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You are horrible.

Forget it. Good night.

Come on.

He's on his way.

What happened?

I don't know what happened to him. He bowled another game. He doesn't change

anything. He's an hour later than he's ever been before.

Maybe he's going to stay overnight with somebody. Where's the gun?

Look, Jack, I don't want to do this. Give me the gun.

And I'll see you guys tomorrow. Take it easy.

Okay, he's alone.

Listen, honey.

Why don't we forget this one?

We'll go after somebody else later.

Listen.

You've been leaving everything up to me for a couple of years now, and we've

been doing real good, haven't we? Now, you shut up, baby.

Let me handle the business.

He never turned there before.

That's him. He must have forgotten.

Forgot what? Who?

Tom Enfield. His mama wanted me to fix a dress.

She said he'd be by for it around ten.

of God.

The FBI.

A Quinn Martin Warner Brothers production.

Starring Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.

Also starring Philip Abbott.

Stephen Brooks.

With guest stars Tim O 'Connor.

Tim McIntyre.

Tom Lowell.

Tonight's episode, The Satellite.

At approximately 11 .15 p .m. on the 6th of March, 17 -year -old Thomas Enfield,

son of a prominent New England industrialist, disappeared from the

Woodford, Massachusetts.

After an intensive 24 -hour investigation, local and state police

turn up a single important clue to the victim's whereabouts.

And on March 8th, agents of the FBI entered the case.

He left the bowling alley about 11 o 'clock, told his friends he was going

straight home.

But his mother had asked him to pick up a gown she was having altered.

Apparently he remembered this after he got in the car.

Have you talked to the eyewitness herself?

Not yet.

She's here, you know.

Here with the family?

She was released from the hospital this morning.

She's always been very close to the boys. She was Mrs. Enfield's maid when

son was born.

She stayed with the family until last year.

Mr. Enfield offered to take care of her until she was back up on her feet again.

Oh, good morning, Mr. Enfield.

Yes.

I'm Anthony Harper, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office. This is

Inspector Erskine. I called earlier.

Come in, come in, please.

Has anything happened if you found it?

I'm sorry, not yet.

I see.

Well, may I offer you a drink, a coffee? Thank you.

When I heard the doorbell, I thought... Well, I don't really know what I

thought, except all those horror movies about how they send the body back.

Mr. Enfield.

And the blazes have them. They called anyway.

Don't they realize what this means to us?

And I don't understand.

Why doesn't somebody do something about this?

I'm sorry. Forgive me.

I don't have anybody else to yell at, so I yell at you.

You must be a very patient man, Inspector.

I can afford to be.

I don't have a son who's missing.

Would you like to know who I'm really yelling at?

My son.

How does that smack of illogicality?

It's funny.

I love him very much.

But he's been driving me crazy these last few months.

He's 17 years old. He's straight A's in school. He's got the whole world in

front of him.

What do you suppose he wants to do?

Join the Marines.

You oppose this?

Not really. It's just that he hasn't got the backbone for it.

It'll break him.

He never even spent a night away from home.

Take that back.

He has spent one night away.

Which brings up another point, gentlemen.

If I receive a ransom note, I intend to pay it, and I don't want any arguments.

I want my son back, alive and whole.

Is that agreed?

Of course. The Bureau always leaves that up to the family.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Enfield, I wonder if I could talk with you for a moment?

Yes. Excuse me.

Well, she's awake now, but the doctor says she's going to have to stay in bed

for quite a while.

Well, that's fine.

She can have her old room for as long as she needs it.

Well, that's just wonderful of you, Mr. Enfield.

I mean, you really take a load off of my mind.

Elizabeth, she's going to need a lot of medical care, a lot of attention.

I can't afford a nurse, and I wouldn't want to see her in the county house. No,

it's no problem, Earl. Don't let yourself fret about it.

Inspector, Mrs. Page is awake. Would you want to talk to her?

Yes, if she's able to.

I'll see.

The witness's husband.

Police interview indicated he was in the house when the kidnapping occurred. He

didn't have anything to add to his wife's account.

Does he work here?

He did at one time. Gardner. Left to open his own nursery.

Business failed, and they lived off the wife's income until their Social

Security started.

And now Enfield's come to the rescue again, huh?

The son certainly doesn't look very much like the father.

No, he doesn't.

You know, if Enfield is right about the boy, I wonder why he wants to become a

Marine.

What are you doing is the question.

You never drank a drop before, and now all of a sudden you can't get enough.

Just leave me alone.

No, we made it, Jackie boy.

He's hungry, but he's all right, in spite of the beating you gave him.

It's Wednesday.

You got to hollering around and throwing stuff in there, so I gave you your

bottle and locked you out.

What did you take the gag off for?

I think you broke his nose. He couldn't breathe.

Come on, Jack. He isn't going to make me... Grow up!

You're not kidnapping, sweetheart. You're not on a cookout with the girls.

Now don't take that off again, you understand?

Where's my other bottle?

You drank it.

What happens?

You make the plan.

You work out all the details, go over it and over it, and then nothing works.

Nothing works.

saw my face, kid.

And unless we killed her... Jack,

let's forget the whole business.

I mean, who needs all this grief?

Has there been anything on the radio?

Just that he's missing.

Just kill him now, huh?

Forget the money and just save a lot of trouble.

I didn't mean kill him.

And he said something I couldn't hear.

Then he pushed him into the car.

What kind of a car was it?

It was... It was big.

Black. There was a driver.

Two or three others.

They looked foreign. Dark.

Poor old girl.

I'd kill him if I could get my hands on him.

Foreign, hmm?

Including the man with the gun?

I told you so he was.

Oh. Taller than Tommy, honey?

Taller. Older.

Heavier. This gentleman says he wants to see you. Yes, thank you.

Mr. Enfield, how's the missus? Oh, she's sleeping. She'll be all right. Don't

worry about her. She must be just half out of her mind.

It's my fault.

I'm going to go on home now.

Mow the lawn, dust, clean up.

You tell Elizabeth I'll be back. Yes, sir.

No, no, Elizabeth.

The boy went bowling every Monday night.

He used to leave by himself, go straight home.

It'd be a pretty easy pattern for a kidnapper to spot, but I...

We re -interviewed everybody at the alley and nobody remembers seeing

suspicious, so... No, uh, dark -looking foreign hoods or big black

limousines?

You're bowling every Monday night, huh?

Yeah, it's high school league.

High school?

Mrs. Page. I'm a conspector. I think Mrs. Page had been through. No, no, no.

I'm all right. I'm all right.

Let me help, please.

Mrs. Page?

Sometimes people try to help too much.

How can you help too much?

Well, sometimes people are ashamed to admit that they didn't actually see what

took place.

So they fill in details they aren't actually sure of.

The fact is, Mrs. Page, even a trained eye misses a great deal when it's taken

by surprise.

Now, we don't expect you to remember much of what happened Monday night.

Even if you don't remember anything at all, you'll help us most by telling us

the truth.

The Enfields have been so good to Earl and me, and now...

When they need us the most, I can't... Now, Elizabeth.

I, uh... I don't remember anything about the car. I don't even remember what

color it was. I guess there must have been a driver, but... I didn't see him.

What did you see?

Just Tom and the other fella.

I want you to pretend it's Monday night again.

You're coming down the walk.

You see something.

What's the first thought that crosses your mind?

What are those two boys fighting about?

Boys?

One of those boys is Tom.

Do you know the other one?

His hair is wavy.

And his jaw is...

Straw.

Would you recognize him if you saw him again?

I don't... I think we

would.

Jim, check with the juvenile division of the Boston police for logical suspects

and get me yearbooks from all high schools within 100 miles, going back at

six graduating classes.

Yes, sir.

Where's Earl?

He went home. He'll be back.

He's going to be awfully proud of me for remembering.

He thinks the world of you and Mrs. Enfield. He'd do anything to help you.

anything.

Look. Look, if I take it off for one minute, you promise you won't yell?

I mean, the only one who'd hear is his old smiley out there.

You want him to come in here and swarm all over the both of us?

Okay.

Oh, thanks.

Don't talk, just breathe.

Well,

my nose is busted.

My eyes hurt.

My ears are still ringing and my tongue is swollen.

Other than that, I am just perfect.

All I need for Christmas is a new head, right?

How old are you?

Seventeen. You seem older.

How old do you think I am?

Oh, about my age.

I was twenty in November.

I look younger, don't I?

Jack's 24.

All of a sudden, he's acting like a baby.

I'm sorry you worked you over like that.

I can't figure him out lately.

What do you mean?

It's like he's going to pieces.

Oh, well, the bad's under a lot of pressure there.

Listen, I want to tell you some things.

You took the gag off again.

Jackie can't breathe.

He didn't yell, and nobody would hear him if he did.

That's right.

Why?

Because he'd suffocate.

If somebody wanted to see his handwriting or hear his voice before

the money, you'd be out of luck, wouldn't you?

All right.

All right, Pally.

But you understand that if you make any noise, I'm just going to have to blow

your head off.

You do understand that, don't you?

Mister, you're a very sick man. Why don't you go see a psychiatrist?

Why? Why?

A couple of possibles, sir.

Was that the phone, Roy?

Maggie, the doctor said you were supposed to stay upstairs.

Stay upstairs and do what?

Go crazy?

Who called?

No, that's just the wrong number.

Inspector Erskine here.

Special Agent Rhodes.

How do you do? Are you people really telling me the truth? You really haven't

heard anything?

I know the waiting's hard, Mrs. Enfield.

Inspector.

$100 ,000 Thursday, uptown motel.

Gaines, Vermont.

Mrs. Enfield alone or kill son. Boy says tell folks...

Teep. A -O -K.

What does that mean?

And his nickname, you know, Thomas Philip Enfield.

T .P. Deep.

Do the newspapers call him that? I mean, would it be common knowledge?

No, not outside the family.

Elizabeth called him that when he was born. So what are they trying to say,

anyway, that they really have the boy?

I'm going to get this to the lab.

Thursday. That's today. Wait a minute. Did they say Mrs. Enfield alone?

Oh, no.

No. Roy, just give me the money. We can do anything we have to.

$100 ,000, that's going to be hard to find. Jim, wait a minute.

Do you know this writing?

What?

Put $50 ,000 in barrel at intersection routes 42 and 76, New Hampshire.

By midnight, 9th, or Tom leaves the scene permanent.

Stay away from police.

Lose your cool and you lose your son.

Which is the right one?

Either one could be.

Or neither?

Sharks follow a ship, Mrs. Enfield.

One of these letters was probably written by the kidnapper.

The other is what we call a satellite extortion.

You may get more before the case is over.

We'll check them all out.

How? When?

Each note wants to be paid today.

And I can't raise $150 ,000 cash that quickly.

And even if I did pay, I'm going to have to make a choice, supposing I make the

wrong one.

All I can tell you, of course, is that you'd be running a risk.

Now, the Bureau's primary concern is the safe return of your son. So if you

don't mind, we'd like to cover both payoff sites.

But where are the kidnappers apt to be? Can you tell me that, Inspector?

I'm sorry.

Can you make a guess?

Well, I can send both letters to our laboratory.

I can weigh their conclusions against what I already know or suspect.

And I can make an evaluation.

But I have to make the decision.

Why don't you worry about that tonight, Mr. Enfield?

We may know more by then.

Can I have a glass of water?

How did it take care of a baby?

I'd be glad to get rid of you.

How red are you going to get?

He's gonna kill me, huh?

No, he's not gonna kill you, huh?

You've got a great imagination, you know that?

Okay.

So, uh, what are you gonna do? You gonna help him?

Quit it. No, you quit it.

He's too scared not to kill me.

All right, when's he going for the money?

watch me.

You could let me go.

You could let me go. I swear I wouldn't give your description to the police.

You could go anywhere you wanted. You could leave the country if you wanted.

It's that.

Documents section.

Mr. Ward?

Thanks.

Hello, Ward.

Oh, good. Put him on.

Hello, Lewis?

Yes, Art.

Let me give you the negatives first.

There were no fingerprints found on either one of the notes.

The paper in both cases was regular, unbonded, dime -store stock, which is

practically untraceable.

But the letters and the words that were cut out in the Vermont note...

Could have come from any mass circulation magazine.

So there's no help to us there.

What about the one from New Hampshire?

Nothing solid, but some interesting aspects.

The writer may have been trying a fairly old trick.

The slant and structure of the letters indicate he may have been using his off

hand. That he was right -handed ordinarily, but used his left hand to

note. Well, then that would account for the shakiness of the letters.

Right. It wouldn't have been age or illness?

That's very unlikely.

when you consider the hip language used in the text of the note.

Well, that subject might be in his early 20s now.

That certainly is a possibility that shouldn't be overlooked.

All right, Art. Thanks very much.

I managed to raise $100 ,000.

The sun is going down, so I think I'd better get started.

Have you come to an evaluation, Inspector?

There's not enough to go on. We have to assume either one could be the

kidnapper.

I want your opinion, Inspector, right or wrong.

If he were your son, If it were your choice to make, where would you leave

real money?

New Hampshire.

I see.

I don't know where Hampshire it is, then.

Stranfield.

How you pay the money, or whether you paid it all, is up to you, of course.

But I'd like to point out that the note didn't direct you to bring the suitcase

personally.

So, if it's all right with you and your wife, I'd like one of my agents to do

that. That's your ballgame, Inspector.

We want to play it any way you want to play it.

Just as long as you bring my son back alive.

And what about Margaret? Will she have to go to Vermont?

Of course I will, Roy.

As a matter of fact, I ought to be leaving now.

Well, what do you think?

Mr. Enfield, I'd like you to meet Miss Charlotte Cullen.

How do you do, Mr. Enfield?

She's with the FBI, Roy.

I didn't know the Bureau had female agents.

Well, we haven't. Charlotte's a file clerk for the Boston office. She

volunteered to stand in for your wife.

Any objections?

No. No, absolutely none.

They're not trying for an exact resemblance, Roy. A wig, my clothes, a

makeup. That's right. With darkness and the distance involved, we don't feel

it'll be necessary.

And you'll be in New Hampshire?

That's right.

Where's Mr. Rhodes?

He'll fly up with me tonight.

Right now, he's on a...

Special assignment.

Yeah? Oh, I'm looking for somebody at 1719.

Next door.

Yeah, I know, but I got no answer. Right.

Nobody's home.

You sure about that? Somebody called a cab. When was this?

About ten minutes ago.

Page? They didn't give a name.

Nah, it must be some kind of mistake.

Mrs. Page is with some people across town, and Earl, he's on a trip.

He gave us his dog to keep for him. Said he'd pick him up tomorrow.

They knew the Enfield boy.

The one that was kidnapped.

No kidding.

I wasn't home, but Earl, he told us all about it.

Really broke him up.

Said he just had to get away, driving around.

He sets out like that every once in a while.

Well, where would he go?

North. Used to live in Vermont when he was a boy.

So did I.

What part?

I think it's games.

I have to leave now, Mrs. Page. But if you come across a face that looks at all

familiar, just point it out to Mr. Franklin.

Mr. Erskine.

I think I found him.

Jack Houser.

Houser.

Is it the man?

Complete rundown on him. The latest report.

Yes, sir.

Lou, may I see you in a minute?

Is he located?

He's at home.

Your hunch might be paying off. The neighbor thinks he might have gone to

Vermont.

Well, Mrs. Page, thanks again for helping us out.

How's Mrs. Enfield?

She's getting along very nicely.

I just feel so sorry for all that pain.

I don't know.

Earl and me, we haven't got much, but we've got each other.

That's the important thing.

How do you feel?

Oh, I'll live.

Jack?

Huh?

Is everything okay?

Sure, fine. Why?

Well, hadn't you better get started?

Aren't you a little worried about being here with him alone?

Why should I be worried?

Well, I mean, what if he got loose by some miracle?

Well, you tied him. You could let him loose.

See, I mean, he might say that he wouldn't give you a description of the

that we could go wherever we wanted, that we could go out of the country.

I mean, it's that, baby, or help me pull the trigger.

Isn't that right?

Jack. You.

Go to the crossroads.

Jack... Give him until midnight to drop the money and then come back, if you've

got it or not. It should take you about 20 minutes.

If they've done what we told them to do, then I'll cut him loose and he can find

his way home.

If they haven't, or if you're not back here by 12 .30, I'll kill him

and leave.

Is that clear?

This is all crazy. Or, if you don't stop bugging me, sweetheart, I could just

flip into a very weird thing and kill both of you.

Right now.

Who looks so downcast?

She'll be back.

Besides, you've still got me.

Even though I might not be the best host in the world, you sure won't be bored.

I can promise you that.

What time is it?

1131.

How'll this be, Mrs. Enfield?

Oh, I think this will be just fine, thank you.

Welcome to the Uptown Motel, Mrs. Enfield.

Well, I must say I'm glad to see a familiar face.

Miss Charlotte Cullen, Senior Resident Agent Alden McHenry.

Oh, fine.

Is there anybody in this place who isn't FBI?

Not tonight, anyway.

Is he serious?

The man who wrote that letter is either a kidnapper or a psychotic, Miss Cullen.

You bet he's serious.

Subject has picked up the money and is heading north on 76.

She's alone driving a blue 61 Ford.

Intercept.

Midnight.

What do you think?

Was the money there?

Did our girl find it?

Is she coming back?

Maybe we shouldn't have trusted her, huh?

I mean, that was a real gamble, wasn't it?

But then life's just a gamble, isn't it?

I mean, how do any of us ever really know when our... when our number's up?

Can you tell me that?

Oh, that's beautiful.

It's kind of fun, isn't it?

Thank you.

What's your name?

Lorraine Chapman.

Is the boy alive?

What boy?

I'm gonna ask you once more, just once.

Is the boy alive?

Yes.

I think so.

Is Hauser with him?

Yes.

Anyone else?

No.

Where are they?

A cabin.

Stone Creek.

Why did you say you think he's alive?

Were you going to kill him anyway?

I wasn't.

Jack was afraid I'd let him go.

That's why he sent me for the money.

He said if I wasn't back by 12 .30, he'd shoot him.

Do you still want to save him?

What can I do?

I'll do anything to help.

Follow us. No headlights.

Get in.

Look, if Jack sees you... Just going.

Maybe he isn't coming.

Maybe it's just a hoax. Or maybe he just wants to make sure you're alone.

Well, do you think that we should... Hello?

Hello?

Who is this?

Margaret Enfield.

You bringing the money?

How's my son?

Leave it on the bed.

Leave your door unlocked.

Go to the all -night drugstore at 23rd and Harvard.

When I have the money, I'll phone the public booth there and tell you where

son is.

The motel front's on Harvard.

You turn to your right as you go out.

23rd is about eight miles down the road. He just wants to make sure that you're

out of sight Good luck

FBI page.

Hold it.

Come on.

I did it for Elizabeth.

What's Elizabeth going to say?

Who is he?

Friend of the family.

You know something, kid? You're just in the wrong place, that's all. You should

be in Las Vegas this week, man. I've never seen a run of luck like this in my

life.

I wonder what the odds are.

You're welcome.

Thank you. Bye.

The fellas will make a statement later.

He's fine. He's been checked out in the hospital in New Hampshire, and he's

wonderful. He just needs a rest, that's all.

Tom, were you scared?

Yes, sir, I sure was. I figure anything boot camp throws at me now will be kind

of an anticlimax. Boot camp?

Yes, he's going to join the Marines.

How do you feel about this, Mrs. Enfield?

Well, we want him to go to college, but we'll talk about it.

Well, I think he's man enough to make up his own mind about that.

Come on, Tom, let's go.

Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Enfield.

Elizabeth, what are you doing out of bed?

Are you all right? Fine, fine, I'm fine.

Where's Earl?

Earl's going to be so glad to see you.

I'll tell her.

A few minutes.

Jack Donald Hauser, who recovered from his bullet wound, and Lorraine Chapman

were convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Earl Page, convicted of extortion, is serving a ten -year sentence.

in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.

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