"Mr. Mannix, Berwyn Electronics stole our working model." "That's it, clear and simple." "They blew up our laboratory to hide the theft." "Where's Reston?" "He said he was onto something." "Reston was just murdered." "Doctor, you stole the formula." "Day after day, you walked out with pieces of it." "This contract, this contract was your payoff." "You wanted it kept secret until things cooled down." "It was Reston, I tell you." "It was Reston!" "Reston!" "Hello?" "Hello, Lou." "Thought I'd call to see how you were feeling." "That medication I gave you can cause side reactions in some individuals." "What kind of reactions?" "Well, they vary, but I want to know if you experience any emotional problems, if you sense any instability." "I feel fine." "Reston!" "Why, Fred?" "Why?" "!" "(screams)" "(screaming)" "Reston is alive." "Liar!" "Liar!" "Liar!" "Hurry." "Who were you talking to?" "I phoned Intertect and asked for your doctor." "You drugged me... and you called Reston." "Now get inside!" "Joe, I called your doctor." "I called Intertect." "Sit down!" "(stereo clicks on)" "(soft music playing)" "Believe me, Fred Reston is dead!" "No." "No, he isn't." "The guy he sent over the cliff is." "The man at the golf range is." "The lab technician is." "But you're not gonna put me on that list." "(theme music playing)" "¶ ¶" "Now... we'll wait for him... together." "(knock on door)" "Answer it." "(knocking)" "Answer it." "Didn't waste any time." "Very interesting." "What's the gun for?" "It keeps me young." "(music stops)" "Give me a hand, please." "What is it this time?" "I asked the boss for a raise." "Lou Wickersham?" "I think he flipped." "In what way?" "Bag, please." "How many ways are there to go?" "DOCTOR:" "Joe, do you know that Wickersham's been very ill?" "I've been treating him for an infection." "I think he got better." "I'm trying to get him into a hospital, but he just won't listen to me." "I think you've got a fracture there, Joe." "We'll need some X rays." "I've been treating him with steroid compounds." "They're new and they're very effective, but they could be dangerous." "You have to watch your patient very carefully, but he won't take a minute to lie down." "You're taking... an awfully long time to try and tell me something." "I'm telling you that there can be strange reactions to those drugs." "What kind of reactions?" "Depression, anxiety, anger, delusions... you name it." "We're friends." "We went through wars." "He saved my life." "I saved his." "I gotta find him." "You'll never make it, Joe." "You want to bet?" "WICKERSHAM:" "There's your inside agent." "Copy!" "Detwiler's desk pad." "Dinner." "Josephus., 7:00 p.m." "Copy!" "Contract for employment between Berwyn Electronics and Andrew Josephus, but double what you were paying him here at Vancom." "Proof that he was meeting Detwiler regularly." "Andrew?" "Liar!" "Wickersham, hold on!" "Hey." "Wait." "Wait a minute." "Wait." "Wait a minute!" "Hold on, Wickersham." "Hey!" "Wait a minute." "Hey!" "Blame my agents for your lousy mess!" "Sweep him up." "I can't stand sell-outs." "Now just a moment." "These don't mean a thing." "Oh, what the devil do you expect me to do-- find it in his pocket?" "I expect you to bring concrete proof that the Berwyn Company paid somebody in this organization to steal from us." "This only says they bought a man in our company to work for them." "For a very fat price." "They've done that before." "We've done the same thing to other companies." "It doesn't mean anything." "It's all part of the game." "Musical chairs." "It was your man." "It was Reston." "Don't fix your tie, Josephus." "I'll hang you yet." "Thanks." "Andrew, I am disappointed to think that you've ever been unhappy here." "But this was never a personal matter." "Well, apparently you were going to leave anyway." "Which is just as well." "At least, until we get this mess cleared up." "Now, look." "He came to me." "Detwiler came to me." "He waved money." "Well, it happens every day." "You said so yourself." "Okay, I made a deal, but, when I realized that all he wanted was to pick my brain for the laser," "I told him to tear up the contract." "You can't push me out now." "Consider it a vacation..." "for a short while." "You're hanging me before Wickersham does." "Intertect will find this person, whoever he is, and then everything will be fine, just fine." "Say something." "Do something." "What, what do you want me to do, Andrew?" "You're my friend." "You've told me that a thousand times." "Well, I..." "I, uh..." "I just don't know what my role is." "Support me, friend." "Get behind me, friend." "Take a walk with me, brother." "Now wait, wait a minute, Andrew." "Wouldn't that be the most, most ridiculous thing I could do?" "I mean, what would that accomplish for you?" "I can do so much more here." "You go to that..." "No, wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "I-I ask you, Mr. Carlisle, can't I do so much more for him within the company?" "Squelching every rumor, stopping the dirty little jokes before they get started?" "We'll work out something equitable, Andrew." "We'll compensate you in some way for all this trouble." "You work out how you're going to look at your face the next time you shave... brother." "Sometimes it takes a situation like this to bring out a man's true substance." "Shut up." "I pride myself on having friends in all walks of life." "But some people just don't fit." "No matter how hard we try, they..." "Shut your dirty mouth!" "Good morning." "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion." "Are you feeling better?" "Yeah, thanks..." "for the headache." "Coffee?" "Mm." "I, uh..." "Sorry about last night." "It's all right." "What about Wickersham?" "The doctor's been trying to reach him." "Listen, would you mind getting Intertect for me?" "The number is 555-2..." "I know the number, remember?" "I hit him." "I should have known he was sick." "I had to hit him." "All because of that lousy little flashlight Forrest invented." "That little "flashlight" is a unique device by which the most powerful applications of light can be usefully employed in controlled and safe metal engineering." "Hello, Intertect?" "Just a minute, please." "Hello, this is Mannix." "Pender?" "Now, listen, when Wickersham gets there..." "Then hold him." "I don't care how, hit him!" "Hit him on the head with a chair, hold him!" "It's a payoff, that's what it is." "It has to be a payoff, we've been looking to tie him in." "Okay." "We'll find it." "Mr. Wickersham." "Why don't you let me..." "Will you keep out of my way, Pender?" "!" "Now check Josephus's accounts." "Go on, check it!" "(phone rings) I'll do that right away." "Has to be a pay-off." "I'll find it." "I'll hang that man." "Wait a minute." "I'll take that." "Hello." "Wickersham." "Well, if she won't say who she is, I don't want to talk to her." "The Reston case?" "Oh, she's probably some kind of a crank." "No, put her on, put her on." "I'll talk to her." "Yes." "Mr. Wickersham, I'm so glad I found you." "Well, what is it, Edna?" "Mr. Wickersham, I don't know what to do." "I'm afraid I'm losing my mind." "Please, I'm so afraid." "Mr. Wickersham, please, I've got to see you right away." "All right, you stay right where you are." "I'll be right there." "I'll be back." "Mr. Wickersham." "Out of my way, Pender!" "I said, out of my way!" "I told you to hold him here, Pender." "I tried, Mannix." "Believe me." "Did he say anything?" "Anything that might give us a lead to follow?" "All I know is he got a phone call and took off like a madman." "Maybe we can get a lead by checking the readouts to see what information he pulled." "May I have the Vancom data Mr. Wickersham was computing?" "Thanks." "Listen, Gail Mason is on the Vancom list of people who had access to the laser laboratory, isn't she?" "That's right." "Put her card through first." ""Gail Mason." ""Three years, engineering, State University." ""Quit in her final year." ""Involved with a graduate student, broke up." "Completing her engineering degree requirements nights."" "Apparently, she had access to Forrest's work, in addition to Josephus's department." "Who the devil let her get around so much?" "Fred Reston was in charge." "(knocking on door)" "Mr. Wickersham!" "Mr. Wickersham." "So sorry I had to bother you, but I got so..." "Here are his keys." "We keep getting in deeper." "They never let up the pressure." "Not Intertect." "He's our ace." "He's our ticket out." "I keep seeing that man in the car." "When they cremated him, I really felt it was you." "He was a wino, Edna." "He wanted to die." "Does Wickersham want to die?" "(train chugging)" "(door locking)" "(telephone rings)" "Pender speaking." "(train chugging)" "This is Edna Reston." "We have Lou Wickersham." "Call off your men or you'll never see him again." "(train chugging)" "What are you talking about?" "48 hours, that's all we want." "Where do we find him?" "We'll radio instructions." "(line clicks)" "Reston's buying time." "That means he's waiting for something." "Money?" "Now she said they'd radio instructions." "Radios..." "Ships use radios." "His brother-in-law, Logan, has a small tuna boat." "No, he wouldn't go back to that boat, not after I spotted him there." "You just said "ship."" "Well, there are other ships, Pender." "And captains who don't ask for passports." "I just wish we had something more concrete than train sounds to feed into the computer." "Eh, wait a minute, those train sounds were just too loud and clear." "Now only a fool'd make it that easy to trace the call area." "Did you give them the message?" "Just like you said." "If they just buy it for a couple of hours." "If they just forget about me long enough to look for him." "You sure you did it just the way I told you?" "I told them we had Lou Wickersham, that if they'd give us a chance to get away, we'd... we'd radio instructions on how to find him." "You said what?" "I told them we'd tell them how to..." "Radio?" "!" "Did you say "radio"?" "What is it?" "Edna, planes use radios and ships use radios." "They won't notice." "I noticed." "They trained me." "They'll notice all right." "¶ ¶" "(groans lightly)" "(rumbling)" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "(groans)" "(man laughing)" "(man laughing)" "(laughing)" "Reston?" "(laughing)" "I have to laugh." "First time in years you get into a bind and you panic." "(laughing)" "(laughing)" "You're trying to ruin me, why?" "Now, you take a guy like Mannix." "He drinks with the boys, plays poker now and then." "You know, if he was running this show, he'd know what to do." "I built Intertect!" "(chuckles):" "Ho, ho, ho." "London Bridge is falling down." "(laughing)" "(Reston laughing)" "(laughing)" "(laughter continues)" "Just count out $5,000 in small bills, Hayden." "But Mr. Wickersham said..." "I'll sign a chit." "you were fired." "Give him the money, Hayden." "How will I enter it?" "Under M." "What do you want the $5,000 for?" "I'm booking passage on a ship." "Where to?" "Try Argentina." "But that only costs $300." "I like to go first class." "(cat meows)" "(meowing)" "(meowing)" "¶ ¶" "(cat meows)" "(cat meows)" "(meowing)" "Hold it right here." "Uh..." "Why don't you wait at your apartment, huh?" "¶ ¶" "¶ ¶" "Come on!" "Get that loaded!" "Hurry it up!" "Benny, I need help." "Benny, I've got to get away" " I'm in trouble." "Sure, you're in trouble." "Come on, Benny." "You know me." "I hit a guy too hard." "Give it to me." "(knocking on door)" "("La donna e mobile" playing, woman singing)" "(to aria tune):" "¶ Who is it please?" "¶" "Benny." "(singing aria)" "¶ Come in, Benny ¶" "(music continues)" "(humming)" "The guy here wants to do business." "(humming)" "(music continuing)" "(record sticks, music repeating)" "(kick knocks record back in groove, music continues)" "(humming melody)" "(music continues)" "You are an oil broker, sir?" "No." "And he don't sell olives." "Oh." "Old records, possibly?" "The guy's in trouble." "Who am I?" "The Peace Corps?" "Wait a minute." "Why do you run in the first place, Mister?" "Why do you ship olives?" "(opera Don Giovanni playing, woman humming)" "This will make it impossible for anybody to bug our little talking." "(music continuing)" "¶ Where do you want to go?" "¶" "Far." "¶ Travel is expensive. ¶" "(humming)" "Tomorrow, there is a ship." "Today." "(humming)" "¶ The world is troubled ¶" "¶ I could be cheating you. ¶" "I could be a cop." "You could be found under a dock." "Opera never killed anyone." "(laughing)" "It will stay there until after you sail." "So I can always swear you put it there if you make trouble." "What ship?" "Have an olive." "Benny will show you where to hide." "(singing)" "¶ ¶" "Nobody hardly ever comes up here." "I can't understand why." "Make yourself at home." "Keep the door closed." "I'll pick you up about a half hour before sailing time." "I tell you, he's a private detective." "Benny said so." "And he isn't running." "He's after me." "The man had such nice eyes." "This terrible world is filled with leering eyes and jaundiced eyes, lecherous eyes and envy." "Okay, okay." "I got him in a box." "I'll put him away." "No guns." "Cops are always around here." "Take some help with you." "He's no pushover." "(door rattling)" "Sorry I wasn't there to greet you." "(glass shatters)" "It was half empty anyway." "Let's go." "Where?" "I've been to the big city." "I've seen the elephant." "You're going to tell me how you worked it or, so help me, I'll beat it out of you." "He's up there." "I'll wait here." "To be sure nobody comes." "Good job." "Didn't hear a sound." "Yeah, except he wasn't there." "But I told him to wait." "Could be he don't trust you." "He's got to be here somewhere." "Find him." "I'm sorry I'm not a thief." "I'm sorry I didn't steal that laser." "And I'm sorry I didn't get all that money they must have paid for it." "All right." "All right." "You didn't do it." "If you didn't, who did?" "No, no..." "Who did it?" "Come on." "Ask Mannix." "He's all over town." "(knocking)" "I'm Wickersham." "Where's Mannix?" "Mr. Wickersham, everyone's been looking for you." "Are you feeling all right?" "How did you get away?" "The building they put me in was falling apart." "Where did he go?" "He's coming right back." "Please sit down, won't you?" "Look, I called Intertect." "Everyone was so worried." "The doctor told us about the possible effect of the pills on you." "The pills?" "I lost them." "All right, where is he?" "I want Mannix!" "Where did he go?" "!" "He's gone back to the docks." "He's sure he's close." "He thinks that Fred Reston is about to get on a ship." "Let's go, you're taking me to the docks." "FORREST:" "I just picked it up." "(whistles)" "Not a bad day's work." "Don't forget the rent for my ballroom." "(chuckles)" "(briefcase locking)" "What about the rest?" "That's it." "Half..." "You promised me half!" "Half..." "Okay." "I changed my mind!" "He came out of one of these buildings." "All right, let's try this one." "Do you want me to wait for you here?" "No, I want you in front of me at all times." "My idea, my work, my invention." "You were stealing from your own company." "I kept quiet for you." "That's what it's worth-- ten percent." "I should have turned you in when I found out." "Do it now." "(laughing)" "You must be crazy." "Get away from me." "Go on." "Go on." "Turn me in." "You've killed three men." "Tell the police." "Tell Intertect." "They'll understand." "(clattering)" "Joe!" "Hold it!" "All right, everybody over there." "Come on." "Would, uh, just a simple thanks do it?" "Take care of them." "I'm going after Reston." "(gunshot)" "All right, this way." "I had nothing to do with it." "Please." "Reston?" "Hey, I just..." "I just got a brainstorm." "Maybe we can use that laser beam for surgery." "What happened to your name in the science journals?" "They waved too much money in my face." "What ship is Reston on?" "What ship's he on?" "The Aldebaran, the end of the dock." "Get him a doctor." "Hey, Mister... nobody allowed on." "Looking for a man named Reston." "Never heard of him." "¶ ¶" "(clink)" "Reston!" "It's no good, Reston." "Throw away your gun." "Reston, use your head." "I don't want to have to shoot you." "(gun clicking)" "Hold it, Reston!" "Hey, Mannix!" "Are you all right?" "You know, shouting my name at the warehouse didn't help my odds." "Gail...?" "I..." "What was he about to say?" "Ask him." "Look, I'm not accusing you of anything." "Once a day is enough." "I'm a little upset." "I just wasn't thinking." "Joe, think now." "You don't really know if I was involved with him." "He's dead." "He'll never be able to tell you." "I want you to tell me, Gail." "No, you'd never be sure." "Gail..." "Joe?" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Joe." "Hey, take it easy." "It was Reston all along." "Yeah, Reston and Forrest." "Welcome back, Lou." "You know, you..." "Don't tell me where I've been." "I don't want to know."