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Good evening.

Welcome to tonight's program.

As you see, I have joined those of you who enjoy the most popular indoor hobby,

coin collecting.

Perhaps some of you think that the rise of the credit card and credit buying was

spontaneous.

Actually, the reason for these devices is quite simple.

Coin collectors have taken so much money out of circulation, there isn't enough

to spend.

If this trend should continue, and I see no reason why it should not, we will

have to reintroduce barter.

With that possibility in mind, I have already begun collecting beaver pelts.

sure it will come as no great surprise to you to learn that in tonight's

program, a crime will be committed.

And I do not refer to the one our sponsor is about to perpetrate.

Jimmy,

stop it.

Jimmy, don't.

Leave her alone.

I'll tell your mother.

Hey, grab the wrench for the engine mounts. I'll rig the hoist.

Well, come on, kid, huh?

I can't do it, Fred.

What was Otto about?

Well, what do you think?

He's only been out about a month.

He's too nervous for my money.

Well, I once knew a guy who used to walk up eight flights of stairs to see his

parole officer because he couldn't stand being cooped up in an elevator.

No business school today?

Only twice a week.

Oh.

It's warm.

Indian summer.

Father said I could have some time off this afternoon after I finish at the

store.

I think I'll go to the park.

Fred owes me some time. Maybe I could go with you.

It's a free park.

You don't talk much, do you?

I guess not.

Is the rest of your family like that?

Quiet, I mean?

I don't know.

I don't even know who they were.

I was raised in a county home.

You mean like an orphanage?

Now what else could it mean?

I'm sorry.

Maybe we ought to start back.

It's a long way. We can take the subway.

I want to walk.

You want to take the subway, go ahead.

If that's the way you feel about it, why did you come with me?

I didn't mean it like that.

It's just that it's the rush hour now.

Look, I got a thing about being closed up in places, that's all.

Claustrophobia?

Yeah.

So does Mr. Colucci.

He was a prisoner of war.

I was a prisoner once.

No war, though.

You mean the home.

Home, reformatory, state prison, take your pick.

Anything else you'd like to know?

Some date, huh?

Bet you don't have any boyfriends like me.

Noah.

I don't have any boyfriends.

Oh, come on.

I haven't dated since high school.

A girl like you? Why not?

What do you know about me?

I can learn.

You like popcorn?

the only time we ever got outside the home.

I loved that school bus.

Not the school, just the bus.

I thought that driver had it made free in control of things.

I watched him till I could shift gears in my sleep.

Is that what you stole?

I just wanted to take it for a drive, that's all.

And they sent you to a reformatory for that?

They must have known you weren't really stealing it.

They didn't want to know.

Does Mr. Kruger know?

Oh, no, of course not.

Now you have a chance to do what you want to do.

I bet I have.

That's why I'm taking a business course.

Once I get a job, maybe I can get Papa to give up the store.

Well, you don't think he'll let you, do you?

Huh?

Look, once somebody gets you under their thumb, they keep you there.

Why don't you stay with him?

I'm all he has.

Everybody needs someone.

I'm sorry I made you go on.

I liked it.

Don't, Terry, please.

I didn't mean anything wrong.

I know.

I just don't want to.

32 minutes later, we're back here with $112 ,000.

Huh? What do you think of that?

I think you're out of your mind.

Why? I don't know. It's crazy. I mean, chasing freight trains with the police

help.

I mean, that's a real beauty.

And that safe's got to weigh 400 pounds. Now, what are you going to do, carry it

out on your back?

Don't you ever listen.

We roll it across the floor on this creature.

Lift it into the truck. It'll take 30 seconds. If you're wrong, it could take

years.

Now, you fake your breakdown right about here.

One of the patrol cars coming off duty comes down this street at about 11 .40.

Give or take a minute.

You're sitting here at the side of the road with the flares out, all right? He

stops, you flag him down.

Ask him to get on the radio, call the precinct. Have the precinct telephone

here, send out a tow truck.

Terry, you should get the call about 11 .45. You're ready to roll with the tow

truck. You take off.

You meet us here, 11 .50.

We leave the tow truck.

Take off in the path.

All right, now from here to the plant.

Four minutes, right?

Less. Good.

Okay.

At 11 .59, a hotshot freight leaves the yards here, makes the crossing at 12

.04.

This is about the same time the other patrol cars are coming back on duty for

the midnight to 8 a .m. ship, you understand? That's the part I don't get

all. All right, well, will you just listen?

So that means we got exactly ten minutes to get from here to the plant, take

care of the guards, get the safe in the truck, and get back across the railroad

before this freight makes the crossing.

None of these other patrol cars could possibly get here in time to follow us.

When they do get across, we'll be coming back from the other side with a

breakdown that they already know about.

Huh? Any questions?

Yeah. One big one.

Suppose we don't make the crossing in time.

They're coming.

Right on the button.

We're in business.

Kruger's Toe Service.

Where?

Boy, he really picked a spot to break down, didn't he?

Yeah, thanks.

I got a scream in the net. Come on, let's go.

I thought you said the same way.

That's something's wrong. It feels like a waste of time.

Move. Come on. All right, let's get him now.

Come on.

Don't flinch. The casters are smashed.

Look at that clock. We've got to leave it.

Don't leave it.

What's the motto of this crate?

It looks like we broke a spring in the safe.

Oh, great.

Listen, go get that suitcase out of my office.

Hey, Fred.

Yeah? What's this thing in here?

I don't know.

What is it? Must be something valuable. Come on, out with it.

I can't, bud. Oh, come on. Let me try it. You can't?

Oh. Oh, Jesus.

Yeah?

Oh, this is very safe somehow.

And you know, sometimes these plants, they use industrial diamonds for cutting

metal. This thing opens up over here. Good.

No, Fred.

There's some kind of shield here.

What?

Warning, dangerous.

This shell contains cobalt -60.

And proper exposure can lead to illness or death from... radiation.

Hey, Fred.

What? I touched it.

I touched it! Come on!

Hello, Colonel. Frank Ludd. You hear any newscasts on that Long Island City job

this morning?

No, I'm afraid it was more than a payroll.

That safe had a container of cobalt -60 used to x -ray steel beams.

Very potent.

Multi -curie source on government license.

Yeah.

Colonel, how many choppers you got with antennae and detection equipment?

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Well, get them up as soon as you possibly can, will you? If that

breached, we should be able to pick it up, oh, I'd say, about 1 ,500 feet.

Yes.

Yes, I want the entire city check aboard.

Yeah.

Now, Mayor Durrell and Poulsen from the Federal Bureau, they're with me.

Same to you, Colonel. We'll need it.

Seem to have vanished without a trace, taking with them the firm's safe

containing $112 ,000 payroll.

The company announced it will hereafter pay employees by check. A little late.

Now to the national and international.

I see.

See what?

I didn't even mention it, that cobalt.

All they're worried about is the money.

Well, then why'd they put the sign on that thing? They give you the same

about so many X -rays.

You've had X -rays on you? Were you dead yet?

Anything?

Look, don't you think they'd say so if this stuff could hurt you?

But they don't know I opened it.

I want to go see a doctor, Fred.

All right, Al.

Let's see a doctor tonight in Mexico City.

How do I get there? I call up the travel agency. Make reservations. They're

going to call me back.

What do we do until then?

I don't know. Let me think.

Listen, Al.

You better go back to your shop. You're way early here for me. Where are you

going to be?

I can't go back to the garage with that thing. I thought you said it wasn't

dangerous. I've been there all day. Come on.

Look at my fingers.

Look at them.

You were using the torch without your gloves on, so you got a little burn.

I wore gloves. It's not a burn.

They feel numb.

Feels like my fingers are dying on my hand.

I want to see it die.

Well, then we better make sure that you need one, right, Al?

Oh, no.

No. For 30 years, I've been living high up in the heart.

Twice. Twice I fell off. Both times because of some jerk like him checking

on me. And it's not going to happen again.

Monday? That's no good. I gotta get up.

Well, haven't you got anything?

Huh?

All right, all right.

Now call me back if you get any cancellations, will you please?

Right. Thank you.

Friday.

Weekend. Everything's booked solid until Monday.

You go back to your shop, pretend like nothing happened till we get out of

Because if you don't, you know it's going to be back to the pen for you.

It'll be back to the pen for all of us.

We'll never get out again.

You know what I do.

What about that thing in the garage?

What? Oh.

Yeah, we got to do something about that, don't we?

Listen, I'll tell you what to do. Get a sign made up.

Clothes for repairs.

Tag it on the front door.

But... What can you think of something better?

I meant about the neighbors.

What about them?

Well, they're near us. Al's hand didn't look very good. Oh, come on. He's an old

man. You're not thinking about... You're thinking about that girl, that Carol,

aren't you?

Huh? That she gave you the brush last night. Didn't she?

Yeah. Yes.

So there's nobody there we care about.

Can I borrow a hammer and some text?

Don't you have any at the garage?

I forgot my keys.

Fred's putting in some new equipment.

Then you won't be around for a while.

I was thinking about going away.

Oh.

Have you got a new job?

Yeah.

In Mexico.

Then you won't be coming back.

No.

I came over last night.

About 12. You weren't there.

I was out on a call.

I wanted to see you.

Didn't act like it the last time.

You let me kiss you and... Hey,

Carol, you get any calls from me?

No, Mrs. Colucci.

My sister in the Bronx, she got an operation.

Could her husband find a fault? No.

But tell him a tip on the horse and he's got a phone in his pocket.

Give me some change. I'll call her.

They got nobody to go and call.

I love you.

I've never used that word before.

I wanted to tell you last night.

You've got to come away with me right now, today.

Away? Where?

Mexico City. We'll get married.

Be sure this time, Carol.

Be sure about what?

Carol?

There's something you better know.

What is it?

I met a boy in high school when I was 15.

We ran away and got married.

We were underage. It didn't work out.

I got a divorce three months later.

I had a baby.

A little boy.

What of it?

I don't know.

I never saw him.

I gave him away for adoption.

You mean you dumped him?

No. You just gave him away to be bought up by somebody else? How could you do

it? How could you steal cars?

Because maybe I had a mother like you. I needed somebody to love me.

Why do you think your kid needed it?

Yes, he's right here.

For you, sir.

Ludden speaking.

Yes, Larry.

I'm at LIC emergency.

They had a homicide here about two hours ago. Unidentified man coming in off the

street. Body's been posted.

The cause of death was a bullet, but the man's hand showed positive symptoms of

primary radiation burns.

Direct contact with a multi -curie agent.

Okay, let him hit the panic button.

Give it to B .I. for immediate release.

We've still got 12 hours.

Not anymore, we haven't.

Hi, Terry.

How are you doing?

I haven't been watching.

A bit.

Tomorrow's Saturday, Fred.

Yeah. Yeah, I know, Terry. Seems like a long time of Monday, huh?

Listen, I'm buying a car in the morning. We'll drive to Miami. Take off from

there to Mexico.

I've been thinking all those kids with no school tomorrow playing outside the

garage. Terry, you and I were within a few feet of that thing. Hal even touched

it. He's okay.

Is he, Fred?

Sure.

Come on, don't let your imagination run away with you.

Think you're number one, kid.

Mexico, huh?

Racing cars?

You get the dough to buy yourself the best.

I listen to those Mexican senoritas.

They make that candy store kid of yours look like a boy. We interrupt the late

show for an urgent news bulletin.

A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission has just revealed... You got

drive tomorrow.

Lethal cobalt -60 used to x -ray steel beams.

The AEC warned that the container has been breached.

The AEC personnel and agents of the FBI have been hoping to recover the

container intact, but that hope has faded with the disclosure.

that an unidentified man shot to death on the entrance of an emergency hospital

earlier this evening was suffering from severe radiation burns.

The man is believed to have been one of the masked bandits.

The manhunt for his two companions has been speeded up.

The AEC warns that the breached container is highly dangerous.

Continuous exposure can lead to blood cell deterioration and death.

He killed him.

What was I supposed to do?

Let him kill me?

No, no, not you. Not number one.

Use your head, kid.

I'm beginning to, Fred.

I bought a payroll heist, not this.

Thanks, son.

Well, I'll tell you what I bought.

I bought you, buddy boy.

I bought you with two months in solitary, taking the wraps for you. For

months good behavior time I lost because of you.

Not me, a wheel man. That's what you wanted. All right, then. A wheel man.

That's what I paid for and that's what I'm gonna get So you're gonna have to

kill me the same way you killed out Not yet Cuz I know what button to push with

you you see Yes Fred

Fred

please get used to it kid.

That's what solitaire is like Well, in solidarity, you won't be alone.

You'll have rats.

Other things that keep you company.

Let me out, Fred.

I'll do whatever you say.

What about that girl of yours?

I don't care about her. I don't care.

Fred!

Fred!

I don't care if she dies.

I'm not very a J4 driver and hit it.

All units to close in for a fixed pattern.

Decontamination teams in recovery squad.

Sorry, wait till you see the car there, boy.

Must have been the food last night.

I'll go call the doctor.

No.

Just let me rest.

Go ahead and answer it. Carol?

Carol?

What do you want?

You've got to get out of here. You've got to come with me right now.

Let me go. Will you listen to me?

I listened to you yesterday.

I didn't mean what I said.

Let me go. Leave me alone.

I've got to call the doctor for my father.

What's the matter with him?

We've both been sick all night.

We've got to get out of here right now. Terry, leave me alone. Leave her alone.

Get her.

I'll call the police.

Happy now, kid?

There's a car outside waiting for a driver.

It'll wait one more minute.

Those people in there are sick.

I'm going to call the police.

Let me out.

I won't call anybody until you're gone.

By now, you won't, kid.

Fred?

Honest, Fred.

Honest. I'll do anything you say.

on the street.

Get around in the back.

Just a minute, sir.

Okay, come on, let's go.

Stand back, everyone.

It's that house on the other side of the canyon.

A few minutes, I guess.

Over this way.

Hurry it up.

Put him down on that curb over there.

Officer, would you keep an eye on him? Take way, please.

How many more are there?

I don't know. A couple, I guess.

Come on. This way.

Sir?

You heard him ask me to call you, didn't you?

Doesn't that mean anything?

Not for me to say.

Might mean a lot.

This line of the street, clear it.

I'm sorry.

I tried to tell you.

It's all right.

That concludes our story for tonight.

My coin collecting has also ended. I had forgotten about that greatest of all

coin collectors, the government.

It all went for taxes and is back. in circulation again.

I am too. Until next week, when I shall return with another story.

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