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Next, the current list of potential clients for Veritech Service, all

presently here in Honolulu.

As always, we'll take their files in chronological order.

First arrivals first.

Larry, you can begin.

Cyrus H. Belding.

Credit rating, triple A.

President, Belding Steel, Youngstown, Ohio.

Family controlled company, Episcopalian.

Member of the vestry, married.

three children in the firm, active Republican, age 68.

Age factor, too risky a variable.

I advise reject.

Agreed.

Wallace H. Schuster, Dallas, Texas, credit rating AAA, first vice

president in land for the top, tri-oceanic, conglomerate, assets $1.6

billion, married, two children, Chamber of Commerce, Deacon, age 42.

Personality rating?

Um, K-5.

How nice.

I'm for him.

I know he's going to do a lot for us.

Oh, I'm awfully sorry. They always put too many ice cubes in the glass, and I

was just trying to... Well, that's all right.

Oh. Um... You want this little cue?

No.

Would you like a cigarette?

Well, no, I don't smoke. I may drink a little later, but I don't smoke.

They're mighty pretty sandals.

I love leather.

American made?

No, American.

You mean you go all the way to Morocco just to get a little leather?

So that white people travel to get what they can't find at home?

If you ain't the brightest and the prettiest.

in just a shake.

Well, you're not the bell-hop.

No, sir.

Mr. Schuster, I'm here to sell you some insurance.

Well, I admire your push and shove, but you picked the wrong time.

Now, if I was gonna stay here for a while, I like your style, I'd give you a

few pointers on how to sell.

Mr. Schuster, I'm selling something special.

Blackmail insurance.

Ben?

Urgent request from Atlanta police.

Telephoto accompanying.

Need all information, Ray, unknown female in photographs.

Found in possessions of Atlanta businessman, Raymond Prideaux. Recent

suicide. Black male suspected.

Prideaux in Hawaii on business three months ago.

Suspect girl, Hawaii acquaintance of Prideaux.

Please respond as soon as possible.

Three months ago.

We had a suicide here in Honolulu, a mainland, about three months ago.

A name of Johnson or Johansson, something like that, wasn't it?

Right. Albert Johansson.

As I remember it, we ran into a dead end on that one, but there was a set of

photographs in his possession.

I'll send them in.

Well, the same.

Tell X Atlanta, tell them it's our turf. Then start making some ripples, waves if

necessary. Let's see whose boat gets rocked. We need a make on her, Ben.

Lovely girl.

But sorry, Ben.

I've known you too long, Dolly. You're lying.

So are you, cop.

You really think I'm setting you up for a bust? Well, aren't you?

I'm on to something else, Dolly. Honest.

Miami, a year ago, took a busman's holiday.

I was down there looking around for some fresh faces.

And this one, a lot of class. I liked her.

But she wasn't interested in coming to Hawaii.

And you never saw her here in Honolulu?

I never said that.

About four months ago, I was downtown doing some fancy shopping.

And there she was, looking great.

I said to her, as long as you're here, honey, why don't you let me fix you up

real good?

She just laughed and said, I've got all the connections and contacts I need, and

aloha, bye-bye.

And you never saw her again.

And that's the truth.

United Airlines Flight 383, Dallas to Chicago.

Now boarding at gate 19.

I said, well, we don't have to talk about it so long.

Well, I can call Inez for you. No, I got time.

Give them the pictures.

Sam, I'm not sure I'd let you do this for me.

You got anybody else?

No.

No one I could even talk to.

It isn't the money, Sam, every month. You know that. It isn't the money.

It's the feeling of being owned of somebody owning me.

That'll wreck me, Sam.

Now, you're a family man like me.

You got Inez and the boys, you understand.

I had to tell somebody or I'd go crazy, but I didn't think you'd up and go after

them. It could be deep trouble for you.

I'm indebted to you, Wally, everything I got, you know that.

What was I in the Army before we met?

Nothing but a country boy MP.

What was I when I got out?

Nothing but a private detective rolling around motel alleys for them divorce

dollars.

You gave me my first industrial account. Set me up with all those corporate

retainers.

I'm indebted to you, Wally.

You're in trouble, boy.

I'm going to get you out.

That's the truth.

Tollivers? Honey, this is me, honey.

Oh, honey, you didn't have to trouble us.

It would have bothered me. I'm sorry to have come down on you so hard.

Same, darling, but I know you didn't mean it. It's just I hate to go away

when one of the boys is sick, and I guess I'm feeling guilty or something,

so I came down on you, honey.

Don't you worry, darling. He's feeling better already.

Now you just keep your mind on your work, and we'll be here for you when you

come. Hear?

I hear you.

I hear you talking to I and Ms., and I think about Betty and all we've got.

Wasn't very bright, Sam.

No, you weren't.

I'm telling you, Sam, you can't imagine how smooth, how casual.

Well, they knew everything, Sam, everything.

What investments I carry, my portfolio, even when that hymn-singing old coot's

gonna step down in my favor.

They told me that if I was late with one diamond, just one, they'd send the first

picture to Betty and the second one to my pastor.

And the third... Last call, flight 383 leaving gate 19 for Chicago.

No more time. Last call.

Just listen.

I never made a promise I couldn't keep.

I'm going to get you out of this mess.

Yeah?

I got my credentials.

I'm a big, rich businessman. I'm going to make the same stops you did.

Chicago, San Francisco. I got my reservations for Hawaii, just like you

did.

And I'm gonna get it, Wally.

I'm gonna get him good.

You believe me?

All right. Just one more thing. You gotta keep paying him the money until

you hear from him. I ain't gotta have time to figure things out, okay?

You're a real friend, Sam.

Hey, Sam Tolliver no longer exists, at least not for a while.

Now, you remember that.

Take care to have a seat, sir. Your car will be ready in just a few moments.

Let's see, the light source is from here, so that would indicate a window.

Maybe here.

Of course.

Of course, it's the purse.

The special camera is in the purse. Suppose there was a high boy here, or a

dresser.

Purse is rigged with an aperture for the lens.

Somebody has to prepare that camera and purse to set up a special film.

Yeah, well, that's your job, Jen.

Mr. Arthur Jackson?

Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I was, uh... I was into my work.

Now, here's your confirmation, and your car is waiting outside in the loading

zone. Yeah.

I won't have to hitch.

You know, check with the security people at the hotels.

Some local girl comes in two or three times with a mainland Howley. Maybe

they'll remember.

Right. Then somebody develops those films.

Probably somebody with his own dark room, but check the borderline labs

anyway.

And have the girl's picture run off.

Every patrol car, every plainclothesman, every bar, restaurant.

And saturate it.

I'm sorry to disturb you, but I burn so easily.

Would you mind?

Not at all.

That's so helpful.

You here alone?

No, with a friend.

Pretty girl like you.

Maria! Come here, honey.

See?

You're luckier than you think.

About three, four days underwater.

Same day we got the telex about the suicide in Atlanta.

Cause of death?

She was drowned.

Lungs full of water.

Should I take her prints?

Yeah. Karen Bell, 24.

Atlanta, Florida.

No record.

What about the chief on Maui? Anything?

She's not known there. Figures she was dumped in the channel.

Wouldn't have been found except she drifted a little. Strong currents.

Waste must have gotten caught in the black coral reefs.

The local boys haven't been diving for coral.

She might not be found yet.

The trouble they went to.

Take her out to the channel between Maui and Lenai.

Okay, let's kick off with what we know.

Two tourists.

Both suicides.

Same girl.

So far, she's the operative.

Yeah, so far, but with one big question mark.

Two men from different parts of the mainland here are for a short stay.

How could one girl set them both up for picture sessions, probably blackmail,

know all about them, their backgrounds, so forth, all by her lonesome?

Somebody else pulling the strings?

Maybe so.

But why kill the girl?

She was doing all right for them. Unless whoever's pulling the strings has a

flock of Karen Bells, a bunch of operatives. Meaning what? That you could

knock off one girl and not feel it?

Well, otherwise, why would... It doesn't make any sense. No, no, don't back down,

Dano. I'm with you.

You mean that a flock of Karen Bells, one could be expendable.

But still, why kill her?

Okay. Let's go back.

What do we know about her that we're sure of?

Well, she's in both sets of pictures.

Two tourists, both suicides. Well, that's it. Both suicides.

That means police investigation.

Well, of course. Suddenly she's a liability and not an asset.

Right. Right. So after Johansson, the first suicide here in Honolulu, her

string puller says, get out of sight.

Beat it.

Figuring that her face is in the photographs in Johansson's possession.

And maybe the police have got them.

Well, second suicide, Atlanta, photographs, same face turns up again.

Well, she's got to go.

Hold it.

Too far, too fast.

A guy knocks himself off on the mainland.

Atlanta, Georgia.

And this girl's boss here in Honolulu knows about it right away.

Nobody gets information that fast.

Unless... Unless... Yeah?

Unless what, Ben? It was such a big operation.

Huge. Operatives all over the country.

But is it possible?

Maybe that's the only answer that is possible.

Guy commits suicide in Atlanta. Atlanta police contact us.

They, her employers, get the information almost the same time.

They have her killed professionally.

It takes a big operation to do business like that.

Take a look at that telex and the information we had on the first suicide

here.

Now, both were wealthy businessmen from the mainland.

Both were people with images to preserve at home.

Both sitting ducks, wide open. In other words, Karen Bell's employers must have

advanced, full, and very detailed personal information about these sitting

ducks, even before they step off the plane here in Honolulu. That, again,

takes big organization.

It also takes an organization with the latest in communications.

Telex, telephoto, computers.

That would follow if our assumption is correct.

That's probably what we're up against. Something big, something new.

And something ruthless.

All right, let's follow our logic where it leads us.

Dano, I want to know every company on this island that uses telex

communications.

Mr. Jackson.

Arthur Jackson. Right.

Mr. Jackson, I'm selling insurance.

Anybody dressed like you are in this hot climate better take out insurance.

Blackmail insurance.

Would you like to discuss this matter out here in the open?

I thought not.

I think your room might be better.

Don't you?

Via Telstar.

We have a satellite over each ocean.

Suppose one of these companies here in Honolulu is getting a message.

From the mainland?

Yes. By cable from the sender.

Chicago, Cleveland, wherever.

To the computer bank in New York.

From there to Intelsat 4 over the Pacific.

Picked up right here in Honolulu on that radar dish.

And telephone lines to subscriber companies.

We're down to 79 companies.

They've got well over a thousand, but most of them are obviously okay.

Yeah.

Most of these will probably work out too, but...

Let me know when you're down to a handful.

We'll do it.

Hey, Mr. Jackson.

Don't take it so hard.

You won't miss the monthly installments we're asking.

For life.

A thousand a month?

Yeah, you won't miss it.

Your career hasn't even peaked. You're still going up in the business world.

Or, uh, wasn't my information accurate?

Well, it was accurate, all right, and very complete and odd.

Terrible, sorry.

I can't oblige you.

Sonny.

Mr.

Jackson, aren't you being a little hasty?

I mean, sure, you got a gun, but you know you can't use it. Why not?

What's the point?

I mean, you pull a trigger... I'd kill you.

That's just the point.

Look, there's security police all over the hotel.

You'd be exposed.

Look, even if you destroy the photos, my people still have the negatives.

You don't understand, boy.

It's Larry.

You don't understand, Larry boy.

This gun ain't meant to kill you.

This gun is meant to keep your rotten hands off this machine.

Nice of you to take that seat I offered you, Larry boy.

Video tape?

My own little picture show.

Nice little story courtesy of Larry, uh... Tober.

Larry Tober.

Now, I need just one more little thing to finish my picture show, Mr.

Tober Boy.

The name of your organization.

And the head man.

Now, listen good.

From my arm, I own you.

You understand?

I own you.

If I send that tape to the police, which I might do,

your goose is cooked.

If I send that tape to the head man, you're a double-cooked goose.

And I might do that, too.

So you need me.

You understand that, Larry?

Huh?

Now, finish my picture show.

What's the name of your organization?

Who's the head man?

Veritex. Speak up.

Veritex. The chairman of the board is... William Speer.

That's a good boy.

Get up.

What you gonna do now?

Well, I'm gonna get dressed.

Then we're going for a walk.

Just you and me alone, friend.

First off, mail us on for safekeeping.

To whom?

And then we're going to go on up to old Veritex. No, no, no.

And you're going to introduce me to the chairman of the board.

You know, we've never done this before.

Tapping a telex.

I think you've got a first, Steve.

Well, I'm not dancing for joy about the honor.

Are you sure you need five court orders?

We started with over a thousand subscribers.

Most of them checked out quickly as legitimate.

Freight orders, sales, and so forth.

But those five, the nature of their business is vague.

What about the warrants to let us monitor their home phones?

John, we're dealing with murder and blackmail on a massive scale.

Judge Kalei, his orders. Strict.

If you zero in on one, okay, but not five.

I wish you could see what I saw at the morgue.

24-year-old girl.

Found her in the Maui Channel at 30 fathoms.

That old codger sure makes it tough.

Yes?

Is he in?

It's urgent.

Larry Tober has to see you immediately.

Send him in.

Send in Mr. Arthur Jackson, please.

I understand we have a problem.

We don't, you do.

You're not Arthur Jackson, are you?

That's right, I'm not.

And that's only one of your problems, Mr. Spear.

You buy everything that computer tells you, and it's only a piece of hardware.

Well, if you're not Arthur Jackson, what shall I call you?

Call me...

25%. Now, that ain't so greedy, is it?

Thank you.

I am to work for it. Never been the kind of man to take something for nothing.

Always deliver.

And I got an idea.

There's quite a great deal of inefficiency around here, like taking

the word of that computer about me.

Yeah, I got a feeling I could raise the performance level around here, oh, half

again as much.

So my asking for 25% of the profit ain't so bad now, is it? Would you care to

tell us a little bit about yourself before we, uh... I'm a man on the rise,

Mr. Spear, like Mr.

Arthur Jackson. A man on the rise, seizing his opportunity, like they teach

you in those fancy business schools.

Only I got to do this in my own way, on account I never been to none.

And my own way is hard work, pile right in.

So the sooner you show me the ropes around here, the sooner I can make my

contribution. The ropes.

Now, exactly what did you have in mind?

Well, the office layout, your contacts on the mainland, like that.

And the negatives.

They aren't here, you know.

Oh, no.

I'm aware of that, Mr. Spear. The man who has those negatives has the whole

works, right?

So I didn't figure I'd... See him lying around here, no sir.

Anyway, I don't need him.

That videotape's my insurance.

You got the negatives, I got the videotape. We got ourselves a system of

checks and balance, Mr. Spear.

Now listen, you folks, I realize that I laid a kind of surprise on you folks.

Y'all need time to deliberate.

No rush.

Just so long as somebody calls me when you made your decision.

Old Larry here saw me mail off that videotape.

So if anybody's entertaining any idea of some harm coming to me or my friend

Larry there, that old tape gets routed right to the police.

Now, that wasn't nice or necessary of me to say, but I'm just a crude old

country boy.

See you around.

Mr. William, they're tapped in. These are now slaves to the machines right

inside those five companies.

They'll operate when the parent machines do.

Dean, got a breakthrough on our Veritex. Listen to this.

The first one's a credit checkout, straight and simple, but using code so

it fooled us.

Yeah, go on. The second, I think we got a bonus.

What kind of bonus?

A bookmaker we never knew about.

Good. That's two off the list.

The third one deals in gold.

Gold? Nothing else? Just gold?

You deal in gold, and apparently you don't need to deal in anything else.

Fourth one's going out of business. Deep financial troubles, it looks like. But

the fifth baby, Veritex.

Yeah, Veritex. What about Veritex? What's coming over?

What we've been looking for. Nothing but full personal and financial reports on

dozens and dozens of incoming tourists.

All rich?

All rich.

And sitting ducks.

Good work, Dano. Good work.

Vertex, huh?

Okay, I'll call Manicote right away.

If he can't get me court permission for blanket phone tabs on every employee,

board member, contact, I'll drag in the governor.

Now he says he wants 25%. Anybody believe that?

I don't. I say 25% on the way to 100.

Now, any guesses as to why he's so hungry?

Just an impression.

He served the big boys for so long, he hates them. A smiling server, ready for

his own big killing.

Do you read him as a loner or someone who uses help?

I read him as a professional.

Alone when possible, uses help if he has to.

And he'd know where to get it.

And his next move for the negatives, then to eliminate me.

Or vice versa.

if that's the only way to get the negatives.

Don't touch that.

What we need now are specifics.

What is his training? What's his vulnerability?

And what's his background?

I want you to take the prints off of this ashtray and have a telephoto ready

to send immediately with the message I'm about to dictate to our Dallas contacts.

Sit, please.

Where our friend, Arthur Jackson, began his journey.

No, urgent.

Request real identity, Arthur Jackson, staying Hawaiian Regent Hotel.

Not Arthur Jackson of Dallas.

Repeat, not Arthur Jackson.

Prince accompanying this message, about 38, 6 feet, dark wavy hair.

Has or affects western accent.

Chairman requests urgent A1 priority this matter.

Steve, here it is out of Washington.

Sam Polliver, private investigative agent.

Industrial accounts, Dallas, Texas.

So those prints belong to a private investigator.

What's a private investigator doing with Veritex?

Wonder why he didn't tell us he was here.

Hi, is there Jackson here?

Good evening, Mr. Jackson. I hope I'm not disturbing anything.

Not at all.

In fact, I'd be more disturbed if you hadn't called.

Thought over my proposition?

Yes, very thoroughly.

I now feel we're ready to do business.

Good.

You won't regret that, no, sirree. You won't regret that one bit.

When would you like to get together?

How's tomorrow morning at 10?

At my place at the beach?

Your place at the beach?

I'm sure Larry told you about that.

when he told you about the negatives.

That's right. Larry told me everything.

Well, see you in the morning, then.

Good night.

Bye.

Operator, want to place an overseas call?

Chicago, Illinois.

That's right, honey, Chicago, like in all those old movies.

Sam T. I'm in Honolulu.

Wasn't sure.

These overseas calls ain't the clearest.

What are you doing there, Sam?

For your health or business?

Business.

Serious business.

Okay. What do you need?

Name of a doctor, Cal.

I got a friend who's very sick. Might be terminal.

You're gonna need the best.

I can fly out a very capable specialist.

No time, Cal.

I need a local man. Got any recommendations?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so.

589. 0589.

Got it. No sweat.

Glad to help your sick friend.

Bye.

He called McCullough twice. No answer. Then he got him.

He's going to see the guy in an hour at McCullough's place.

An hour.

An hour's time enough.

Private investigator making some kind of deal with Veritex.

Then hiring a killer.

Maybe he's acting for a client as being blackmailed.

Or maybe he's a part of the Veritex operation in some way.

Yeah. Well, in any case, that's what we need to weigh in. Okay, let's go.

Who's there?

Job pays 10 grand.

For a hard squeeze, maybe a hit.

Suppose you want to know who your mark is. No.

I want to know who you are.

I'm the man paying you.

I'm clean and I'm good. There's not a police mark on me.

That's because I always know exactly who I'm working for.

Fifteen grand.

What the hell do you want to know?

Your operation.

What's that got to do with you?

It tells me whether you're living in a coconut tree or not.

Whether I want your job or not.

Cal said you were the best.

He didn't say you were all so smart.

You got a real plush future with me, if you want it. You said nothing about the

present. Fair enough.

Does Veritex mean anything to you?

You tell me.

Blackmail on a real big scale.

Fella heads it up. Shouldn't.

I should. I think I got more brains than he has.

But he has the negatives on them folks he's blackmailing.

After tonight, I'll have them.

What do you got on him?

Confession about the entire operation.

From the boy they sent to put the squeeze on me, I came on like a real

rich tourist, you know. I turned the tables on him, and I had a videotape

machine taking it all down.

He's willing to give up 25%, but I think I can get it all with your help.

Okay.

Good. When?

He's expecting me at his beach house about 10 tomorrow morning. I think we

should get there before dawn.

If we sound asleep, his defense is down good.

I need a whole layout.

I got it.

He's a bachelor.

Got a real nice image for himself up and down that beach. Just a quiet

businessman.

Living alone.

He's got a servant.

Living in that wing out there.

He's got a cook.

Comes in every morning.

Leaves after dinner.

No dogs.

No electric gates. No alarms.

Nothing. Just Mr. Nice.

You don't think this is too open?

Too inviting? Like, uh, come into my parlor? Maybe.

I think I've taken all his cards.

I think I'm ready for anything he's got.

Who gave you the layout?

The same boy who gave me the confession.

I got it all down on videotape.

I own it.

I own him.

You in?

When? Tonight.

You said that.

I got some getting ready to do.

When do we meet? We've met.

That's my policy. I never change it.

I always stick with the man I'm gonna do a serious job with, from the time I tell

him to the time the job is done.

Just like the Army.

Get to be a real team real fast.

Now, I think I'll have that drink you offered me.

Insomnia? No.

Actually, I planned a little surprise for you later on this morning, but I can

give it to you right now.

I'm sorry.

No personal calls permitted.

The call was not for my benefit, Mr. Tolliver.

The call was for your benefit.

Call you home, Mr. Tolliver.

In Dallas.

At my expense, of course.

Unless you'd like me to get the number for you. I do know it.

Even the names of your two sons.

Inez, honey?

Are you all right? Sam, where are you, Sam?

There's two men here.

They've got guns on me and on the boys.

Sam, please say it's up to you.

What do they mean, Sam?

That's my surprise, Mr. Tolliver.

Two of my men are guarding them, but your family is safe and in good health.

If anybody hurts my family... Now, the sooner they don't have to look at my men

and those guns, the better for your family.

Don't you agree, Mr. Tulliver?

It's very easily done.

Where's the videotape of Larry?

At my hotel.

I mailed it to myself.

May I ring for my houseboy?

What for?

I'd like to go with you for the tapes, Mr. Tolliver.

The sooner I get them, the sooner your wife and children go free.

Will you kindly ask your man here to put away his gun?

If you try to force me to call my men at your home, Mr. Tolliver, I must warn you

I have a code arrangement with them.

Now... It will sound as if I'll be doing your bidding, but actually, I will be

ordering them to kill every member of your family.

Come in, Philip.

Yes, Mr. Spear.

I have an errand for you, Philip. I'd like you to go into town with Mr.

Tolliver here.

Yes, sir.

Shall I open the drapes?

Might as well.

It's going to be a lovely day.

Come on, let's go. I want to get those men out of my house.

Your hands above your head.

Quick.

Up.

Mr. Spear, this is Ben Cocour of Five-O.

Is that so?

Philip is usually right about these things.

Mr. Spear.

His microphone is picking this all up. Shall I bust it?

No, no, no. I'm sure it's Mr. McGarrett at the other end, and I... I need to

stay in touch with him.

Mr. McGarrett.

Unless you want your man dead, please reply.

Yeah, I'm here.

I have my cruiser and crew standing by offshore.

In a moment, I'm going to walk out of my house.

My men will have a gun to Mr. Kukua's head.

Now, you may get one or the other of us, but Mr. Kukua will be a dead man before

you get us both.

What do you want?

I want to go to my launch.

Then Mr. Kukua will be set free, unharmed, on the beach.

After that, I'll take my chances with the Coast Guard.

Did you read me?

Yeah, I read you, Spear.

If anything happens to Ben Kikua, anything, we're not going to wait for

the Coast Guard. I'll blow you out of the water myself.

You read me?

I read you, Mr. McGarrett. Take your walk.

This is Mr. Spear.

Prepare to weigh anchor in two minutes.

We're on our way.

Spear, freeze!

Up to you. Do you trust him to make the phone call to your home?

Dallas Police, Donald. Get him on it.

Ben, this one's under arrest, too.

Old country boy blew one, huh?

I'd hate to be there when you try to explain to your kids you did it all for

their sake.

Book him, Ben.