"?" "?" "(grunting)" "(panting)" "(clattering, excited shouts)" "(panting)" "(grunts)" "(excited shouts)" "(exhales)" "(theme music playing)" "?" "?" "?" "?" "(hiss, click)" "(beeping)" "(whirring)" "MALE VOICE:" "Good morning, Jim." "The abandoned amusement park you're standing in is the last place Princess Jehan of an oil-rich emirate state was last seen alive." "The princess was in Hawaii as a university student when she disappeared." "Though her body was never found, all signs point to a violent death." "Her father, ruler of his country and one of the wealthiest men in the world, was shattered by the loss of his daughter." "He bought this amusement park and had it shut down in a vain search for clues." "With the police's failure to solve the mystery, he has become angered by the lack of justice, so much so that it is feared that he will soon pull his country out of a fragile oil-trade alliance," "which could throw the economies of a number of Western countries into chaos." "The maddening part is that the police are sure that this man is the killer." "In fact, they believe that he is connected to at least half a dozen murders throughout the world." "His name is Champ Foster." "He comes from a wealthy family, and when he's not yachting around the world, lives on the family estate just outside Honolulu with his domineering mother." "Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what happened to the Princess Jehan, and if Champ Foster did kill her, see to it that he is brought to justice before the crucial trade talks begin" "in three days time." "As always, if you or any members of your IM Force are caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions." "This disk will self-destruct in five seconds." "Good luck, Jim." "(rapid beeping)" "(hissing)" "Looks great." "Yeah." "Presto." "Ooh, nice perfume." "About $500 an ounce?" "More like a thousand?" "It was my sister's favorite." "The Princess Jehan." "(beep)" "For Your Royal Highness's information, we have confirmation from the yacht club." "Two nights from now, you've rented their banquet room." "Now... the man we're going against has a brilliant mind." "He also has a long history of violence." "It started when he was only 16 years old and he and his best friend killed a schoolmate." "The press called it a "thrill killing,"" "and it was only his family's money and influence that kept him from going to prison." "Instead, he spent two years in an expensive private psychiatric hospital, and it was there he confided to a friend that he had learned society's number one rule:" "Don't get caught." "Yes, well, he's very good at that rule." "He's frustrated police in several states who do believe he is connected to the murders or disappearances of beautiful women." "Being from one of the island's most prominent families, it was inevitable that he and the princess would meet." "They did..." "they dated several times." "This photograph was taken at the yacht club the night she disappeared." "NICHOLAS:" "Now, the princess told her friends that she was going to meet Foster at the amusement park later." "Foster claimed that he got caught up in paperwork at the club and didn't get to see her again that night." "Of course, the police couldn't prove otherwise." "How do we go after him?" "If he has a weakness, Casey, it'll center on two people." "First, his mother..." "she's controlled her son's life with an iron hand since he was a boy." "She's also a spiritualist." "Over the years, she's spent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to contact someone on the other side through seances." "It's going to be up to us to see that one of her seances finally succeeds." "Who's the other person?" "Champ Foster himself, and the pride he takes in his own cleverness." "He enjoys having a unique and bizarre outlook on life." "We thought it time he meet someone with a more bizarre perception of the world around him, someone who might make Mr. Foster redefine his meaning of the word "wacko."" "(sizzling)" "See?" "I told you this wasn't difficult." "I'd have been so ashamed of you if you'd been late for the prince." "He's due in a few minutes, you know." "I make it a habit never to be late for royalty." "What do you have?" "Well, there's all these." "You still have to pick a time for the board meeting." "And Otto has the trophies for the regatta... what would you like us to do with them?" "Well, have them put them in my office." "Here, kid." "Thanks, brah." "One final thing." "These photographs." "I took them at last Friday's dinner dance." " Good." "Well, I think there should be some of them up for tonight." "Just be sure to include the councilman" "and former Commodore Anderson." "Okay." "I'll call you when the prince arrives." "(phone rings)" "Champ Foster." "Hello, Champ." "How's my old buddy?" "Who is this?" "(chuckles):" "Who is this?" "Oh, this is Elvis, man, Elvis Presley." "You remember me, don't you?" "Look, if this is some sort of a joke..." "No joke, man." "I'm just a lonely guy looking to make a rich friend." "Hey..." "look out your window." "You'll see me on your boat." "You see, I know who you are, and I know what you've been doing to all those pretty girls." "I don't know what sort of crank you are, but..." "Crank?" "Oh, man... listen, you might say Dr. Cruz sent me." "You remember Dr. Cruz, don't you?" "He was the head shrink at that private hospital you spent some of your teenage years in." "You remember?" "For killing that little friend of yours?" "What's the matter, Champ?" "Cat's got your tongue?" "(chuckles)" "WOMAN (over intercom):" "Mr. Foster?" "Mr. Foster?" "He's arriving." "The prince is here." "I'll be there as soon as I can." "I don't know who you are or what you want, but..." "Hello?" "Hello?" "We have over 1,500 members now." "That's an increase of more than 30%/% since Commodore Foster took over." "Quite remarkable, isn't it?" "And, of course, do you know there were people who said that he was too young to be a commodore?" "Ah, there he is." "Mr. Foster..." "Champ, as Jehan liked to call you." "I'm Abdullah ben Fatah." "It's an honor to meet you." "Your sister was a very special person to me." "Yes." "She wrote of such warm feelings she had for both you and your lovely mother." "I do hope both of you will be coming to the party I'm having on Sunday." "It'll be a pleasure to." "Now I'd like to see the room we'll be using." "This way." "And you'll remain here." "I was in hospital when Jehan disappeared." "A racing accident." "Actually, if she hadn't warned me," "I'd probably be dead now." "Jehan warned you?" "Oh, yes, in one of her letters." "This room will have to be painted." "This color." "And you, lovely lady, may keep it when the party is done." "Oh, Your Highness!" "I'm afraid that getting painters out on a Satur..." "Cost does not matter." "It is the color that matters, for it is Jehan's favorite and the party is for her birthday." "Didn't I tell you that?" "Ah, well." "I want to see the kitchen now." "?" "?" "(typing)" "Grant's into the yacht club computer." "Ah, how do you like it?" "It's definitely you." "(chuckles)" "Yes, yes, this oven will be big enough to prepare koozi." "I want everything perfect for the party for my sister's return." "Your sister's return?" "But the police said..." "The police have listed her as missing, presumed to be dead, but they are wrong." "The last letter I received from my sister, she told me something dark and terrible was going to happen to her." "She said she had to be away for three months but that she would have to return on her birthday." "May I?" "Oh, yes, Your Highness, please help yourself to any little thing your heart desires." "You-You've twice mentioned letters from Jehan... one that warned you and saved your life and the other suggesting something was going to happen to her?" "This is true, but Jehan always had the gift." "Mmm, this is excellent, and prepared for what occasion?" "Well, every week we have a..." "A regular Friday night dinner dance." "Dinner dance." "Be a great pleasure to have you join my table tonight." "Well, that sounds very entertaining." "Will your lovely mother be present?" "Of course." "Then how can I refuse?" "(typing)" "(knocking)" "?" "?" "(door closes)" "?" "?" "?" "?" "Do you think it's really true about Princess Jehan?" "Oh!" "That she's alive and will be here on Sunday?" "He's headed for the office." "I saw this troupe in Kaanapali a couple of weeks ago." "They were marvelous." "I'm so thrilled to have them here when the prince is coming." "Back a bit, back a bit..." "perfect." "(engine starts)" "Well, I could probably book you in Hilo for three days next week." "Yeah, well, that's interesting, but I just got in from the mainland." "I thought there might be something for the weekend." "Yeah, just to tide you over, yeah, I know, but I'm sorry, pal, it's Friday night and every gig is taken." "(phone rings)" "Excuse me." "Paco and Walsh." "Someone took my truck." "(continues indistinctly)" "Yeah, yeah?" "Yeah, hang on." "Uh, how'd you like to work a yacht club dinner?" "100 bucks flat." "Of course there's a 20 in it for me and they'll toss in a dinner at a discount, if you like." "Good afternoon, sir." "Uh, your mother is in the sanctuary with Mr. Eisenhower." "Eisenhower?" "!" "Who the hell is Eisenhower?" "Uh, he said he was a friend of yours and that his mother named him after her favorite president." "Oh, yeah." "I was in this very chair and he... my late husband... was standing just near where you are." "He looked just as he did when he was alive, w-w-when Champ was a boy." "(sighs)" "I reached out and spoke to him." "He tried to answer and then he was gone, but the feeling, the fragrance, the essence lingered." "(chuckles)" "Hi, Champ." "Hello, friend." "I was just telling Mr. Eisenhower here about Tibet." "He tells me that when you were in California, you loaned him all my books." "I never knew that." "Well, there are probably a lot of things I do that would surprise you, Mother." "Well, it, it was in Tibet that we came closest to communicating with Champ's late father." "Wasn't it, dear?" "Yes, Mother." "He touched him." "Champ actually felt his father touch his cheek." "Tibet is such a spiritual place." "I've always heard that." "Listen, I hate to interrupt this..." " You are." "But my friend and I have a lot to discuss, and you do have to get ready for the club tonight." "You could finish telling me about Tibet tonight." "That won't be possible." "Of course it is." "I've invited Dwight to have dinner with us tonight, and he's accepted." "MAX:" "Thank you for the tea." "I'll see you this evening." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "I'd say it was time we got to know each other... pal." "Great, great, and again." "(camera shutter clicking)" "Keep turning." "Keep turning, keep turning." "Good, good." "Okay." "Good, keep turning." "That's it." "You see, I know, ever since I was a little kid, I had a very special mind." "I found out that if I exercised my mind correctly," "I could control anything." "Even pain." "What do you want from me?" "I told you this morning." "I'm gonna be your friend." "Well, most of my friends have names, so what do I call you..." "President Eisenhower or just plain Elvis?" "You making fun of me?" "(Max chuckles)" "I scared you, didn't I?" "You see, I've been scaring people all my life." "Like you, huh?" "You've been scaring people, too." "You scared Dr. Cruz." "What do you know about Dr. Cruz?" "He used to treat you when you were a kid in that private hospital." "He's in a big hospital now." "He remembers you." "How do you know that?" "Because I was there when the cops came." "There was one from San Diego and one from Los Angeles." "I was in the next office listening." "They didn't know I was there." "They was talking about you, man." "Where?" "Where?" "(chuckles)" "Where?" "You see, they put me in this place." "They said I wasn't competent to stand trial." "You see, I'd sliced up some..." "I knew what I was doing..." "I mean, they deserved..." "I enjoyed it." "Hey, man, I really enjoyed slicing 'em up." "But when they catch you, you got to pretend you're crazy." "(chuckles)" "That's where the mind exercises pay off." "You've got to remember that." "What'd the police want to talk to Dr. Cruz about?" "Some dead girls they thought you had killed." "You see, Cruz was the only shrink who ever treated you, and they wanted to know if he thought you were capable of being a serial killer." "What'd he say?" "Hey, man, that's why we're gonna be friends." "You see, you've got a lot of money and you're going to share that with me, and I've got a lot of secret things you want to know, and that's where we become real good pals." "(ice cubes clatter)" "I'm gonna share them with you." "(chuckles)" "Go get 'em, Prince." "(band playing jaunty swing melody)" "(laughter and chatter)" "You know, Shakespeare wasn't the first to write about Hamlet." "50 years before," "Hamlet and his ghost was written about by a Dane." "A Danish historian." "So you see, it was a true story." "It-It-It was." "It's true!" "(crickets chirping)" "(alarm trilling)" "(Iow beeps, trilling continues)" "(keypad beeping)" "(beep)" "(alarm stops)" "(big band music playing)" "(song ends, applause)" "EMCEE:" "Thank you." "We hope you're enjoying the big band sound from the '40s." "And after we take a short break, we'll continue..." "I can understand why my sister enjoyed being here so much." "Oh, she was a lovely girl." "But I'm fascinated with the letters you say she wrote where she could foretell the future." "She is what our people call a fortune child." "WOMAN:" "Ladies and gentlemen, while our band take a very well-deserved break, it's time for our special entertainment for the evening." "Now, I know many of you were looking forward to the Spanish dancers, but well, unfortunately, this afternoon, their van was stolen, and all their costumes were in it." "(audience sighing)" "(blipping)" "(hissing)" "(blipping)" "(applause)" "Thank you." "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen." "I'm delighted to be with you this evening." "And as our lovely hostess has said," "I have been fortunate enough in my career to reunite a number of lost children with their parents, as well as, on occasion, to help the police in criminal matters, including several notorious murders." "(applause)" "MAX:" "Jehan." "Might be interesting, huh?" "PHELPS:" "But tonight... tonight I'm here to try to entertain you, and so, with a little help from you," "I think we can all have some fun." "Now, everyone in the room is concentrating on his or her hometown." "I'm getting something now." "Yes, I'm getting something." "It's definite, absolutely positive there is someone in this room from Honolulu." "(laughter)" "Wait." "Albany." "Albany..." "New York." "I get initials..." "W..." "W..." "It's a gentlemen." "W..." "William A." "Is there a William A. Here from Albany, New York?" "There certainly is." "(gasps and applause)" "Commodore Anderson." "Commodore Anderson." "Thank you very much, sir." "(blipping)" "(high-pitched beep)" "You're thinking of someone who is very important to you whose name begins with a P." "No, not a P. Um, T." "T, R..." "T, R..." "Tr..." "Tracy." "My daughter is named Tracy!" "(gasping, applause)" "Madam, thank you very much." "Opposing magnetism." "They use this in Germany to float a moving train above the monorail." "Um... if I've done this right..." "(sighs)" "(blip)" "(beep)" "We're going to make something else float." "Once we finish this, we're out of here." "(applause)" "Thank you." "Thank you very much, sir." "Now I wonder perhaps there's something" "I can tell our illustrious commodore." "How about who's gonna win next week's regatta?" "(audience murmuring, Phelps laughs)" "Oh, something just easy like that." "Well, now, let me see." "Um, how many boats might a race like that involve?" "A few dozen." "A few dozen?" "Ah, daunting task, but... something is coming." "Yes." "I feel it, I feel it." "Wait a minute." "The winner of the race will be... the fastest boat." "(laughter, scattered applause)" "Well, you think I jest, but actually," "I did see just now the name of a boat, but as I've told you, I'm never absolutely 100%/% correct." "And I would hate to taint next week's competition." "Then try something without controversy." "Sir, tell me, whom am I having a party for here in two days?" "PHELPS:" "Ah, party." "Life at the yacht club is one continual, fabulous party." "May I have a personal item, sir?" "Ah." "Now, then, let's see who's coming to the party." "Uh, there is..." "someone here." "(Phelps sighs)" "A young woman." "A girl." "She wants to talk to you." "She wants to tell you why she's dead!" "Oh, my God, she's here among us, I feel it." "Someone's trying to hurt her." "Someone is trying to kill her!" "Lula!" "Lula, help me!" "Lula, help me!" "(people murmuring)" "I'm sorry." "Please accept my apology." "I don't know who he is, and he could have learned about your sister by reading it in the papers." "No, he said something you could never have known." "When Jehan was just a little girl, she could never pronounce my full name." "She used to call me Lula." "Even when she grew up, her pet name for me was Lula." "He said..." ""Lula, help me."" "?" "Ta-da!" "?" "How'd it go?" "Couldn't have gone better." "Mrs. Foster wanted us all there tonight at the house for a seance, but Jim and I said we're far too shaken, that tomorrow night would be okay." "Course we didn't tell her we still have plenty to do tonight." "Everything set at the Foster house?" "Everything, including a time-release anesthetic in the air conditioning unit." "It's set to go off at 1:00 a.m." "Won't hurt 'em, but you wouldn't be able to wake up anybody in that household until daylight." "Hmm." "?" "?" "?" "?" "(whirring)" "(beeping)" "(clicking)" "(whirring)" "(trilling)" "(beeping)" "(trilling)" "(typing)" "(trilling)" "(whirring)" "(trilling)" "(beeping)" "(wind whistling)" "(groans)" "(wind whistling)" "Huh?" "(grunts quietly)" "WOMAN:" "Champ!" "Champ!" "Champ!" "You can't be there!" "Champ!" "(grunts with effort)" "?" "?" "?" "?" "(panting)" "Mr. Foster, we look everywhere for you." "We call for the doctor." "Your mother, she fainted." "Fainted?" "What happened?" "Well, first, a lady from the yacht club came." "She show your mother something, and then she became dizzy." "Pay the cab." "Mother?" "Mother?" "In here, Champ." "Where have you been?" "What's happened to you?" "Oh, Champ, it's been such a strange morning." "Such a wonderful morning." "What happened?" "Rita came from the yacht club." "She brought the photographs she took last night." "Why-Why would she do that?" "Because there's something very special about them." "Princess Jehan is in them." "(phone rings in distance)" "She was there last night." "She was!" "Telephone, Mr. Foster." "It's Mr. Eisenhower." "Tell him I can't come to the phone right now." "He say very urgent." "Must talk to you or he come over." "What?" "How you doin', pal?" "You said it was urgent." "It is." "Remember those cops I was telling you about?" "The ones talking to Dr. Cruz?" "What about them?" "I caught one last night, here on the island." "He was asking questions about you," "(over phone):" "So I asked him some questions." "Only, I guess, I asked too hard." "He can't answer them anymore." "He's kind of dead." "(car door shuts)" "Plenty to eat, man, if you're hungry." "The prince's chauffeur." "Yeah." "He told me that." "Said the cops had got him into the limo service, so he could keep an eye on you." "What else did he tell you?" "Oh, a lot of things, man." "First, he wouldn't say anything." "Real stone wall." "After I broke a couple of his ribs," "I got his attention." "(chuckles)" "Had to grab him by the hair." "Man, I told him, "My name's Hitler, man." "Maybe you heard of me?" "Adolf?"" "Real bad guy, Hitler." "And your face is Poland, and I'm gonna march all over it." "I don't suppose you've got a drink?" "Hey, man, I gotta tell you..." "from one friend to another... that stuff's poison." "You know your body is a temple." "What else did he tell you?" "Just that the cop from San Diego is here, too, going over all the Honolulu PD stuff on the princess's disappearance." "Hey, man... nice night for a seance, huh?" "(thunder rumbling)" "(thunder rumbles)" "Do you read me, Grant?" "Loud and clear, Jim." "We're here." "(thunder crashes)" "(wind whistling)" "Mr. Zane Preston." "You're late, Mr. Preston." "I suggest we start." "Pretty spooky stuff, huh?" "Mother, I still think we should call this off." "How can you say that?" "Princess Jehan was so close to us last night." "How can you even consider missing an opportunity like this?" "Will you put that drink away and sit down?" "Mr. Preston." "In the, uh, discussion you missed earlier, it was decided that the best way to summon Princess Jehan here tonight would be by reading the last letter sent to her brother." "Yeah, well, before we start..." "I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I'm a man who has to make his living." "You want to get paid for this?" "Well, I had to cancel a date!" "(over radio):" "VFW... $120!" "I will pay your fee a hundredfold." "You're very kind, sir." "You are a mercenary man, Mr. Preston, but you will have your money." "Now... we will begin by all joining hands on the table" "(over radio):" "While Prince Abdullah reads the last letter from his sister." ""My dearest Lula," ""For the last several days, I have had dark dreams." "(over radio):" "I sense something..."" "Now for a mini-demonstration in thermodynamics." "Freezing air, propelled at jet speed, into a warm room." "ABDULLAH:" ""..." "I see you crying..."" "(whirring)" "ABDULLAH:" ""I see father and all my brothers and sisters crying..."" ""I was... very afraid," ""but I know there is nothing you can do to prevent this." ""I will be away from you for a long time, and yet, I see myself returning."" "She's here." "She has returned." "Can't you feel it?" "The air is so cold, and the breeze... (wind whistling)" "(gasps) Jehan... if you are here, can you give us another sign?" "(gasps)" "(whimpers)" ""Returning to you the midnight" ""of my birthday anniversary." ""The sky will rumble and I will reveal myself." ""But before then, someone will have to die." ""An authority from across the sea," "Someone who has come to help me will have to die."" "I'm getting out of here." "No, you must stay!" "We must all stay!" "I can smell her perfume!" "Go on!" "Keep reading!" ""A crown, a golden crown with wings will tell you why." ""I see a golden crown in my hand that will tell you who has done this."" "(gasping)" "Jehan, we don't understand." "What is the golden crown?" "(gasps)" "Oh!" "Champ, come back!" "Wait!" "Come back!" "(thunder crashing)" "(engine revs, tires squeal)" "(thunder crashing)" "(panting, grunting with effort)" "OFFICER:" "Honolulu Police!" "(gasps)" "Get on your feet!" "I'll take it from here, Mr. Foster!" "Hands up!" "Mother!" "(theme song playing)"