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Canon.

A Quinn Martin production.

Starring William Conrad.

Severe psychosis.

Paranoid schizophrenia.

And you let him run loose? I cannot discuss a patient with you. This patient

yours is hiding somewhere on this base with an M16 rifle. Danvers has been

buying certain chemicals.

What kind of chemicals?

Way beyond LSD.

It's mental conditioning. It's filling his head with wild, ugly things.

With guest stars Simon Scott, William Watson,

Charles Aidman, Alan Bergman,

Quinn Redeker.

Special guest star Peter Mark Richman.

Tonight's episode, Madman.

Okay. Good night, Dr. Danvers.

Have a good evening. Same to you, Sergeant Wilson.

Thank heaven to see Janet Grosvenor.

She is expecting you, sir. Make a right at the corner. It'll be the last house

in the street. Okay.

And, sir, you are expected to stay out of all unauthorized areas.

I was afraid you wouldn't be able to come.

You knew I'd be here.

Yeah, but 20 years is a long time.

Oh, my God, Frank, it's been like a nightmare.

Ben's lost his mind.

Come on.

Come on, take it easy, darling.

How did it all start?

He changed.

I mean, completely.

We've been married for 20 years. I mean, he's always been sweet, gentle.

Oh, God, Frank, you've known him almost as long as I have.

When did this happen?

Well, a couple of weeks ago, he suddenly started having these long fits of

depression, silences.

Then last, no, the day before yesterday, he ran out with a rival and tried to

kill some corporal for no reason.

No reason, Frank.

Now he's disappeared.

Do you have any idea where?

Well, the piece is sealed off.

There sure is somewhere on it. They're hunting him like an animal.

Ray, I'm afraid he'll be killed. Please help me find him. He trusts you. There's

a chance that he'll turn himself in to you. Janet, I'm a private investigator.

Once they find that out, they're not going to even let me back in the gates.

It's army business.

Have you called your father yet?

He says he can't interfere.

Janet, he's a lieutenant general.

But you see, Fort Rayburn isn't just a...

ordinary military post.

It's one huge experimental center. It's a top -secret proving ground for new

weapons and explosives, all kinds of equipment.

Colonel Haggard is in command. He's a very old friend of my father's, and Dad

just doesn't want to pull rank.

But he's going to have to, Janet, or my hands are tied.

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

I want you to talk to your dad right now. Come on.

Right now.

Yes, I'd like to make a long -distance call to the Pentagon.

General Mitchell Stevens.

Yes, I'll wait.

Does Ben have any particular friend I could talk to, somebody who might have

idea where he's holed up?

Yeah, Dr.

Danvers. He's a civilian just like Ben is. Ben's a research scientist. Danvers

is a psychiatrist.

What about you? Do you have any idea where he might be hiding?

Now, he escaped on a motorcycle.

Do you know how big this base is, Frank? 62 square miles.

It could be anywhere.

Well, at least he's a moving target.

I'm responsible for security.

I'm just following my orders.

That means this base is off limits to you.

You cannot see Colonel Haggett. You cannot see Dr. Daniels.

You cannot see anybody.

I assume this is not off limits.

Who are you calling? The Pentagon.

Hello. Yes, I want you to connect me with Lieutenant General Mitch Stevenson

Washington. He's expecting my call.

Yes, it is an emergency.

Tell him it's Frank Cannon.

You really play it tough, Cannon.

Only when I'm stonewalled by somebody whose excuse is I'm just following

Well, I'm going to get you a new set of orders, Captain.

All right, Cannon. Janet called me.

What the devil's going on?

I'm having a little trouble. I want you to talk to a stonewall named Captain

Calvetti.

Frank Cannon.

Yeah, General Stevenson cleared you personally.

Just follow me. I'll take you on over. Thank you.

You multi -security creep.

What?

What's the matter with you, Buck?

Right in here, Mr. Cannon.

Thank you.

I can give you five minutes, Mr. Cannon. What can I do for you?

Help me find Ben Grosvenor. Give me some idea of where he might be hiding.

And I'm afraid there's nothing I can do for you. You're asking me to get inside

the mind of a sick man.

Isn't that your business, doctor?

Not when the patient is unavailable.

You make it sound as if you were treating him.

I was.

We'd just gotten started only three sessions when something drove him over

edge. Isn't that funny? His wife didn't know that he was in therapy.

Mr. Cannon, I've already said more than I should.

You must know, of course, that I cannot discuss the patient with you.

Dr. Danvers, this patient of yours is hiding somewhere on this base with an

rifle. He's already tried to kill once.

I'm aware of that. I was in the car he fired on. Yes, well, I'm trying to stop

anyone else from getting hurt, including Grosvenor. His wife thinks that he may

talk to me.

So if you can tell me anything that will help, I will appreciate it. All right,

Cannon. For Ben's sake, God help him.

This was taped at our last session.

I can't fight it, Paul.

These terrible dreams.

The images, they come streaming, they're storming at me.

And they sweep me up.

I know they're not real. I know it all the time, but I... but I still can't

control my body, my mind. It's like my brain cells are boiling, filling my

being with some explosive force.

What does this explosive force make you do, Ben?

I have to destroy, blast, burn, kill.

Oh, God, help me.

The explosive force is a recurrent theme.

It's his way of describing a long suppressed rage that erupts without

from his subconscious, possibly even his unconscious.

And your diagnosis?

Severe psychosis, paranoid schizophrenia.

And you knew that and you let him run loose?

No, Cannon, I was about to recommend that he be placed in a mental

And then he found out?

That's the only explanation I have of why he tried to kill me.

Dr. Danvers.

Yes, sir.

Right away.

The base commander would like to see you on the parade ground.

Open the tailgate.

I lost his trail again, Rico.

Must have doubled back.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Cannon's here, sir.

I understand you used muscle to force a meeting with Dr. Danvers and with me.

Well, you've seen Dr.

Danvers. Now you've seen me.

In short, Colonel, you're trying to tell me that you don't plan on cooperating

with me at all. You wish that I'd get out of the base, right?

No, just out of the way.

Army criminal investigation will handle this show.

Full report's been sent to headquarters.

Two Asians are standing by to fly out from Washington.

Grosvenor will be handed over to them.

Grosvenor or his body?

That's up to Grosvenor. He'll be given every chance to surrender.

Look, the man is sick, Colonel.

If he starts blasting at me... Maybe you'd like me to tell them that he

really mean it.

Well, on the other hand, if you let them think that they're dealing with a

complete madman, they're going to have nervous trigger fingers, huh?

Look, Colonel, let me at least try to get to him first.

I can't do that, Cannon.

I'm in command of nearly 5 ,000 men and a string of research programs vital to

national security.

I'm a maniac running around loose with a deadly weapon.

There's just one priority here. Colonel Hackett.

Governor just held up a truck.

Got away with a box of explosives.

Let's go.

Explosives.

Look, Doc, I've done my share of overseas duty.

Three tours.

I've been here just five months.

They're transferring me to Germany on 48 hours notice.

I know, Buck. It's tough. Tough?

I just made the dollar payment on a house.

Look, it's out of my hands. You'll have to take it up with Colonel Haggard. I'm

sorry. Sorry?

You could get me out of this if you wanted to on medical grounds.

And dogfaces like us, we're just cases.

Numbers to guys like you. Rotten civilians.

Report!

I said report!

Martinson John Buckley, Master Sergeant.

1331 -0325.

101st MP Detachment.

All right, that's all right, Buck.

You've got yourself completely under control again. No pain, no anger.

And you don't want those images to come back, do you?

No, doctor.

Dreams? No, doctor.

All right, then.

I want you to go. I want you to walk out of here slowly.

Go home and pack your things.

It's all right, Ben.

It's all right.

Let's take it easy. I'm not armed, Ben.

Jack sent me.

Ben, I'm Frank Cannon. Don't you recognize me?

John had sent me.

And I want to help you.

Looks like I got here just in time.

Oh, God help me.

I tried again.

You couldn't get to him in the compound. I figured I might find you here.

Maybe I really am crazy.

Look, Ben.

I want you to come with me.

No.

No.

Danvers will have me locked up. He wants to help you, Ben.

He wants me put away or killed.

Why would he want to do that?

Because of what I found out about Project Achilles. What the hell is

Achilles?

A program of physical conditioning.

At least that's the official description.

There's a lot more to it than that.

Danvers has been buying certain chemicals.

From the same supply house that I use.

They sent me his invoice by mistake.

What kind of chemicals?

Mind -altering.

Advanced.

Way beyond LSD.

I was a fool. I... I went to Danvers.

I asked him about them.

He was very pleasant.

We had coffee together.

He told me that his work was classified.

That's when it all started to happen.

After the coffee, the sudden fits of depression, uncontrollable rages.

He must have dropped something on me.

I guess it was to control me, but what happened instead was...

like a bad trip.

I went out of my skull, and it keeps happening over and over

and over, and each time it does...

Then I have to try to kill him.

The invoice, do you still have it?

It's, uh, it's locked up in my lab, in the safe.

Do you believe me?

Yes, of course I believe you.

Look, why don't you get it for me to prove your case, huh? I tried twice and

almost spotted and killed.

Do you believe me, Cannon? Yes, I believe you. I'm going to check it out,

when you're safe in the hospital.

No, you'll never get in. That lab is sealed.

Well, then I'll unseal it. Now, do you know something?

You could be lying.

You could be working for army investigation.

No, Ben.

No, they don't pay enough.

Listen to me. You're physically exhausted.

You're a scientist. You know hallucinogens can kick on and off for

You know they call it flashback. You'll be lucid one minute, psychotic the next.

Ben, come back with me, please. Let them run some hospital tests on you. If what

you say is true... No!

I gotta think.

Uh... Uh... Uh... The same time tomorrow.

Alone? Alone.

Take the High Lake Road.

High Lake Road.

All right.

Hello?

Janet, I've seen Ben.

They've caught him.

No, I managed to get to him on my own.

Nobody else knows about it.

Where is he, Frank?

Look. Trust me, will you? I need to talk to your father. I've got to get into

Ben's lab. What's your dad's home phone number?

You can't reach him now. I don't know what you said to him, but he's on his

Then I'll just have to wait, I guess.

Meanwhile, I need just one thing from you, a name.

Who was the corporal who got shot?

Powell. Yeah, Corporal Ted Powell.

Okay, thanks very much.

Hello, miss.

I'd like to see Corporal Ted Powell, please.

May I have your name, sir? Yes, Cannon, Frank Cannon.

Dr. Danvers tells me he's doing just fine.

That's room 106.

106, down this way.

Thank you.

It's the drive of the general when he had this command.

He really sent you here?

I'm here on this authority, Corporal. A friend of his daughter, Janet Grosvenor.

Have they caught Mr. Grosvenor?

No, not yet.

Poor guy.

What do you suppose could have made a nice, quiet guy like Grosvenor suddenly

ape? Well, I'd like to find out.

Maybe you can help me.

Me? Hey, didn't they tell you? I'm just the driver in the motorboat.

But you have a special clearance, access to the security compound, right? So?

You ever been near something called Project Achilles?

Why do you ask?

Now, Danvers runs it, and Grosvenor was trying to kill him.

I was just looking for a connection.

Hey, back off. That stuff isn't just classified.

For guys like me, it's not even supposed to exist.

Well, it does exist.

And something about it may have almost gotten you killed.

You tell me what you know about it, and I'll give you my word the only one I'll

quote you to is General Stevenson.

He's your protection, and right now, for all you know, you may need it.

Okay.

It's a spooky setup.

The guys who volunteer take some special oath.

They get full combat pay, but they don't get to spend none of it, because

they're confined in that compound.

So, when they come out, some of them must talk about it, huh? They get

transferred, shipped out within 48 hours.

None of them can remember anything.

And if they do, the rumor is the next thing that happens, they get slugged

hospitals on Dr. Danvers' recommendation.

Every one of them? Even top sergeants.

Buck Martinson got his orders yesterday.

Martinson, huh?

Okay, careful. Let's go.

Oh, come on, beautiful.

Not no lousy test.

Like I'm a pincushion, you know.

Oh, this won't take long.

Nurse, do you mind if I wait here?

Sure. Why not? Thank you.

taking something out today or putting something in.

Oh, what the heck. Just give me your best shot, huh?

What's the matter with it?

Relax. You're going back into shock.

I'm Frank Cannon. We saw each other this morning at Dr. Danvers' office.

I remember.

You came in with Brad Wilson.

Right. What do you want?

Well, to talk about your transfer, I just might be able to help.

You better hurry it up.

I fly out tomorrow noon.

Stuka!

No? Who signed the order?

Ryder.

Colonel Haggard.

Hey, you must be new around here.

Oh, just visiting.

What's your branch?

I'm an investigator.

Who for?

I'll be reporting to General Stevenson.

What about?

Well, among other things, why every man who volunteers for Project Achilles gets

shipped out immediately afterwards.

For security reasons.

That's what they tell you when you volunteer.

Only I didn't volunteer.

You mean they ordered you to be a guinea pig?

Forget it. I've got enough trouble.

My wife's going to her mother's.

She won't come to Germany with me.

She wants to hear on her own.

I just bought a house in town.

I might have a tough time selling that in Stuttgart, don't I? That's a raw

Buck.

And you say you didn't volunteer.

I found this house in town.

I needed two grand down.

I was a few hundred short.

About a few hundred.

From the sergeant's mess account.

And he got caught.

Colonel Haggard gave me a straight option.

Court martial or Project Achilles.

And you chose to be a guinea pig being experimented on with drugs?

It's mental conditioning.

It's confusing a man.

It's filling his head with wild, ugly things.

Until he doesn't know what's real and what's just a crazy dream.

is forcing his face down into all the muck of his life, making him remember,

making him talk, talk, talk his whole life out.

Well, it's over now, Buck.

Oh, no.

The dreams come even now.

I get all worked up.

I go to pieces over nothing at all. I have no control over myself.

Listen, pal.

I've been in two wars, and I've never been as scared as I am right now.

Janet, you understand that I'm not here in any official capacity.

Just as a father on a private visit.

I need your help, General.

I've already told Janet that in my view, Roy Haggard is handling the situation

correctly in the best interest of the service.

I'm not interested in the service, Daddy. I want Ben home.

Janet, Ben is ill.

He's a danger to himself as well as others.

Look, General, he's dangerous because of what he knows. I think he's been

drugged. What are you saying?

What do you know about Project Achilles?

Well, it's top secret.

Well, as a matter of fact, I don't know anything about it. Well, I think it

should be investigated immediately.

Well, for what reason? Because the director, Dr. Paul Danvers, is

unauthorized experiments involving dangerous hallucinogenic drugs.

Do you have evidence, Cannon? I know where to find it if it hasn't been

destroyed. But right now, General, please have Washington run an in -depth

on Danvers.

Second, put a hold on a reassignment order for a top sergeant named

Buck Martinson.

All right, Cannon.

I'll stick my neck out.

But if you make a mistake, the head that'll be chopped off is yours.

General, this is my command.

If you don't think I can hack it, ask Washington to replace me. Take it easy,

Roy. I'm only asking for your cooperation.

If Grosvenor wasn't your son -in -law, if he was just some G .I. who had gone

berserk, would you be here now?

Roy, I'm asking for a personal favor off the record.

Mitch, if I thought you were trying to pull rank on me and take over this

operation, I want you to know I'd go right to Army headquarters.

If I were in your shoes, I'd probably do the same thing.

But in view of what Cannon has told me, I'd like to talk to this Martinson.

Fine. As it happens, he's asked to see me.

He's here now.

Sergeant.

How do you do,

Sergeant?

What can I do for you?

Colonel, sir, it's about my transfer.

What about it?

It's been canceled.

Canceled? By whom?

I don't know, sir.

I'd like it reinstated.

All right.

I'll look into it.

Buck, I think you know these two gentlemen.

General Stevenson.

Served under you in the Americal Division, sir. Glad to see you,

And, uh, Mr. Cannon.

I don't believe so, sir.

Let me ask you this, Sergeant.

What are you going to do about your house?

My house, sir?

It's being rented out.

An agency is handling it.

What does your wife think about that?

My wife and I are separated, sir.

That's why I applied for an overseas assignment.

I want to get away.

You applied?

Sergeant, tell me what you know about Project Achilles.

Project Achilles is a program of physical conditioning, sir.

Go on.

That's all I can say, General. Top security.

I see.

Are you sure that you've not seen Mr. Kennan before now?

Not that I recall, sir.

All right, Sergeant. I'll authorize your order of transfer.

Thank you, sir.

That'll be all, Sergeant.

Good luck.

Well, Roy, I think we've taken up enough of your time.

General.

I don't know what Cannon's told you, but if you're still not satisfied, I'll be

happy to call in Paul Danvers, Martinson's doctor.

He'll be able to give you a full medical background on a program.

I think this whole thing has gone far enough.

Good day, Roy.

I know how it must look for you, General.

I suppose now you're going to ask me to quit.

I'm not a fool, Cannon.

For me to buy Martins a story, I'd have to tag you as some kind of pathological

liar.

There's something very strange about Martins. The sound of his voice, the way

his eyes look. He's been programmed, all right. My guess is he's been

psychologically conditioned with the use of drugs.

Evidence, Cannon. Where's your evidence?

Look, General, I'm going to ask you to open the door for me, and it's going to

take all the clouds you've got.

General, I'm sorry. I've got my orders.

No one's allowed inside that room until Army criminal investigation gets here.

Sergeant, do you know me?

Yes, sir. You've checked my ID and you've got my name in that logbook?

Yes, sir. Everything's as it should be?

Yes, sir. Now, Sergeant, I don't know who gave you that order, but unless he

outranks me, I'm going to countermand it, and right now.

Sergeant Wilson, unlock this door.

Begging the General's pardon, sir. Sergeant, the reason you were given that

order is that everything in this lab is top security eyes only.

Now, as senior officer present, I'm taking the responsibility.

You have no choice.

Open the door.

All right, gentlemen.

All right, Frank, what are we looking for?

The evidence you wanted.

A certain invoice that can put a rocket under Project Achilles and blast Danvers

right out of existence.

It's probably in there.

I haven't seen one of those in a long time. That's an old baby.

Well, maybe I can do it.

Refer to my old Jimmy Valentine training.

There's one.

Look, I can call security.

No, that's SOP.

And the first person who'll show up is Dr. Danvers. Let's forget regulations

once.

That's two.

You never did like the Army, did you, Frank?

Maybe that's why I never wanted you for a son -in -law. There's one thing I'll

give you, though. The Army liked you.

You did a real job for G2.

That's number three.

Soap.

That's it.

Okay, invoices, invoices.

The invoice.

Yeah. Delivery that was billed to Dr. Danvers, but sent here in error.

Including all the basic ingredients for preparing lysergic acid diethylamide.

Plus a few I don't recognize.

Refinements, no doubt.

I think you're right.

There's something strange going on in this space.

When the Army stopped experiments in mind -altering drugs in 1970.

Yeah, after a number of tragic incidents.

Well, now do you have grounds, General?

You bet. This is it.

Okay. May I?

Sergeant, we're going to remove this.

It's number 14261.

We're removing this and nothing else, and you're a witness, all right?

You make a note of it.

I have to see Colonel Haggard right away.

I'm sorry, Doctor. He's not here right now.

Yes, this is Colonel Haggard's office. Where can I find him?

They're out at the firing range testing their new rocket gun. Thank you,

Captain.

Yes, General Stevenson. Where's Haggard?

Oh, thanks.

Let's go, Frank.

A high degree of accuracy.

Fleet penetration.

Colonel?

Dr. Danvers is at the checkpoint.

He wants to talk with you. He says it's urgent.

Want to let him through?

Well, I suppose so, but I'm going out to the target area to take a closer look

at that target.

Why don't I just hold him here till you get back?

Wait a second, Sergeant.

All right, send him on out. We can talk there.

It'll save time.

All right, sir.

He asked me to send John down.

He's to be shot on sight!

That's an order!

I parked here.

Then I started walking toward the bank. He jumped out of the bushes.

Who did, Colonel?

Grobner. Yeah? You saw him, you're sure?

Of course I'm sure.

He was more than 30 feet away.

Then, uh, I dived back behind a jeep, and, uh, that's when he opened up.

And then? Then he must have spotted dandruff coming across the range, and he

turned his gun on him.

Excuse me.

Who approved Danvers' appointment as director of Project Achilles?

Well, Roy Haggard.

They've been friends for a long time.

It seems to me I remember that Roy was his patient.

We've got him spotted.

100 yards east of Millbourne Creek.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Keep him in sight.

Whose patrol was nearest there?

Sergeant Wilson, sir.

All right, get word to him.

I want Grosvenor terminated before he can hurt anyone else. But, sir, I don't

think... Captain, that's an order. Yes, sir.

Well, is he ready to see me yet? I've been waiting for 20 minutes.

I can't talk to you now, sir. I've got to get to communications before somebody

gets killed.

We've got Grosvenor trapped.

Where? Millbourne Creek.

You got him trapped in there, Sergeant?

Well, he finally ran out of gas.

Yeah, well, pretty soon he's going to run out of ammunition.

Why don't you just pull back and wait, huh?

No, no, Colonel doesn't want to take that chance. We got to get him this

One way or the other, huh?

Look, all he has to do is lay down in there and play possum.

As soon as we close in on him, he jumps up and blasts everybody.

No thanks.

Listen, Sergeant, the man is sick. Let me just talk to him, will you?

Mr. Cannon, you do not have any authority here. I'm sure you don't...

General Stevenson does. Give him a call. He's at Grubner's house. They'll patch

you through. Please.

Hold your fire.

Just hold your fire.

This might take a few minutes.

Okay?

Thanks, Sergeant.

All right, green three to base. Base!

Thank you for writing!

Come on, you're going to be all right.

Come on up.

Everything's going to be all right. Come on.

Everything's going to be fine.

Take my hand.

Put those things down. You're not going to need them. Put them down.

Okay,

he goes to the base hospital. Isolation section.

Colonel's orders.

I told you to contact General Stevenson.

I did that.

He told me to stay with the prisoner personally.

Okay. Come on.

Everything's going to be all right.

Frank, are you absolutely sure?

That is the only possible explanation, General.

Look, can you meet me in Dr.

Danvers' office as soon as possible?

I'll see you there in five minutes.

God help you if you're wrong.

Colonel? Sergeant Wilson, you allowed Cannon, a civilian, to risk his life

against my explicit instructions.

Well, we got him out alive, Colonel.

If he hadn't, Sergeant, you would have faced a general court -martial. You're a

very lucky man.

You're dismissed, all of you.

I'll take charge of him.

Colonel, with due respect, sir, I'm under direct orders from General

I cannot leave the prisoner.

What the hell is going on?

Well, the General should be here now, sir. I'm in command here.

Now, I'm taking Grosvenor to the guardhouse for an interrogation.

Sergeant, you're dismissed.

Get up.

No.

No, I'm not going.

I'm sorry, Colonel.

I'll leave this prisoner now. Sir General is going to court -martial me.

And just where is General Stevenson?

As I understand it, sir, he's meeting with Mr. Cannon in Dr. Danvers' office.

When he was alive, sir, Dr.

Danvers was the only one allowed to have this key. Well, he's not alive any

longer, and you received instructions from General Stevenson, did you not?

Yes, sir. You are clear, sir.

If you'll follow me.

Never mind. I know the way. Thank you very much.

But you and I know that no man can hold out against such treatment, don't we,

Colonel?

Oh, I tried, Paul. God knows I tried.

They use some kind of hallucinogenic.

Crude, but over a period totally irresistible.

I told the enemy everything I knew. Everything.

I betrayed my country.

set up a research project.

You and I will work together.

Develop a range of drugs so devastating to the human personality that the very

word interrogation will become obsolete.

In future, no captured enemy of the United States will be able to withhold

information in his possession.

Yes.

Yes.

That'd make up for my failure.

I'll give the army a new weapon.

A mind bomb.

Some gift to humanity.

I'll take that tape.

Danvers Insurance.

In case you ever came to your senses and changed your mind. He'd go to jail, but

you would be branded as a traitor.

You should have come for it sooner and destroyed it, Colonel.

I'll destroy it now.

And you too, Cannon.

There are men in the Pentagon.

And in the cabinet, who will understand, who will see what I've given my

country.

I don't think so, Colonel.

Give me that tape, or I'll take it off your court.

Corporal.

Where's Mr. Cannon?

In Dr. Danvers' office, sir, with Colonel Haggard.

Haggard?

Follow me, Corporal.

You killed Danvers because we were closing in and he was a threat to you.

Grosvenor killed him. No.

Grosvenor knew you'd be at the range for the tests.

He thought he might catch you there alone. He wanted to tell you about

and then give himself up.

Grosvenor saw you kill Danvers.

He told me what happened after I talked him into surrendering.

Nobody's going to believe a madman. They will when they examine the damage to

your jeep, Colonel.

It was hit from very close range, not 30 feet as you said.

It carries an M16 exactly like the one Grosvenor stole.

When I got there, the rifle was back in its clips.

But though all that sight had been blasted, the rifle didn't have a mark on

Why? Because you took it out of its clips and fired it at your own jeep to

yourself an alibi.

I'll get rid of the jeep.

I'll take the tape.

The tape is the one thing that can help you now.

Prove why you killed Andrews.

Because he was exerting control over you, exploiting your feelings of guilt.

Your terrible fear of those drugs.

You have five seconds.

All right, Colonel.

But you know, I don't think you'd really mind being convicted of two murders.

All you care about right now is what I'm holding here in my hand.

Well, this certainly isn't going to help our image.

Yeah.

One more cover -up that doesn't work.

And we can thank God for that.

Buchanan, I know I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

You would have made one hell of a soldier.

General, I was one hell of a soldier.

Ah, Janice.

Ben. Oh, Frank.

You don't mind, do you? Well, just this once.

So long, Bill.

Hey,

Frank. Yeah?

We haven't even discussed your bill.

I tell you what. You send me pictures, you send me letters, but you send me one

nickel, and neither of you will ever hear from me again as long as you live.

understand? Okay.

Take care of each other.

So long, Bill. Bye.

Bye -bye.