had

absolutely no responsibility.

And if he had anything to do with the death of my brother...

Reports of my death were exaggerated, Mr. McKenna.

And you were damn quick to lay all the blame on me.

Galbelli's investigation, the pilot's statement, Corcoran's testimony. I think

you're dead, McKenna.

I don't think so.

I don't think so at all.

I'm a wealthy man.

IRI has infinite resources.

Our legal budget is perhaps larger than the Justice Department's.

Oh, I may be indicted, yeah.

There may be a trial.

And it'll drag on for years and years and years. But in the end, I'll be

vindicated. And what will I be, Mr. McKenna?

I hope, Mr. Corcoran, that you'll be sensible.

Just hang tough.

And I'll hang alone.

For God, for country, and for International Redevelopment, Inc.

I think I needed a cause, Mr. McKenna.

Something to believe in.

But you're a brand -new future world.

It's your own reflection enlarged. There's no room for anybody else and no

reason why I should trust you.

I'm deserting, Mr. McKenna.

Don't use your intelligence. We have a common interest.

No, Mr. McKenna.

I'm no longer interested.

I guess that just about wraps it up.

Well, what can you expect from a professional killer?

A man whose alliance knows no boundaries except his own skin.

Don't do it, McKenna. It's suicide.

Gordon. Don't be stupid.

But can I? You'll never make it.

We can work this thing out.

I have the world. You want me to settle for pity bought with bribes? Want me to

hang by a suspended sentence for the rest of my life? No.

The word Tom is thanks from me, too. Thank you. Well, I don't know a word big

enough to say it, but how about celebrating over dinner, all of us?

Well, we're still tied up with Calvella here.

Why don't you two go ahead?

Hey, that's a good idea.

How about it?

I'd love to.

Bye. Bye -bye.

Now, I have to go.

You know, I have discovered a restaurant, Barnaby, that I'm sure

love. It's called Cornelia's Country Cooking, and they fry everything from

to coleslaw.

It's your kind of place, old friend.

Well, Frank, you know I love country cooking, but not exclusively.

As a matter of fact, I was about to recommend the Pomerol, Cordon Bleu Chef,

Spitzky and Weinstiller.