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Oh,

Oh, operator, get me 26513, please.

Thank you.

I want the governor's secretary, please.

Hello, Tim.

Alan Baxter here.

Yes, just got in.

At the ocean.

Wish I had the time and the money.

Listen, Tim.

Strictly off the record, so don't start running around in circles.

But the back of my neck doesn't feel so good.

No, just prickles, ever since I left Washington.

Nothing I can pin down.

When you've played messenger boy as long as I have, you get a feeling about

these things.

No, no, it's okay. I just want to pass it on unofficially.

You get back to your planter's punch.

Or is it planter's daughter?

Best of luck to you, too.

Give me the police, quickly. Someone's just... Broke into my room.

Cuba Libre.

You had breakfast?

I had breakfast on the plane at 8 o 'clock this morning. London time, that

Ah, as far as my stomach is concerned... Not that I'm complaining.

What have I done to deserve this?

Nothing.

Remember... Baxter, Alan Baxter, courier at the embassy in Washington. Yeah.

Last night in his hotel room here, he was on a night stopover carrying

dispatches from Washington to Santiago.

And the police don't know, do they? No.

They were on the spot quickly enough, though. Apparently Baxter was

for them as he was nice.

They believe his surprise was a sneak thief.

I don't agree.

No? No.

Apparently, Baxter had a feeling that something was wrong. He'd already

telephoned one of the secretaries in Government House to say so. He didn't

anything, did he?

No, just a hunch, apparently.

What

was he

carrying? That's the surprising thing. Nothing of any value. The dispatches

confidential, of course, but they were all purely routine stuff.

Not to whoever killed Baxter to get it.

Failed to get it.

Dispatches were hidden in the bathroom, locked to the hot rail with a towel over

it. We found them.

Obviously, the... He must have made a bolt fit as soon as he'd killed Baxter.

Can we be sure the murderer was after the dispatch kit?

No.

But it's difficult to think of any other motive.

If there is anything in those dispatches worth killing for, we've got to find

out what it is.

We've got to find out who wants them and why.

Yeah, of course.

I propose to give the murderer a second chance.

Officially, Baxter's murder will be considered a purely local incident.

Dispatches will continue on their normal way with a replacement courier.

You. Me?

Your flight leaves tomorrow afternoon.

Oh, not before.

We have to give the impression that sufficient time has elapsed for an

replacement courier to arrive here from Washington.

You'll be in Santiago the day after tomorrow. There's a night stop at Lima.

Right. Well, I might as well make use of the time that's left me.

Well, there is one other thing. Catherine Gale will act as your cover.

Cathy, good.

But she's not here now, is she? Not yet.

She arrives...

Have

you had lunch?

Or should I say breakfast?

Come out wherever you are.

Hello, good evening. Good evening.

Have a good trip?

Delightful, Fenton.

Is this on the level? Not quite. We leave for Santiago tomorrow afternoon.

It's hardly time to work up a healthy tan.

You know, I think they do it on purpose.

Well, we have to be on the alert 24 hours a day, you know.

Anyway, I brought you a little live now here.

Thanks.

Even it has got strings, it has.

Sir, I take it I haven't traveled 5 ,000 miles just to spit a bottle of

champagne with you.

Lovely, though it is.

Cheers. Cheers.

By the way, where did you get that lipstick?

It was around.

Was she around, too?

Yeah, very around.

Tell me why I'm here.

Alan Baxter, our Washington courier. He was murdered here last night.

Someone was after his dispatches, but they didn't collect. And the strange

is, there doesn't seem to be anything in them worth killing for.

Now, we've got to find out who killed him, what they wanted, and why they

it. I'm going to take this dispatch case on to Santiago tonight, and you're

going to cover me for the trip, okay?

So we travel in strangers?

Yeah, that's it.

Now, here are the plane tickets. They're in your own name. Thanks.

Now, we'd better find someone to put this.

That's rather in your department, I think.

Why didn't the man who killed Baxter collect?

It was chained to the town row.

He probably thought the police were after him and he panicked. I don't think

he'll try again here or on the plane.

It's the stopovers you've got to watch, Bogota and Lima.

Or maybe Santiago itself.

You'd better keep that hand luggage handy.

I'll be right next door.

Hey, maybe I'm old -fashioned, but I thought the first place anybody looked

underneath the pillow.

Yes, but under mine, not yours.

Hope you're right.

I'll tell Senor Rosas.

Okay.

This is fire.

Report 30 % support. Position favorable.

Good.

Main power station.

That completes the public services.

30 %?

That's less than a third of the personnel.

It needs only a few to lead.

The sheep will follow.

I guess you know your own people better than I do.

My family has been involved in several revolutions without sustaining any loss.

Quite the reverse, in fact.

Sure.

Politics is big business when you're on the winning side.

You know, there are guys in this racket... This is for the good of the

It needs strong hands to rule our country.

All this talk of democracy and liberalism is covering up weakness of

incompetence.

I mean to see that it is exposed and thrown out. Metal.

Okay, okay.

So, what's the next move?

We wait.

But I want all key men warned to be ready to act at eight hours' notice.

I'll pass the word around. And remember, we want no violence in the initial

phases. I don't get it.

You know, for my money, a bunch of hotheads riding around the city is just

you need to keep the police busy. It would also give them and the army the

excuse to mobilize before we're ready.

Oh, no.

Spread a little fear, distrust, and the threat of poverty.

And in a few days, the people will act for themselves.

And then you step in.

Okay, when's zero hour? I shall know that when I see the dispatches.

They should have been in our hands by now. You don't have to worry. They

shouldn't be long.

The replacement courier left Jamaica on the afternoon flight.

Thank you.

Passengers transferring to flight 424 for Quito, Lima, and Santiago will

remain in the waiting area.

Your flight will be called in approximately 30 minutes. Thank you.

Calling Senora Gale. Senora Catherine Gale.

Passenger on flight 424 to Santiago.

Will you please go to telephone booth number 6? There is a call waiting for

in booth number 6. Thank you.

Hello. Welcome, stranger.

A woman in every airport, eh?

It's a dull trip.

So far, but I have hopes.

You spot it on me?

Apart from the play you made for the stewardess, not a thing.

Oh, don't relax.

Oh, I won't. I'm far too interested in watching your technique.

I thought it was working out pretty well, didn't you?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello? The case, senor.

Sorry.

Steve, can you hear me?

Finish your call.

Act normally.

As I was saying, you can learn something.

Will you send on that hand luggage you get?

You might send it on as soon as possible, too, then.

Keep talking. I'm on my way.

Well, don't send it to the airport now. I'm just about to catch a plane.

Yeah. Send it on later, you know.

That's right.

No, I don't think so.

Por favor, senor.

Thank you.

Tell Sonny Monroe to bring the phone in here as soon as that call comes.

When a daughter stands so quietly and patiently beside her father, it is

out of respect or because she wants to ask a favour.

It's a favour.

I want Pepe to drive me over to the stable.

But Mancha won't fold for at least 24 hours. I know, but I've simply got to

if she's all right.

Of course she's all right.

Anna, our family has been rearing bloodstocks for six generations.

I think we can manage to deliver another fold safely.

But Mancha is mine. You gave her to me.

No, I'm not sure that I like you spending so much time at the stables.

But on this occasion, perhaps you can go.

I go and tell Pippi.

Anna! I shouldn't trouble yourself.

He's been waiting outside for you for the past 20 minutes.

Ah!

Pascoe.

Long distance from Bogota.

Yes.

You will come back here to Santiago immediately.

Don't argue, Pascoe.

If our mission is to succeed, we cannot afford to have people in our ranks who

make mistakes.

So, Pascoe didn't get the briefcase.

No.

I was always afraid he might prove to be incompetent.

I did warn him.

I guess I owe you an apology.

I should never have hired him.

The question is, what do we do now?

What worries me is that your Jamaican police may be on to him, and that could

lead them to us. Don't worry about Pasco. I'll take care of him.

The dispatches are our main concern.

Exactly.

You will take over from him.

But you will have to move quickly.

Lima is your only chance.

The courier will be stopping there overnight, and those dispatches must be

our hands before they cross into Chilean territory.

But above all...

There must be nothing to link this theft with our cause.

Hello?

Hello, Steve.

How's everything?

That's meant to be a personal inquiry. I feel refreshed, revived and re

-varnished. And respectable?

What do you mean by that?

I mean you're decent.

I shall be by the time you get here.

I'm on my way now.

Mr. Stevens.

You have the nerve to ask if I was decent.

Oh.

Camouflage.

Dangerous. I might have screamed for help.

That's not a good idea.

Room service, please.

Shouldn't I be doing that?

You haven't got a deep enough voice.

Oh, I want two whiskers and sodas, please. Room 31.

Eh? Oh, yeah.

Trace, you know.

No, you know.

You know.

I know.

Now, what's the game?

I want as many people as possible to know that I've come from my room into

yours. In camouflage? Uh -huh.

And they're going to think... Quite. Now, three people already have seen me

in here. The maid will make a fourth.

I see.

It's a question of simple subtraction. They tried once in Jamaica, no luck.

tried again in Bogota, no luck, thanks to you.

And Lima's our last stopover, and here we are.

Yeah, now, if we hadn't had to make that plane connection at Bogota, we'd have

had a few words with those thugs, not exactly the communicative type.

No, perhaps they were a better laugh for the airport police to have. Come in.

Oh, put them over there, will you?

Thank you.

And will you charge it to room 30?

La cuenta por el señor.

Habitación 30.

Este inglés.

I think she approves of you.

So whoever's employing those two thugs is bound to try again.

Bound to. At this time, they're waiting for our arrival. Of course, they let me

get to the consulate all right tonight, so it's reasonable to suppose that

whatever they want to in that dispatch case.

Dispatches to Santiago.

That's all you've got left.

Except my sandwiches, that's what they want first.

Now, it'll either be here tonight or tomorrow in Santiago.

And you're betting on tonight?

Yeah, that's why I'm being a very careless courier who prefers the company

attractive widows to diplomatic bags.

Thank you.

Do go on. Well, the best way to find out what they want is to let them have it.

Yes, then follow them.

Well, then that way we should find out who wants it and very possibly why.

And what can the battler see?

Nothing at the moment. I moved that mirror in the corridor alongside it to

my door. It needs hissing a bit, doesn't it? Right.

A bit more.

It works.

Hey, make yourself comfortable. We're in for a long night, I think.

Your eyes are going to get pretty tired staring through that.

I've got two of them. I can use them in turn.

You know, you could have gone to bed and let them take the bed while you were

asleep. And wake up with a knife in my ribs. It could ruin my health, you know.

So instead you prefer to ruin my reputation.

Men are so selfish.

Well, you never know.

I might make an honest woman of you.

Thanks, I'd rather live it down.

He's been in there ten minutes now.

Doesn't take him that long to open the dispatch case.

Well, it isn't as though I didn't help him out. I left it right under his nose.

Any other way out?

Well, not unless he had wings.

Oh, we've been having a look, haven't we?

I thought the idea was to follow him.

Yeah, well, ideas change.

Yes?

Yeah.

Nobody else came in or out.

That must have been done by mirrors.

Not the one you were watching, apparently.

Well, there's nothing missing.

They didn't get what they came for.

Somebody did.

Flashbulb. Miniature and blown, too.

Whatever they wanted has been photographed and replaced.

Only one hour and a second.

Well, not even an athletic chimpanzee could make that little one.

Or maybe with a rope.

So now we want to know who lives upstairs.

And what he looks like.

Go back to your room and order a couple of drinks.

And make certain the same girl serves it.

I could certainly use a drink.

You'll need both of them when I tell you the idea. I'll join you in a minute.

Yeah? Your call to Santiago, senor.

Thank you.

Hello?

Monroe?

Yeah. You managed that bit of business for me?

Yeah. More than that.

What do you mean?

Pascoe. He was here.

I told him to come straight back to Santiago.

Looks as though he's trying to do the job anyway.

Get back into favor.

What happened?

He won't be returning to Santiago.

Why not?

Just won't, that's all.

I see.

Now look here, my lord. I think you'll agree this was for the best.

You will come straight back here on the first available plane.

All right.

I'll be in Santiago tomorrow afternoon.

Go direct to Dos Pajaros.

Be there at six.

All right. I'll have someone waiting to process the film.

Yes, I... I see what you mean.

I'll do that.

Can you think?

¿Qué pasa, señor?

No comprendo.

Anything else?

No. What is it? What happened? I'll tell you about it tomorrow afternoon.

Adios.

What were you doing in there?

Por favor, señor. No comprendo. You understand all right.

Excuse me, señor.

No entiendo nada. You were listening, weren't you? You know what I'm talking

about. Señor.

Listening to my phone call.

Perdóneme, señor.

No comprendo nada.

I think you're lying.

Now, I'm going to get the truth out of you, even if I have to hurt you in the

process. Si, senor.

All right, then. You can go.

Senor? I said you can go.

I want to get to bed.

Si, senor.

Gracias.

Well, go on, then.

Vaya, you understand?

Vaya? Si, senor.

Good night.

Good night.

Now what are you doing?

Oh,

for pizza. Go on, just go, will you?

Yes, and I needed it. Good.

Did you get a good look at him? We practically danced together.

He's our man, all right. What's he look like?

He's slim, fair, medium height, American.

He's obviously working for someone else.

Did you find out who?

No, but he was reporting to somebody in Santiago.

Oh, I managed to tear this off the telephone pad. He'd written something on

top seat.

Well, like a lot of doodle.

Oh, the number six and a word, D -O -S.

Those two?

Yeah, well, even I know.

There's a P and an A.

Can't they count those? It all ends in an S.

Anything else?

No, except that he's flying back to Santiago tomorrow by the first plane.

Fine. Oh, you go with him.

Go with him?

Follow him. After all, he's no reason to think that he's being followed. And

after this masterly disguise this evening, he probably won't recognize

hope. What happens if he does?

Well, we've got to take the risk. Anyway, he won't do anything until you

Santiago. It's a great comfort.

I'll be close behind you.

I'll go and fix your plane.

Don't you think I'd better do that?

Oh, yes, I suppose you have.

What are you going to do?

When I get there, I'm going to carry on with the concert as if nothing had

happened. And the corpse?

I'll be gone by the time they try and wake him up.

What is this, Josephine? Who is she?

Just a figure of speech.

Look, Conchita, move off, will you? I'm busy.

I got the film. Everything set up? Si.

You don't come to see you, Conchita. You don't like me no more.

Sure I do, baby. Only later, huh?

Carajo!

You just can't leave dead bodies lying around about the place, you know?

I mean, there's bound to be some sort of comeback.

Diplomatic immunity has its limitations, you know.

Baxter found that out.

Baxter? The official courier. He was knifed in the back in Jamaica.

Yes, well, what happened in Jamaica has got nothing to do with this business in

Lima. You don't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.

Apparently not.

The Peruvian authorities are applying for your extradition. The Santiago

want to have a word with you. They know you're here. Well, don't you just wave

the Union Jack at them?

This is not a joke. The Peruvian people are demanding your head on a plate.

Well, that's why I didn't wait to explain. They might have helped

You're only a courier.

Stead? Eh, steed, I think.

You can't expect protection from a murder charge. But I do, and anyway, I

do it. Well, I wish the consul was here. So do I. When's he due?

Late tonight. I've got to have all these invitations down. Oh, party.

The official reception for the United States Special Envoy from Washington.

He's arriving here next week. Oh, well, I wouldn't worry about entertaining me.

I'll just wander around and join the side.

You'll do no such thing.

You must consider yourself confined to the consular till the consul gets back.

Oh, must I?

Yes. I'm afraid he'll have to decide what to do with you.

Excuse me, will you?

Fathers?

May I speak to Mr. Steele, please?

Oh, yes.

For you.

That's extraordinarily good of you, old man. Thank you.

Hello? Where is the cafe?

Oh, hello.

Where are you?

In a phone booth in the Calle Las Campanas. It's near some kind of market,

think. Well, I can find it. Are you still with him?

Yes, of course. He's just gone across the street into a cafe called Dos

Yeah, that checks up with the paper.

Stay there till I join you. You will not leave this consulate?

Oh, shut up.

What?

It wasn't you.

Look, I'll meet you inside the cafe.

Can't you wait there till I get there?

Listen, I'm tired, I'm thirsty, and my feet ache. I can take care of myself.

Besides, sir, I have Juanita with me.

Who's Juanita?

She's dark, very pretty, typically Latin American.

I bought her specially... for you you bought her what are you talking about to

hang in the rear window of your car i just knew you were the type adios senor

could

you show me the back way out please certainly not i forbid you to leave look

you're under house arrest you must wait for

What are you doing?

Resisting arrest.

But, now look here. Sir Henry would be awfully angry, you know, when he finds

these invitations. Will you please stop doing that? It's a good go out the front

way and take on the whole of the Santiago police, but I think it would be

to go out the back way, don't you?

Yes, all right, all right. Oh, thank you so much.

But you'll be very sorry when the consul returns. Uh -huh.

And one other thing, I must know exactly where you intend to go.

Well, it's a pleasure. I'm going to keep a date with a couple of girls, Kathy

and Juanita.

Oh, my goodness.

Babaloo, Babaloo, Babaloo.

No.

Babaloo. Babaloo.

Babaloo. Babaloo.

Babaloo.

Babaloo. Thank you.

Bravo, senorita.

Senora.

Ah, si, muy stupid. Oh, I'm sorry, senora.

What do you like? Something to eat, to drink, huh? Oh, I'm far too excited to

eat, I'm afraid.

I've never explored this part of the city before. I think it's fascinating.

si.

Oh, you buy souvenir, eh?

Oh, I find you something much better. Oh, no, no, no, no. I like her.

I call her Juanita.

Juanita. Oh, si, senora. It's very pretty.

You like a glass of wine, maybe?

Gracias.

Que bonitos ojos tiene debajo del sardo cejado, debajo

del sardo cejado. Que bonitos ojos tiene.

Ellos me quieren mirar, pero si tú no los ves

así, pero si tú no los veas,

ni siquiera palparías.

I'm sure you won't mind if I join you.

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I do mind.

So you do understand me?

I beg your pardon?

Last time we met, you pretended not to understand me, remember?

No comprendo.

I think you're making a mistake.

If you'll excuse me.

Sit down.

Let go of me. No.

And you needn't try anything, Signora.

You won't find the customers here very interested.

They prefer to mind their own business.

Were you going to use this on me?

I was going to pay the singer.

Of course.

See that?

Yeah.

hate to lose you now.

This way, senora.

Yes.

I'm expecting the film to be delivered here very shortly.

At the moment, it's being processed.

I shall be delivering my final instructions at 10 a .m. tomorrow.

Yes. In the meantime...

Hold yourself in readiness for the operation.

Adios.

What operation, Father?

Nothing for you to worry yourself about, Anna.

Just business.

Politics?

What else?

Politics are my life.

I cannot stop taking an interest in the affairs of my country. I wish you

wouldn't. I'm sure it's dangerous for you.

Nonsense, Anna.

Anyway. Young girls like you shouldn't worry their pretty heads about such

things.

Now tell me, how is Mancha?

Her foal was soon reborn.

Pepe says it might be any moment.

I'll take it.

Yes?

One moment.

Anna, why don't you get Pepe to take you down to the stables? You might be just

in time for the happy event.

May I? Of course.

Off you go.

her up here.

I'll question her myself.

Cheers! That seemed to go down quite well, doesn't it?

I'd like to save this wine. Would you water it down with vinegar?

I did not know this senor was English.

Oh, so that makes a difference, eh?

Evidently. You are not likely to make trouble, senor.

Like reporting things like that to the police?

Well, we just do not like strangers here. And this atmosphere, not mighty

together, English ones particularly.

That's true, I'm afraid, senor.

Which must make two in one day quite an event.

Senor?

The lady who was here earlier, you must remember her. No, no, senor.

I'll explain her to you.

Blonde, beautiful, blue eyes.

Funny she said she was going to be here. No, I've seen no one like that, senor.

You're either stupid or a congenital liar. Probably the two of them.

Si, senor.

There was a lady here earlier this afternoon.

La senorita inglese.

No? I think maybe you better go, senor. What's your price?

I have nothing to sell. The senora was not here. I said senorita.

How did you know she was a senora?

She's wrong, you know. I wouldn't have hung that in the rear window of my car.

Senor?

Where is she? I'll give you three seconds.

Hold back!

You don't want the police here, but the police want me.

They're just behind me.

Now, the sooner I get out of here, the better for all of us. Well? All right.

All right, senor.

She is at the hacienda of senor Rosas.

Senor Miguel Rosas? That's right. It's about two miles along the Puerto Road.

Hello. I want to speak to senor Rosas.

It's very urgent.

Mrs. Catherine Gale.

Widow.

I'm so sorry.

I see you are an anthropologist.

Well, Mrs. Gale, you must admit that for an anthropologist, your behavior here

has been rather strange, to say the least.

Would you like to tell me what you're really doing in Santiago?

I think I know.

You've been sent here to find out who is so interested in your government's

dispatches am I right?

Really, you know your government has nothing to worry about

The gate says he's a newspaper reporter.

Sounds to me like the guy who was asking for her at the Dos Baharas.

So he's arrived already.

We'd better bring him here.

But don't use more violence than is absolutely necessary.

Your friend moves quickly, Mrs. Gale.

The itinerary of the special envoy from Washington.

I told you your government had nothing to worry about.

But surely you could get information like this from your own foreign office.

without drawing attention to ourselves.

And not sufficiently far in advance.

But why the British dispatch?

I wanted there to be no possibility of the United States Embassy finding out

about our activities.

It would have caused great concern in diplomatic circles, and that envoy's

would almost certainly have been cancelled.

Unfortunately for him, I saw him in the hotel at Lima.

This is the British courier.

Is this true?

Yes, it is, as a matter of fact.

This is a most unfortunate development.

You shouldn't have tried to interfere with our plans, you know.

And you shouldn't have interfered with our dispatches, Daniel.

That's enough of that.

Search him, Monroe.

I'm afraid I must ask you and the Signora to go with Monroe.

I see.

So now we know who.

And what.

Signora has wanted the schedule of the Washington envoy's visit.

But we still don't know why.

Okay, let's go.

Father!

Father! Lancia has phoned. Oh, it's so... And she is well, Anna?

Eddie, who are these people?

We're tourists, young lady.

We're absorbing local colour.

Matter of fact, we're just leaving. Stay where you are.

Father, what's wrong?

Don't alarm yourself, Anna.

Munro and I surprised these two intruders. He was just going to hand

to the police, that's all.

I've got an idea.

Why don't we ring the police and ask them to come here?

I don't understand.

I'd be happy to explain, Senorita, but when the police get here?

They don't look like criminals.

No more than your father does.

Father?

What's he saying? What's happening?

Drop your gun, Monroe!

I'm sorry, Anna.

Well, I'm awfully sorry, Lady Monica.

Well, I can only say it's a gross oversight. As a matter of fact, I'm

in at this very moment.

Excuse me just for a moment, could you?

I'm sorry, I can't take this call now. Could you call me back later? Thank you.

I'm very sorry about that.

Oh, my goodness, I've cut her.

Could you get me that line as quick as you can, please? Thank you.

So you managed to avoid the police?

Well, on the contrary, they brought us here.

Oh, yes, well, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes. Sir Henry's back and he

wants to talk to you.

I think you've got it wrong, old boy, because I've just seen him. He said he

wants to see you.

Me? Well, I wouldn't keep him waiting if I were you.

Oh, no, no.

Excuse me.

Not at all.

Thank you very much.

Oh, Travis.

How much did you tell, Sir Henry?

Just that Senor Rosas was planning to assassinate the special envoy from the

United States.

That was enough.

The city's buzzing like a hornet's nest. They're arresting people all over the

place. I can see their schedule was essential to pinpoint the time and the

place, but I still can't see what good an assassination would have done Rosas.

To discredit the present government.

It would create anxiety about the chances of financial aid from the

Rosas' party will...

Fan the flames. Step in at the right moment.

Well,

what did Henry say then?

He wants you to attend the reception for the special envoy from Washington.

Well, that is very thoughtful of him. Stead, isn't it?

Stead. S -T -E -D.

Oh, not the Stead who used to play for Worcestershire.

No, I'm afraid not.

No, I didn't think it could be.

There you are.

Could you just make an addition?

And partner.

Oh, very well.

Have you still got Juanita?

Oh, no, I'm afraid I couldn't possibly.

Now, he really is the type.