1 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,860 I make it 3 minutes to midnight. 2 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,300 Check. 3 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:36,640 Yes. 4 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,420 Standing by. 5 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:39,780 Hold on. 6 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:52,880 Continental warehousing. 7 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,980 Right. 8 00:02:01,780 --> 00:02:08,480 Another challenge for the Green Hornet, his aide Kato and their rolling arsenal the Black Beauty. 9 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,180 On police records a wanted criminal, 10 00:02:11,180 --> 00:02:13,820 the Green Hornet is really Britt Reid, 11 00:02:13,820 --> 00:02:16,100 owner publisher of the Daily Sentinel. 12 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,400 His dual identity known only to his secretary 13 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,100 and to the district attorney. 14 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:29,340 And now to protect the rights and lives of decent citizens rides The Green Hornet. 15 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,560 /we join the blanketing/. 16 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:46,620 Yes. 17 00:03:46,620 --> 00:03:49,600 We've covered the only possible exits for the arsonist, Frank. 18 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,380 We haven't seen a single person. 19 00:03:51,380 --> 00:03:55,320 Well, a Firebug generally stays around to make sure that his torch has worked. 20 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,240 This one doesn't. 21 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,800 The Commissioner just called, there been 12 injuries so far, too serious. 22 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,340 The entire warehouse is totaled out. 23 00:04:04,740 --> 00:04:08,100 There were two night watchman on duty, but they saw no one. 24 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:09,820 This is critical, Britt. 25 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,620 There's gonna be a meeting at the Commissioner's Office tomorrow at 10:00. 26 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:17,340 Make sure that you're there as Britt Reid. 27 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,180 Will you be seated. 28 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,380 Gentlemen, I am particularly gratified that the press is represented here this morning. 29 00:04:27,380 --> 00:04:30,580 The seriousness of this matter cannot be overestimated. 30 00:04:30,580 --> 00:04:33,660 For seven nights now at the stroke of midnight 31 00:04:33,660 --> 00:04:37,480 a madman has set a devastating fire somewhere in our city. 32 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,780 Now gentlemen, I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea how to /combat/ this. 33 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:44,400 We welcome suggestions. 34 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,820 Commissioner Dolan, Mike Axford of The Sentinel. 35 00:04:46,820 --> 00:04:47,980 Yes, Mike. 36 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:51,080 I don't bring just a suggestion, I brought the solution. 37 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,500 What's that? 38 00:05:03,740 --> 00:05:06,340 What is this, Mike? I thought I was just going to see the Commissioner. 39 00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:08,120 This is better, Ben. 40 00:05:11,460 --> 00:05:13,340 Comissioner Dolan, you know Ben Wade. 41 00:05:13,340 --> 00:05:16,580 He was retired from a service a few months ago because of his injury, 42 00:05:16,580 --> 00:05:19,320 but there isn't a man in this town knows more about arson, 43 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,360 or determining the methods of its use, or preventing it than Ben Wade. 44 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:26,820 We know all about Mr. Wade. Good to see you, Ben. 45 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:30,720 Thank you, commissioner. If I can help, I'd like to. 46 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,640 It's already been suggested. 47 00:05:32,940 --> 00:05:36,100 When we realize the extent of our problem, your name came up. 48 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:37,380 Thank you, sir. 49 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:38,680 But it was rejected. 50 00:05:41,740 --> 00:05:44,660 The job you held cost you the sight of one eye, 51 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:47,200 we can't possibly risk the loss of the other. 52 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,020 But 53 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,120 Commissioner, that would be my risk, not yours. 54 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,540 I'm sorry, Ben. 55 00:05:53,540 --> 00:05:56,160 The decision's reluctant, but it's firm. 56 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,800 You and I know it's against department policy. 57 00:06:05,420 --> 00:06:06,120 Ben. 58 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:11,320 It's alright, Mike. 59 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:19,300 Comissioner Dorman, you've got the answer in your hand. 60 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:20,320 Mike! 61 00:06:20,740 --> 00:06:22,000 A gentlemen, 62 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:28,280 as I see it, our problem is not determining whether the fires are incendiary or not, or how they're set. 63 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,880 Our problem is in anticipating the next move. 64 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:37,420 The Commissioner warned that even though a pattern of terror has been established, 65 00:06:37,420 --> 00:06:41,020 policing the areas that must be covered presents a formidable problem. 66 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:48,260 Transportation, warehouses, power plants and water pumping stations are all potential targets, and may be struck next. 67 00:06:48,260 --> 00:06:50,060 Meanwhile on the national scene... 68 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,160 Hundred different targets. 69 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,520 Shouldn't this person, whoever he is, be making his demand soon? 70 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,860 If he has demands, I'm not so sure he has any. 71 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:03,980 Well, I don't understand. Surely he has some price he's going to ask before he stops. 72 00:07:03,980 --> 00:07:07,520 On the other hand, he may be just enjoying the sheer panic he's causing. 73 00:07:09,180 --> 00:07:11,660 Wonder what Sir Lancelot wants now? 74 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,880 Maybe Commissioner Dolan is too stubborn to take Ben back. That doesn't mean we have to be too, does it? 75 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,200 Not necessarily. 76 00:07:18,340 --> 00:07:22,040 The way these fires have been set, it's been done with advanced planning, right? 77 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:22,760 Right. 78 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,320 So if the Commissioner won't hire Ben, the Sentinel does. 79 00:07:26,420 --> 00:07:28,540 Ben figures out how the fires have been triggered, 80 00:07:28,540 --> 00:07:31,940 and we can warn all the plant security people on what to look for. 81 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,920 Britt, at least it's a way to go. 82 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,200 Mike, that'll take a lot of time, 83 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,920 he has to check all the sights of the past fires. 84 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:44,060 He's fast, and he'd work on a day and night. We've been friends a long time, I know! 85 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,200 Well, I'll think about it, maybe check with the Commissioner. 86 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,400 Thanks. 87 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:54,700 It just might work. 88 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:01,000 "B and H - Warehouse" 89 00:09:42,260 --> 00:09:43,060 Yes. 90 00:09:44,180 --> 00:09:46,220 Well, we still have about 20 minutes, Britt. 91 00:09:46,220 --> 00:09:49,640 I think that with all publicity the Firebug may change his pattern. 92 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,140 Helicopters up? 93 00:09:51,340 --> 00:09:53,160 And surveillance on all areas. 94 00:09:53,340 --> 00:09:56,100 I don't think he can pull it off tonight. 95 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,080 Chopper report. 96 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,800 Smoke visible, west end, 97 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,480 transport maintenance. The pilot will check it out. 98 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,260 We're less than 30 seconds away, Frank. Let's go. 99 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,400 Main plant's going up, call fire emergency! 100 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,580 The Green Hornet! 101 00:13:22,980 --> 00:13:24,160 Hello Ben. 102 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:26,960 Crawling in kind of late, aren't you? 103 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,220 and in a hot suit. 104 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,400 How did you get in here? 105 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,920 So you're the Firebug? 106 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:37,520 Just because I'm wearing a hot suit that doesn't prove anything. 107 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:38,280 No, 108 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:42,780 but added to these locations and dates, it does. 109 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:45,140 Every fire, including the one tonight. 110 00:13:45,140 --> 00:13:48,900 I heard that on the radio, I wrote it down. I'm trying to establish a pattern. 111 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:50,580 /Is that what you mean?/ 112 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:55,500 I heard the fire report on my police radio just as I got here, and you haven't been home for hours. 113 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:58,840 I was trying to get you on the phone to give you what I thought was good news. 114 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,260 Ben, why are you doing this? 115 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,580 Don't you know? 116 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:11,100 Forced retirement 117 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,520 for man who dedicated himself to the City, 118 00:14:14,980 --> 00:14:16,480 lost an eye for it. 119 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,500 And they offered you another job. 120 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:23,340 Sure, sit behind a desk, punching holes in paper, 121 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:26,520 answering the phone when people who call up a sick! 122 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:28,560 /Only they aren't/ sicker than you. 123 00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:30,740 Mike, how would you be? 124 00:14:30,980 --> 00:14:34,020 For three months I've been cooped up in this building, 125 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:36,080 staring at four walls. 126 00:14:36,340 --> 00:14:38,260 I've turned into a cripple, 127 00:14:38,260 --> 00:14:40,200 mentally not physically. 128 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,100 You did it to yourself. 129 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,580 Ben, I've known you too long. 130 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:49,300 You only think you know me, nobody knows me. I'm just beginning to know myself. 131 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,300 And I'm not gonna settle for the pasture, not yet. 132 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:55,740 So you figured to start a few fires and be needed, and called back. 133 00:14:55,740 --> 00:15:00,160 Look at this! Scrapbook, look at it! 134 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:09,480 'Lt. Ben Wade solved Shipboard Fire' 'Lt. Wade captures arson ring single-handed'. 135 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,100 It's the headlines you miss. 136 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,660 You're about to make the biggest headline yet. 137 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:21,400 Don't move, Mike. 138 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,440 Let me do this for your own good. 139 00:15:33,780 --> 00:15:36,920 Ben, I've been your friend for a lot of years. 140 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,080 I have no friends, 141 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,940 and now that you know what I'm doing, 142 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:43,160 /Lisa/ for you. 143 00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:52,160 "Green Hornet at Scene of Fire" 144 00:15:53,820 --> 00:15:56,480 Big story on Mike's favorite subject! 145 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,280 Where is he? 146 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,040 I don't know, he hasn't been in all morning. He hasn't even called, it's not like him. 147 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,900 When he left last night he said he was gonna stop by Ben Wade's to tell him that you were considering him for a job. 148 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:08,640 Have you checked at Ben's? 149 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,220 Yes, and Ben said he never arrived. 150 00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:15,300 And then I called Mike's apartment, and they said that he hadn't been there all night either. 151 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:17,840 I'm beginning to worry about him. 152 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,740 Morning, Ben. Mr. Reid. 153 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,880 May I come in? Sure, yes. 154 00:17:10,940 --> 00:17:12,520 Is Mike here? 155 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,540 No sir, like I told your secretary, he hasn't been. I haven't seen him since the Commissioner's Office, 156 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:21,440 but he did call me this morning, telephone me from his apartment. 157 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,060 He did? 158 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:28,300 Well, he'll probably show up around here sooner or later. Nice place you have here! 159 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:41,960 I have good news for you! 160 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,820 I could use some. 161 00:17:43,820 --> 00:17:45,920 You're now an employee of the Daily Sentinel. 162 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,000 Special investigator, Arson. 163 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,040 You mean you're going to do what the city wouldn't? 164 00:17:51,180 --> 00:17:54,340 Somebody has to. This thing is gotten out of hand. 165 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,480 I'll say it has. 166 00:17:57,360 --> 00:17:58,900 When do we start? 167 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:03,140 And you think Mike Axford is Wade's prisoner. But why? 168 00:18:03,140 --> 00:18:06,860 Who knows, maybe Mike stumbled on something. He is an old news hound, you know. 169 00:18:06,860 --> 00:18:10,700 Yeah, but Ben Wade's one of his best friends. It sounds ridiculous. 170 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:11,800 Does it? 171 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,020 Try this. 172 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:20,240 The arsonist is a man so well versed in setting incendiary fires, he never uses the same method twice. That fits Ben. 173 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:29,240 Secondly, he's a man that has a complete knowledge of the fire prevention and construction of all the buildings that he struck. Again, Ben Wade. 174 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,800 Mike said he plan to drop by, and see Ben last night, but Ben claims that he never did. 175 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,720 He said that Mike called him from his home, 176 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,000 but no one at Mike's home has seen him all night or this morning. 177 00:18:41,460 --> 00:18:45,620 Is it possible that he's the same man that you almost caught last night? 178 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:48,080 He's the same size, it's all I can say. 179 00:18:48,260 --> 00:18:48,960 Hm. 180 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,540 Well, I fill /there/ all the forms, I belong to you now. 181 00:18:56,540 --> 00:18:58,700 Good, I have your first assignment. 182 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:00,380 You don't waste any time, do you? 183 00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:01,860 There's none to waste. 184 00:19:01,860 --> 00:19:05,340 A replacement shipment of medical supplies is arriving this afternoon. 185 00:19:05,580 --> 00:19:07,440 I hope you're sneaking them in. 186 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,600 We are. Top secret. 187 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,420 If we lose it, the situation becomes critical. 188 00:19:12,420 --> 00:19:15,080 That Green Hornet is tricky, we have to be ready. 189 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,040 I got you. Where are you storing it? 190 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:23,780 The Sentinel has a warehouse at the Harbor, shipment is camouflaged as newsprint ink paper. 191 00:19:23,780 --> 00:19:24,940 Good idea. 192 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:30,160 I want you to go down and check out the warehouse, make certain on no incendiaries. 193 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,980 What's to prevent someone from planting them tonight. 194 00:19:32,980 --> 00:19:36,480 We have the police surrounding the place, no one in or out. 195 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,420 Mr. Reed, you don't want to just protect the shipment, you'd like to catch the Green Hornet too, wouldn't you? 196 00:19:41,420 --> 00:19:42,460 Of course. 197 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:46,880 Then pull the police out, let me handle this alone. Don't just scare him away. 198 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,640 Isn't that risky? 199 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,560 So as crossing the street. 200 00:19:57,420 --> 00:19:59,780 Everything's coming along fine, Mike. 201 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,660 Two car loads of material have been delivered and stored. 202 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:08,600 Sit up, Mike. 203 00:20:11,020 --> 00:20:14,120 Ben, for heaven's sake stop this! 204 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,000 Come on, get up. We got places to go. 205 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,820 You asked for a chance, Britt Reid gave it to you. Now you're gonna cross him? 206 00:20:23,220 --> 00:20:25,860 That's right, this is gonna be my biggest fire of all. 207 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,980 And what will it accomplish? What about your reputation? 208 00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:31,200 This will still be an unsolved case. 209 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,680 Who said unsolved? 210 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:37,040 I'm gonna capture, I'm gonna kill the Firebug, and the Firebug is gonna be you. 211 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:51,620 "Daily Sentinel - warehouse no. 3" 212 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,880 Ben, stop this foolishness. Nobody's gonna believe /I/ the arsonist. 213 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,100 If I make my case against you, they will. And you'll being dead, there's not gonna be any questions asked. 214 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,220 Fine suspect I'll be with my hands tied. 215 00:21:56,620 --> 00:22:00,840 Very foolish, Mike, You shouldn't told me that, you're absolutely right. 216 00:23:55,740 --> 00:23:57,240 What is it, Mike? 217 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,160 Boss, I have a favor to ask. 218 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:00,520 Ask away. 219 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,460 Could we play down this Firebug story? 220 00:24:03,660 --> 00:24:06,600 Ben Wade deserves a better epitaph. 221 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,520 Mike, he tried to kill you! 222 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:10,300 He didn't, and I'm here. 223 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,120 But it's a chance to make you a genuine hero! 224 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,520 What kind of a hero? I don't even know how I get out of the place. 225 00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:20,380 Okay, if that's the way you feel about it. 226 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,320 Thanks. 227 00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:29,800 Poor Mike.