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This is the Oaks, a house in the
country which I rented for the summer.
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As an author, I write
tales of mystery and murder.
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But the things that happened in this
house were far more fantastic...
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than any story I've ever had published.
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I brought a staff of
servants from my city apartment...
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and my maid Lizzy Allen who
had been with me nearly 20 years.
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Lizzy?
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- Yes, Miss Cornelia?
- Is the car ready?
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It's at the door.
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Look. Miss Cornelia...
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them servants you brought from the apartment
are talking about walking out on us.
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Really?
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Oh, I know they don't like it here
but I didn't think it was that bad.
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Well, they've been hearing things about
the killer that the police call the Bat,
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And the murders that he
committed here this past winter.
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Now people are saying that he's back again.
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Well, how can they be sure of that?
Has he committed another crime?
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No, not yet, but that
ain't saying that he won't.
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Here's something else.
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You've heard about the bats they have
here, animal bats, the kind that fly.
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- Yes, yes.
- Look what it says in this magazine.
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This is a report from the
state Health Department...
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and it says some of them bats is rabid.
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- Well?
- And that ain't all.
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And now there's a rumor going
around that it was the Bat himself...
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the killer I mean, that released the
rabid bats in this neighborhood.
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Oh, that's ridiculous.
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Well, the housekeeper, the cook, the
butler and the upstairs maid don't think so.
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Well, I can't help what they think.
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If hysterical nonsense like that
can scare them out of their good jobs...
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it's their loss not mine.
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Come on Lizzy, I've got to get to the bank.
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Drive directly to Zenith Bank Warner.
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I'm afraid we'll have
to hurry, it's near closing time.
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I'll get you there Miss Van Gorder.
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Thanks again.
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- Miss Van Gorder!
- How are you doing Mr. Bailey?
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- How are you?
- I'm very well, thank you.
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You remember Lizzy Allen?
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- Of course, hello Miss Allen.
- How do you do?
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- So you're spending the summer with us again?
- Yes, yes, I've leased the Oaks.,
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The home of your bank president John Fleming.
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I heard you had, I was surprised.
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Why? Is there something the matter with it?
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No, I was surprised because
Mr. Fleming said he would never rent it.
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Oh?
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Well I rented it from his nephew Mark
Fleming who has the real estate office here.
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He said his uncle would
be gone the entire summer.
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That's right.
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Mr. Fleming is in the north woods
now with his physician Dr. Wells.
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Oh, pard me, Dale.
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I want you to meet my wife.
We were married at Christmas time.
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- That must've been nice.
- Believe me, it was.
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Oh, here she is, my wife,
Miss Van Gorder, Miss Allen.
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- How do you do Miss Bailey?
- How do you do?
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- Cornelia Van Gorder.
- Yes.
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Oh, well I've read every murder
mystery you've ever written.
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I just adored that weird one,
the private morgue of Dr. X.
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- Even though it gave me the shivers.
- Only the shivers? Scared hell out of me.
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Well, I, I, I really means that Miss
Corny killed them off in that one.
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When you refer to my books,
please don't call me Miss Corny.
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Pard me, Mr. Bailey,
Mr. Hynes is here to see you.
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Oh yes, excuse me please.
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- Don't be strangers now.
- No, no we won't.
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Oh, so you're a bride?
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- No, not quite.
- Not since Christmas.
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You know, I'm sure I've seen you.
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Well I, I used to be my
husband's secretary here in the bank.
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Of course, I remember.
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May I welcome our most
distinguished visitor back to Zenith?
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Oh, that's very charming, but...
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- Lieutenant Anderson.
- Lieutenant Anderson, of course.
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Chief of detectives of the Zenith police
department, This is Miss Allen.
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- Miss Allen.
- How do you do?
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Lt. Anderson is one of our favorite citizens,
he's on the Bank's board of directors.
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- Not bad for a policeman.
- You must've made a good thing of it.
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Well, I saved my money,
if that's what you mean.
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It's near closing time and I've got some
business in the safe deposit vault.
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- Please come and see me Miss Bailey.
- Oh, I'd love to.
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- And you Lieutenant.
- Thank you.
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- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, nice to have met you.
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My, what a charming woman, she
moved into the Oaks just the other day.
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That house is a proper
sitting for a writer of mysteries.
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Oh, it certainly is.
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- Dick, what's the matter?
- Come in here, both of you.
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Andy, we're in trouble. Wendell Hynes came
in to pick up $350,000 worth of bonds that...
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we were holding as collateral for a loan.
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They were kept in our special vault.
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Mr. Fleming and I are the only officers
of the bank who have access to that vault.
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- So?
- The Hynes bonds are gone.
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That's not all, other
negotiable securities are missing.
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From what I can gather
short of a careful check...
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the bank is been looted of over
a million dollars worth of securities.
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You'll have to notify Fleming.
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I wish I could talk to him. Unfortunately,
he and Dr. Wells are deep in the woods.
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They can't be reached by phone.
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What is it?
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I thought I heard someone
on the path coming from the lake.
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- Had an idea it might be that guide of ours.
- Oh, Sam won't show up until morning.
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It's a 20 mile canoe trip
from here to civilization.
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Five will get you 10,
Sam has a message for me.
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I thought you told them at
the bank not to bother you.
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I did, but they'll bother me.
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- Doctor?
- Yes, John.
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What would you do for half a million?
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Anything short of murder.
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Why not murder?
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Too messy.
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Too great a risk?
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For half a million? Yes.
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I pinched a million from the bank.
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I'm not kidding.
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I embezzled it.
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Not that I think you wouldn't do it
if you thought you could get away with it.
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I got away with it.
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I'm not talking about currency.
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I took negotiable securities that
could be converted into cash.
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I have the cash, in tens,
twenties, and hundreds.
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And I'm your doctor,
not your lawyer, why tell me this?
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You'll find out why.
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Who's going to take the
blame for the robbery?
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Bailey, the cashier,
they'll never suspect me.
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- I like Bailey.
- Oh, so do I, I love the guy.
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- I gave him his first chance.
- He has a lovely little wife.
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Charming girl, was the best man.
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Where's the million?
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In my family's tomb in Zenith,
in the crypt with my father's casket.
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- I don't buy that John.
- No?
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No.
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You forget that I had you in
charge when you were a very sick man.
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When you raved in delirium.
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And I heard you talk about a hidden room.
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Now, where else could you put a hidden
room except in that mansion you built.
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That white elephant you call the Oaks?
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Look, everyone knows I have a bad heart.
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Who would doubt it if you wired the
bank directors that my heart is failed.
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That I'd fallen from a great height here in
the woods and that I was badly smashed up?
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You could ship
the body back for burial and...
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instruct them not to open the casket
due to the condition of its contents.
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Well you realize, of course, that we
had to have a body to put in that casket.
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Which means that we'd have to
deal with an undertaker at this end.
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- Of course.
- But where do we get a body?
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Couldn't we provide
one of our own? How about Sam?
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Sam, our guide?
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Sam weighs about as much
as I do, he's practically a hermit.
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He wouldn't be missed for a long time.
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The local undertaker would know him.
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Not if we made him look as
if he'd been in a serious accident.
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But if Bailey is going to take the
blame, why do you have to do this?
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A jury might acquit him.
In that case, I'd be a logical suspect.
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I could disappear of course,
but it's safer if they think I'm dead.
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What if I don't go for this deal?
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In that case, it would be two bad.
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- You mean you'd kill me?
- What else could I do?
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Now that I've told you about the million.
I'd say you were shot in a hunting accident.
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Now look doctor...
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if you can find another body
instead of Sam's, it's all right with me.
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There's half a million in it for you.
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I'll do my best.
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- I smell smoke.
- So do I, what's that noise?
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Look doctor, the woods are on fire.
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It's coming this way,
we've got to get out of here.
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Out the back way.
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We will, as soon as I provide
that body we were talking about.
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My goodness. Lizzie, is that you?
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Yes Miss Cordelia, there's a storm
coming up and it's going to be a snorter.
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The wind nearly blew the door off its hinges.
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Well, that noise blew my game higher than
a kite, I think I've lost some of the cards.
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Oh, I'll get them for you.
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Oh, I see you found the paper.
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To rat that paper boy.
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Scooting by on his bicycle, just chucked it
into a couple bushes and let it go at that.
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For land's sake, Mr. Vick
Bailey is been arrested.
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- Oh?
- Right there.
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Victor Bailey, vice president
and cashier of the Zenith bank,
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was arraigned before United
States commissioner Alvin Fielding...
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charged with the
embezzlement of over a million dollars.
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I can't believe Vick Bailey had
anything to do with that robbery.
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Oh well, I see our landlord is home again.
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- Landlord?
- Mr. Fleming.
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Dr. Malcolm Wells is back in
town with the body of John Fleming...
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president of the Zenith bank,
who was killed in a forest fire.
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Mr. Fleming will be laid to rest
in his family's tomb on Friday.
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- And I hope he stays there.
- Why shouldn't he?
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Well, this is his house. And ever since he
died, some funny things have happened here.
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For instance?
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The housekeeper, the cook and the butler
said that they heard strange noises at night.
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And the upstairs maid swore that she met a
man without a face coming up the back stairs.
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Oh, so that's why they quit and
left me to run this place without a staff.
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They didn't tell you Miss Corny,
but the truth is, they were scared to stay.
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But you're still here Lizzie.
Haven't you seen anything?
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No, no, and even
if I had I ain't afraid of ghosts.
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They're afraid of me.
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Honest Miss Corny, a spiritualist told
me once that ghosts was allergic to me.
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But, but this Bat feller they keep
talking about in the paper, I...
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I guess he'd be different.
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No, I don't think you'd
have the same effect on him.
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Oh dear.
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What are they trying to do? Drive
people away from this part of the country?
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Why? What did it say about the Bat?
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His specialty seems to be killing women,
my goodness, two of them in one night.
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All his victims died the same way...
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like their throats had been
ripped open with steel claws.
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Well, that's a charming little caper.
I'll have to try it sometime.
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In a book.
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That ain't' nothing, just something
bumping against the house.
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That's just the wind
banging a door, pay no attention to it.
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Listen to this, one of his
victims who lived for a moment...
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after she was found, described
the Bat as a man without a face.
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Honest Miss Corny, I think
that woman must've been exaggerating.
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That's just that heavy
tapestry at the top of the stairs.
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I know, I know, I've
heard it before on a windy night.
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But that sound a little
was someone on the stairs.
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I know there isn't, least there shouldn't be.
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There ain't, them is just the noises you
here in any old house on windy night.
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It says here that the Bat
never leaves no fingerprints.
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That's understandable, having no
face, he probably has no fingers either.
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Lizzie.
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And that, I suppose, is the
cat dropping its dentures?
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No, no, I don't think so, but I think
it's something should be looked into.
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Now, who chucked him down here?
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The wind, I hope.
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There must be a window open up there.
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No Lizzie, let him lay. Let him sleep it off.
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I hope the power lines don't
go down, put the lights out.
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We'll check the windows in the living room...
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and drawn the curtains
and then we'll go to bed.
228
00:16:34,701 --> 00:16:35,907
Yes, ma'am.
229
00:16:45,385 --> 00:16:46,817
I won't be a minute.
230
00:16:53,702 --> 00:16:55,104
Miss Corny...
231
00:16:56,612 --> 00:16:57,576
What was that?
232
00:16:58,134 --> 00:17:03,066
Oh, when I went to get the
paper, I turned the latch off.
233
00:17:03,096 --> 00:17:05,536
I forgot to turn it on again.
234
00:17:06,124 --> 00:17:09,397
He's out there, he was coming in.
235
00:17:09,955 --> 00:17:11,252
He might've got you.
236
00:17:11,282 --> 00:17:14,961
Oh, but he didn't and
he's still out there, thanks to you.
237
00:17:14,991 --> 00:17:17,162
Now, you hurry now go we'll call the police.
238
00:17:17,192 --> 00:17:20,012
No, no, I won't leave you Miss Corny.
239
00:17:20,042 --> 00:17:25,741
- Are you Ok?
- Yes ma'am, I'm, I'm ok.
240
00:17:25,998 --> 00:17:27,068
Ok.
241
00:17:35,902 --> 00:17:38,586
- Operator.
- Give me the police department please.
242
00:17:39,468 --> 00:17:42,980
- Zenith police department.
- This is Cornelia Van Gorder.
243
00:17:43,010 --> 00:17:46,478
- I'm living at the Oaks.
- We know about that Miss Van Gorder.
244
00:17:46,508 --> 00:17:51,136
Just a moment ago, a man
tried to force his way into this house.
245
00:17:51,166 --> 00:17:53,758
You're not alone there, are you?
What about your servants?
246
00:17:53,788 --> 00:17:58,568
Well, I have none except my chauffeur and
he's away, won't be back until the morning.
247
00:17:58,598 --> 00:18:02,848
Now, there's only two of us here tonight
and we're going to lock ourselves in my room.
248
00:18:03,105 --> 00:18:08,351
Now, if, if any of your men see
anything, will you have them call me?
249
00:18:08,381 --> 00:18:11,878
- I'll send officers over there right away.
- Well, thank you very much.
250
00:18:13,491 --> 00:18:15,964
Come on Lizzie, we're
going to sleep in my room.
251
00:18:26,245 --> 00:18:31,526
Well, nothing can get at us in
this room now, I don't think.
252
00:18:31,725 --> 00:18:36,079
- This door seems good and solid.
- Like the door to a tomb.
253
00:18:46,407 --> 00:18:50,417
I think that couch will be comfortable,
it's some extra bedding you know...
254
00:18:50,447 --> 00:18:51,834
- in the closet.
- Yes, ma'am.
255
00:18:52,845 --> 00:18:54,066
Let's see now.
256
00:19:07,769 --> 00:19:10,693
No bolt, no that's not so good.
257
00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,221
- Ma'am, what's that for?
- That my good woman, is a boobie trap.
258
00:19:24,186 --> 00:19:29,100
If anybody tries to open this transom this'll
be knocked off, and we'll hear it fall..
259
00:20:02,342 --> 00:20:08,086
Oh, fiddlesticks, I forgot my night things,
my robe, my gown and my sleepers.
260
00:20:08,312 --> 00:20:11,508
- I'll go get them now.
- Now, wait a minute, Lizzie.
261
00:20:11,794 --> 00:20:15,066
- I'll go with you...
- Now don't you bother Miss Cornelia.
262
00:20:15,096 --> 00:20:18,142
- My room is just down the hall.
- Lizzie, I told you to wait!
263
00:20:19,046 --> 00:20:21,247
It's all right, I'll only be a second.
264
00:20:24,059 --> 00:20:24,308
Get in here!
265
00:20:24,518 --> 00:20:26,310
Get in here!
266
00:20:36,565 --> 00:20:38,239
- Yes?
- Miss Van Gorder?
267
00:20:38,420 --> 00:20:40,560
- Yes?
- Zenith police department.
268
00:20:41,028 --> 00:20:42,972
There's a police car just outside your house.
269
00:20:43,002 --> 00:20:44,991
And the officers in
it have reported that there's...
270
00:20:45,021 --> 00:20:47,449
no sign of a prowler anywhere on the grounds.
271
00:20:47,479 --> 00:20:51,851
Oh, the man is inside now, he's
in the hall just outside my bedroom.
272
00:20:52,304 --> 00:20:56,268
Have your men break through the kitchen door
and search this place from top to bottom.
273
00:20:56,525 --> 00:20:59,630
- Ok, Miss Van Gorder, sit tight.
- I will.
274
00:20:59,856 --> 00:21:02,781
I have a gun and I know how to use it.
275
00:21:11,691 --> 00:21:18,535
Oh, relax, relax Lizzie, the police did a
good job, they couldn't find anybody in here.
276
00:21:18,565 --> 00:21:25,184
- But we both saw him Miss Cornelia.
- All right, all right, so he got away.
277
00:21:25,541 --> 00:21:29,506
But there are men on guard
outside, so just try and get some rest.
278
00:21:30,215 --> 00:21:33,728
There's nothing can get at us here.
279
00:22:04,603 --> 00:22:08,951
- Oh, Miss Cordelia, Miss Cordelia!
- What?
280
00:22:08,981 --> 00:22:10,591
- What's the matter?
- A bat!
281
00:22:10,820 --> 00:22:14,257
- Oh nonsense, you've had a nightmare.
- Maybe I did.
282
00:22:14,545 --> 00:22:17,333
But there was a bat and it bit me.
283
00:22:17,363 --> 00:22:19,974
- What?
- It flew in that closet.
284
00:22:20,879 --> 00:22:23,062
Good gracious Lizzie, you're right!
285
00:22:37,619 --> 00:22:42,371
Operator, operator, will you get me
Dr. Malcolm Wells' office please.
286
00:22:43,263 --> 00:22:46,217
No, I don't know his number and I have no
phone book up here, but this is an emergency.
287
00:22:46,247 --> 00:22:47,749
Will you connect me with his office please?
288
00:22:48,038 --> 00:22:50,746
Oh dear, oh dear, I'm
going to get the rabies.
289
00:22:50,776 --> 00:22:53,476
- Hello?
- Hello, Dr. Well's office?
290
00:22:53,506 --> 00:22:58,023
This is a call service, Dr. Wells is out at
moment, but if you give me your name and...
291
00:22:58,053 --> 00:23:01,881
- number, I'll try to locate him.
- Well, this is Miss Van Gorder of the Oaks.
292
00:23:02,086 --> 00:23:04,677
My maid has just been bitten
by a bat that may be rabid...
293
00:23:04,707 --> 00:23:06,476
and she must have
treatment as soon as possible.
294
00:23:06,506 --> 00:23:08,659
And I was told that Dr. Wells
was the nearest physician.
295
00:23:08,689 --> 00:23:12,518
I'll try to find him for you and if I
can't, I'll send you another doctor.
296
00:23:12,548 --> 00:23:15,533
Well, thank you very much.
Oh, he's out on a case.
297
00:23:16,341 --> 00:23:20,851
Oh, I hope it's not a delivery, a baby I
mean, they can be terribly complicated.
298
00:23:20,881 --> 00:23:24,210
- It never bothered me none.
- Oh Lizzie, you never had a baby.
299
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,242
Of course I didn't, that's
why they never bothered me.
300
00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:28,413
- Oh, does it hurt, eh?
- A little.
301
00:24:49,833 --> 00:24:52,293
Dr. Wells? Are you there Dr. Wells?
302
00:24:56,719 --> 00:24:59,566
Are you there
Dr. Wells? This is the operator.
303
00:24:59,876 --> 00:25:02,823
Your call service is
on the wire, it's an emergency.
304
00:25:06,767 --> 00:25:10,357
- This is Dr. Wells.
- This is your call service doctor.
305
00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:14,981
Oh hello, I, I was just doing
an experiment, I left the receiver off.
306
00:25:15,198 --> 00:25:17,128
That's what I thought, but I kept trying.
307
00:25:17,158 --> 00:25:20,926
Miss Van Gorder at the Oaks called and
said that her maid had been bitten by a bat.
308
00:25:21,203 --> 00:25:23,610
- And she's afraid it might be rabid.
- What?
309
00:25:23,941 --> 00:25:30,256
Oh, all right, tell
her I'll be right over there.
310
00:27:01,098 --> 00:27:03,162
- Who's there?
- Dr. Wells.
311
00:27:04,928 --> 00:27:06,356
- Come in.
- Good evening.
312
00:27:07,437 --> 00:27:09,830
Oh, I'm so glad they found you doctor.
313
00:27:09,834 --> 00:27:13,447
Well, I reached my office shortly
after you called, how is your maid?
314
00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:16,797
- Is she in any pain?
- No, no, she doesn't seem to be.
315
00:27:17,107 --> 00:27:21,399
- Did the bat get away?
- No, I believe it's still in my bedroom.
316
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,194
Good, I'll want to examine it.
317
00:27:23,473 --> 00:27:25,848
There you go
Miss Allen, now you'll feel better?
318
00:27:26,514 --> 00:27:28,870
Doctor, have I got the rabies?
319
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,707
Well, I can tell you better after I've
examined the bat's brain under a microscope.
320
00:27:32,737 --> 00:27:36,122
- That thing got a brain?
- Oh, you'd be surprised.
321
00:27:36,846 --> 00:27:37,869
Where is it?
322
00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:40,767
I think the little darling is in that closet.
323
00:27:43,248 --> 00:27:46,173
You know, it's a pity you
leased this house Miss Van Gorder.
324
00:27:46,203 --> 00:27:47,120
Why a pity?
325
00:27:47,836 --> 00:27:50,017
Well, my dear lady, I don't
want to alarm you but...
326
00:27:50,133 --> 00:27:53,068
Oh, after tonight nothing can alarm me.
327
00:27:53,213 --> 00:27:55,771
Yes, I understand,
it must've been terrifying.
328
00:27:56,650 --> 00:27:59,836
So many unexplainable
things had happened here.
329
00:28:00,425 --> 00:28:02,048
It's something about the place.
330
00:28:02,936 --> 00:28:06,557
Your servants must've sensed it
when they walked out on you...
331
00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,338
an apprehension of disaster.
332
00:28:10,390 --> 00:28:12,071
Well, let's see.
333
00:28:14,495 --> 00:28:16,494
Yes, there he is.
334
00:28:16,524 --> 00:28:22,443
All right now, take it easy, nobody is
going to hurt you, quiet now, quiet.
335
00:28:28,377 --> 00:28:31,109
Looks quite normal,
doesn't seem to be sick at all.
336
00:28:31,950 --> 00:28:35,369
Ain't that nice. I've been worried about him.
337
00:28:35,861 --> 00:28:37,222
Well, you should be.
338
00:28:37,898 --> 00:28:41,934
From his appearance, I'd say
that he doesn't have any infection.
339
00:28:43,073 --> 00:28:45,873
In which case, you had a narrow escape.
340
00:28:47,939 --> 00:28:51,811
Now, you take one of those tablets I left
for you and I'll guarantee you a good night.
341
00:28:52,067 --> 00:28:53,722
And I'll drop in on here you tomorrow.
342
00:28:53,925 --> 00:28:56,262
Oh, thanks for everything doctor.
343
00:28:57,709 --> 00:29:01,533
- Now, don't worry, I can find my way out.
- I know you can, but do let me help you.
344
00:29:01,696 --> 00:29:05,771
Oh, don't forget that once I'm gone
you'll have to climb those stairs alone.
345
00:29:05,801 --> 00:29:08,967
Oh, I'm all right, I'm armed now.
346
00:29:09,672 --> 00:29:12,839
Can you shoot one of those
things without shutting your eyes?
347
00:29:12,869 --> 00:29:15,803
Oh doctor, there are guns
in every book I've ever written.
348
00:29:16,092 --> 00:29:18,236
I don't write about
things I'm unfamiliar with.
349
00:29:19,597 --> 00:29:20,666
Lock the door Lizzie.
350
00:29:20,696 --> 00:29:23,031
- Good night.
- Yes ma'am, good night doctor.
351
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:27,879
- Accident?
- No, no, the wind blew him down.
352
00:29:27,909 --> 00:29:29,190
- Oh?
- I think.
353
00:29:30,110 --> 00:29:34,621
Did you know that young Mark Fleming leased
you this house without notifying his uncle?
354
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:37,045
No, no, I didn't.
355
00:29:37,211 --> 00:29:41,146
Well, it doesn't matter now, John
Fleming is dead and Mark is his heir.
356
00:29:41,176 --> 00:29:44,342
But if John were alive, he would warn
you to leave here Miss Van Gorder.
357
00:29:44,372 --> 00:29:46,076
- Really?
- Yes.
358
00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:49,257
It's been a tragic place
for anyone who ever lived in it.
359
00:29:49,438 --> 00:29:51,774
- Well, good night.
- Good night doctor.
360
00:29:52,377 --> 00:29:53,553
Who is out there?
361
00:29:53,931 --> 00:29:56,765
- Nobody you need to worry about doctor.
- Oh, it's Andy.
362
00:29:56,795 --> 00:30:00,081
- That's right, good evening Miss Van Gorder.
- Good evening Lieutenant.
363
00:30:00,699 --> 00:30:04,302
- Somebody sick here?
- My maid was bitten by a bat.
364
00:30:04,619 --> 00:30:07,272
Oh? A rabid bat?
365
00:30:07,434 --> 00:30:11,433
Well, I'll know for sure when
I get to my lab, I, I caught the bat.
366
00:30:12,292 --> 00:30:13,800
It happened indoors?
367
00:30:13,830 --> 00:30:15,986
- In my bedroom.
- How it get in?
368
00:30:16,016 --> 00:30:18,338
Well there are ways a
bat could get in a house.
369
00:30:19,001 --> 00:30:20,237
You ought to know.
370
00:30:21,037 --> 00:30:24,263
I, I spotted this hole in
the window the minute I got here.
371
00:30:25,575 --> 00:30:28,545
That's where the two
legged bat got your door open.
372
00:30:31,349 --> 00:30:35,269
Miss Van Gorder told me that she
phoned headquarters at Zenith.
373
00:30:35,616 --> 00:30:39,822
Yes, I phoned twice, the second time
was after the prowler got in the house.
374
00:30:40,395 --> 00:30:43,168
- Were in headquarters, Andy?
- No, but they contacted me.
375
00:30:43,350 --> 00:30:47,179
An officer came and searched the house from
top to bottom but they couldn't find the bat.
376
00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:50,782
- You better have this window fixed tomorrow.
- Oh yes, I certainly shall.
377
00:30:50,812 --> 00:30:54,400
And I, I better be going, I'm due
in surgery at 8 o'clock in the morning.
378
00:30:54,413 --> 00:30:55,752
- Good night.
- Good night doctor.
379
00:30:55,764 --> 00:30:57,806
There'll be a man patrolling the
grounds all night Miss Van Gorder.
380
00:30:57,807 --> 00:31:00,487
- Oh, thank you.
- And nobody inside Andy?
381
00:31:01,097 --> 00:31:02,132
Why should there be?
382
00:31:02,534 --> 00:31:06,552
Well, how do you know but what
the bat is hiding somewhere in the house?
383
00:31:07,102 --> 00:31:11,584
I'm quite sure he isn't in
the house doctor, not now.
384
00:31:14,029 --> 00:31:17,046
- Good night.
- Good night.
385
00:31:34,247 --> 00:31:37,295
- Hi Andy.
- Hello Mark.
386
00:31:37,762 --> 00:31:43,450
Well, congratulations, real
estate business must be picking up.
387
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,891
- New office, new furniture.
- New deal, how do you like it?
388
00:31:46,921 --> 00:31:48,807
Ah, looks expensive.
389
00:31:49,215 --> 00:31:52,821
- Are you squandering your inheritance?
- Oh, I haven't got it yet.
390
00:31:52,986 --> 00:31:55,943
Oh, the paper says John Fleming
left his entire fortune to you.
391
00:31:55,973 --> 00:31:59,398
Funny thing about that
entire fortune is that we can't find it.
392
00:31:59,428 --> 00:32:00,440
No kidding?
393
00:32:00,711 --> 00:32:04,121
No, all uncle John has in his bank
account was a couple hundred dollars.
394
00:32:04,513 --> 00:32:06,625
And his safe deposit box was empty.
395
00:32:07,137 --> 00:32:09,945
If we don't find that missing
million mine will be empty too.
396
00:32:10,111 --> 00:32:11,107
How come?
397
00:32:11,620 --> 00:32:14,441
Well, all my savings were
invested in Zenith bank stock.
398
00:32:15,256 --> 00:32:18,198
The examiners won't certify
the bank as solvent until those...
399
00:32:18,364 --> 00:32:20,658
stolen securities are found, so the...
400
00:32:20,838 --> 00:32:23,977
stockholders have voted an
assessment that'll wipe some of us out.
401
00:32:24,731 --> 00:32:27,899
It's as is those securities
have been converted into cash.
402
00:32:28,277 --> 00:32:30,857
And if I can't find that cash, I'm sunk.
403
00:32:31,327 --> 00:32:32,954
Oh, where are you going to look for it Andy?
404
00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:34,976
Here in Zenith.
405
00:32:35,187 --> 00:32:37,692
Your uncle wouldn't take a
million on a hunting trip, would he?
406
00:32:39,639 --> 00:32:41,963
You suspect uncle John?
407
00:32:42,476 --> 00:32:47,771
Why Andy, he founded the Zenith back.
That'd be like robbing the family tomb.
408
00:32:48,798 --> 00:32:49,944
You think he wouldn't?
409
00:32:50,110 --> 00:32:51,800
Well, besides...
410
00:32:52,282 --> 00:32:54,606
Vick Bailey's fingerprints
are all over the vault.
411
00:32:54,787 --> 00:32:57,065
Now, they didn't find any
of uncle John's fingerprints.
412
00:32:57,095 --> 00:33:00,687
- Because he wiped them off.
- Can the defense prove that?
413
00:33:01,186 --> 00:33:02,514
They'll try to.
414
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,697
Judie Holland had Bailey's
secretary as a defense witness.
415
00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:09,651
And they believe her testimony
will have a powerful effect on the jury.
416
00:33:10,783 --> 00:33:15,687
Well, she has a powerful
effect on me, Judie is a doll.
417
00:33:16,831 --> 00:33:19,428
- Here's the book you mentioned Judie.
- Your newest one?
418
00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:22,385
Yes, it's just been published.
You can have that copy if you wish.
419
00:33:22,415 --> 00:33:24,845
Oh, it's a first edition
and you've signed it.
420
00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:27,802
- Yes, of course.
- Thank you so much.
421
00:33:29,734 --> 00:33:33,038
- May I serve tea now Miss Van Gorder?
- Yes, please do Warner.
422
00:33:33,068 --> 00:33:34,079
Thank you.
423
00:33:36,011 --> 00:33:39,360
- I see you've engaged new servants.
- Yes, of course.
424
00:33:39,390 --> 00:33:41,744
Oh, how did you persuade
them to live in this house?
425
00:33:42,212 --> 00:33:45,939
Jane Patterson, my new housekeeper,
knows this house better than you do doctor.
426
00:33:45,969 --> 00:33:50,586
She worked for John Fleming
and Warner was my chauffeur.
427
00:33:52,049 --> 00:33:54,780
- Chauffeur turned butler?
- It's incredible.
428
00:33:55,067 --> 00:33:57,300
He can play any part at a moment's notice.
429
00:33:57,662 --> 00:34:00,107
Ah, did you, did you get a plumber Warner?
430
00:34:00,137 --> 00:34:02,793
No, we can't get a
plumber for three days madame.
431
00:34:03,020 --> 00:34:07,093
What about that leaking pipe? The
basement will be flooded in three days.
432
00:34:07,123 --> 00:34:09,085
The pipe is no longer leaking.
433
00:34:09,703 --> 00:34:12,223
You mean it's dried up of its own accord?
434
00:34:12,253 --> 00:34:15,406
No, not quite, I packed the elbow
where the water was coming up.
435
00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:17,595
Packed the elbow?
436
00:34:18,108 --> 00:34:22,634
- Where did you learn how to do that?
- Into each life, a little rain must fall.
437
00:34:22,664 --> 00:34:25,002
And a careful man learns to keep himself dry.
438
00:34:25,274 --> 00:34:27,734
Now, is there anything that
you require Miss Van Gorder?
439
00:34:27,764 --> 00:34:30,751
- No, not at the moment Warner.
- Thank you madame.
440
00:34:32,576 --> 00:34:34,779
Now, there's a character.
441
00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:38,294
How long did you say that he
worked for you as chauffeur?
442
00:34:38,687 --> 00:34:39,758
About three months.
443
00:34:39,788 --> 00:34:42,127
Well, I hope he doesn't have a police record.
444
00:34:43,938 --> 00:34:45,115
My dear Dale...
445
00:34:45,145 --> 00:34:48,496
it may interest you to know that
the last night of his life, John Fleming...
446
00:34:48,526 --> 00:34:51,343
told me that he loved
your husband like a son.
447
00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:56,715
If Fleming were alive today, he would
be fighting to prove Vick's innocence.
448
00:34:58,088 --> 00:35:00,442
Could Mr. Fleming prove his own innocence?
449
00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:04,530
Miss Van Gorder,
can there be any doubt about it?
450
00:35:05,450 --> 00:35:08,996
There will be when
Miss Holland testifies at Vick's trial.
451
00:35:09,977 --> 00:35:10,973
Oh?
452
00:35:11,682 --> 00:35:14,398
You know something
that we haven't heard yet Judie?
453
00:35:14,971 --> 00:35:18,064
Something I saw with my own eyes.
454
00:35:18,909 --> 00:35:21,172
She's not permitted to say what it was.
455
00:35:21,399 --> 00:35:23,692
My dear girl, I wouldn't think of asking her.
456
00:35:24,462 --> 00:35:27,849
But let's assume for a moment
that Fleming did steal the million, now...
457
00:35:27,879 --> 00:35:29,818
what would he do about it? Where is it?
458
00:35:30,588 --> 00:35:34,028
Hidden some place where he could lay his hands
on it without getting caught in the act.
459
00:35:35,492 --> 00:35:39,370
Now, if I was writing this
instead of living in the middle of it...
460
00:35:40,230 --> 00:35:42,840
I'd hide it right
here in this spooky old house.
461
00:35:43,202 --> 00:35:46,355
Under a loose floorboard or up a chimney?
462
00:35:47,804 --> 00:35:49,735
If Mr. Fleming...
463
00:35:49,961 --> 00:35:54,186
had the nerve to steal a million,
he'd make his plans well in advance.
464
00:35:55,257 --> 00:35:57,625
I'd say he'd prepare a place to hide it.
465
00:35:58,741 --> 00:36:01,487
Possibly when this house was being built.
466
00:36:02,665 --> 00:36:05,818
I rented this place from
Mark Fleming, his nephew.
467
00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:10,239
I wonder, I wonder if he had the floor plans.
468
00:36:10,737 --> 00:36:13,363
- I'll ask him.
- Yes.
469
00:36:13,393 --> 00:36:16,591
Lizzie, will you bring Miss Bailey the phone?
470
00:36:16,863 --> 00:36:20,936
You ask him now, his number is Summit...
471
00:36:20,966 --> 00:36:25,086
- Summit 7537.
- Thank you Lizzie.
472
00:36:25,283 --> 00:36:27,787
- Summit...?
- 7537.
473
00:36:31,423 --> 00:36:34,200
Not bad, eh Andy? That means new business.
474
00:36:36,197 --> 00:36:38,922
Now, you see? Somebody wants to buy a house.
475
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:43,297
- Mark Fleming speaking.
- Oh hello Dale.
476
00:36:46,104 --> 00:36:48,382
Well, hang on a minute
honey while I see if I have them.
477
00:36:49,167 --> 00:36:50,826
It's Dale Bailey all excited.
478
00:36:50,856 --> 00:36:54,553
Miss Van Gorder wants to know
if I have the floor plans of the Oaks.
479
00:36:54,930 --> 00:36:56,952
Now, what would she want
with the floor plans?
480
00:36:57,812 --> 00:37:01,765
Well, she suggested to me that your
uncle might've hidden the bank loot there.
481
00:37:02,369 --> 00:37:03,640
Are the plans here?
482
00:37:05,810 --> 00:37:07,877
Somewhere in the house itself.
483
00:37:10,004 --> 00:37:12,901
Wait a minute, there is a place where
uncle Johnny might've kept those blueprints.
484
00:37:14,063 --> 00:37:14,776
What place?
485
00:37:14,806 --> 00:37:17,141
Well, I heard him talk
about it a good many years ago.
486
00:37:17,171 --> 00:37:19,591
I can't be sure of the exact location.
487
00:37:20,797 --> 00:37:23,601
Anyway, I don't think the old boy
had the guts to steal a million.
488
00:37:24,083 --> 00:37:26,992
But if I find those plans,
I'll let you know Andy.
489
00:37:28,062 --> 00:37:29,148
Hello Dale?
490
00:37:29,449 --> 00:37:32,223
Look honey, I haven't seen
those plans since I was a kid.
491
00:37:32,253 --> 00:37:34,349
But I'll come over tonight,
and maybe we can find them.
492
00:37:35,314 --> 00:37:37,289
Thank you Mark, we'll expect you.
493
00:37:39,670 --> 00:37:42,022
He seems to think they're
here in the house somewhere.
494
00:37:42,052 --> 00:37:44,570
- He's coming over tonight.
- Oh, that's good.
495
00:37:44,993 --> 00:37:47,450
Dale and Judie are my
house guests for the weekend.
496
00:37:47,676 --> 00:37:49,782
Would you like to have
dinner with us tonight?
497
00:37:49,812 --> 00:37:53,028
Oh no thank you, I couldn't,
I still have a few calls to make.
498
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:57,507
You know, if Judy's testimony is
going to clear Vick Bailey and implicate...
499
00:37:57,537 --> 00:38:01,818
John Fleming, others may get the idea
that there's buried treasure in this house.
500
00:38:02,165 --> 00:38:05,858
Don't even mention your testimony
until you're actually on the stand.
501
00:38:05,888 --> 00:38:06,868
Oh, I won't.
502
00:38:07,050 --> 00:38:09,956
That's a smart girl
Judie and a very lovely girl.
503
00:38:10,166 --> 00:38:11,497
- Well, good afternoon ladies.
- Doctor.
504
00:38:11,527 --> 00:38:13,019
- Doctor.
- Goodbye Dr. Wells.
505
00:38:13,049 --> 00:38:14,753
Come on girls, let's go.
506
00:38:58,741 --> 00:39:02,856
So many unusual things
have happened here this summer.
507
00:39:03,188 --> 00:39:05,208
The more I think about it...
508
00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:09,837
the more I realize I should've
be putting them down on paper.
509
00:39:10,922 --> 00:39:13,922
Weren't you your husband's secretary Dale?
510
00:39:13,952 --> 00:39:16,274
- Yes, I was.
- You take shorthand?
511
00:39:17,555 --> 00:39:20,872
Well my dear, if you'd like
to have your mind occupied...
512
00:39:21,761 --> 00:39:26,599
I want you to work with me while I write
the story of this fantastic criminal...
513
00:39:27,730 --> 00:39:29,011
the Bat.
514
00:40:17,237 --> 00:40:19,453
- Wonderful dinner.
- Thank you.
515
00:40:20,290 --> 00:40:21,436
Was really nice.
516
00:40:22,793 --> 00:40:23,923
Was a good dinner Lizzie.
517
00:40:23,953 --> 00:40:25,325
- As usual.
- Wonderful.
518
00:40:26,833 --> 00:40:30,044
Oh, what a lovely piece of silver.
519
00:40:30,255 --> 00:40:35,260
- It's an original, isn't it?
- Yes, they still use them in England.
520
00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:01,158
That clock hasn't struck the
hour in the last 10 years...
521
00:41:01,188 --> 00:41:03,449
if I'm to believe what Mark Fleming told me.
522
00:41:03,615 --> 00:41:05,469
Why is it angled away
from the wall like that?
523
00:41:05,499 --> 00:41:07,926
I don't know. Somebody must've moved it.
524
00:41:08,378 --> 00:41:11,665
- Lizzie, very like when she was dusting.
- Wait a minute.
525
00:41:12,252 --> 00:41:14,181
Did you know there's a door in this paneling?
526
00:41:14,211 --> 00:41:18,471
No, I didn't. Oh, by gracious, so there is.
527
00:41:18,501 --> 00:41:22,238
- Maybe it opens to a secret passage.
- Certainly to a secret something!
528
00:41:22,841 --> 00:41:26,353
Who knows girls, we may be about
to stumble on that missing million.
529
00:41:27,959 --> 00:41:31,710
Oh, there's a panel, there must
be some gimmick to it, there always is.
530
00:41:45,945 --> 00:41:49,342
Calling car 11, calling car 11.
531
00:41:50,361 --> 00:41:55,949
Proceed to the Oaks in Zenith township
immediately, a homicide is been reported.
532
00:41:57,374 --> 00:42:00,770
Ok, proceeding to the Oaks.
533
00:42:01,257 --> 00:42:05,587
Notify the county coroner, Dr. Wells.
Tell him to come to the Oaks at once.
534
00:42:15,746 --> 00:42:16,479
Horrible.
535
00:42:17,319 --> 00:42:21,950
It's as if his throat had been torn
by some creature with fans or claws.
536
00:42:22,459 --> 00:42:23,617
That's his sign.
537
00:42:24,412 --> 00:42:26,072
We found it on the others he killed.
538
00:42:27,739 --> 00:42:31,783
I'd hoped those reports that he was up to his
old tricks again were pure imagination but...
539
00:42:32,678 --> 00:42:34,422
apparently they're based on fact.
540
00:42:35,742 --> 00:42:36,691
He's come back...
541
00:42:37,856 --> 00:42:39,770
back to the scene of his kills.
542
00:42:41,838 --> 00:42:43,081
Yes, that's who I mean.
543
00:42:44,085 --> 00:42:45,219
That's who did this.
544
00:42:46,624 --> 00:42:47,488
The Bat.
545
00:42:48,994 --> 00:42:51,271
- Who found Mark?
- We all did.
546
00:42:52,143 --> 00:42:55,856
That is Dale and Judie and I,
Lizzie was in the dining room.
547
00:42:56,204 --> 00:43:00,295
This is my new housekeeper, Jane Patterson.
You know, she worked for John Fleming.
548
00:43:00,442 --> 00:43:01,144
I know her.
549
00:43:01,847 --> 00:43:03,213
Where were you Miss Patterson?
550
00:43:03,552 --> 00:43:05,451
In the kitchen, cleaning up.
551
00:43:06,276 --> 00:43:07,943
I cooked the dinner tonight.
552
00:43:08,465 --> 00:43:10,998
Did you know that this
secret closet was here?
553
00:43:11,770 --> 00:43:16,908
- No, it was behind the grandfather's clock.
- Well, it was I who found it, really.
554
00:43:17,091 --> 00:43:20,981
Noticed the clock had been moved
and the door wasn't quite closed.
555
00:43:21,418 --> 00:43:22,443
I'll get it.
556
00:43:36,462 --> 00:43:37,473
Who is it?
557
00:43:46,156 --> 00:43:47,573
Mark Fleming.
558
00:43:48,371 --> 00:43:51,130
As coroner, you saw the
same wounds on the others.
559
00:43:52,246 --> 00:43:55,170
- How long is he been dead?
- Oh, I'd say about a half an hour.
560
00:43:55,761 --> 00:43:59,362
- You believe it was the Bat?
- That's the Bat's trademark.
561
00:44:00,221 --> 00:44:04,336
- Perhaps he's still in the house.
- It's possible.
562
00:44:08,075 --> 00:44:09,206
Why should he be?
563
00:44:09,721 --> 00:44:13,065
Because he's looking for something
and like you, he believes it's here.
564
00:44:13,696 --> 00:44:15,658
And he's a persistent killer.
565
00:44:15,688 --> 00:44:18,748
I would advise you
get out of this house as quickly as possible.
566
00:44:18,959 --> 00:44:21,884
Not withstanding
our expert police protection.
567
00:44:22,803 --> 00:44:24,854
- Have you called the morgue?
- They're on their way here.
568
00:44:24,884 --> 00:44:27,537
Oh, good, I want to examine
the body before they get here.
569
00:44:27,793 --> 00:44:31,577
- Oh, may we take it into another room?
- Yes, to the sun room in the back.
570
00:44:31,607 --> 00:44:33,854
- Thank you, give me a hand.
- Excuse me.
571
00:44:43,789 --> 00:44:45,809
Oh, Warner, where have you been?
572
00:44:46,366 --> 00:44:49,578
Well madame, it would have been an accident?
573
00:44:49,774 --> 00:44:51,749
There's been a murder.
574
00:44:53,331 --> 00:44:57,160
Mark Fleming, the young man from whom I
leased this place is killed here tonight.,
575
00:44:58,073 --> 00:45:01,442
- They know who did it?
- Well they, they believe it was the Bat.
576
00:45:01,472 --> 00:45:04,329
I'm sorry I had to use the
front door Miss Van Gorder.
577
00:45:04,359 --> 00:45:08,331
Bu I forgot my keys and when I rang the bell
at the kitchen door, there was no response.
578
00:45:08,588 --> 00:45:12,764
Oh, this is Warner Lieutenant.
He's my butler, he was my chauffeur.
579
00:45:13,699 --> 00:45:14,724
Why did you promote him?
580
00:45:14,754 --> 00:45:18,448
Well, it's very difficult to find a butler
they don't like service in the country.
581
00:45:19,488 --> 00:45:21,040
Have you been a butler before?
582
00:45:21,417 --> 00:45:25,590
I've served in many capacities sir, but
this was my night off and I forgot my keys.
583
00:45:25,591 --> 00:45:26,484
I heard that part.
584
00:45:27,479 --> 00:45:28,811
What time you leave the house tonight?
585
00:45:29,089 --> 00:45:32,012
Oh, about 6:30, I had
dinner at Wiley's roadhouse.
586
00:45:32,816 --> 00:45:34,801
Can you prove where you
spent the rest of the evening?
587
00:45:35,551 --> 00:45:37,644
- I can try.
- Try hard.
588
00:45:38,617 --> 00:45:40,509
And don't leave the
house, I'll get to you later.
589
00:45:40,811 --> 00:45:41,954
Very good sir.
590
00:45:42,295 --> 00:45:45,045
I shall be in my room Miss
Van Gorder, if you need me.
591
00:45:45,949 --> 00:45:46,829
Yes Warner.
592
00:45:49,518 --> 00:45:51,264
Surely, you don't think he's...
593
00:45:52,361 --> 00:45:53,983
Warner and I met before.
594
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,615
I can't recall where or when.
595
00:45:58,989 --> 00:45:59,924
But I will.
596
00:46:05,516 --> 00:46:07,355
There'll be a crew
here shortly from headquarters...
597
00:46:07,385 --> 00:46:09,255
dusting for fingerprints, taking photographs.
598
00:46:10,058 --> 00:46:11,310
But in the meantime...
599
00:46:12,182 --> 00:46:14,677
Miss Patterson, you aren't
leaving the house tonight are you?
600
00:46:15,041 --> 00:46:16,068
No Lieutenant.
601
00:46:16,577 --> 00:46:17,952
Don't, I'll talk to you in the morning.
602
00:46:18,293 --> 00:46:18,733
Good night.
603
00:46:19,173 --> 00:46:21,475
- Good night sir.
- Good night Miss Patterson.
604
00:46:22,518 --> 00:46:23,484
Dale...
605
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,151
I was with Mark Fleming
this afternoon when you...
606
00:46:26,181 --> 00:46:27,974
talked to him about
the floor plans of this house.
607
00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:30,232
I heard him tell you he
was coming here tonight.
608
00:46:30,522 --> 00:46:32,876
Dale called him at my request.
609
00:46:33,648 --> 00:46:35,362
She told me he was coming.
610
00:46:36,195 --> 00:46:37,451
Who else heard her tell you that?
611
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,955
- Judie, Lizzie...
- And that nice Dr. Wells..
612
00:46:43,172 --> 00:46:44,331
Dr. Wells?
613
00:46:48,061 --> 00:46:50,161
There are few killers
who kill for the fun of it.
614
00:46:51,042 --> 00:46:54,472
The Bat very likely is a mental case and I'm
convinced that his crimes are motivated...
615
00:46:54,502 --> 00:46:56,878
by his, mainly personal gain.
616
00:46:57,393 --> 00:46:59,022
There's a million dollars at large.
617
00:46:59,287 --> 00:47:02,317
And he's going to keep on hunting
for it until he lays his hands on it.
618
00:47:03,102 --> 00:47:05,021
Now, these young ladies
are staying here tonight?
619
00:47:05,051 --> 00:47:06,385
Yes, they're my house guests.
620
00:47:06,820 --> 00:47:09,958
Well, when my crew
arrives we'll be busy for a while...
621
00:47:09,964 --> 00:47:11,890
- so I'd suggest that...
- That we go to our rooms?
622
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,512
- That's very good idea.
- Come on girls.
623
00:47:18,073 --> 00:47:21,181
What about a police guard for
this house tonight Lieutenant?
624
00:47:21,211 --> 00:47:22,418
You've got one.
625
00:47:23,037 --> 00:47:25,511
I'm going to cover this place tonight
from the attic to the basement.
626
00:47:25,738 --> 00:47:28,861
If the Bat makes another call,
I'll have a little surprise for him.
627
00:47:30,807 --> 00:47:36,043
Who, who is he? Have you any idea?
628
00:47:41,610 --> 00:47:42,576
He could be anybody.
629
00:47:42,606 --> 00:47:46,695
So far, there are clues to his identity
but nothing we could take before a jury.
630
00:47:48,174 --> 00:47:51,010
I am afraid we must look
higher than the criminal world.
631
00:47:51,780 --> 00:47:55,024
He may be a
merchant, lawyer, doctor, scientist.
632
00:47:55,673 --> 00:47:57,378
One of the pillars of his community.
633
00:47:59,114 --> 00:48:02,207
Ladies, lock your
doors tonight, stay behind them.
634
00:48:02,689 --> 00:48:06,491
- I promise you you'll be safe, good night.
- Good night Lieutenant.
635
00:48:40,333 --> 00:48:43,004
- Poor Mark.
- Yeah, it's a pity.
636
00:48:43,336 --> 00:48:48,043
- So young.
- Well doctor, do you agree it was the Bat?
637
00:48:48,783 --> 00:48:50,536
In my report, I shall say the death was...
638
00:48:50,566 --> 00:48:53,310
caused by the same
technique used in the other killings.
639
00:48:53,928 --> 00:48:58,975
A paralyzing blow to the throat, followed
by severe lacerations of the jugular...
640
00:48:59,596 --> 00:49:01,784
resulting in excessive hemorrhage.
641
00:49:02,463 --> 00:49:04,986
In a layman's language,
he didn't know what hit him.
642
00:49:05,349 --> 00:49:10,120
Oh, he knew, but he didn't
have time to think about it.
643
00:49:18,814 --> 00:49:20,307
You staying here tonight Andy?
644
00:49:20,488 --> 00:49:25,448
Well, until I check the doors and windows but
I'll be back bright and early in the morning.
645
00:49:26,217 --> 00:49:29,277
Neither snow nor rain
nor heat nor gloom of night...
646
00:49:29,307 --> 00:49:32,986
stays these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds.
647
00:49:33,498 --> 00:49:36,317
A lot of people are due for a
shock when I close this case.
648
00:49:37,433 --> 00:49:41,564
Yes, I'm sure they are.
Good night Andy, don't get hurt.
649
00:49:43,317 --> 00:49:44,233
Good night, doctor.
650
00:49:58,704 --> 00:50:00,757
You know, I think we'd
better let get some sleep.
651
00:50:00,758 --> 00:50:03,799
Oh well Lizzie and I share
this room for mutual protection.
652
00:50:04,056 --> 00:50:07,424
You know, one night, a storm blew
the wires down, put the lights out...
653
00:50:07,425 --> 00:50:10,046
and when I went out the next day and
bought a half a dozen of these things.
654
00:50:10,076 --> 00:50:12,501
- You better take one with you Dale.
- Oh, thank you.
655
00:50:14,461 --> 00:50:18,082
- We'll go across the hall.
- Are you sure there's nothing else you need?
656
00:50:18,112 --> 00:50:19,849
- No.
- Quite sure, we'll be all right.
657
00:50:19,879 --> 00:50:22,311
Well, if anything
bothers you, you just sing out.
658
00:50:22,446 --> 00:50:24,773
And two strong
women will come to your rescue.
659
00:50:25,574 --> 00:50:28,133
Oh, nothing will bother us,
not with Andy on the job.
660
00:50:28,645 --> 00:50:30,190
- Good night.
- Good night.
661
00:50:30,450 --> 00:50:32,063
Don't worry, everything will be all right.
662
00:50:32,449 --> 00:50:33,579
- Good night.
- Good night.
663
00:50:34,949 --> 00:50:35,743
Come on Lizzie.
664
00:50:58,472 --> 00:51:02,489
- No, I don't think I'll sleep tonight.
- Me neither.
665
00:51:03,242 --> 00:51:07,680
All I can see is poor
Mark Fleming staring at us.
666
00:51:08,623 --> 00:51:13,032
I thought that when people died
their eyes closed, as in sleep.
667
00:51:13,833 --> 00:51:17,582
- Don't think about it.
- I bet you're thinking about it.
668
00:51:18,737 --> 00:51:22,391
No, I was thinking of my poor
husband sleeping in jail tonight.
669
00:51:23,381 --> 00:51:27,756
Oh Judie, I love him so much.
670
00:54:49,141 --> 00:54:51,968
- What's that noise?
- Oh, I don't know.
671
00:54:52,501 --> 00:54:53,806
I kind of fell half asleep.
672
00:54:54,177 --> 00:54:56,046
For a moment, I thought it
was something from a dream.
673
00:54:56,216 --> 00:54:57,642
It's somewhere in the house.
674
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,260
Yes, on the floor
above, not directly over us.
675
00:55:01,654 --> 00:55:03,793
Probably a room overlooking the driveway.
676
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,753
- Should we call Miss Van Gorder?
- She'll hear it.
677
00:55:33,899 --> 00:55:35,382
How can she help but hear it?
678
00:55:36,518 --> 00:55:39,431
Besides, we don't want her to think
we're a couple of hysterical women.
679
00:55:39,461 --> 00:55:42,474
I'm about to become
one, I've had it for one night.
680
00:55:42,659 --> 00:55:46,234
- Dale, you're not going out in that hall.
- I want to know what's happening up there.
681
00:55:46,413 --> 00:55:49,897
But Lieutenant Anderson said if we stayed
behind our locked doors, we'd be safe.
682
00:55:50,144 --> 00:55:54,331
Vick isn't safe locked up in that jail.
Suppose that stolen money is in this house.
683
00:55:54,431 --> 00:55:56,076
Mark Fleming seemed to think it was.
684
00:55:56,524 --> 00:55:58,679
Maybe that's what somebody is looking for.
685
00:56:02,742 --> 00:56:07,021
Oh, for heaven's sake, don't you
hear that awful noise up there?
686
00:56:08,095 --> 00:56:10,745
Now Lizzie, you just got to stay awake!
687
00:56:11,308 --> 00:56:16,522
The house phone and the outside phone
wires have been cut and we can't get help!
688
00:56:16,552 --> 00:56:19,031
- Where's that policeman?
- Oh, I don't know.
689
00:56:19,061 --> 00:56:22,381
Something must've happened to him.
Now go on, get on your robe.
690
00:56:22,411 --> 00:56:25,230
- Oh Dale please, don't go up there.
- I've got to.
691
00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:27,180
Think what it could
mean to Vick, now you stay here.
692
00:56:27,210 --> 00:56:29,413
Oh no, if you go, I go.
693
00:56:50,535 --> 00:56:52,068
- You stay here.
- No, no.
694
00:56:52,098 --> 00:56:54,748
- You won't go there alone.
- You wait here, I'm going to see what it is.
695
00:56:54,763 --> 00:56:58,358
- Oh please let me go with you.
- Judie, will you warn me if anyone comes?
696
00:56:58,388 --> 00:57:01,341
I'll only be a moment, now, wait.
697
00:58:06,084 --> 00:58:07,196
Oh no.
698
00:58:10,263 --> 00:58:11,782
What he do to her!
699
00:58:15,199 --> 00:58:17,617
- Judie!
- No, not Judie!
700
00:58:19,811 --> 00:58:22,159
Give her to me, I'll look after her.
701
00:58:31,114 --> 00:58:32,713
Poor baby.
702
00:58:45,081 --> 00:58:45,946
Judie.
703
00:58:53,940 --> 00:58:56,057
- The Bat.
- Yes, the Bat.
704
00:58:56,698 --> 00:58:58,613
He caught her at the head of the stairs.
705
00:58:58,807 --> 00:59:01,743
We saw him rushing down the
stairs as we came out of the room.
706
00:59:02,253 --> 00:59:03,968
I hurled that after him.
707
00:59:04,825 --> 00:59:06,934
I hit him, I believe.
708
00:59:07,297 --> 00:59:10,402
I'm going to cover this place
from attic to basement, you said!
709
00:59:10,503 --> 00:59:13,832
Well, what were you covering when that
poor child was murdered? Where were you?
710
00:59:14,697 --> 00:59:16,613
I saw a man outside on the grounds.
711
00:59:17,285 --> 00:59:18,598
I went out there and hunted him.
712
00:59:19,184 --> 00:59:21,279
I heard him in among the trees and so I...
713
00:59:21,309 --> 00:59:24,105
followed the sound of him as far as
the brook down near the back road.
714
00:59:24,769 --> 00:59:25,990
And then I lost him.
715
00:59:26,555 --> 00:59:29,536
I'd rather give my own life
than have this happen to Judy.
716
00:59:30,672 --> 00:59:33,970
But I told you to stay in your rooms
and lock your doors and stay there!
717
00:59:34,704 --> 00:59:36,635
What was she doing at
the head of those stairs?
718
00:59:37,801 --> 00:59:39,145
That was my fault.
719
00:59:39,346 --> 00:59:42,683
They heard a strange noise, heavy pounding
in one of the rooms on the third floor.
720
00:59:42,713 --> 00:59:44,853
- We all heard it.
- I wanted to see what it was.
721
00:59:44,883 --> 00:59:47,626
Judie, she wouldn't let me go out by myself.
722
00:59:47,974 --> 00:59:50,237
I made her stay on the balcony.
723
00:59:50,485 --> 00:59:54,000
- What about your new butler?
- Well, he's in his room I suppose.
724
00:59:54,679 --> 00:59:56,718
- Oh, Miss Patterson.
- Yes?
725
00:59:56,748 --> 00:59:58,117
Did you know what happened here?
726
00:59:58,589 --> 01:00:02,336
No sir, but I heard the
screams, I went to call Warner.
727
01:00:02,698 --> 01:00:04,514
We have rooms on the same floor.
728
01:00:04,847 --> 01:00:08,393
He wasn't in his room,
his bed hasn't been slept in.
729
01:00:09,003 --> 01:00:11,605
If Miss Patterson heard the screams,
Warner could certainly hear them.
730
01:00:12,237 --> 01:00:15,044
- You're quite right sir, I heard them.
- Oh, you did?
731
01:00:15,522 --> 01:00:18,187
- And where were you?
- Outside on the grounds.
732
01:00:18,736 --> 01:00:21,501
- Miss Holland is been murdered.
- No?
733
01:00:22,274 --> 01:00:24,700
So you're surprised, shocked.
734
01:00:25,990 --> 01:00:27,999
Well, I've seen better performances.
735
01:00:28,972 --> 01:00:32,572
I remember you now, your name is not Warner.
736
01:00:33,314 --> 01:00:35,454
I've got a circular in my
office with your picture on it.
737
01:00:36,180 --> 01:00:39,463
The Chicago police not so long ago were
hunting for you in connection with a robbery.
738
01:00:39,609 --> 01:00:43,179
You're right again sir, and they found me
and they tried me and I proved my innocence.
739
01:00:43,209 --> 01:00:46,091
- And I was acquitted.
- That could've been a lucky break.
740
01:00:47,212 --> 01:00:50,642
- Where were you when this child was killed?
- I told you before sir, outside.
741
01:00:51,129 --> 01:00:53,408
- What you doing there?
- I was following you.
742
01:00:53,632 --> 01:00:55,741
I saw you leaving the house
and seemed that you were hunting...
743
01:00:55,771 --> 01:00:57,487
someone, I thought you might need some help.
744
01:00:57,642 --> 01:01:00,500
Oh yes sir, I followed your
flashlight down through the trees.
745
01:01:00,802 --> 01:01:04,958
Then it disappeared and then suddenly
as I was staring out into the darkness...
746
01:01:04,988 --> 01:01:07,314
I was struck by something
on to the back of the head.
747
01:01:07,569 --> 01:01:11,903
Next thing I knew, I was lying on the
ground, I realized I'd been knocked out.
748
01:01:12,529 --> 01:01:14,113
I wish you had been knocked out.
749
01:01:14,545 --> 01:01:16,862
For then we'd found you
with your mask still on your face!
750
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:18,840
You were hit here in this house...
751
01:01:19,173 --> 01:01:21,614
with this poker as you were rushing
down those stairs after that child...
752
01:01:21,644 --> 01:01:24,619
Oh no sir, you can't
pin this on me, I'm not the Bat!
753
01:01:24,866 --> 01:01:28,651
I've never killed, I couldn't kill,
I won't take the rap for this!
754
01:01:59,528 --> 01:02:00,455
Well doctor...
755
01:02:01,452 --> 01:02:03,514
we have another case
for the county coroner.
756
01:02:05,191 --> 01:02:06,783
You see, the Bat came back.
757
01:02:08,907 --> 01:02:10,745
Why did you come back doctor?
758
01:02:13,194 --> 01:02:17,118
Well I, I had an accident
about a mile down the road.
759
01:02:17,860 --> 01:02:21,258
The right rear wheel of my car
came off and I plunged into the ditch.
760
01:02:21,721 --> 01:02:25,221
This was the nearest house
so I came here to call for help.
761
01:02:26,796 --> 01:02:29,006
I thought I'd find you around Andy.
762
01:02:33,246 --> 01:02:34,768
Physician, heal thyself.
763
01:02:37,317 --> 01:02:40,191
You're must've been hit by
something on the back of your head.
764
01:02:40,693 --> 01:02:43,374
- I told you I had an accident.
- So you did doctor.
765
01:02:44,231 --> 01:02:45,197
So you did.
766
01:02:47,460 --> 01:02:48,611
I could be wrong.
767
01:02:49,763 --> 01:02:50,898
But maybe I'm not.
768
01:02:52,521 --> 01:02:53,371
We shall see.
769
01:02:56,839 --> 01:02:59,056
Fine dear, let's start a new chapter.
770
01:02:59,782 --> 01:03:02,246
For days, the murders held the headlines.
771
01:03:03,335 --> 01:03:04,825
Lieutenant Anderson grilled us...
772
01:03:06,293 --> 01:03:09,352
and ransacked the house from top to bottom.
773
01:03:09,692 --> 01:03:14,536
Warner was not placed under arrest
but his every move was watched.
774
01:03:15,472 --> 01:03:16,453
At night...
775
01:03:16,807 --> 01:03:22,174
except for a detective on guard in the house,
the police and the reporters left us alone.
776
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,626
And on one of those nights...
777
01:03:25,154 --> 01:03:31,944
without telling Lizzie or anyone else,
I pursued a secret investigation of my own.
778
01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:44,787
It was in an empty room on the third floor
where we kept our trunks and other things.
779
01:05:47,506 --> 01:05:48,694
Put them up Bat.
780
01:05:53,221 --> 01:05:57,652
A bright idea to kill me in my own lab
and let people think that I'm the Bat.
781
01:05:58,256 --> 01:06:01,839
But you had to kill me first.
What would it to be? Ambush?
782
01:06:02,858 --> 01:06:05,914
As clever as you are, you're
not smart enough to do that.
783
01:06:06,102 --> 01:06:09,704
Nor were you smart enough to find the
money, though you came quite close to it.
784
01:06:10,157 --> 01:06:11,929
But I know where it is.
785
01:06:12,740 --> 01:06:15,984
And when you're dead with that
sign pinned on your chest...
786
01:06:16,173 --> 01:06:19,285
I'm going to collect it
and live happily ever after.
787
01:06:20,737 --> 01:06:24,546
He destroyed himself, how true that will be.
788
01:06:25,094 --> 01:06:30,582
Well, goodbye Bat, here's a serum that
will heal you whether you're rabid or not.
789
01:08:18,853 --> 01:08:24,265
Something is wrong, something is wrong.
790
01:08:33,318 --> 01:08:34,751
Miss Cornelia?
791
01:08:43,766 --> 01:08:45,162
Miss Cornelia?
792
01:08:52,181 --> 01:08:56,176
Now, wonder would she be
going at this time of night.
793
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:20,500
I never!
794
01:09:25,515 --> 01:09:28,093
Mr. Davenport, Mr. Davenport...
795
01:09:28,349 --> 01:09:34,424
Oh, a fine thing, the door unbolted, the
chain off and you asleep on the job.
796
01:09:34,454 --> 01:09:37,063
Wait till Lieutenant
Anderson hears about this.
797
01:09:37,515 --> 01:09:38,690
Come on, wake up.
798
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,510
- What's the matter with you?
- I don't know, I don't know.
799
01:09:41,540 --> 01:09:46,167
- My head hurts, my whole body is numb.
- Here, here, take a sip of this.
800
01:09:46,197 --> 01:09:48,489
Try to snap out
of it, I'll be back in a minute.
801
01:10:02,208 --> 01:10:04,213
Hurry, will you? It's Lizzie.
802
01:10:05,585 --> 01:10:09,188
I'm terribly worried, I can't
find Miss Cornelia anywhere...
803
01:10:09,218 --> 01:10:11,721
and something's happened to the
policeman, I don't know what.
804
01:10:11,751 --> 01:10:14,836
Get Warner, bring him to the
drawing room, tell him we need him.
805
01:10:20,022 --> 01:10:22,645
- Are you all right now?
- Yeah, I'll be all right in a minute.
806
01:10:23,203 --> 01:10:26,564
I remember now, I took a drink
of wine from that decanter there.
807
01:10:26,746 --> 01:10:30,092
- Miss Van Gorder told me to help myself.
- She wouldn't put nothing in it.
808
01:10:30,363 --> 01:10:33,544
Well, somebody did, somebody
who knew I was on duty here.
809
01:10:33,785 --> 01:10:36,031
Mean it was somebody
that got Miss Van Gorder.
810
01:10:36,061 --> 01:10:39,529
I can't find her anywhere, upstairs,
downstairs or in the basement.
811
01:10:39,559 --> 01:10:41,595
I told the housekeeper to get Warner.
812
01:10:41,761 --> 01:10:43,932
Lieutenant Anderson
will want to know about this.
813
01:10:44,264 --> 01:10:45,108
Hello?
814
01:10:45,379 --> 01:10:48,018
Yeah, this is Davenport
at the Oaks, we got trouble here.
815
01:10:49,103 --> 01:10:52,028
Well, for one thing I was drugged. Yeah.
816
01:10:52,450 --> 01:10:56,159
But I must've been knocked out, because the
maid tells me Miss Van Gorder is missing.
817
01:10:57,093 --> 01:10:59,083
You better call Anderson and let him know.
818
01:11:00,079 --> 01:11:01,979
He's not at home? Well, where is he?
819
01:11:03,245 --> 01:11:05,054
Out on a case? What case?
820
01:11:06,124 --> 01:11:07,421
Dr. Wells?
821
01:11:08,265 --> 01:11:09,652
What else did they tell you about him?
822
01:11:09,878 --> 01:11:13,270
Oh hurry, will you?
We got to find Miss Cornelia!
823
01:11:15,335 --> 01:11:16,225
Ok.
824
01:11:17,024 --> 01:11:19,044
Lieutenant Anderson is out on a case.
825
01:11:19,391 --> 01:11:23,039
Dr. Wells was found dead in a
room next to his garage, murdered.
826
01:11:24,064 --> 01:11:25,571
Dr. Wells?
827
01:11:25,828 --> 01:11:29,416
There's something queer about the killing of
Wells but headquarters won't talk about it.
828
01:11:29,717 --> 01:11:32,792
Lizzie, Warner isn't in his room,
there's no sign of him anywhere.
829
01:11:32,822 --> 01:11:34,858
And I was supposed to
keep an eye on that guy.
830
01:11:34,888 --> 01:11:37,919
Where is Miss Cornelia?
That's what I want to know!
831
01:11:38,099 --> 01:11:41,763
Wait a minute, didn't you say that the chain
and the bolt were off of the front door?
832
01:11:41,793 --> 01:11:44,943
- I certainly did.
- Well, maybe Miss Van Gorder went outside.
833
01:11:44,973 --> 01:11:47,837
Oh, she never would, we better look.
834
01:11:49,073 --> 01:11:53,807
I can't, I can't breathe, there's no air.
835
01:12:01,843 --> 01:12:03,381
Miss Cornelia?
836
01:12:03,637 --> 01:12:05,717
- Miss Van Gorder?
- Miss Cornelia?
837
01:12:05,747 --> 01:12:07,466
- Miss Cornelia?
- Miss Van Gorder?
838
01:12:07,496 --> 01:12:11,348
Look, there's a light in that
room on the third floor.
839
01:12:11,996 --> 01:12:13,164
Were you up there tonight?
840
01:12:13,194 --> 01:12:16,368
Well, of course I was, but I turned the
lights out before I came downstairs.
841
01:12:16,398 --> 01:12:18,628
Miss Cornelia might've turned them on again.
842
01:12:18,658 --> 01:12:20,890
That's where we're
going to look first, come on.
843
01:12:42,011 --> 01:12:45,961
Cornelia? Cornelia?
844
01:12:47,381 --> 01:12:51,858
- Miss Cornelia?
- Yes I'm, I'm here.
845
01:12:55,717 --> 01:12:58,657
Right here!
846
01:13:02,172 --> 01:13:04,309
Here we are Miss Van
Gorder, what do we do now?
847
01:13:04,625 --> 01:13:08,183
Over the mantle, there are five panels.
848
01:13:08,740 --> 01:13:11,725
Strike it, with your hands.
849
01:13:16,127 --> 01:13:20,167
- Which panel did you say Miss Van Gorder?
- Oh I, I just...
850
01:13:21,539 --> 01:13:24,479
Miss Van Gorder, which panel?
We couldn't hear you!
851
01:13:24,509 --> 01:13:29,228
She said strike it, what difference does
it make which panel? Strike them all.
852
01:13:31,911 --> 01:13:32,981
Look!
853
01:13:46,133 --> 01:13:53,045
Oh, it's all right now,
it's all right dear, Lizzie's here.
854
01:13:58,879 --> 01:14:00,401
- Feeling better?
- Yes, much better.
855
01:14:00,431 --> 01:14:01,356
We'll take you to your room.
856
01:14:01,366 --> 01:14:04,393
Oh, no you wont, I'm going to
stay right here, I'm quite all right.
857
01:14:04,975 --> 01:14:08,219
Oh, how blessed it is to
breathe without an effort, you know...
858
01:14:08,535 --> 01:14:13,378
no one knows how sweet the air can taste
until someone shuts it off for a moment.
859
01:14:13,741 --> 01:14:15,929
That room is just like a box.
860
01:14:16,532 --> 01:14:20,238
When the mantle piece closed, it
seemed like all the air was drawn out of it.
861
01:14:20,816 --> 01:14:22,189
Look, there's goes again!
862
01:14:22,440 --> 01:14:24,631
Let it close, I can open it from in here.
863
01:14:29,116 --> 01:14:31,458
There's a control
panel behind this blueprint.
864
01:14:32,098 --> 01:14:34,186
Electric motor under the trap door here.
865
01:14:34,608 --> 01:14:36,781
Once the door is open
you can keep it that way.
866
01:14:38,012 --> 01:14:41,428
I believe that the fireplace in
this other room opens the same way.
867
01:14:43,673 --> 01:14:44,856
And it does.
868
01:14:47,596 --> 01:14:49,563
I tried to find this but I couldn't find it.
869
01:14:49,593 --> 01:14:53,208
Yeah, it's back of this blueprint here.
Well, it's, it's quite a set up.
870
01:14:54,270 --> 01:14:56,769
Too bad we can't open that safe the same way.
871
01:14:57,674 --> 01:15:01,306
Take an expert to crack
this box or a shot of nitro.
872
01:15:01,512 --> 01:15:03,459
Maybe, maybe that's what the Bat had in mind.
873
01:15:03,489 --> 01:15:05,930
Could be, seems he's on the prowl tonight.
874
01:15:06,135 --> 01:15:08,549
Miss Van Gorder, Warner has disappeared.
875
01:15:08,579 --> 01:15:10,686
- Really?
- And Dr. Wells is been murdered.
876
01:15:11,326 --> 01:15:12,473
Dr. Wells?
877
01:15:12,739 --> 01:15:14,803
Lieutenant Anderson is
on that case right now.
878
01:15:15,128 --> 01:15:16,987
Oh, does he know what happened here tonight?
879
01:15:17,017 --> 01:15:19,220
They got word to him,
he'll be here any minute.
880
01:15:30,567 --> 01:15:32,112
What's that noise?
881
01:15:32,993 --> 01:15:36,578
- Miss Van Gorder, the garage is on fire.
- Great scotch, look at that.
882
01:15:36,807 --> 01:15:38,968
Lizzie, put that light out in the other room.
883
01:15:39,197 --> 01:15:40,344
Now, where are you going?
884
01:15:40,778 --> 01:15:43,144
- To report the fire.
- Well, you just stay right here.
885
01:15:43,174 --> 01:15:46,452
- But Miss Van Gorder, the garage?
- Well, let it burn, go watch the stairs.
886
01:15:46,795 --> 01:15:49,022
Can't you see that fire was
set to get us out of the house.
887
01:15:49,052 --> 01:15:53,416
- Out of the, you're talking about the...
- Yes, yes, I'm talking about the Bat.
888
01:15:53,719 --> 01:15:57,146
Now that the lights are out, he'll think
his trick has worked and we've gone.
889
01:15:57,176 --> 01:15:57,967
He'll be here any minute.
890
01:15:57,997 --> 01:16:01,419
- Well, so will Lieutenant Anderson.
- I hope so, but the Bat will be here first.
891
01:16:01,449 --> 01:16:05,572
And he'll kill again if we're in his
way, we got to be as clever as he is.
892
01:17:17,814 --> 01:17:20,558
But you'll be safer
downstairs, I'll take care of him.
893
01:17:20,588 --> 01:17:22,623
Well, the others can go
but I'm going to stay right here.
894
01:17:22,939 --> 01:17:24,733
All right, but get out of sight.
895
01:17:51,326 --> 01:17:53,587
Let's face it ladies and get it over with.
896
01:17:54,311 --> 01:17:58,456
Others have seen my face before they died
but I'll have to deny you that pleasure.
897
01:17:59,074 --> 01:18:02,089
This would make a good scene
for your book Miss Van Gorder.
898
01:18:02,300 --> 01:18:04,773
But I'm afraid you'll never write it.
899
01:18:09,249 --> 01:18:13,199
That is Warner, I could tell.
900
01:18:16,923 --> 01:18:20,028
- You misjudge me Miss Ellen.
- Warner!
901
01:18:22,784 --> 01:18:25,697
I don't like being a murder
suspect Miss Van Gorder.
902
01:18:26,451 --> 01:18:31,004
I was headed for a plane but halfway to the
airport I changed my mind and came back.
903
01:18:31,909 --> 01:18:33,326
I'm glad that I did.
904
01:18:47,059 --> 01:18:49,291
Why, it's Lieutenant Anderson!
905
01:18:55,141 --> 01:18:56,799
Yes, it was Anderson.
906
01:18:58,155 --> 01:19:01,607
He discovered the secret of the hidden
room and was waiting to get into it...
907
01:19:02,135 --> 01:19:04,547
and open up the safe.
908
01:19:04,969 --> 01:19:10,140
We found the money in it, little over a
million in tens and twenties and hundreds.
909
01:19:13,366 --> 01:19:20,090
Good old Andy, with all his ill
gotten gains invested in bank stock.
910
01:19:20,981 --> 01:19:23,739
It's rather a clever
way to hide stolen money...
911
01:19:24,161 --> 01:19:28,608
in the open, as it were and so respectable.
912
01:19:30,237 --> 01:19:31,774
But don't try it.
913
01:19:33,011 --> 01:19:39,780
No matter how clever you
are, you can't hide murder.
914
01:19:46,611 --> 01:19:49,927
Well, that's it Dale.
915
01:19:50,787 --> 01:19:52,498
That's the end.
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