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Barnaby Jones, a Quinn Martin production.

Starring Buddy Ebsen.

Also starring Lee Merriweather.

Mark Shera.

With guest stars Roger Perry.

Charles Pfeiffer.

With special guest star Michael Hershoway.

Tonight's episode, Child of Danger.

Come on, what's taking you so long? You don't want me to drop this stuff, do

you? Okay, just one more load.

Jimmy.

Deep down, you know this job doesn't stand one chance in hell if we're

Jimmy, you gotta listen to me. With our records, the next time they'll throw

away the key.

I'm sick of your noise and your whining.

Now you either shut up now or I'm gonna dump you right here.

Oh, Jimmy, take it easy.

I warned you he'd try something.

Yeah, let's just get out of here.

Dad?

Back to sleep, Charlie. It's okay.

We're just clearing out of here.

Where's Uncle Jimmy?

Um, we decided not to go into business together.

So we took off.

His friend, too?

Yeah.

We won't see any more of them.

Now, come on.

Get back in the sack.

I'm glad it's just the two of us, Dad.

So my Charlie I'll be in the morning

Oh,

can you fellas get that I know nevermind I'll get Barnaby

Jones of applications may I help you?

Yes, I'd like to speak to Betty... Well, I think her name's Jones now.

You're right.

This is she. It is?

Doesn't sound like her.

Oh, really?

How is Betty Jones supposed to sound?

Like someone who'd know about the Mumbo Jumbo Pizza Palace?

Don Hopkins, is this really you?

Well, the princess does remember the frog.

Don Hopkins.

Good grief. Do you realize how long it's been since I've said that name?

Yeah, it's too long.

We have a lot of catching up to do, lady.

Are you here in Los Angeles?

Well, it's just a stopover.

What are you doing for lunch?

I think I'm meeting you.

Just tell me where and when.

Well, there's a restaurant near the office here.

Cromwell's. It's on 7th.

About half an hour?

Lady, you just made my day.

Oh, and...

Be sure and wear what I always adored on you.

What's that?

Your lovely face.

Goodbye.

Now that is a faraway look if I ever saw one.

I just heard a voice that I thought I'd never hear from again, that's all.

Ah, Mr. Wright returns.

Oh, no.

Don Hopkins was never Mr. Right.

Oh, we dated a couple times in college. We were friends, but he was a little too

far out for me.

He could make me laugh.

Campus kook.

Sounds familiar.

Listen, we're going to have lunch, so if you two will tell me what you want from

the deli, I'll be happy to get it for you before I leave.

No, no, just have your reunion.

Look it along.

Worth more than $3 ,000.

Look, I'll tell you what I'll do.

If I don't make it back by the end of the month, it's yours.

If I do, you get your $3 ,000 back plus $500 interest.

What, you fall out of a tree or something? It's a piece of junk. Oh,

Vin.

All those months in that crummy cell.

We always said, whichever one of us needed a friend, all right.

I need one.

Okay, okay, okay. But what's the rush?

It's a deal I got in Utah. It's a strip mine operation with a...

Guarantee of a payback in a couple of weeks. Now, I need the money to buy in.

Swear you'll be back?

I'm leaving you my camper.

Come on, Vince. How about it?

Okay, I'm gonna need a couple hours to raise that kind of bread. Sure, sure.

One more thing.

Don't tell anybody I'm in town, okay?

Why should I?

All right.

Two hours, right here.

Don't forget the pink slip.

Where are we going?

I want you to meet a lady.

Another friend who worked with you in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi.

Saudi Arabia.

No, she's a friend I've known since college.

As a matter of fact, you're going to like this one.

You know, Charlie, I get the idea that perhaps your father doesn't feed you

often.

Sorry.

I never talk with my mouth full.

Well,

Don, you told me all about your geological work and all the exotic

get to go to. What about you and your family?

You're looking at it.

Well, there was something I didn't tell you before.

Charlie's mother passed away about a year ago.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Well, it was kind of rough, especially for Charlie.

I was on a project in Saudi Arabia.

Didn't hear about it until a few months later.

They said they sent word, but they didn't.

That's terrible.

And we both miss you quite a bit, don't we, Charlie?

Yeah.

Little guy.

He's still not used to me yet.

You see, because the dumb authorities never reached me, they put Charlie

a game of musical foster homes for the past year until we finally caught up

each other.

And so now you're making up for lost time.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm looking for a job.

State side this time, so we won't have to be apart anymore.

Oh, that's nice.

Have any prospects?

Yeah, yeah.

A couple of possibilities.

As a matter of fact, if you guys will excuse me, I'll go make a phone call

just might solve all my problems.

I, uh... I want you two to get to know each other.

All right, Charlie.

What should we talk about?

Whatever turns you on.

All right.

Let's talk about you.

Waiter?

Yes, sir.

This is for my tab for my table, and the rest is for you. Oh, thank you, sir.

Hey, Hopkins, over here.

Did you get the money?

Oh, it's great.

Um, Vince, after we finish our business, would you do me a favor?

Would you take this note over to the Cromwell restaurant and give it to my

He's waiting there with the lady.

It's very important to me.

Pete! Hopkins.

Oh, it's a nice sunny day. Relax.

Smell the pretty flowers? We decided to give you a second chance, boy.

Yeah, no questions asked. I don't want a second chance. I didn't want it in the

first place. But we need you.

Reynolds, your plan is no good.

Sure it is. Don, now that you're with us again, see, old buddy, you really don't

have a choice here unless you're tired of living.

Okay.

Okay.

Atta boy. You did the right thing.

Hey, Vince, don't forget to give that note to my son, please.

Sure, don't worry.

Let me see it.

It's just a note he wrote to us, kid.

I said I want to see it.

Well, nobody fitting Hopkins' description has been hospitalized or

since noon.

That's a relief.

Except what do we do now?

You said he just returned from Saudi Arabia where he had a two -year job as a

geologist. And he was checking into a new job.

It certainly doesn't make sense that any job could be that immediate that he

couldn't even say goodbye.

Well, it's been about an hour since I called missing persons.

Oh, no, Barnaby, it's late. And you know Friday night traffic. You and J .R. go

on home.

I'll stay.

I have a better idea.

Why don't you call the exchange?

Tell him to give Don your number when he calls.

Oh, good. Then Charlie could stay with me until... until we hear from him.

I'll call for you. Go on home.

All right, thanks.

We'll be in touch.

Get him a war firm, right?

Charlie, sometimes business deals can be very complicated.

People talk.

Time passes.

I'm sure your father will contact us as soon as possible.

And if he doesn't, what happens then?

Well, I'll tell you what's going to happen now.

You are going to come home with me.

And your dad can pick you up there, okay?

It's okay.

You don't have to bother.

But... Charlie, it's no bother.

What are you doing?

Because your father's an old friend of mine, and you're a new one.

Right on the mark.

It's 335 feet from the rear of the building to the first window facing the

vault. Let me see the map again.

It's a waste of time.

Well, maybe if we did a little more calculating before the San Diego job, we

wouldn't have messed it up.

Oh, well, all we needed was your little old secret weapon right here.

Look, I did time for passing bad checks. It's not exactly like busting open a

vault. Well, there's a first time for everything.

All that demolitions experience you got in Nam, you could be the top soup man in

the business.

I don't like your business.

Besides, I have a son to think about.

All right.

This one job could take care of the both of you for life.

It's time to get something to eat and then get ready. We're going to 10 o

when everything's nice and quiet.

We interrupt this program for a very important news bullet.

Huh?

Dateline Betty Jones' apartment.

A very reliable source reports that Charlie Hawkins is having trouble

awake. Who says?

I do.

And as it's my apartment, I get to make all the rules.

You're not fair.

Oh, I'm not, huh? I'll tell you how it ends in the morning.

I've seen it five times.

There we go.

That is a nice, cozy bed.

Well, Dad says to be nice, too.

Wait a minute.

Wait. Out, out.

Don't you usually take off your clothes before you go to bed?

Not in the sleeping bag.

This isn't a sleeping bag.

All right.

Don't look till I tell you.

All right, now.

Okay. Betty?

Yeah?

How come you don't have kids of your own?

Well, I was married once to a wonderful man. Same with Hal.

We wanted children.

Lots of them. But he was... Well, he died.

So it just didn't happen.

Do you miss him?

I guess missing people is just something God get used to.

It's easier when you have good memories.

Betty?

Good night.

Good night, Charlie.

Okay, let's go.

Okay, Jimmy.

This way.

You stay close and follow me.

about here.

Come on, Hopkins.

You're going to get your hands dirty.

I'm the specialist, remember?

You just break through the wall. I'll take care of the charge.

Besides, I have equipment to check out.

Dynamite caps, wiring.

Okay, sucker.

You asked for it. Now, Jimmy, don't. We need him.

Understand? We need him.

I see.

Well, thank you.

Anything?

Lieutenant Biddle just told me one place we could stop looking.

Saudi Arabia.

Or any other foreign country that Hopkins says he worked in the last

years. You mean he wasn't drilling for oil?

Unless they discovered it in San Quentin.

Oh, Barnaby.

It's only been out a few weeks.

What was the rap?

Bad chicks.

Well, at least we know the real reason why he couldn't come back to get Charlie

after his mother died.

This guy's an ex -con, and maybe he's mixed up in something again.

That's possible.

What?

Maybe Charlie's got some ideas that could help us. Good idea. Let me get

Charlie.

He's gone.

Charlie. Charlie. Come on. Come on.

I promise you that we're going to find your dad.

You hear me?

Charlie?

I give you my word, but you have to trust us.

Please, Charlie.

We are your friends.

Disappointments of your father's. What kind of business?

That geology stuff, I think.

I'm mostly waiting in the camp while they talked.

Well, who talked?

Uncle Jimmy and another man.

I don't remember his name.

They want him to go into another oil deal?

Guess so.

Well, what did your father say to that?

He didn't want to do it.

So then did the men go away?

Two nights ago.

Didn't you ever see them again?

Dad said Uncle Jimmy was gone for good.

Him and his grouchy friend.

Good work, Mr. Detective. Now, why don't you go check out the lab?

See if there's any more cookies in there.

Jedediah and I will take a run down to headquarters, see what else we can dig

on Hopkins.

Yeah, see if we can get some kind of a make on Uncle Jimmy and his grouchy

friend. And I'll take Charlie to lunch. I happen to know there is not another

cookie on the entire floor.

Oh, I wouldn't say that, Cupcake.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, that'd be better.

All right, specialist, do your stuff.

I already know what I want. A double bingo burger and a super bingo

Listen, I'm on a limited budget.

Charlie, have you been here before?

No, but Dad and I stopped in the same kind of place two days ago.

But it wasn't this place.

No, it was right near the ice company where Dad and Uncle Jimmy went to see

about some night work.

Ice company? You mean where they make blocks of ice and ice cubes?

I don't know. The sign said, I...

C -E.

Doesn't that spell ice?

It sure does.

I wonder what they were doing there.

Getting a job, I guess.

Honey, can you remember anything about the building?

I mean, was it a big building?

Yeah, kind of.

Can you remember anything else?

I mean, did they have smoke stacks?

Was there a parking lot? Did they have... It was a big parking lot, but

cars in it, though.

Just big orange machines, you know, the kind they use when they're going to

build streets and stuff.

Earth -moving machines.

A construction company. Was that it?

Yeah, I think so.

I'll be right back.

Where are you going?

That phone booth right over there.

Does the International Construction and Engineering Company sound familiar to

you? Yeah.

I think.

All right, that's it.

Better get someplace safe.

Yeah, well, we go where you go.

All right, all right.

Need to pray somebody driving by will hear the blast.

Yeah, well, we'll take our chances on that.

Yeah, this is the place.

Hi. Hi there. Can I help you folks?

Oh, well, I hope so. I'd really like to talk to your director of personnel.

We're trying to locate a couple of friends of ours who applied for a job

couple of nights ago. I was hoping maybe I'd get an address off of one of the

applications. Night, did you say?

Yes, Thursday night.

You got the wrong yard, ma 'am. This place closes promptly at 5 o 'clock

day. And it sure couldn't have been Thursday night, because that was the

of the robbery.

Gee, what robbery?

Oh, some thieves. They broke into the warehouse.

Three of them, they said.

They stole some digging tools and some dynamite.

Well, I'm sure it wasn't done by any of my friends.

I'm sorry to have bothered you. Thank you very much.

That's quite all right.

Oh, would it be all right if I use your phone?

Sure. Help yourself.

Thanks a lot. You're welcome.

Dad wouldn't have stolen those things.

Of course not, honey.

Maybe that's what happened.

Maybe he saw the robbers.

Yeah. Maybe that's just what happened.

There's a call for you, Mr. Jones. The second line.

Oh, thank you very much.

When does Lieutenant Biddle come back?

Oh, when he's called to the inspector's office.

Sometimes we don't see him for weeks.

Well, when you talk to him, tell him thanks for the courtesy.

Barnaby Young.

Thank heavens I found you, Barnaby.

I think I pinpointed one of those business appointments Don and his

Yeah, where?

I think they broke into a construction yard out here in Burbank a couple of

nights ago.

Stole some digging tools and dynamite.

Does that make any sense to you?

It does when you put it next to something Jedediah just dug up about

Seems he was a demolition expert in the army.

His last cellmate at San Quentin was a bank robber named Jimmy Dorsett.

Uncle Jimmy.

Yeah, could be.

Dorsett and another ex -con are the prime suspects in an attempted bank

in San Diego a couple of weeks ago.

They used too much explosive and botched the job.

Oh, no.

Don's with them, and it could mean they're planning another bank robbery.

Yeah, it could be.

Uh, Judge Dyer and I are finished here. We'll see you back at the office.

All right, we'll see you there later.

You said that other drive -in was near here. Do you think your tummy might be

able to find its way there?

I suppose you told the police you think my dad's a robber.

Honey, I was just talking to Barnaby.

I suppose you told him.

Only that maybe, just maybe, your father's mixed up with some very bad

And we think it's very important that we find him as soon as possible for his

own good.

Will you help?

Charlie, did, um, has Uncle Jimmy ever mentioned anything about a bank?

No, he never talked about that.

But he took me to this coin place once.

And he took me up to this lady and asked her a lot of questions.

About what?

He said he was going to buy coins for me, but he never did.

You wouldn't by any chance remember the name of the coin place, would you?

No.

Was it near you or far away?

I think it was around here somewhere.

I remember we passed here.

Do you think he could find it?

Yeah. Let's drive around and see if he can.

Why?

How's finding a dumb coin place going to help us find my dad?

Well, I'll tell you, Charlie, that's the battle with the detective business,

finding clues.

And once you find one clue, it always leads to another clue.

Give me the pad.

We're going to be rich.

That's the place.

I remember it now.

All right, Charlie.

I want you to stay here, and I'll be right back.

Why can't I go with you?

Please do, just as I say.

Did you find anything?

Not a thing. I'm going to have to make another phone call.

Betty? Uh -huh?

If you found my dad and those men here, does it mean they were robbing that

place?

No, honey, not necessarily.

But Dad said he didn't want to be in business with them.

Charlie, do you think your father was afraid of them?

Yeah, I think so.

Maybe they're forcing him.

What?

Oh, nothing, honey.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. There's no one there.

Listen, while I make a call into the office, I want you to order us three

bangos and a couple of shakes, okay?

Barnaby Jones, Investigations.

Barnaby, this is Betty.

Betty, where are you? I thought you were coming back here.

I'm at the Parker's Coin Exchange on Fairlawn Drive.

What are you doing there?

Well, I'm very much afraid. I've found the place that Charlie says his father

and Uncle Jimmy were very much interested in.

Are they around there anywhere?

No, I checked the back and the front. It's deserted.

They're closed on weekends.

If this is the place, I'm quite sure they haven't broken in yet.

I'd go along with that except for one thing.

The equipment you said they stole.

It was not for breaking in. It was for digging.

Oh, Barnaby, I bet you're right.

You and Charlie stay out of sight. We'll be right over.

Come on, let's go.

That's Pete!

Why don't we take a break?

Why don't we get out?

The longer we stay here, the better the chances are of us getting caught.

Who's going to catch us? Nobody knows we're here.

I keep thinking we might have tripped one of those belongings.

Nah, then they'd have been here a long time ago.

Well, maybe they are, and we don't know it.

There could be a dozen cops just outside that door waiting for the manager to

come down and open up the vault.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Uh, excuse me, sir.

Did you see a little boy about so high?

I didn't see anybody.

But you had to.

I sent him over here to order three triple bangles and a couple of shakes.

had a striped T -shirt.

Lady. I said I didn't see him.

Now, what do you want on your hamburger?

Oh, no, I don't want any hamburgers.

Charlie?

That's it. We got enough. Let's go.

Are you crazy?

Look at all those. There could be millions in there. I don't care.

We're not pushing our luck.

Let's go.

Okay.

Okay.

Hey, Daylight, don't forget the helmet.

Charlie's disappeared. I can't find him anywhere.

Where'd you see him last?

Over there.

I'm going to look over here.

Okay, move it.

Yeah!

Charlie. You were robbing that place, weren't you?

What's going on? What the hell is he doing here? I know you robbed it. I

How did you get here? With Ben.

We can use the kid. We'll take him.

You don't touch him. Shut up.

Crazy objects.

Charlie, get out of here! Charlie! Charlie, get out of here!

I'll get an ambulance.

Are you all right?

It's okay, Charlie.

It's okay.

Are you going

back to jail now?

Looks like I might not have to.

Yeah, Barnaby's working on it, Charlie.

That's right, Charlie. Those two men confessed that they forced your father

help them.

And he may get a suspended sentence.

And you two can pick up just where you left off.

And, Charlie, I'm never going to leave you again.

I've never said that before.

But I mean it.

Sure, Dad.

Well, you two have a lot to catch up with.

We'll be moving along.

Good luck.

Thanks again.

Bye.

We'll miss you, Charlie.

Will you send me a postcard now, Matt?

I know everything's going to be just great for you now.

You and your dad are going to have a super life together.

That is, if he doesn't decide to leave again.

Oh, honey.

That's what's been bothering you, isn't it?

Well, don't you give that another thought.

Because something very special happened out on that street today.

I'd give anything if I could explain it to you.

Your father offered his life for you.

You can't love anyone any more than that.

Don't forget those postcards.

Mommy.

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