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You've got 30 seconds to open the safe before that bomb on your wrist explodes.

Sookie?

I think your son would like. Yeah.

This is Harry Rule. I want time on the computer.

Urgent. It's a code. I want it cracked.

The train set?

Mail it to Mrs. Rowan.

I figured I'd come and meet you.

That was nice of you. Yeah, I thought it was.

Shall we go into the house? Why not?

Well, what do you got, Carol?

Your friend Reibold is right.

Within six months of the research at Cranston being abandoned,

five of the members of the team have died.

Sir John Ackland, leader of the scientific team, he was the first.

Then Priestland.

Perrier was killed skiing.

Lucas and Martin drowned while skin diving.

Riewoldt is the only one left alive.

Naturally, he became suspicious and frightened, and that's when he contacted you.

Now, Freddy Riewoldt doesn't know what frightened means.

Some of his stunts give me nightmares.

He came to me because he was angry. Martin was his closest friend.

Did he tell you what the team was working on?

The molecular structure of metals.

That mean anything to you?

It's been decoded.

You could have fooled me.

Maybe Rywall can make some sense out of it. Where do we meet him?

At a quiet little eating place.

You can reach speeds of up to 200 MPH. That's where the word ground rush comes from.

You're going to do what?

It's a stunt for a film. They're paying the club a fortune for it. That figures.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

You mean you jump out first, open your chute, and it fails? You make it fail?

Sure.

My chute's gone.

I'm waving my arms around in a panic, dropping like a stone to certain depth.

I follow him out with the camera and shoot the whole thing.

But unlike the guy in the film, I carry a spare chute.

I think you better marry my friend here while he's still all in one piece.

Don't worry.

I've got the fireside chair and slippers all lined up.

Hello. Oh, hello.

Did you get anything from Cranston?

Check around their agents the name of the game's precious medal.

Rivaled?

Yeah, he's working along the same line,

and that paper indicates the group at Cranston were close.

Close to what?

Making gold, baby.

Synthetic gold.

Mm-hmm.

Sorry to drag you away. Were you making progress?

Well, let's say again, no regress.

Good day, sir.

So glad you could come. May I introduce Harry Rube?

Hello, Mr. Roo. How are you?

Mr. Roo is a reporter from Realm magazine.

He wants to know all about contraband gold.

Captain Carrots is in charge of not allowing you to something, aren't you, darling?

Yes, something like that.

Excuse me.

Well, Mr. Roo, what did you wish to know?

Any new suppliers shown up?

Italy is the gold smuggling center of Europe.

We have some of the cleverest criminals in the world here.

So there is a new supply.

Big?

Very big.

So big it has the regular smugglers worried it is ruining their trade.

Do you know who's handling it?

If we knew the answer to that.

Where is it shipped from?

If we knew the answer to that, Mr. Roo.

Well, he certainly was a blabbermouth.

It's a rule of mine. Never neglect the police. They can be very useful.

As it happens, I had dinner last night with Carozza. Oh,

candlelight. Yes, very intimate.

The gold is being shipped out from Rome's own port, Ostia.

Terrific.

Anything else?

Yes, my other sources tell me there's a consignment sitting

in a waterfront warehouse at this very moment.

And you know where it is.

Gina will take us there.

I deal with the voice on the telephone. Is he English?

I think so. What's his name?

He calls himself... Man three, man three, man three.

The third man. Number three on the totem pole?

Third in command.

One thing's for sure, my friend Freddy Riewold is in danger.

The skydiving stunt must be cancelled. That's going to be difficult.

He's a hard guy to persuade.

Maybe this will persuade him.

It's Erzatz Gold.

The kind that could have been produced at Cranston.

It is gold.

To anyone but a molecular physicist.

You're in danger, Freddy.

You're the last guy alive who understands the process.

The only reason he hasn't killed you before this

is he must know about your skydiving stunt.

That is when he'll do it.

Oh, I don't think so.

Now, Freddy, it's his one big chance.

It'd be so easy to make it look like an accident.

Contessa, I appreciate your concern. I really do.

But you don't understand. We pack our own parachutes.

We check our equipment.

Our arms and legs are our own.

We're in control.

All right.

We'll take care of things here on the ground.

You didn't try very hard, did you?

Riewald's the bait in the trap. You think he doesn't know that?

Get me Paul Boucher in Paris.

Tomorrow's the one chance to nail man three. If anyone asks who you are, Paul,

you're a reporter from Paris News.

All right, let's go.

That's a double loop.

Sorry.

You okay? Yes.

You sure you're all right? Look, I said I'm okay.

Aye.

All set. Fine.

I like to ride along as kind of an observer.

Any objections?

No, fine.

Well, we're nearly there.

Time for you and me to earn our Oscars.

Freddy, don't jump. Oh, come on. What the hell

are you doing? Look, you can do as you like.

I'm jumping anyway.

All right, talk.

Oh, my God. Start talking. They've got Susan.

You don't know her.

They got her down there, and they said they were

going to kill her unless I let Rival die. How?

The spare's rigged, the same as the first. He was jumping without a chute.

Why didn't you just call it off?

Well, listen, if I did, they'd kill her anyway.

Where is she?

Down there somewhere.

They've got a telescopic rifle trained on her.

And if they don't see both shoots fail, she gets a bullet in her head.

Aircraft entering dropping zone.

That's her.

Harry, we've spotted the girl. What about the rifle?

Even with a telescopic sight, it can't be that far away.

But there's no sign of it.

Keep looking.

It's no use. They're not going to find it.

Aircraft in position at 12,000 feet.

Still negative.

All set.

Skydivers jumping in one minute.

Harry, we found it.

Can you take it without endangering the girl?

Yes, but it's going to take time.

What are you doing? They'll kill her if we don't

jump. I don't understand. They're watching.

They've got to see both shoots malfunction. Shut up and listen.

I'll tell you what to do.

We have go from the pilot.

Jumping in 30 seconds.

We go and fire. Yeah!

Turn over cameras!

He's done it. Dismantle the gun.

At least you made him happy.

Who's that? The producer. He financed the film.

Man three.

That's Atlan, the leader of our team.

He's supposed to be dead.

He is.

Well, I have a plane to catch.

Okay, I'll drive you to the airport.

Thank you.

Excellent. You're making excellent progress.

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