1 00:01:28,001 --> 00:01:30,799 Tuesday, 11:15 p. m. 2 00:01:30,871 --> 00:01:32,805 If you know anything about Chicago politics, 3 00:01:32,873 --> 00:01:36,036 you'll understand why a 63-year-old ward captain... 4 00:01:36,109 --> 00:01:40,102 was braving the ungentle hour and the less-gentle streets. 5 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:44,810 You see, Ward Captain LeoJ. Ramutka was returning home from a wake- 6 00:01:44,885 --> 00:01:47,877 an auf Wiedersehen to a loyal registered voter... 7 00:01:47,954 --> 00:01:52,482 he knew would one day meet him in that great polling station in the sky. 8 00:01:52,559 --> 00:01:54,720 What Ward Captain Ramutka failed to foresee... 9 00:01:54,795 --> 00:01:57,821 was just how soon that meeting would be. 10 00:01:57,898 --> 00:02:00,230 No! 11 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:01,961 No! No! 12 00:02:39,773 --> 00:02:42,674 Roger, David-Niner. Your request is a roger. 13 00:02:43,677 --> 00:02:47,135 Coroner's unit at 113 Petrosky, North Side. 14 00:02:47,214 --> 00:02:49,478 See Captain Rausch. Over. 15 00:02:50,484 --> 00:02:52,418 Wednesday, 11:42 p. m. 16 00:02:52,486 --> 00:02:56,252 113 Petrosky. It wasn't a celebrated address, 17 00:02:56,323 --> 00:02:59,759 the sort one gets excited over or stores in his mental trousseau, 18 00:02:59,826 --> 00:03:03,262 but the name on the radio was- Captain Vernon W. Rausch. 19 00:03:03,330 --> 00:03:06,561 To a reporter, he was the Edward R. Murrow ofhomicide. 20 00:03:06,633 --> 00:03:08,863 His list of credits reach back into the mid-'50s... 21 00:03:08,935 --> 00:03:12,462 and the infamous Mercer-Dobrantz murders. 22 00:03:12,539 --> 00:03:14,336 He was a good cop, allegedly great. 23 00:03:14,407 --> 00:03:16,739 So what do you say to a living legend? 24 00:03:16,810 --> 00:03:19,005 Hi there. Mmm? Hey. 25 00:03:19,079 --> 00:03:21,240 Carl Kolchak, I.N.S. Carl. 26 00:03:21,314 --> 00:03:24,181 I was wondering, just what's underneath there? 27 00:03:24,251 --> 00:03:27,414 Leo Ramutka, ward captain, 44th. 28 00:03:27,487 --> 00:03:29,079 Ward captain? Really? 29 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:31,419 Please, no political questions. 30 00:03:31,491 --> 00:03:33,721 I'm not an authority. Yes, but- 31 00:03:37,097 --> 00:03:39,031 Yes, Carl, an arrow. 32 00:03:39,099 --> 00:03:41,033 An arrow? It looks like a V-2. 33 00:03:41,101 --> 00:03:44,264 On the face of it, a crude atavistic device. 34 00:03:44,337 --> 00:03:46,271 Retrogression, one might suppose. 35 00:03:46,339 --> 00:03:48,330 But you consider this, if you will. 36 00:03:48,408 --> 00:03:51,070 Yes, yes, sure. Good. 37 00:03:51,144 --> 00:03:54,375 A missile this size can be as deadly as it is silent. 38 00:03:54,447 --> 00:03:57,541 Recall, if you would, its extensive use by British commandos... 39 00:03:57,617 --> 00:04:00,916 throughout the Second World War. Oh! 40 00:04:00,987 --> 00:04:03,820 You mean, you suspect some guy who thinks he's a British commando? 41 00:04:03,890 --> 00:04:06,620 No. Well- Oh. 42 00:04:06,693 --> 00:04:09,184 I guess I'm a little confused. 43 00:04:09,262 --> 00:04:11,253 You think you know who did it, don't you? 44 00:04:11,331 --> 00:04:13,265 Yes- Uh-huh. 45 00:04:13,333 --> 00:04:15,392 And no. Eh? 46 00:04:15,468 --> 00:04:18,562 As you well know, Carl, Leo Ramutka was a ward heeler, 47 00:04:18,638 --> 00:04:22,836 and like any human being in public life, he was prone to antagonism. 48 00:04:22,909 --> 00:04:26,242 They collect... like river silt. Mmm. 49 00:04:26,313 --> 00:04:28,247 Not that I'm speaking ill of the dead, you understand. 50 00:04:28,315 --> 00:04:30,442 Oh, certainly not. Certainly not. 51 00:04:30,517 --> 00:04:34,578 Let me tell you something, Carl. Think of Greater Chicago. 52 00:04:34,654 --> 00:04:38,590 Six million personalities pressed together in a configuration - Could I get this on tape? 53 00:04:38,658 --> 00:04:41,957 As complex and- Excuse me. Just-There we go. 54 00:04:42,028 --> 00:04:44,189 Would you mind? 55 00:04:44,264 --> 00:04:48,291 Six million personalities pressed together- No. "Think of Chicago"- 56 00:04:51,638 --> 00:04:53,629 Think of Greater Chicago. 57 00:04:53,707 --> 00:04:57,143 Six million personalities pressed together... 58 00:04:57,210 --> 00:05:01,670 in a configuration as complex and as dynamically rigorous... 59 00:05:01,748 --> 00:05:03,807 as it is alienating. 60 00:05:03,883 --> 00:05:09,185 Six million sets of needs, wants, desires, 61 00:05:10,690 --> 00:05:12,954 cries in the night. 62 00:05:13,026 --> 00:05:15,358 "Want me. I want you. 63 00:05:15,428 --> 00:05:19,364 Understand me. I am a person. " 64 00:05:19,432 --> 00:05:22,094 Disintegration of the family, 65 00:05:22,168 --> 00:05:25,831 unbridled vertical mobility- 66 00:05:25,905 --> 00:05:28,874 the pressure cooker of human disappointments. 67 00:05:28,942 --> 00:05:34,471 Carl, understand the apathetic atomized personality. 68 00:05:34,547 --> 00:05:38,142 And, well, sooner or later, he... 69 00:05:39,152 --> 00:05:41,643 or she... erupts. 70 00:05:41,721 --> 00:05:44,212 "She, she. " You said she. You think it's a woman? 71 00:05:44,290 --> 00:05:47,691 Well, I like to call him or her Mr. X. 72 00:05:47,761 --> 00:05:50,594 Mr. X? Why Mr. X? John Doe? 73 00:05:50,664 --> 00:05:53,827 Yeah. It's a lot more professional than calling him a nut or a freak... 74 00:05:53,900 --> 00:05:55,834 or something like that. 75 00:05:55,902 --> 00:06:00,464 No, you've gotta respect people's feelings, Carl. Yes. 76 00:06:00,540 --> 00:06:02,474 The next night, 10:20 p. m. 77 00:06:02,542 --> 00:06:05,340 If Leo Ramutka's popularity, or lack of it, 78 00:06:05,412 --> 00:06:07,937 was born ofballots and political patronage, 79 00:06:08,014 --> 00:06:10,312 Rolf Danvers got his more directly. 80 00:06:10,383 --> 00:06:12,317 His was the allure of ready cash... 81 00:06:12,385 --> 00:06:16,481 and the deeds to several square blocks of prime Chicago real estate. 82 00:06:16,556 --> 00:06:18,490 However, within seconds, the only real estate... 83 00:06:18,558 --> 00:06:21,550 that would matter to Rolf Danvers would be a small plot he owned... 84 00:06:21,628 --> 00:06:23,926 in a memorial park near Old Town. 85 00:06:29,135 --> 00:06:31,831 Negative. Last night's statement... 86 00:06:31,905 --> 00:06:35,432 is no longer functionally descriptive. 87 00:06:35,508 --> 00:06:38,272 And a negative is also appropriate to the second part... 88 00:06:38,344 --> 00:06:39,743 of the second question you asked. 89 00:06:39,813 --> 00:06:42,475 There is no- I repeat- no reason to believe that the death- 90 00:06:42,549 --> 00:06:45,575 Did you know that there's a rumor going around the pressroom? 91 00:06:45,652 --> 00:06:50,453 Homicide is a very democratic institution. One more question. 92 00:06:50,523 --> 00:06:53,287 Allow me to rephrase that- Negative. One more question. 93 00:06:53,359 --> 00:06:56,851 Captain, regarding the death of Ward Captain Ramutka. 94 00:06:56,930 --> 00:07:00,889 It has been rumored among the press that you're combing the 14th Precinct... 95 00:07:00,967 --> 00:07:04,300 looking for a woman disguising herself as a British commando? 96 00:07:04,370 --> 00:07:07,498 What do you have to say about that? Any explanation? 97 00:07:07,574 --> 00:07:10,202 Is that true? Captain, please, I need something. 98 00:07:12,112 --> 00:07:14,478 That'll be all, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. 99 00:07:14,547 --> 00:07:17,038 Please, no more questions. 100 00:07:18,651 --> 00:07:21,279 Carl, I see you're making yourself at home. 101 00:07:21,354 --> 00:07:23,288 Yeah. Coffee? 102 00:07:23,356 --> 00:07:27,087 I imagine you're here by way of journalistic endeavor, right? 103 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,426 Uh, yes, as a matter of fact- those murders, remember? 104 00:07:31,498 --> 00:07:33,591 You've got a quick wit, Carl. I like that. 105 00:07:33,666 --> 00:07:35,600 It shows a proclivity to cope. 106 00:07:35,668 --> 00:07:38,569 Yeah, well, thank you, Captain. Don't mention it. 107 00:07:38,638 --> 00:07:42,039 Now if I read your body language correctly, 108 00:07:42,108 --> 00:07:44,838 you want to ask me what killed Rolf Danvers. 109 00:07:44,911 --> 00:07:48,540 - Right. - He was stabbed. 110 00:07:48,615 --> 00:07:51,880 - Stabbed. - You know. 111 00:07:51,951 --> 00:07:55,216 Yes, of course, but stabbed by what? 112 00:07:55,288 --> 00:07:58,189 Fair question. Something round and sharp. 113 00:07:58,258 --> 00:08:02,217 I'd say a structural facsimile to an ice pick. 114 00:08:02,295 --> 00:08:04,320 Ice pick. Uh-huh. 115 00:08:04,397 --> 00:08:08,163 There is, however, one disconcerting wrinkle to that premise. 116 00:08:08,234 --> 00:08:11,203 This particular instrument would have to have a three-inch diameter. 117 00:08:11,271 --> 00:08:15,935 - Then it isn't an ice pick. - All right. I'll buy that. 118 00:08:16,009 --> 00:08:20,309 I can buy a direct question, and I respect you for it. 119 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:22,541 Thank you, Captain. 120 00:08:22,615 --> 00:08:25,345 Now then- what killed him? 121 00:08:30,023 --> 00:08:32,457 Captain? Hmm? 122 00:08:32,525 --> 00:08:35,289 What killed him? 123 00:08:35,361 --> 00:08:37,591 Society. Soc- 124 00:08:37,664 --> 00:08:39,825 In a manner of speaking, naturally. 125 00:08:39,899 --> 00:08:42,993 Captain, in a manner of speaking, two gentlemen are dead... 126 00:08:43,069 --> 00:08:48,871 of two very bizarre means- an oversized arrow and an obese ice pick. 127 00:08:48,942 --> 00:08:51,206 Now I cannot minimize the concern that I have... 128 00:08:51,277 --> 00:08:53,404 that these murders are somehow interrelated... 129 00:08:53,479 --> 00:08:57,939 if for no other reason than that you're handling the investigations of both. 130 00:08:58,017 --> 00:09:02,181 Ah! That last one is an excellent point. Excellent point. 131 00:09:02,255 --> 00:09:05,122 It shows an inherently lucid administrative insight, Carl. 132 00:09:05,191 --> 00:09:07,955 Yeah, but how about the first one, huh? 133 00:09:08,027 --> 00:09:10,587 That the murders are intertwined, interlocked? 134 00:09:10,663 --> 00:09:15,100 Do you know there were one-seventh as many ice-pick killings... 135 00:09:15,168 --> 00:09:17,932 last year as there were in 1942? 136 00:09:18,004 --> 00:09:23,067 - In 1942? - Technology, Carl. 137 00:09:24,477 --> 00:09:30,143 Um, ice comes in cubes these days. 138 00:09:30,216 --> 00:09:32,912 Ready-made, you see? 139 00:09:32,986 --> 00:09:34,578 Wait a minute. 140 00:09:34,654 --> 00:09:37,885 Are you telling me that there were ice cubes at the scenes of both murders? 141 00:09:37,957 --> 00:09:39,891 No, not at all. Then what? 142 00:09:39,959 --> 00:09:43,395 Not at all, Carl. Look. All right. 143 00:09:44,764 --> 00:09:49,133 Perhaps we can approach this a little less directly. 144 00:09:49,202 --> 00:09:51,136 Less directly? 145 00:09:59,212 --> 00:10:01,180 Thursday, 2:12 p. m. 146 00:10:01,247 --> 00:10:03,909 Extricating myself from Captain Vernon W. Rausch... 147 00:10:03,983 --> 00:10:06,611 cost me two hours of precious time wherein I learned... 148 00:10:06,686 --> 00:10:09,052 that the only thing more maddening than certain cops... 149 00:10:09,122 --> 00:10:11,420 was certain educated cops. 150 00:10:11,491 --> 00:10:14,221 I was in the mood for some fast straight answers, 151 00:10:14,294 --> 00:10:18,287 so I headed for the straight arrow himself, Pop Stenvold. 152 00:10:18,364 --> 00:10:21,856 Hi, Pop. What do you want this time, Kolchak? 153 00:10:21,935 --> 00:10:24,267 Oh, Pop, is that any way to talk to me? 154 00:10:24,337 --> 00:10:27,829 Look, it's your old collaborator, your old friend Carl. 155 00:10:28,841 --> 00:10:30,775 Something's new around here. What is it? 156 00:10:30,843 --> 00:10:33,573 Oh, you've got a new eagle, right? 157 00:10:33,646 --> 00:10:36,945 Same old eagle, same old line of bushwa. 158 00:10:37,016 --> 00:10:39,177 When do we start, Kolchak? Later, later. 159 00:10:39,252 --> 00:10:41,516 - Could you tell me what this is? - It's an arrow. 160 00:10:41,587 --> 00:10:43,782 I know it's an arrow, but what kind of an arrow? 161 00:10:43,856 --> 00:10:47,451 All right. Chapter three. 162 00:10:47,527 --> 00:10:50,018 In the 11 th summer of my life- 163 00:10:50,096 --> 00:10:52,030 You don't know, right? 164 00:10:52,098 --> 00:10:54,692 Okay. If you don't know, you don't know. 165 00:10:54,767 --> 00:10:56,701 Harry Truman said that in 1949. 166 00:10:56,769 --> 00:10:59,829 Ol' Harry really say that? Ol' Harry really said it. 167 00:10:59,906 --> 00:11:01,931 - All right. I do know. - Aha! 168 00:11:02,008 --> 00:11:04,636 It come from a crossbow, Middle Ages. 169 00:11:04,711 --> 00:11:08,044 I couldn't sell that item in here if I tried. You know what they want? 170 00:11:08,114 --> 00:11:11,948 They want guns and elevator shoes and karate lessons. 171 00:11:12,018 --> 00:11:14,851 - Suppose I want a crossbow? - Use your head, will you, Carl? 172 00:11:14,921 --> 00:11:16,855 You see the size of that arrow? Yeah. 173 00:11:16,923 --> 00:11:20,381 It'd take a winch to cock the mechanism. About 300 pounds of pressure at least. 174 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:23,623 - I don't care about that. I want one. - Nah, no, you don't. 175 00:11:23,696 --> 00:11:25,857 Yes, I do. Where do I get one? 176 00:11:25,932 --> 00:11:27,695 All right. I'll tell you what you do. 177 00:11:27,767 --> 00:11:29,132 You walk out that door. Yeah? 178 00:11:29,202 --> 00:11:30,692 You get in your car. Yeah? 179 00:11:30,770 --> 00:11:32,067 And you start driving. Uh-huh? 180 00:11:32,138 --> 00:11:34,197 And when you come to the 14th century, 181 00:11:34,273 --> 00:11:37,003 - ask your social worker. - Social worker? 182 00:11:37,076 --> 00:11:41,240 Yeah, a social worker. A little 23-year-old chippie comes in here and tells me, 183 00:11:41,314 --> 00:11:44,044 "Any man can afford his own business can afford his own teeth. '" 184 00:11:44,117 --> 00:11:47,518 That's what's got your nose out of joint! 185 00:11:47,587 --> 00:11:51,546 Why didn't you tell me? Here, you need some dollars for some molars. No, no. 186 00:11:51,624 --> 00:11:54,923 Keep it, and we'll do a couple more chapters of my biography. 187 00:11:54,994 --> 00:11:57,394 Anything but that. Here, take the money for the teeth. 188 00:11:57,463 --> 00:12:00,261 As you may recall in our last chapter- 189 00:12:01,267 --> 00:12:04,998 As you may recall in our last chapter, Cousin Rusty and me... 190 00:12:05,071 --> 00:12:08,734 was spending our 11 th summer in Green Lake, Wisconsin. 191 00:12:09,809 --> 00:12:12,471 Thursday, 11:59 p. m. There was a saying amongst... 192 00:12:12,545 --> 00:12:14,479 the hallowed data banks of industry... 193 00:12:14,547 --> 00:12:18,745 that when Brewster Hocking slept, so did "K.A.L.C., '" 194 00:12:18,818 --> 00:12:22,686 an acronym for the Canadian-American Leisure Corporation. 195 00:12:22,755 --> 00:12:27,021 In 12 short years, CALC- C.A.L.C. -and Hocking... 196 00:12:27,093 --> 00:12:29,584 had risen from a humble catering truck company... 197 00:12:29,662 --> 00:12:33,154 to the world's 14th fastest rising conglomerate, 198 00:12:33,232 --> 00:12:37,532 digesting a plethora of diverse industries from whiskey distilleries in Scotland... 199 00:12:37,603 --> 00:12:40,595 to that nationally famous analgesic for the morning-after. 200 00:12:45,511 --> 00:12:47,502 Charles. 201 00:12:48,815 --> 00:12:51,181 Charles, stop that blasted clanking. 202 00:13:01,828 --> 00:13:04,319 What is this? 203 00:13:04,397 --> 00:13:07,423 Is this some kind of joke? Charles! 204 00:13:11,304 --> 00:13:13,738 Charles! 205 00:13:17,877 --> 00:13:20,437 Oh, my God! No, please! 206 00:13:20,513 --> 00:13:23,243 For the Lord's sake, don't! Take anything you want! 207 00:13:23,316 --> 00:13:26,513 Look, I'll give you money. 208 00:13:26,586 --> 00:13:29,578 Charles! Oh, no! 209 00:13:35,661 --> 00:13:38,494 Don't just stand there, you idiot! Help me! 210 00:13:38,564 --> 00:13:40,498 One does not mix one's centuries, madam! 211 00:13:40,566 --> 00:13:43,160 You're destroying continuity, all of it! 212 00:13:43,236 --> 00:13:47,036 You're telling me about continuity? Me? 213 00:13:47,106 --> 00:13:49,666 That's genuine Provencal, 13th century! 214 00:13:49,742 --> 00:13:52,609 Provencal, schmovencal! 215 00:13:52,678 --> 00:13:55,875 That thing is blue. That thing is black. 216 00:13:55,948 --> 00:14:00,146 I will not tolerate a black-and-blue cocktail lounge. 217 00:14:01,687 --> 00:14:03,951 Unless someone has decided... 218 00:14:04,023 --> 00:14:07,982 to rename the Camelot Bar the Bruise Room. 219 00:14:31,050 --> 00:14:33,041 Hi. What do you want? 220 00:14:33,119 --> 00:14:35,110 I'd like to come in. Who are you? 221 00:14:35,188 --> 00:14:39,022 A recorder of events great and small, an instrument of the free press. 222 00:14:39,091 --> 00:14:41,150 I'm a reporter. More of that wretched prepublicity, huh? 223 00:14:41,227 --> 00:14:43,161 Prepublicity? No, no. 224 00:14:43,229 --> 00:14:45,322 All I'm interested in is to get some information about arrows. 225 00:14:46,499 --> 00:14:50,560 "The steady hand upon the string, the silver shaft about to spring. " 226 00:14:50,636 --> 00:14:53,230 - Sir Walter Scott. - Mendel Boggs. 227 00:14:53,306 --> 00:14:56,036 - Huh? - Mr. Boggs! 228 00:14:56,108 --> 00:14:58,099 Oh. 229 00:14:59,445 --> 00:15:02,039 Now, our sound engineer will be arriving today, 230 00:15:02,114 --> 00:15:04,173 and you will let him in this time, 231 00:15:04,250 --> 00:15:08,619 and you will tell him for me that the stereo components will go in here. 232 00:15:08,688 --> 00:15:11,316 Inside? Inside Garrick of Orange? Mm-hmm. 233 00:15:11,390 --> 00:15:14,154 I protest! I will protest! 234 00:15:14,227 --> 00:15:18,527 You do that. And while you're protesting to whomever you protest, 235 00:15:18,598 --> 00:15:23,626 I will be seeing about your removal to whomever removes custodial help. 236 00:15:23,703 --> 00:15:25,637 My title is curator! 237 00:15:25,705 --> 00:15:29,141 Have a nice day, Boggsy. 238 00:15:34,447 --> 00:15:37,007 What was that? Minerva Musso. 239 00:15:37,083 --> 00:15:40,382 What's a Minerva Musso? An interior decorator of ill repute. 240 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,387 - What's happening around here? - I thought you were here to write it up. 241 00:15:44,457 --> 00:15:46,721 Me? No, no. The grand march of progress- 242 00:15:46,792 --> 00:15:52,253 How some soda pop company is transforming all this into the Camelot Discotheque? 243 00:15:52,331 --> 00:15:56,267 - May they all rot in Camelot. - It's gonna cost you your job, huh? 244 00:15:56,335 --> 00:16:00,431 Unless I learn how to be a bartender or operate a strobe light. 245 00:16:00,506 --> 00:16:02,440 Oh, one must have faith and hope. 246 00:16:02,508 --> 00:16:05,136 - They all did, you know. - Who's "they"? 247 00:16:05,211 --> 00:16:09,238 "The knights of yore, though ten on one, a lance they bore. " 248 00:16:09,315 --> 00:16:11,681 Oh, that's terrific! That's really very good. 249 00:16:11,751 --> 00:16:14,584 Tell me. Would you consider this to be an authentic medieval arrow? 250 00:16:14,654 --> 00:16:17,350 The collection here was so extensive. 251 00:16:17,423 --> 00:16:21,325 They've taken away the best, the oldest armor, to paint it. Paint it! 252 00:16:21,394 --> 00:16:25,296 They want me to put in speakers, tweeters, woofers. 253 00:16:25,364 --> 00:16:27,491 That's absolutely dreadful. The arrow. 254 00:16:27,566 --> 00:16:30,000 Bolts. A crossbow arrow's called a bolt. 255 00:16:30,069 --> 00:16:32,003 Bolt. If this was focused properly, 256 00:16:32,071 --> 00:16:34,096 I might be able to make an intelligent comment. 257 00:16:34,173 --> 00:16:37,040 - Well- - It has medieval styling. 258 00:16:37,109 --> 00:16:40,374 It's probably a replica. But, uh- 259 00:16:42,515 --> 00:16:44,449 Uh- 260 00:16:44,517 --> 00:16:46,451 What happened to the arrows in here? 261 00:16:46,519 --> 00:16:48,749 Attrition over the years. 262 00:16:48,821 --> 00:16:50,755 High school field trips. 263 00:16:50,823 --> 00:16:53,189 Little thieves, nasty gum-chewing ferrets. 264 00:16:53,259 --> 00:16:56,956 Please don't touch. Excuse me. I'm sorry. 265 00:16:57,029 --> 00:16:58,963 Let me ask you. 266 00:16:59,031 --> 00:17:03,798 Would a bow and arrow - a bolt like this fit on a crossbow like that? 267 00:17:03,869 --> 00:17:05,928 Bows are built to shoot bolts, aren't they? 268 00:17:06,005 --> 00:17:08,235 I'm very busy. If you'll excuse me, Mr. - 269 00:17:08,307 --> 00:17:10,298 Kolchak. Yeah, whatever. 270 00:17:19,652 --> 00:17:21,643 Easy there, boy. Easy. 271 00:17:29,328 --> 00:17:32,855 I asked you not to touch! All right, all right, all right! 272 00:17:38,704 --> 00:17:42,765 Hi there. Real good to see you again, uh, "Lester. " 273 00:17:42,842 --> 00:17:45,709 Good to see you too, man, except I don't know you. 274 00:17:45,778 --> 00:17:48,338 - I bet you know him. - Oh, yeah. 275 00:17:48,414 --> 00:17:51,577 He used to be some kind of federal employee, didn't he? 276 00:17:51,650 --> 00:17:53,914 - Yeah, president. He made out pretty good too. - That's right. 277 00:17:53,986 --> 00:17:57,786 Ah, ah. Brewster Hocking checked in here last night, didn't he? Didn't he? 278 00:17:57,857 --> 00:17:59,256 Huh? 279 00:17:59,325 --> 00:18:01,850 Eh? Attaboy. 280 00:18:09,235 --> 00:18:12,170 Brewster Hocking. Oh, yes. 281 00:18:12,238 --> 00:18:14,172 What hit him? 282 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,038 That, my friend, is the $64 question around here. 283 00:18:17,109 --> 00:18:19,304 Even the big medical minds are stuck. Yeah? 284 00:18:19,378 --> 00:18:23,246 If I had to say, I'd say he was stomped on by a thousand-pound football shoe. 285 00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:26,944 - Or a mace. - Mace comes in a little can. 286 00:18:27,019 --> 00:18:30,955 It doesn't weigh anything. Mace, M-A-C-E. 287 00:18:31,023 --> 00:18:33,651 You know, Robert Taylor, Errol Flynn, King Arthur. 288 00:18:33,726 --> 00:18:36,559 It's a spiked ball at the end of a chain that swings around and ar- 289 00:18:39,331 --> 00:18:41,322 Yeah. 290 00:18:44,870 --> 00:18:47,270 Friday, 11:39 a. m. 291 00:18:47,339 --> 00:18:49,773 I heard a brief radio interview with Brewster Hocking's butler. 292 00:18:49,842 --> 00:18:53,903 I say briefbecause butler Charles Johnson refused to make any comment, 293 00:18:53,979 --> 00:18:57,506 except that he loathed and despised the press. 294 00:18:57,583 --> 00:19:01,280 Rather than face an ugly confrontation, I made a detour to the telegraph office, 295 00:19:01,353 --> 00:19:05,483 where an old and mercenary friend came through for me. 296 00:19:05,558 --> 00:19:10,757 "Dear Carl. Stop. Please come to Chicago as soon as possible. Stop. 297 00:19:10,830 --> 00:19:14,322 "Need to talk to you in person. Stop. 298 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,459 Fraternally yours, Hock. " 299 00:19:16,535 --> 00:19:18,901 Hock. Odd, isn't it? 300 00:19:18,971 --> 00:19:24,500 In my 10 years with Mr. Hocking, I never heard him referred to as "Hock. " 301 00:19:24,577 --> 00:19:26,977 Well- As a matter of fact, 302 00:19:27,046 --> 00:19:30,413 I don't recall him mentioning your name either. 303 00:19:30,483 --> 00:19:33,782 Well, Hock was... Hock. 304 00:19:33,853 --> 00:19:37,914 There's no doubt about that. That hard-boiled old son of a gun. 305 00:19:37,990 --> 00:19:41,983 I'll never forget our 11 th summer on Lake Wisconsin. 306 00:19:42,061 --> 00:19:44,120 And now to find that he is dead. 307 00:19:45,831 --> 00:19:48,857 Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. Anything stolen? 308 00:19:48,934 --> 00:19:51,630 No. This is the age of senseless violence. 309 00:19:51,704 --> 00:19:54,537 Look at the room. It's hardly touched. Mm-hmm. Yeah. 310 00:19:54,607 --> 00:19:57,075 Oh, yeah, hardly at all. 311 00:19:57,142 --> 00:19:58,905 What happened to this? 312 00:19:58,978 --> 00:20:02,141 The police theorize that the murderer smashed it... 313 00:20:02,214 --> 00:20:04,375 to prevent Mr. Hocking from calling for help. 314 00:20:04,450 --> 00:20:07,613 Aha! Of course. Certainly. 315 00:20:07,686 --> 00:20:11,315 Yeah, that's why the phones on the nightstand there weren't smashed. 316 00:20:11,390 --> 00:20:14,587 Tell me, Charles. Was Hocking- Hock- 317 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:17,390 Was he worried about anything? He was somewhat concerned... 318 00:20:17,463 --> 00:20:21,024 about a class action suit against his diet drink subsidiary. 319 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:23,830 A man in Michigan was claiming that... 320 00:20:23,903 --> 00:20:27,669 the sugar substitute was causing vertigo and excess hair loss. 321 00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:30,732 Uh-huh. 322 00:20:30,809 --> 00:20:33,778 A diet drink? Really? I thought that Hock's fortune... 323 00:20:33,846 --> 00:20:36,406 came from cigarette vending machines and theater lobby concessions. 324 00:20:36,482 --> 00:20:38,950 Mr. "Kolchuck"- Chak. Kolchak. 325 00:20:39,018 --> 00:20:43,011 Mr. Kolchak, a full five years ago, Mr. Hocking's company... 326 00:20:43,088 --> 00:20:47,354 bought out most of the independent soft drink bottlers in the Midwest... 327 00:20:47,426 --> 00:20:51,920 and became known as the Canadian-American Leisure Corporation. 328 00:20:51,997 --> 00:20:53,931 Oh, of course. Certainly. 329 00:20:53,999 --> 00:20:57,457 Now it was Mr. Hocking's custom to send his friends... 330 00:20:57,536 --> 00:21:00,903 case upon case of mixers at Christmas. 331 00:21:00,973 --> 00:21:04,773 Quinine water, club soda, ginger ale. 332 00:21:04,843 --> 00:21:06,834 Now why didn't you ever receive any? 333 00:21:09,248 --> 00:21:14,117 I guess that Hock knew that I only drank my milk straight. 334 00:21:14,186 --> 00:21:19,681 Oh, sometimes on the rocks, of course, but usually straight. 335 00:21:19,758 --> 00:21:22,625 Just who are you, Mr. Kolchak? 336 00:21:22,695 --> 00:21:25,687 I told you. I'm an old fraternity brother of Hock's. 337 00:21:25,764 --> 00:21:27,857 Alpha Beta- 338 00:21:27,933 --> 00:21:30,060 Over and out. 339 00:21:51,624 --> 00:21:53,819 Good afternoon. I'm from the telephone company. 340 00:21:53,892 --> 00:21:55,883 Oh, yeah. Down here. 341 00:22:01,834 --> 00:22:03,768 Are you the gentleman with the problem? 342 00:22:03,836 --> 00:22:06,464 Yeah, here. No dial tone. 343 00:22:07,506 --> 00:22:09,497 Okay. 344 00:22:10,676 --> 00:22:13,144 That's right. No dial tone. 345 00:22:15,314 --> 00:22:18,772 Listen, as long as you're here - would you mind answering a few questions for me? 346 00:22:18,851 --> 00:22:23,311 I'm trying to ascertain just how much pressure it would take to crush one of these telephones. 347 00:22:23,389 --> 00:22:25,653 You mean to destroy telephone company equipment? 348 00:22:25,724 --> 00:22:27,817 Hypothetically. Unless you don't know, of course. 349 00:22:27,893 --> 00:22:31,192 I know. Company specs says 420 pounds. 350 00:22:31,263 --> 00:22:33,925 - P.S. I? - P.S.I. 351 00:22:33,999 --> 00:22:36,331 Huh. 352 00:22:36,402 --> 00:22:38,666 This equipment has been tampered with. 353 00:22:38,737 --> 00:22:41,433 What? Bugged? We've been bugged? 354 00:22:41,507 --> 00:22:43,998 Don't give me that "bugged" stuff. You're a con man. 355 00:22:44,076 --> 00:22:46,544 You got me up here just to answer a few questions. 356 00:22:46,612 --> 00:22:49,706 Why, I-You ever try to call that business office? They're always busy. 357 00:22:49,782 --> 00:22:51,716 The least you can do is put it back together again. 358 00:22:51,784 --> 00:22:57,745 - Well, what have we here? - What are you doing there? 359 00:22:57,823 --> 00:23:01,224 I see you have some unauthorized equipment on these premises. 360 00:23:01,293 --> 00:23:03,284 I had nothing to do with it. 361 00:23:08,133 --> 00:23:10,693 Wait a minute. What's the problem? It's all over. 362 00:23:10,769 --> 00:23:14,728 Well, Carl, what's going on here? 363 00:23:14,807 --> 00:23:18,903 Two of our bootleg telephones just walked out that door. 364 00:23:18,977 --> 00:23:20,911 We've had a good thing going. Yeah. 365 00:23:20,979 --> 00:23:23,174 Forget about the telephones. That's not important. 366 00:23:23,248 --> 00:23:28,208 What is important is that it takes 420 pounds pressure- 367 00:23:28,287 --> 00:23:31,154 P.S.I. - To crush a telephone. 368 00:23:31,223 --> 00:23:34,420 Now it says right here that a medieval knight in full armor... 369 00:23:34,493 --> 00:23:36,688 and in full weaponry weighs well over 400 pounds. 370 00:23:36,762 --> 00:23:38,957 I feel much better. All my life I wanted to know... 371 00:23:39,031 --> 00:23:40,999 that a medieval knight could crush a telephone. 372 00:23:41,066 --> 00:23:45,162 I think three murders were caused by medieval weapons. 373 00:23:45,237 --> 00:23:47,865 Maybe by a guy in armor. I don't know. 374 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:50,704 Anyway, I know a place where there's a whole slew... 375 00:23:50,776 --> 00:23:55,076 of medieval armor and weaponry, and it's all run by a very angry man. 376 00:23:55,147 --> 00:23:57,081 So what? 377 00:23:57,149 --> 00:23:59,083 "So what?" Yes. 378 00:23:59,151 --> 00:24:01,551 Well- 379 00:24:01,620 --> 00:24:04,817 So Brewster Hocking, last night's victim, owns a soda pop conglomerate, 380 00:24:04,890 --> 00:24:09,054 and they recently acquired Hydecker Wine Importers and the Hydecker Museum. 381 00:24:09,128 --> 00:24:11,096 Carl, I didn't understand anything you just said. 382 00:24:11,163 --> 00:24:13,927 Don't worry about it. You will as soon as I get through talking with Minerva Musso. 383 00:24:13,999 --> 00:24:16,797 - Minerva Musso. - The interior decorator? You? 384 00:24:16,869 --> 00:24:19,133 Yes. We're thinking of brightening up the office. 385 00:24:19,204 --> 00:24:22,799 You are gonna be replaced by a Boston fern, and you, a snapdragon. 386 00:24:27,246 --> 00:24:30,147 Why do I always feel like I don't belong here? 387 00:24:36,789 --> 00:24:39,656 Friday, 8:58 p. m. When you're hot, you're hot. 388 00:24:39,725 --> 00:24:43,252 And as I saw a mass of seemingly unrelated facts starting to come together, 389 00:24:43,328 --> 00:24:46,923 I knew I was at least getting warm. 390 00:24:59,978 --> 00:25:01,969 Hello? 391 00:25:04,249 --> 00:25:07,082 Pamela, dear naive Pamela. 392 00:25:07,152 --> 00:25:09,643 Now you have been with enough ski instructors... 393 00:25:09,721 --> 00:25:13,282 to realize they're always in a hurry. 394 00:25:13,358 --> 00:25:17,852 - It must be something terribly Freudian and terribly boring. 395 00:25:17,930 --> 00:25:20,455 Hello? Oh, just a moment, dear. 396 00:25:20,532 --> 00:25:23,433 A strange man has just walked into my boudoir. 397 00:25:23,502 --> 00:25:27,438 No. No, really. 398 00:25:27,506 --> 00:25:29,440 Come in, dear, and shut the door. 399 00:25:29,508 --> 00:25:32,341 There's a draft. Oh. 400 00:25:34,079 --> 00:25:36,013 Robbery or rape? 401 00:25:36,081 --> 00:25:39,016 - What? - No, I'm asking him, robbery or rape. 402 00:25:39,084 --> 00:25:41,348 Uh- He hasn't said. 403 00:25:41,420 --> 00:25:43,354 Neither one, so don't get excited. 404 00:25:43,422 --> 00:25:46,186 Oh, he says I shouldn't get excited. 405 00:25:46,258 --> 00:25:50,160 Depressing little man. 406 00:25:50,229 --> 00:25:52,356 Karl Kolchak, I.N.S. 407 00:25:52,431 --> 00:25:55,730 Oh, he's a newspaper man. 408 00:25:55,801 --> 00:25:58,167 That explains it. 409 00:25:58,237 --> 00:26:01,695 Ring you back, kiddo. 410 00:26:01,773 --> 00:26:04,708 Warning, Mr. Reporter. I shoot from the hip. 411 00:26:04,776 --> 00:26:06,767 The door was open, so I didn't break in. 412 00:26:06,845 --> 00:26:10,110 I'm not talking about doors. I'm talking about David Bowie. 413 00:26:10,182 --> 00:26:15,779 You press people are always pestering me about whether or not I'll do his house. 414 00:26:15,854 --> 00:26:18,846 I'm... not sure. 415 00:26:19,858 --> 00:26:23,294 I've met David, and he's charming. 416 00:26:24,363 --> 00:26:26,854 But I'm not sure our ideas would gel. 417 00:26:26,932 --> 00:26:29,230 Well- Next question. 418 00:26:29,301 --> 00:26:33,032 I'm not here about David Bowie actually. I'm here about the Hydecker Museum. 419 00:26:33,105 --> 00:26:35,300 Yuck. That junkyard? 420 00:26:35,374 --> 00:26:38,070 If it wasn't for being audited last year, 421 00:26:38,143 --> 00:26:40,509 no amount of money could get me to take the job. 422 00:26:40,579 --> 00:26:44,640 I'm interested in the curator, uh, Men- Men- Mendel Boggs. 423 00:26:44,716 --> 00:26:46,650 What do you know about him? Mendel? 424 00:26:46,718 --> 00:26:49,084 Mmm. With diligence, he might make village idiot. 425 00:26:49,154 --> 00:26:52,988 Do you know that he talks to those iron things? 426 00:26:53,058 --> 00:26:54,992 Really? Those knights, yes. 427 00:26:55,060 --> 00:26:57,426 What does he say? Well, poetry. 428 00:26:57,496 --> 00:27:00,260 He spouts that doggerel of his. 429 00:27:00,332 --> 00:27:03,733 I came in one morning, and he was standing there... 430 00:27:03,802 --> 00:27:06,669 in front of a mirror, waving a pike... 431 00:27:06,738 --> 00:27:11,801 and frothing about "cleaving things in twain. '" 432 00:27:11,877 --> 00:27:13,936 Whatever that means. 433 00:27:14,012 --> 00:27:17,311 "Cleaving things in twain. " 434 00:27:18,383 --> 00:27:22,342 Well, I know he's really pretty upset about the remodeling plans. 435 00:27:22,421 --> 00:27:25,913 Did you ever hear him threaten anybody, like Brewster Hocking? 436 00:27:25,991 --> 00:27:28,255 Hocking? 437 00:27:28,327 --> 00:27:30,852 He owns the Hydecker Museum. He pays your salary. 438 00:27:30,929 --> 00:27:35,525 Oh, yes. But I'm not salaried. I've never met Mr. Hocking. 439 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,262 I work with the architect. 440 00:27:38,337 --> 00:27:41,795 Uh-huh. Uh- 441 00:27:41,873 --> 00:27:43,807 Did you hear that? 442 00:27:44,943 --> 00:27:48,777 Huh. 443 00:27:48,847 --> 00:27:50,906 - You got bad pipes or something? - I beg your pardon? 444 00:27:50,983 --> 00:27:53,713 I mean, is your dishwasher broken or- 445 00:27:53,785 --> 00:27:56,754 Oh, who knows? Friday night, party night. 446 00:27:56,822 --> 00:27:59,552 What is that noise? 447 00:28:06,198 --> 00:28:08,132 - Don't you have a lock on this door? - What's out there? 448 00:28:10,002 --> 00:28:12,732 Now just a minute! What's going on here? 449 00:28:12,804 --> 00:28:14,738 Get in the bathroom! I beg your pardon! 450 00:28:14,806 --> 00:28:17,400 Get in the bathroom, you dumb broad, and lock the door! 451 00:28:39,998 --> 00:28:42,091 No! 452 00:29:02,754 --> 00:29:05,552 That's enough, John. Thank you. 453 00:29:05,624 --> 00:29:08,957 Well, Carl, where's the pain? 454 00:29:09,027 --> 00:29:11,086 The base of the skull? Yeah. 455 00:29:11,163 --> 00:29:13,222 Just rub back here. Right back here. 456 00:29:13,298 --> 00:29:16,096 - Just loosen up the trapezius muscle. - Trapezius? 457 00:29:16,168 --> 00:29:19,797 Mm-hmm. 458 00:29:19,871 --> 00:29:23,068 No, no. Go easy. Easy with the light. 459 00:29:24,076 --> 00:29:26,806 Most forms of headache are accompanied by photosensitivity. 460 00:29:28,213 --> 00:29:30,613 Just keep on rubbing. Best thing for a tension headache. 461 00:29:30,682 --> 00:29:32,809 Tension-Tension headache? 462 00:29:32,884 --> 00:29:35,148 What tension headache? My head got bashed in. 463 00:29:35,220 --> 00:29:37,381 Carl, neighbors heard screams, 464 00:29:37,456 --> 00:29:40,152 and we find you camped out here on the floor... 465 00:29:40,225 --> 00:29:43,490 and a woman ax-murdered right in there. 466 00:29:43,562 --> 00:29:48,056 If I was you, I'd have a big tension headache. 467 00:29:48,133 --> 00:29:52,467 Oh, no. No, you can't possibly think that I killed her... 468 00:29:52,537 --> 00:29:55,005 and then knocked myself out to wait for you to get here. 469 00:29:55,073 --> 00:29:57,974 - You couldn't possibly think that. - Of course I don't think that. 470 00:29:58,043 --> 00:30:02,207 No. What about my photosensitivity? 471 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,646 This isn't third degree, Carl. 472 00:30:04,716 --> 00:30:08,880 It's only the first. Can you intuit my meaning? 473 00:30:08,954 --> 00:30:11,582 I got knocked out before I knew what hit me. 474 00:30:11,656 --> 00:30:15,422 - What transpired here? - What is that stink? 475 00:30:15,494 --> 00:30:18,657 - You're the stink. - What? Me? 476 00:30:18,730 --> 00:30:20,823 Oh! 477 00:30:20,899 --> 00:30:22,491 The perfume must have spilled all over me. 478 00:30:22,567 --> 00:30:25,695 My lab man tells me it's called Temptation of Adam. 479 00:30:25,770 --> 00:30:28,933 - Temptation of Adam. - Pretty strong medicine, isn't it? 480 00:30:29,007 --> 00:30:33,171 But to the point, you are a material witness... to murder. 481 00:30:33,245 --> 00:30:35,406 - What? - Ah. 482 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,244 I intuit your problem, Carl. 483 00:30:38,316 --> 00:30:40,250 Feelings of persecution, ah? 484 00:30:40,318 --> 00:30:42,878 Paranoia. A sense that I, as an authority figure, 485 00:30:42,954 --> 00:30:47,914 will take away your angle and give your big story to other members of the press. 486 00:30:47,993 --> 00:30:50,553 Listen, that's not paranoia. That's fact! 487 00:30:50,629 --> 00:30:56,226 All right. You just be straight with me, and I'll give you an exclusive. 488 00:30:56,301 --> 00:30:58,826 I've been watching you, Rausch. 489 00:30:58,904 --> 00:31:03,273 For the past two years, you've been sitting on your laurels, not to mention your brains. 490 00:31:03,341 --> 00:31:06,538 You're lazy. Police work bores you. 491 00:31:06,611 --> 00:31:08,636 Those long, thoughtful pauses of yours- 492 00:31:08,713 --> 00:31:12,114 You're not thinking, you're sleeping! That's what you're doing. You're sleeping. 493 00:31:12,184 --> 00:31:15,950 And you don't do any investigation anymore at all. 494 00:31:16,021 --> 00:31:19,718 You rely on informants and tips and ripping off angles from newsmen. 495 00:31:19,791 --> 00:31:21,759 I wanna know what you got on those murders. 496 00:31:21,826 --> 00:31:23,817 Do your own legwork, you phony. Phony? 497 00:31:25,897 --> 00:31:30,266 Picture two weeks in a drab room downtown, 498 00:31:30,335 --> 00:31:34,465 filling out affidavits, depositions, forms. 499 00:31:34,539 --> 00:31:38,600 Your traffic record is pulled. We go over it with a microscope. 500 00:31:38,677 --> 00:31:41,612 We send your car through safety inspection. 501 00:31:43,782 --> 00:31:46,649 I didn't see a thing. 502 00:31:46,718 --> 00:31:50,210 Carl, I don't want to work this weekend. 503 00:31:50,288 --> 00:31:53,280 My wife's chamber music society has a supper concert, 504 00:31:53,358 --> 00:31:55,519 and I'm supposed to write an article for the police newsletter. 505 00:31:55,594 --> 00:31:58,085 Now, please. 506 00:31:58,163 --> 00:32:01,428 Nothing. Spencer. 507 00:32:03,735 --> 00:32:07,171 Fill that tub in there with cold water as soon as Forensics finishes up. 508 00:32:07,239 --> 00:32:09,639 You wouldn't dare. 509 00:32:09,708 --> 00:32:11,903 You'd dare. 510 00:32:11,977 --> 00:32:14,445 All right. If I told you, you wouldn't believe it. 511 00:32:14,512 --> 00:32:17,379 She was killed by a knight in armor. 512 00:32:17,449 --> 00:32:20,509 A knight in armor? I told you you wouldn't believe it. 513 00:32:22,287 --> 00:32:24,517 Merely because you've been unreliable in the past... 514 00:32:24,589 --> 00:32:28,457 doesn't mean that your words have no value. 515 00:32:28,526 --> 00:32:32,758 After all, as the Bard said, "There are more things under the sun... 516 00:32:32,831 --> 00:32:35,197 than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio. " 517 00:32:35,267 --> 00:32:40,603 No, Kolchak. Carl Kolchak. But a knight... in armor? 518 00:32:40,672 --> 00:32:42,606 Make me believe that, Carl. 519 00:32:42,674 --> 00:32:44,835 Because if I find you're shooting me through the grease, 520 00:32:44,909 --> 00:32:49,744 it'll have a definite detrimental effect on how we interface with each other. 521 00:32:50,815 --> 00:32:53,306 You know what's funny? I intuited that. 522 00:32:55,387 --> 00:32:57,981 I suppose this creature came squealing to you... 523 00:32:58,056 --> 00:32:59,990 that I was arguing with that wretched woman, eh? 524 00:33:00,058 --> 00:33:02,253 That I'd uttered epithets against her? 525 00:33:02,327 --> 00:33:04,420 I'm sorry, but they fried my eyeballs. 526 00:33:04,496 --> 00:33:06,862 Are you sure you don't want an attorney? 527 00:33:06,931 --> 00:33:11,231 For what? To hold my pants while I change into that? This is preposterous. 528 00:33:11,303 --> 00:33:13,669 There's no blood on the ax, the lance or the mace. 529 00:33:13,738 --> 00:33:17,037 It's been wiped or cleaned lately. Did you clean these lately? 530 00:33:17,108 --> 00:33:20,669 I don't mean with polish. You see, we found that... 531 00:33:20,745 --> 00:33:24,203 in Miss Musso's murder, the killer wiped the weapon off on a silk pillowcase, 532 00:33:24,282 --> 00:33:27,251 and with Mr. Danvers, on a piece of his sport jacket. 533 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:31,756 You mean you actually did some work in between yoga classes and book reviews? 534 00:33:31,823 --> 00:33:34,519 I never even knew a Mr. Danvers or a Mr. Hocking. 535 00:33:34,592 --> 00:33:36,583 Buxbaum. 536 00:33:36,661 --> 00:33:39,926 Buxbaum, will you please help Mr. Boggs off with his apron? 537 00:33:40,932 --> 00:33:43,127 Give the boys a hand with the helmet. 538 00:33:45,437 --> 00:33:48,497 Are you sure this is the armor you saw? 539 00:33:48,573 --> 00:33:51,667 Yes, that, I am sure, is the armor I saw. 540 00:33:51,743 --> 00:33:53,734 Oh, enough! 541 00:33:54,946 --> 00:33:58,177 All right, boys. Thank you very much. 542 00:33:58,249 --> 00:34:01,616 Mr. Boggs, anyone else have access to this museum at night but you? 543 00:34:01,686 --> 00:34:04,086 I have the only key. I have nothing to hide. 544 00:34:04,155 --> 00:34:08,387 That's the one I saw. Who else could've been wearing it but h-him-you? 545 00:34:09,661 --> 00:34:13,859 Maybe it wasn't a knight you saw at all. 546 00:34:13,932 --> 00:34:16,560 Maybe it was the Tin Woodsman. 547 00:34:16,634 --> 00:34:19,694 Did it dance, sing? 548 00:34:19,771 --> 00:34:21,739 Did Jack Haley's voice come out of it? 549 00:34:21,806 --> 00:34:23,706 Careful with that! 550 00:34:24,709 --> 00:34:27,473 All right. Then who's committing these murders? 551 00:34:27,545 --> 00:34:31,276 - How do you account for what I saw? - I account for it thusly. 552 00:34:31,349 --> 00:34:35,080 You are a man who has resorted to lies and chicanery... 553 00:34:35,153 --> 00:34:38,247 to the point of being pathological. 554 00:34:38,323 --> 00:34:42,259 I believe that you suffer from autosuggestion. 555 00:34:42,327 --> 00:34:45,353 And in an obsessive desire to win approval, 556 00:34:45,430 --> 00:34:48,365 expressed through the need for a big story, 557 00:34:48,433 --> 00:34:53,700 you convince yourself that what you want to be true is true. 558 00:34:53,772 --> 00:34:56,172 In short, 559 00:34:56,241 --> 00:35:00,644 I believe your brain has turned to onion dip. 560 00:35:00,712 --> 00:35:03,681 Mr. Boggs, I'm sorry for the trouble. 561 00:35:03,748 --> 00:35:05,443 You've been very cooperative, and I thank you. 562 00:35:05,517 --> 00:35:07,485 I told you from the beginning it was laughable. 563 00:35:07,552 --> 00:35:10,316 Unfortunately, I have to check out all the leads. 564 00:35:10,388 --> 00:35:14,290 It's my duty, you know, in spite of the source. 565 00:35:14,359 --> 00:35:16,919 Don't go far. We'll still want to talk to you. 566 00:35:16,995 --> 00:35:22,592 But, uh, I think... 567 00:35:22,667 --> 00:35:26,603 I'll consult with our police psychiatrist. 568 00:35:26,671 --> 00:35:28,662 Buxbaum. 569 00:35:32,677 --> 00:35:35,407 I'm sorry about this whole thing. I really am. 570 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,540 But I did see that armor. 571 00:35:38,616 --> 00:35:42,143 Who was this Black Cross Knight? Where did this armor come from? 572 00:35:42,220 --> 00:35:44,780 I wouldn't give you another piece of information... 573 00:35:44,856 --> 00:35:49,316 if you held me down and let a pack of rats run through my clothes willy-nilly. 574 00:35:49,394 --> 00:35:53,831 Not if you made me drink the oil slick off Lake Michigan would you get anything out of me. 575 00:35:53,898 --> 00:35:57,527 Now please leave here, and take that sickly stench with you. 576 00:36:31,302 --> 00:36:33,133 Hello. My name's Carl Kolchak. 577 00:36:33,204 --> 00:36:35,468 I'd like some information about coats of arms. 578 00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:37,838 Kolchak. That's an old and revered Russian name, isn't it? 579 00:36:37,909 --> 00:36:41,436 - Actually, no, it's Polish. - Polish? 580 00:36:41,513 --> 00:36:43,674 Oh, yes, of course. Kolchak. 581 00:36:43,748 --> 00:36:45,943 An ancient lineage there. 582 00:36:46,017 --> 00:36:49,851 You must be descended from Archbishop Kolchak of Krakow, 583 00:36:49,921 --> 00:36:53,152 who defended the church from the Magyar onslaught. 584 00:36:53,224 --> 00:36:55,852 Really? Oh, it's a proud line you're from. 585 00:36:55,927 --> 00:36:58,327 That's terrific. I didn't know that. 586 00:36:58,396 --> 00:37:01,229 My grandmother always told me that we were descended from Slavs. 587 00:37:01,299 --> 00:37:04,359 Oh, no, Archbishop Kolchak. 588 00:37:04,435 --> 00:37:08,235 Maura, you have the Kolchak crest back there, don't you? 589 00:37:08,306 --> 00:37:11,434 I'm sure we do, honey. No. Wait. That's very interesting, 590 00:37:11,509 --> 00:37:14,034 but, you see, I'm not interested in buying a coat of arms. 591 00:37:14,112 --> 00:37:17,275 I'm a reporter. I need some information about a shield. 592 00:37:17,348 --> 00:37:20,681 We're in the business of selling coats of arms. 593 00:37:20,752 --> 00:37:23,744 Mostly mail order. We're very busy today. 594 00:37:23,821 --> 00:37:26,085 Yeah, well, I guess I'll buy a coat of arms. 595 00:37:27,725 --> 00:37:30,523 Twelve dollars for the pine plaque. Twelve bucks, huh? 596 00:37:30,595 --> 00:37:34,588 Listen, the shield I saw was red, with a black lion sitting on top of it, 597 00:37:34,666 --> 00:37:37,157 and then there was a diagonal stripe of black down across it. 598 00:37:37,235 --> 00:37:42,502 We call that "the lion rampant and the black bend sinister. " Uh-huh. 599 00:37:42,574 --> 00:37:44,701 What you're describing is a heraldic design... 600 00:37:44,776 --> 00:37:47,745 of the infamous Mettancoeur family of Burgundy. 601 00:37:47,812 --> 00:37:50,076 Infamous? Oh, bad people. 602 00:37:50,148 --> 00:37:52,742 The last of the line, Guy de Mettancoeur, 603 00:37:52,817 --> 00:37:56,344 was particularly a pig, even by today's standards. 604 00:37:56,421 --> 00:37:58,946 He stayed behind in Burgundy. He didn't go to the Crusades. 605 00:37:59,023 --> 00:38:02,584 He amassed a fortune, slaying even women and children. 606 00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:05,925 Here we are. Of course, when we mail it to you, 607 00:38:05,997 --> 00:38:10,400 it will have "Kolchak" emblazoned beneath, hand-lettered by one of our artists. 608 00:38:10,468 --> 00:38:12,402 Oh, it has such striking colors. 609 00:38:12,470 --> 00:38:15,962 I think it really deserves a walnut plaque... for only $60. 610 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:20,875 - Pine'll be fine. - Oh, but if I had your ancestry, I'd flaunt it. 611 00:38:20,945 --> 00:38:24,676 Did Roger tell you about Baron the GeneralJoachim-Meinz Kolchak? 612 00:38:24,749 --> 00:38:28,913 He was the military adviser for the Emperor FranzJoseph. 613 00:38:28,987 --> 00:38:31,012 They called him the Lion of Warsaw. 614 00:38:31,089 --> 00:38:33,148 Mm-hmm. 615 00:38:33,224 --> 00:38:35,522 I got a hunch it'll be a walnut. 616 00:38:35,593 --> 00:38:37,857 Uh- Hmm. 617 00:38:37,929 --> 00:38:39,863 Could you take a check? 618 00:38:39,931 --> 00:38:41,865 Oh, of course. 619 00:38:41,933 --> 00:38:43,958 You were talking about Guy, Guy, the- 620 00:38:44,035 --> 00:38:45,969 Mettancoeur. Yeah. 621 00:38:46,037 --> 00:38:48,665 His family had the finest vineyards in Burgundy. 622 00:38:48,740 --> 00:38:51,368 Chateau Mettancoeur. 623 00:38:51,442 --> 00:38:54,502 But Guy himself hated human pleasures. 624 00:38:54,579 --> 00:38:57,605 He became a pariah in his own time. 625 00:38:57,682 --> 00:38:59,946 Yeah, I've known a few like that myself. 626 00:39:00,018 --> 00:39:01,883 What do you mean he hated all human pleasures? 627 00:39:01,953 --> 00:39:04,751 He consorted with dabblers in the black arts. 628 00:39:04,822 --> 00:39:06,756 He became, uh, 629 00:39:06,824 --> 00:39:11,887 "legendary for his invincibility and his unchivalrous acts. " 630 00:39:11,963 --> 00:39:15,194 Here. Here we are, like here. Oh, yeah. 631 00:39:15,266 --> 00:39:19,896 "After he had killed a foe, it was his custom... 632 00:39:19,971 --> 00:39:23,031 "to wipe the blood from his weapon... 633 00:39:23,107 --> 00:39:27,373 on the flying colors of the dead foe, as a gesture of contempt. " 634 00:39:27,445 --> 00:39:32,849 What are flying colors? A silk scarf, a bright piece of clothing. 635 00:39:32,917 --> 00:39:35,886 How about a pillowcase or a sport jacket? 636 00:39:35,953 --> 00:39:37,978 I beg your pardon? 637 00:39:38,056 --> 00:39:40,081 Yeah. 638 00:39:40,158 --> 00:39:42,319 Thank you very much. 639 00:39:46,631 --> 00:39:50,692 Guy... de Mettan- 640 00:39:54,005 --> 00:39:56,735 There he is- the black knight. 641 00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:05,840 Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. 642 00:40:05,917 --> 00:40:08,784 The Hydecker Company Importers. 643 00:40:08,853 --> 00:40:12,983 Yeah, right, Ernie. They were bought out by Canadian-American Leisure. 644 00:40:13,057 --> 00:40:16,618 What were the fancy French labels they used to import? 645 00:40:17,628 --> 00:40:20,893 You mean they did import Chateau Mettancoeur. 646 00:40:20,965 --> 00:40:26,733 Oh, that's terrific. I'd send you a case of scotch, only you're already in the liquor business. 647 00:40:26,804 --> 00:40:30,069 I got it, Tony. Carl, did you have to use the whole bottle? 648 00:40:30,141 --> 00:40:31,733 Hmm? Whew! 649 00:40:31,809 --> 00:40:33,834 Oh. Uh- Carl, look. 650 00:40:33,911 --> 00:40:35,845 You were supposed to be covering, among other things, 651 00:40:35,913 --> 00:40:39,542 the death of Brewster Hocking of Chicago of the 20th century. 652 00:40:39,617 --> 00:40:41,778 As I read your notes here, you're trying to pin this killing, 653 00:40:41,853 --> 00:40:45,846 and several others, on a 12th-century French knight. 654 00:40:45,923 --> 00:40:48,153 - Am I correct there, Carl? - Oh, it's bizarre, Tony. 655 00:40:48,226 --> 00:40:50,353 It's incredible, but I do believe that's what's happening. 656 00:40:50,428 --> 00:40:53,022 What rot. And I have to sit here and write financial news, and he- 657 00:40:53,097 --> 00:40:56,066 Uh, Ron, Ron. Look, Carl, 658 00:40:56,134 --> 00:41:00,798 I saw my sister-in-law have a nervous breakdown, and it was messy. 659 00:41:00,872 --> 00:41:03,898 - Now I recognize all the symptoms, Carl. - Oh. 660 00:41:03,975 --> 00:41:07,411 Fantasy, the inability to concentrate on real issues. 661 00:41:07,478 --> 00:41:10,242 Well, it probably runs in the family, Tony. 662 00:41:10,314 --> 00:41:14,978 Listen, just because it sounds strange doesn't mean there's any reason for me to go to the lollipop factory. 663 00:41:15,052 --> 00:41:18,488 Guy de Mettancoeur was an ogre. 664 00:41:18,556 --> 00:41:21,320 He had a suit of armor fashioned by a necromancer, a sorcerer. 665 00:41:21,392 --> 00:41:23,383 It made him impregnable to attack. 666 00:41:23,461 --> 00:41:25,326 You see what I mean? Fantasy. 667 00:41:25,396 --> 00:41:28,092 So there's armor at the Hydecker Museum. 668 00:41:28,166 --> 00:41:30,498 So what does that mean? It's an empty suit. 669 00:41:30,568 --> 00:41:33,469 It's just a glorified set of drainpipes. That's all. 670 00:41:33,538 --> 00:41:37,201 Now you come in here rambling about some blessed battle-ax... 671 00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:40,608 and Pope Gregory and smelling like a vase full of dead begonias. 672 00:41:40,678 --> 00:41:42,737 No, that's Minerva Musso's perfume. 673 00:41:42,814 --> 00:41:46,648 Carl- Carl, what is happening in your life? 674 00:41:46,717 --> 00:41:48,742 Okay. 675 00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:50,947 All right. 676 00:41:51,022 --> 00:41:54,014 The armor and the battle-ax are both out of the museum. 677 00:41:54,091 --> 00:41:57,652 The whole story is there. Pope Gregory blessed that battle-ax... 678 00:41:57,728 --> 00:42:00,595 and asked the Knight of Strasbourg to do battle with Mettancoeur. 679 00:42:00,665 --> 00:42:04,533 The holy ax was the only thing that could pierce Mettancoeur's armor, and it did. 680 00:42:04,602 --> 00:42:07,662 Mettancoeur died, but he swore with his last breath... 681 00:42:07,738 --> 00:42:11,834 that music and human gaiety would never be permitted around his resting place. 682 00:42:11,909 --> 00:42:15,037 See, he was a misanthrope. What beef could he have... 683 00:42:15,112 --> 00:42:18,548 with Brewster Hocking or Minerva Musso? 684 00:42:18,616 --> 00:42:21,141 Their great-grandfathers hadn't even been born yet. 685 00:42:21,219 --> 00:42:25,781 Can you understand that? Can you see that? You see, Brewster and Minerva... 686 00:42:25,857 --> 00:42:28,917 were both parties to a plan to turn the Hydecker Museum... 687 00:42:28,993 --> 00:42:31,359 into a medieval steak-and-lobster discotheque. 688 00:42:31,429 --> 00:42:34,489 And this misanthropic knight took issue with that? 689 00:42:34,565 --> 00:42:38,968 It's all part of a curse, Tony. I saw this knight walk into Minerva's bedroom and kill her. 690 00:42:39,036 --> 00:42:41,664 I saw it, man! He walked in, and I saw it! 691 00:42:41,739 --> 00:42:46,369 All right, Carl. Let us say that you saw this knight walk into her bedroom. 692 00:42:46,444 --> 00:42:48,412 - Just let's suppose that. - That's right. 693 00:42:48,479 --> 00:42:52,711 Must we also assume that it had to be a Frenchman out of the year 1227? 694 00:42:52,783 --> 00:42:56,310 Does our logic dictate that it had to be some superhuman ghost? 695 00:42:56,387 --> 00:42:59,720 I know where you're heading, Tony, and you're wrong. 696 00:42:59,790 --> 00:43:01,815 - I've already been there. - Leo Ramutka. 697 00:43:01,893 --> 00:43:04,919 He's a ward boss. What does he know about museums and discotheques? 698 00:43:04,996 --> 00:43:08,989 Tony, the Hydecker Museum is too old to be remodeled. 699 00:43:09,066 --> 00:43:11,000 You see, it's below building codes. 700 00:43:11,068 --> 00:43:15,732 - Guess who was interceding with the building department to get a variance. - Leo Ramutka. 701 00:43:15,806 --> 00:43:18,001 And-And Mr. Rolf Danvers, Tony. 702 00:43:18,075 --> 00:43:20,635 Rolf Danvers owned the lot next door to the museum. 703 00:43:20,711 --> 00:43:23,339 - Parking, Tony. Parking. - Why don't you rest a little bit? 704 00:43:23,414 --> 00:43:25,348 Why don't you come into my office, lie down on the sofa... 705 00:43:25,416 --> 00:43:27,907 and relax, take a shower, clean yourself up? 706 00:43:27,985 --> 00:43:30,146 Rest, sleep on my sofa. No, Tony. 707 00:43:30,221 --> 00:43:33,816 I'll be back with the most amazing, astounding story that you ever heard. 708 00:43:33,891 --> 00:43:36,917 And you're gonna beat your fingers to a bloody pulp on the Teletypes... 709 00:43:36,994 --> 00:43:39,827 so we can get the whole story out to our customers! 710 00:43:39,897 --> 00:43:43,389 Carl, please, stay a while. Stay a while and have dinner with me. 711 00:43:43,467 --> 00:43:45,401 Look, I'll buy. You'll buy? 712 00:43:45,469 --> 00:43:47,437 Yes. What's the matter with you? 713 00:43:47,505 --> 00:43:49,564 Have you suddenly lost your mind or something? 714 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,804 Buy? You've never bought anything in your life. 715 00:43:56,514 --> 00:43:59,176 It's my sister-in-law all over again. 716 00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:04,010 Oh! 717 00:44:04,088 --> 00:44:06,386 I don't know. 718 00:44:06,457 --> 00:44:10,393 I don't know. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I've been browbeating him too much. 719 00:44:10,461 --> 00:44:12,759 Don't castigate yourself. 720 00:45:15,393 --> 00:45:17,327 Shhh! 721 00:49:36,620 --> 00:49:39,851 A blessed battle-ax and an iron suit full of thin air. 722 00:49:39,923 --> 00:49:42,949 I knew I'd have a lot of explaining to do to the owners of the Hydecker Museum, 723 00:49:43,027 --> 00:49:44,961 to Captain Vernon Rausch and, of course, 724 00:49:45,029 --> 00:49:48,226 to my own beloved bureau chief, A. Vincenzo. 725 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:52,531 There wouldn't be much I could tell them, except what I'll tell you. 726 00:49:52,603 --> 00:49:55,299 It all really happened. 727 00:49:55,349 --> 00:49:59,899 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0