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Bill?

Plant security.

Would you mind rolling down your window? I've got a message for you.

From whom?

Dr. Latimer.

Can I see your identification?

Thought I'd put you through all that bother.

No bother at all, Mr. Hill.

The FBI.

A Quinn Martin production.

Starring Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.

Also starring Philip Abbott.

William Reynolds. With guest stars Jeffrey Hunter.

Cicely Tyson.

Al Freeman Jr.

Richard Anderson.

Tonight's episode, The Enemy.

On August 27th, a Belldome Laboratory driver was murdered on a backcountry

near Los Angeles.

He had been transporting a testing sample of a new incombustible liquid

TD4. TD4 was vital to America's space program.

It had been hijacked.

Though the hijacker left no living witnesses, FBI men soon came upon

significant clues.

The Los Angeles agent in charge, Brian Durant, immediately contacted Bureau

headquarters in Washington, D .C.

All right, thank you.

Oh, Brian, Lewis is here with me. He told me what happened.

You sure it was espionage?

Oh, yes, sir. I don't think there's any question about that. Where was the

shipment going, Brian? The U .S. missile testing site in Nevada.

Is this Beldum's usual method of transportation, camper?

Well, no. The man in charge of the project, Dr.

Earl Latimer, suggested it. He thought it would be more inconspicuous.

Well, I'll be out there at 3 o 'clock your time. Set up an interview with Dr.

Latimer, will you? Right.

What do you know about the hijacker, Brian?

Well, he rode a motorcycle, and he was evidently wounded in the holdup.

We found a considerable amount of blood where the motorcycle had been parked.

I've alerted all the clinics and hospitals in the area.

I think a 24 -hour surveillance and code green consulate would be a good idea,

too. Yes, sir.

All right, Brian. Thank you. Keep me informed.

I zigged when I should have zigged. Get the ball out of the place.

Did you strip the bike?

Are you kidding?

Can't you do that?

Hey, Jim.

Have you got a cot where I can lay down for a couple of hours?

No. My orders were to give you a bike and a place to change.

You got it.

I'll be out of here by six. All I want to do is make one phone call to the

cockpit and deliver this stuff. I don't want to see it.

And I don't want to hear about your contacts or your problems, you

Oh, come on now, Jim.

These are your problems, too.

It's your cause, even though you may not be a member of the party.

I'm not asking you to man the barricade.

I just want a place to lay down for a while.

Your people didn't pay me to be nursemaid.

All right.

A hundred dollars an hour.

Oh, I haven't got money like that, and you know it.

Okay.

Then go bleed on somebody else's basin.

Do you mind?

I'm in a terrible hurry.

This man's sick.

I'll go for a doctor.

45th, it takes a counter.

And did Latimer have a look at this? Yeah.

He said the signature is close enough to be his own, but he didn't sign it.

Brian, who else at Belden knew the time and route of the shipment?

No one.

Latimer made the choice himself this morning.

He called the driver into his office, gave him the necessary information, and

the driver left directly from his office.

Yes. Oh, good. Ask him to come in.

Mr. Durant, have you found it?

No, sir, not yet.

Dr. Latimer, this is Inspector Erskine.

How do you do today?

Special Agent Colby. Dr. Latimer.

Please sit down.

Thank you.

Dr. Latimer, I understand that ED4 is a non -flammable oxygen. Is that right?

It's an oxygen supplement, really, but that's close enough.

Has anyone else worked with you on this project?

At any time?

I have a laboratory assistant. His name is Clark.

But you don't think Mr. Clark knew the time and route of the shipment?

Oh, I'm positive he didn't. I didn't know myself till 8 .30 this morning. I

flipped a coin in my office.

What are you saying? There was a choice involved then?

You see, I had two ideas.

Either to go by station wagon through Pasadena or use the camper over the

Angeles Crest Highway.

Clark and I both happen to live in Pasadena. He picks me up, drives me to

every day. At first, we were in favor of the Pasadena idea.

So somebody else knew of the two plans, at least.

Why didn't you tell us about this before, Dr. Letterman?

Mr. Durant, I discussed this with Mr. Clark. He's a close business associate

mine. I consult with him on a great many things. But the fact is, he didn't know

my final decision. Nobody did.

Would they have had to?

Why couldn't hijackers have been posted on both routes?

No, gentlemen, no. It's out of the question. This man wouldn't betray our

country.

Well, some of them are familiar enough to your signature to have copied it

almost exactly.

Well, there's a point in Clark's favor.

You see, I never sign my full name on company communications.

I just sign Latimer.

Simply Latimer.

Do you have a driver's license, Dr. Latimer?

No, I don't drive. Credit cards?

Yes, I... I have one.

How often do you hear this?

Oh, I don't suppose I've signed for anything except

for drink.

Clark and I sometimes stop at a bar on Foster Street after work.

Do you keep the carbon copies of the slips you sign?

Exactly. I leave them there. Anybody could pick them up.

What's the name of this place, Doctor?

It's called the Money Tree.

I'll check it out.

Beg your pardon, Mr. Harmon.

You're going to be interested in buying a couple hundred thousand dollars worth

of insurance.

Hey, Ralphie.

What are you doing down here in the middle of a business day? I'm just

do a little business with an old army buddy.

Oh, man, you got me so overinsured now, Judy starts pricing sports cars every

time I clutch a call.

Hey, what happened to you?

I'm in a little bit of trouble now.

Well, what kind?

A personal fight.

Well, can I call a doctor?

No, no. I don't want you to call a doctor. I was just hoping that maybe

remember your medic days.

Come on, right now. Where's Judy? She's working. Come on.

Just make a phone call and then I'll be off.

Yes, sir.

Hi, is the owner around? That's me.

My name is Colby, Mr... O 'Brien.

FBI.

What's the problem?

Who's on duty here between, say, five and six in the afternoons? I am.

I have a relief man that comes down at seven.

I understand you have a customer who comes in here fairly regularly.

About 5 .30 in the afternoons. His name is Latimer.

Latimer? Yeah, he's about 6 '2", 185 pounds.

Dark hair, wears glasses.

Oh, yes, Mr. Latimer.

I'm sorry, I was thinking about something else.

Yes, I remember him. He comes in with a younger gentleman.

Why?

What's he done?

Well, what booth do they generally sit in?

Booth?

It seems to me they always sit at the bar.

You don't mind if I look around, do you?

Be my guest.

What is it?

It's a transistor microphone.

A bug?

In my place?

Do you recall anyone making any inquiries about Latimer or his friend?

friend's name is Clark.

No. Do any of your regulars ride a motorcycle?

A motorcycle?

No.

Would you mind showing me around the rest of the premises? Well, no.

I don't mind, but...

I've got a very technically oriented lawyer. He always tells me to make sure

there's a search warrant.

I see.

Personally, I think it makes me look kind of guilty, but, you know... Well,

thank you very much, Mr. O 'Brien.

You've been very helpful.

Thank you.

L .A. 40.

Go ahead, Tom.

Well, this is where they could have picked up the information from Latimer,

right. One of the bar tables was bugged.

The owner acted very surprised.

What kind of a device was it?

One of those code green specialies.

Very small, sophisticated.

Fairly wide range, I'd say. Let me know if your visit causes any unusual

activity. I'll have its surveillance set up within 15 minutes.

Right. What do you clear?

L .A. 10.

L .A. 10, go ahead.

How's it look?

Couldn't be quieter.

No code green movement here or at any of their contact points.

All the staff's accounted for.

Stay with it, Brian.

Check. 10 clear.

Yes, but you see, that is not the point, is it?

We understood here that you were going to be a little more subtle about it.

you intended to do away with the car, the body.

Listen, Fisher.

I was losing too much blood. I couldn't waste any more time.

The important thing is that you're alive and have the sample.

We must move more cautiously now.

In my mind, we're going to have to move faster.

The friend I'm with found to have questions sooner or later. I can't keep

stuff here indefinitely.

The picture has changed, Stuart.

If the newspapers know of the crime, then so does the FBI.

You can believe me if I tell you that all my staff and all my messengers and

my contacts are under the closest surveillance by now.

Colonel, you've got me in an impossible position. I've got to see a doctor.

I have contacted our embassy in Washington. They're sending a new man.

hold out for another 48 hours?

Another two days?

I will try to hurry them up. Give me your number.

It's okay, Judy's home.

793 -1299.

Now, listen, I've got to go now.

Just do whatever you can, will you?

Yes, certainly.

Don't worry about it.

Hi, babe.

Hi. What's wrong?

Nothing. Why?

Closed. When did you ever close up the shop before 9 o 'clock?

It was a slow afternoon.

Well, do I look like a gal who's about to have a baby?

About to have a what?

Yeah.

It could happen any minute now.

Maybe tomorrow.

Definitely next week.

The adoption bureau called you, right?

Better than that. They called me over.

They said our papers were in order.

They liked the looks of our bank account.

They asked me if I was ready to start working now, and I said yes.

And they said, well, then, come on in, Mrs. Harmon, and meet your son.

Are you kidding me?

No. Oh, Alan, he's so beautiful.

And so small.

And so...

Cephas? Cephas.

Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

yeah.

You be careful.

Oh, yeah, right.

Yeah, right. Gotta be dignified.

You've got good parents.

Yeah. And don't you forget that.

One small little misstep and we can blow the whole bit.

Well, now, I don't mean we should get up.

Alan?

Ralph's here.

Stuart? Well, that's good. What's the problem?

He's been shot.

Hello, Julie.

Well, shut your mouth.

You know, when I knew I was going to need some help,

this was the first place I thought of.

I knew you two would understand about fighting the establishment.

needing a place to rest when you're tired of running.

Who shot you?

It's okay, babe.

Just wanted to make one phone call.

The car's outside, Ralph.

Take you anywhere you want to go.

I can't go yet. Hell, I can't. I just can't go.

I'm going to need about 48 more hours.

Of course.

Take all the time you want.

Your answer, I don't know. Make a sharp left.

Subject motorcycle proceeding across the North Broadway footbridge.

Intercept east from College Street, west from Pasadena Avenue, and north across

the 6th Street Bridge.

First time in 67, summer.

He came into my place to sell me some insurance.

I told him I didn't need anybody.

Kept it up.

Kept it up.

Has he been informed of his rights?

Yeah, he phoned one of the lawyers who represents the Code Green people here.

They told him they never heard of him.

So apparently he decided that his best bet is to cooperate with us.

He admits that he put the listening device under the table under

from a man he knows only as the Colonel.

Want a question?

Mr. O 'Brien?

This is Inspector Erskine.

How'd you get involved with the Colonel?

Five thousand dollars.

Stewart introduced us.

Are you a member of the Communist Party, Mr. O 'Brien?

No, sir.

I'm not.

Where'd you get the uniform you were carrying?

Stuart's. I don't know where he got it.

Yesterday, a man came in to see me.

He had a pair of denims, a shirt, a jacket he left in my closet.

He said Stuart would need a place to change later.

And this afternoon, Stuart himself showed up.

In a uniform?

In the uniform, on my bike.

The shirt was bloody.

He'd been shot.

How bad was the wound?

Not very deep.

Seemed more painful than serious.

Would he have been able to drive a car?

He didn't have a car.

He always used cabs.

I'll call the cab company.

His ex -steward lived in Bremerton.

Do you know where he stayed when he came to Los Angeles?

He never told me.

But he used to talk about an army friend he had down here.

Do you know his name?

What was Stewart's outfit?

I don't know, but he was in Vietnam.

With his friend?

See what you can find in Army records.

Any code green activity?

Nothing. They couldn't be playing a cooler.

Maybe we can do something about that.

Ask Latimer if he'd mind dropping by the office again, would you, Brian?

Right.

Two days. That's all he needs. Two days. What do you got to do with the Queen of

Sheba? I don't care what you say. Get him out of the tub. And I don't care

whether he hears me or not.

Now, you listen to me, Judy, and you listen good, because I'm not going to

this anymore.

That's my friend out there. He's hurt, and I'm going to help him. You

understand? You're going to help yourself to a lot of trouble. Yeah,

was a lot worse trouble than that outside Saigon. I don't recall him

any questions.

How long are you going to repay this man for saving your life, Al?

All my life, that's how long.

Okay.

It's your debt.

I guess the best help I can give is to hope that whatever he did makes sense.

Because if it doesn't...

You're the one that's going to be split right in two.

Help? I'd be glad to help. What can I do?

Well, our main problem now, Dr. Latimer, is time.

We're fairly sure of who's responsible for the theft.

An army colonel named Fisher was brought into one of the consulates here

recently, and this kind of espionage has been a specialty of Fisher's for 20

years. But I don't think he was ready for the kind of publicity the hijacking

would cause, and I don't think there was time for a transfer to be made.

And now he seems to us to be waiting.

Waiting? Why? Until when?

We're not sure.

Maybe until the wounded man's well enough to travel. Maybe until a new

can be brought in to contact him. Someone unfamiliar to us. There's been a

more activity than usual at Fisher's embassy in Washington.

In any event, if Fisher has decided to stay quiet for a while, it seems obvious

it's time for us to stir him up.

How?

Dr. Latimer, just how stable is TD4?

Well, that's one of its strong points. There's a certain amount of

disintegration, I'd say.

There'd be some over a 10 -year period, but we haven't had any since we've been

handling it.

Is that true of liquid oxygen in general?

No, the opposite. There's always a strong danger of evaporation under

How strong?

Well, let's figure it out. If properly insulated, the average container will

lose roughly, oh, 5 % of its full charge a day.

But this isn't true of TD4.

No, it isn't.

Would it sound reasonable if you said it was true?

I see. You mean if I announced it to the newspapers?

Could you go further?

Could you say, for instance, that you always transport CD4 in temporary

containers so that you're sure it will break down completely in 30 to 36 hours?

Inspector, when you say that you want to shake somebody up, you don't...

Fool around, do you?

Never believe everything you read in the paper.

Yes, yes, of course, Excellency.

I understand.

But at the same time, I do not think that we should all lose our heads.

Excellency, I did not mean to imply that... Yes, Excellency, I agree we

wait. But if you will send the courier to me a little bit earlier, perhaps by

tomorrow night.

Excellency, perhaps you did not understand. The FBI agents are having

men under very close surveillance. It is impossible for me to send someone to

pick it up.

Excellency, I... Yes.

Yes, I understand very well.

Right away.

Goodbye, Excellency.

No, not yet. Why?

Beldomus put out a story. I do not altogether trust it, but the ambassador

and that's what matters.

At any rate, the TD -4 may be unstable.

I have just been ordered to pick it up immediately.

Oh, good.

Not good. I think it is a very dangerous and foolish move.

But there may be one way to have our cake and eat it, too.

Yeah?

How? If you bring it here instead.

Oh, but how am I going to do that? They'll be the same fellows outside.

They don't know who you are.

They will not stop you getting onto the grounds. And once you're in, we have the

sample. And they'll have me.

No, no, no.

Look, how am I going to get out of there?

They follow every American who comes in, you know.

You will leave in a delivery truck. You'll never be seen.

And also, you...

May leave a little richer.

How much?

Ten thousand.

All right.

Come as soon as you can.

We're on our way.

What was that all about?

Where's Al, Judy?

He'll be back in a minute.

Did he take the car?

Yes.

There's a...

Black leather case in that cabinet over the refrigerator.

Get it.

Get it?

Who do you think you are?

Who are you to... I

said get it, Judy.

I got a delivery to make.

No, no. I want a surveillance on everybody.

Anyone seen leaving the consulate from Fisher on down to the gardeners and the

cleaning women?

That's right.

H -A -R -M -O -N.

Right. Thank you.

Cab driver picked up a ferry yesterday afternoon on Foster Street about a block

from the money tree.

He remembers him very well because later he found some blood in the back seat.

Delivered him to 45th and Texarkana.

Is that a resident?

No, it's a business, a TV repair shop. He doesn't remember the name.

I'll take a run out there.

You're looking for a man named Alan Harmon.

Beautiful wife, Al, but she's a trial to deal with.

I had to use this to get her to help me.

Scare her.

Sorry.

Okay.

Now put the gun down.

I will.

And then I'll buy out of your lies, but first I've got to ask you for another

favor.

I want you to drive me downtown.

He... He stole that thing that left the case, Al.

I don't know what it is, but it's important.

It's 2D4, right, Ralph?

Where's the car, Al?

We'll talk about that later. Right now, put that gun down.

I haven't got any more time to talk. This is a total commitment. Now, you're

going to help me, aren't you?

Ralph, maybe you give that stuff back or something.

Maybe I should have just left you in the minefield.

Is that why you picked me up, so you could present me with a bill later?

Oh, come on, you know better than that.

We were different then.

We've changed.

Yeah, I guess you have.

Get off my back, Ralph, right now.

Are you going to drive me downtown?

No.

I already killed one man.

Killing two more is not going to make any difference.

LA -40.

Go ahead, 40.

Madden, with a leather case, is coming out of a shop called Harmon's TV Repair.

He has a gun.

He's apparently holding two people as hostages.

They're getting into a car, and they're now proceeding west on Texarkana.

What's the speed?

Moderate.

Report any change in direction.

Call out a checkpoint every two minutes and don't try to stop them as long as

the hostages are in danger.

Get me L .A. traffic control.

I hear a siren coming up right behind you now.

At this one time, you're going to obey every law in the books.

I can see the speedometer from here, and if it goes over 30 once again, I'm

going to pull the trigger.

All right, turn left at the next block.

Subject's car just turned north on Highland.

Still proceeding moderate speed.

He's heading for the consulate.

Increase your reports to one every 30 seconds.

L .A. traffic control is monitoring.

We'll try to create a tie -up at Wilshire and Highland.

Check. Subject's car is still proceeding moderate speed.

Going north on Highland.

Six blocks to Wilshire.

She's fine. Don't worry about her.

Are you all right, babe?

I'm safe, but it's not because I'm scared.

It's because I'm mad.

Passing Fitzroy, one block to Wilshire.

What's wrong?

Traffic jam.

It might be an accident.

All right.

Back up and go down Fitzroy.

Well?

Go over to the curb and stop.

The consulate's only about a block from here, and Judy will walk with me.

Come by and pick her up after the intersection's cleared.

Everything's going to be all right, Al.

Just so long as you don't call the cops after I get inside.

me go with you if you need a hostage judy can pick me up later you're behind

that wheel stay right where you are now you stop pushing me man i want judy away

from that gun and you do it my way or everything stops right here right now

all right judy get up for it

Code green surveillance for standing by.

Report immediately if subject releases the hostages.

Thank you.

I should have locked the gun up, I guess, but it will never cross my mind

try to use it on my wife and me.

Did you know he was a communist, Mr. Harmon?

Well, I had a good idea.

We used to talk about things in Vietnam, but I don't think he belonged to the

party then.

He didn't.

He apparently joined in 1966.

All right, I guess that does it.

Thank you both very much.

That's all?

That's all.

Thank you.

Oh, except for a note that came in a few moments ago.

The adoption bureau called.

They wondered if you could stop by on your way home for your son.

Ralph Gordon Stewart was convicted of murder in state court and sentenced to

life imprisonment.

James O 'Brien was found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage against

United States government and is now in a federal penitentiary.

Colonel Alexander Fisher was declared persona non grata in this country and

been returned to his homeland.

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