1 00:00:59,739 --> 00:01:00,739 Hello? 2 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:02,580 Any ghosts in here? 3 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,980 Come out. Come out wherever you are. 4 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,560 Iris, stop that. 5 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:14,140 How about some light in here? 6 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,440 Coming up. 7 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:27,390 Well? Welcome to the haunted bedroom. 8 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:28,970 Hey, this is not so creepy. 9 00:01:29,230 --> 00:01:30,530 No barrel of laughs, either. 10 00:01:30,750 --> 00:01:34,070 I think it's kind of kinky. Jen, you're not really going through with it. Are 11 00:01:34,070 --> 00:01:34,869 you kidding? 12 00:01:34,870 --> 00:01:35,950 I was just joking. 13 00:01:36,150 --> 00:01:38,510 Well, I wasn't. Look, we had a bet, didn't we? 14 00:01:39,150 --> 00:01:40,650 $100, cash on the line. 15 00:01:40,930 --> 00:01:42,530 You're not going to chicken out on us, are you, Dave? 16 00:01:42,830 --> 00:01:44,430 No way. How about you, Jennifer? 17 00:01:44,690 --> 00:01:46,170 But it's silly. Well, sure it is. 18 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,140 But it's the easiest hundred I'll ever make. Yeah, come on, Jenny, you said you 19 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:54,040 would. Please, Jennifer, don't. You told us yourself that the last couple who 20 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,860 stayed here were never seen again. And that was way back in 05. 21 00:01:58,340 --> 00:02:00,380 Ira! Look, don't let him rattle you. 22 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:04,880 If anybody tries to come through that door tonight, ghost or no ghost, well, 23 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:06,340 I'll use his to go for a baseball. 24 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,880 Right, you tell him, Dave. Right. The mysteries of the dark beyond are not for 25 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,080 us to see. Remember, deep and silent was the gloom. 26 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,740 Of that strange, unholy room. 27 00:02:18,380 --> 00:02:20,060 Though the servants searched all night. 28 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:22,740 Till the glint of dawn's sad light. 29 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:27,040 Not a trace of hair or hide was found. 30 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,140 Of Quentin or his bride. 31 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,420 That's real funny, Ira. 32 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:34,620 It's nonsense. 33 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,920 It's a big put on. Yeah, that's the girl. You show us. Now, come on. Give me 34 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,760 key. Oh, come on, Ira. You're not going to lock us in this room. 35 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,240 Yeah, and you and Dave are going to put one over on us. No way. 36 00:02:44,590 --> 00:02:45,610 That was part of my bet. 37 00:02:46,850 --> 00:02:47,789 Come on. 38 00:02:47,790 --> 00:02:48,990 You and your fun ideas. 39 00:02:49,610 --> 00:02:50,610 That a girl. 40 00:02:50,830 --> 00:02:52,510 Jennifer, please, don't. 41 00:02:52,890 --> 00:02:53,890 I'll be all right, honey. 42 00:02:54,090 --> 00:02:55,110 To cheer you through the night. 43 00:02:55,710 --> 00:02:59,230 Thank you. Okay, you guys, let's clear the room. 44 00:02:59,830 --> 00:03:02,210 Say hello to the ghosts for me. See if you can catch one. 45 00:03:03,090 --> 00:03:03,969 Good night. 46 00:03:03,970 --> 00:03:04,709 You ready? 47 00:03:04,710 --> 00:03:05,649 I think so. 48 00:03:05,650 --> 00:03:06,650 Now leave us alone. 49 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:08,950 Good night. 50 00:03:09,250 --> 00:03:10,350 Don't forget to shut the door. 51 00:03:28,010 --> 00:03:28,948 They'll pick you up. 52 00:03:28,950 --> 00:03:29,950 You're not afraid, are you? 53 00:03:30,930 --> 00:03:31,930 No question. 54 00:03:32,330 --> 00:03:33,330 Atta girl. 55 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,420 What is that? Drop. 56 00:04:24,220 --> 00:04:25,220 Okay. 57 00:04:26,220 --> 00:04:28,600 All right, open. 58 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:34,900 Two play. 59 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:36,860 Cards. 60 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,660 Two cards. 61 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:40,300 Three cards. 62 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,440 Three, three, cards. 63 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:44,320 One more card. 64 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:19,159 your kids about. 65 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,340 When Jennifer asked me if she could use the house for a small party, I didn't 66 00:05:22,340 --> 00:05:23,340 think twice about it. 67 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:24,700 You know all the guests? 68 00:05:24,940 --> 00:05:27,240 Your niece didn't invite any strangers? 69 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:30,000 Well, certainly not to her. Why a party there, particularly? 70 00:05:30,380 --> 00:05:32,260 Oh, she wanted to do something different. 71 00:05:33,140 --> 00:05:39,060 It's a turn -of -the -century mansion, old, with the usual legends, ghosts, 72 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,700 manifestations, mysterious disappearances, drivel. 73 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:46,980 Next driveway. 74 00:05:58,060 --> 00:05:59,280 of your kind of place, Dennis. 75 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:00,500 Oh, it's not mine. 76 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,320 I'm on the board of the society that bought it. 77 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,580 We're restoring it to donate to the city as a period show place. 78 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,940 Right now, I'd like to tear it down and give it to the city as a parking lot. 79 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,220 It's a mess down here, but restoration has begun upstairs. 80 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:21,920 Good morning, Chief. Commissioner. 81 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,059 Good for Fran. 82 00:06:23,060 --> 00:06:24,060 Morning. 83 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,540 Well, all the convenience is home. 84 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,260 Get on, Chief. It's working. 85 00:06:27,980 --> 00:06:29,140 The others are still upstairs. 86 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:31,680 Doesn't seem to suit this style of home. 87 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:33,580 Well, undoubtedly added later on. 88 00:06:42,220 --> 00:06:44,160 I've taken statements from all the witnesses. 89 00:06:44,620 --> 00:06:46,860 They all tell pretty much the same story. 90 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,620 I repent and Cindy Morris are still with Ed. 91 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,460 And we let the others go home. 92 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:05,540 Are you ready to take on the spirit world? 93 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,700 I've yet to hear of a ghost solid enough to carry off two human beings. Where is 94 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:11,680 Ed? In the haunted bedroom wrapping. 95 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:12,940 On the walls? 96 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,240 And with witnesses. 97 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,800 Last door to your left. 98 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,200 Hello, Chief. 99 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,760 And how's it going? Nothing so far. No trap door, no false walls, window locked 100 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:28,639 in the inside. 101 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:29,640 What about prints? 102 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:30,729 All clean. 103 00:07:30,730 --> 00:07:33,790 Whoever or whatever took those two people went all the way, even Prince. 104 00:07:34,070 --> 00:07:38,030 Not a trace of hair or hide was found of Quentin or his bride. 105 00:07:38,250 --> 00:07:41,110 Two of the guests at the party last night, Ira Fenton, Cindy Morris, Chief 106 00:07:41,110 --> 00:07:42,110 Ironside. Mr. 107 00:07:42,250 --> 00:07:45,850 Fenton, I understand you were the one who locked the door and kept the key. 108 00:07:46,130 --> 00:07:49,450 That's right. Is there any chance Jennifer and Mr. Warren might have had a 109 00:07:49,450 --> 00:07:50,389 duplicate key? 110 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:53,530 You mean like put one over on us, sneak down? 111 00:07:53,810 --> 00:07:55,230 That's what I mean. No way. 112 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:59,770 Look, Mr. Ironside, we all heard Jen screaming her head off. Faces of blood 113 00:07:59,770 --> 00:08:00,770 this candlestick. 114 00:08:01,130 --> 00:08:04,110 It was on the floor right there when we came in. No prints on it. 115 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:10,290 All right, run down Dave's and Jennifer's medical history. 116 00:08:10,630 --> 00:08:12,090 See if you can match the blood type. 117 00:08:12,350 --> 00:08:14,470 One of her shoes was laying right beside it, I remember. 118 00:08:14,790 --> 00:08:15,629 It's clean. 119 00:08:15,630 --> 00:08:18,990 So is the champagne bottle. So are the glasses. Nobody's prints on anything. 120 00:08:19,270 --> 00:08:20,610 A few partials around the door. 121 00:08:20,850 --> 00:08:23,090 They could belong to Mr. Fenton and the rest of the party. Could. 122 00:08:23,490 --> 00:08:24,490 We've got the others. 123 00:08:24,970 --> 00:08:26,470 Ready for Mr. Fenton and Miss Morse now. 124 00:08:28,550 --> 00:08:29,770 All right, thank you both. 125 00:08:32,570 --> 00:08:33,570 Well? 126 00:08:33,690 --> 00:08:35,630 Nothing but a lot of rubbish and building materials. 127 00:08:35,830 --> 00:08:37,309 We're destroying it one room at a time. 128 00:08:37,730 --> 00:08:39,150 I sounded all the walls. 129 00:08:39,490 --> 00:08:41,570 Zero. Okay, this place... 130 00:09:02,830 --> 00:09:05,370 Doesn't do much to the chill, but it makes it a little more cozy in here at 131 00:09:05,370 --> 00:09:08,150 least. Cozy is hardly the word for a mausoleum. 132 00:09:12,310 --> 00:09:15,350 Chief, we've been that route every square foot, even the ceiling. 133 00:09:15,650 --> 00:09:19,170 I wanted to do it yourself, school, nor hadn't you noticed. I noticed. 134 00:09:21,590 --> 00:09:22,590 Easy, friend. 135 00:09:22,610 --> 00:09:25,730 Hey, if you thought I was a spook, I take it personally. 136 00:09:27,610 --> 00:09:31,870 Chief, if we're going to spend much more time here, can we get a phone line in? 137 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,160 Running back and forth to the car is wearing me fair. 138 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:36,500 You look better already. 139 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,060 What'd the lab have? Well, the blood on the candlestick was the same type as 140 00:09:40,060 --> 00:09:43,900 David Warner's. And there were no traces of drugs or anything toxic in the 141 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:46,500 champagne bottle or the glass. How about the prints we found? Matched 142 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:48,420 everybody's, but Warren and the girls. 143 00:09:49,140 --> 00:09:50,820 It's as if they'd never been in this room. 144 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,040 Yeah, but they were. 145 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:53,820 We have six witnesses. 146 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,160 That's the bottom line. 147 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,500 Two sets of facts that contradict each other. 148 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,460 Well, what do we do with them? Well, I pass. 149 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,120 We really can't do anything with them. Well, I'm ready to believe in the 150 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,300 supernatural. Fine, let's check that out. 151 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,560 What do you mean? Your ghost, or whatever you want to call it, has a 152 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:19,560 going after couples. 153 00:10:20,980 --> 00:10:22,760 You think he'd try for a quartet? 154 00:10:50,190 --> 00:10:51,189 and windows are all locked. 155 00:10:51,190 --> 00:10:52,350 No sign of any activity. 156 00:10:55,870 --> 00:10:57,070 As quiet as a tomb. 157 00:10:57,730 --> 00:11:00,430 Oh, you could have picked a better simulant. 158 00:11:00,750 --> 00:11:03,170 Chief, how much longer are we going to stay here? It's after two. 159 00:11:03,430 --> 00:11:05,970 Mind our lives, ghosts don't keep union hour. 160 00:12:28,210 --> 00:12:31,770 Nobody in any of the rooms. Yeah, the doors and windows are still locked from 161 00:12:31,770 --> 00:12:32,770 the inside. 162 00:12:35,850 --> 00:12:36,850 Well, 163 00:12:37,410 --> 00:12:38,970 somebody used this elevator. 164 00:12:39,670 --> 00:12:41,330 This thing in the morning will get the lab on it. 165 00:12:42,970 --> 00:12:44,950 Hey, summer chief, we struck out. 166 00:13:08,140 --> 00:13:09,440 That's all, and he was gone. 167 00:13:10,220 --> 00:13:13,100 If it hadn't been for his wheelchair, anyone would think he'd never even been 168 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:14,800 there. Not even any signs of a struggle? 169 00:13:15,060 --> 00:13:17,260 None. It's incredible. I simply can't believe it. 170 00:13:18,220 --> 00:13:22,140 Commissioner, I'm ready to believe anything that happened in that house. 171 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,780 up until last night, I was convinced it was a hoax. 172 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,240 I thought those kids were playing some stupid trick on me and all of us. 173 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,780 I even called Ira and practically blamed him. 174 00:13:31,660 --> 00:13:32,660 And now Bob. 175 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:36,400 Whatever it is, sir, it's no trick. 176 00:13:37,310 --> 00:13:38,310 All right, all right, Fran. 177 00:13:39,050 --> 00:13:40,530 Are you and Mark and Ed on top of this? 178 00:13:40,790 --> 00:13:41,790 They're at the house now. 179 00:13:41,890 --> 00:13:44,930 Do you need any more help? No, none at the moment. We have a full crew out 180 00:13:44,930 --> 00:13:45,930 now. 181 00:13:46,070 --> 00:13:49,630 But I do remember that the chief asked for the architectural plans of the house 182 00:13:49,630 --> 00:13:53,210 yesterday. Have you found them yet? The builder died years ago, but we managed 183 00:13:53,210 --> 00:13:56,110 to track down the company that took over for him. I have someone searching 184 00:13:56,110 --> 00:13:57,110 through their old files. 185 00:13:57,250 --> 00:13:59,410 If I find anything, I'll send it right out to the house. 186 00:13:59,650 --> 00:14:00,650 All right. 187 00:14:01,190 --> 00:14:03,190 Well, thank you, sir. 188 00:14:03,590 --> 00:14:04,590 Fran? 189 00:14:05,930 --> 00:14:10,770 If you find anything, whatever it is, call me immediately. 190 00:14:12,130 --> 00:14:13,130 Of course. 191 00:14:21,550 --> 00:14:26,430 We're not getting anywhere outside. 192 00:14:27,190 --> 00:14:29,950 Doug has stuck probes all the way around the house. 193 00:14:30,210 --> 00:14:33,730 No tunnels, passageways, even big enough for a mole. 194 00:14:34,450 --> 00:14:35,450 Negative here, too. 195 00:14:35,820 --> 00:14:36,820 What are you doing? 196 00:14:37,340 --> 00:14:40,920 Looking for some kind of remote control that would make the elevator operate by 197 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,080 itself. Yeah, well, there's got to be, because there was nobody in it, that's 198 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,020 for sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure of anything anymore, as a matter of fact, 199 00:14:47,060 --> 00:14:49,320 including my eyes, ears, and the rest of my senses. 200 00:14:50,060 --> 00:14:51,060 Take it up, will you? 201 00:14:51,260 --> 00:14:52,260 Yeah. 202 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,860 I swear, if I didn't know we left the chief in that room, I'd say that we'd 203 00:15:00,860 --> 00:15:03,140 trip out to the moon. Don't trip, no way. 204 00:15:03,580 --> 00:15:05,660 Yeah. But give me another wise. 205 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:07,120 I can't. 206 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:08,840 Say one thing. 207 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:10,460 We don't get somewhere soon. 208 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,320 Showplace, landmarks, I don't care. I'm going to make the commissioner take this 209 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,320 place apart. 210 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,080 Ed? Mark? 211 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,160 Ed! 212 00:16:28,810 --> 00:16:29,810 Mark! 213 00:19:47,530 --> 00:19:48,530 How do you do, gentlemen? 214 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,500 My compliments to the chef. 215 00:24:49,610 --> 00:24:52,330 the only set of plans the commissioner has been able to find so far from the 216 00:24:52,330 --> 00:24:57,730 builder's file i could do yeah 217 00:24:57,730 --> 00:25:04,730 yeah this is this bedroom hey look here now this wall where the 218 00:25:04,730 --> 00:25:07,830 window is yeah maybe 219 00:25:07,830 --> 00:25:13,670 okay 220 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Why that wall? 221 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,300 Well, in the specifications, it should be six inches deep. 222 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:26,560 Just look at it. 223 00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:30,820 Three feet easy. 224 00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:32,400 Grenade has been added on later. 225 00:25:32,860 --> 00:25:33,860 Yeah, sure, but why? 226 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:35,420 This is solid. 227 00:25:35,860 --> 00:25:36,860 All the way. 228 00:25:37,220 --> 00:25:38,220 All right, keep trying. 229 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,280 What does it say down here? 230 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,440 That should be the architect's name. 231 00:25:44,580 --> 00:25:48,140 L -O -R -E -N -Z. 232 00:25:48,810 --> 00:25:50,730 Well, you should be worth checking out. Yeah, good idea. 233 00:25:52,090 --> 00:25:53,090 Hey, Sergeant! 234 00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:54,510 I've gone through. 235 00:25:59,370 --> 00:26:00,750 The wall's about this thick, yeah? 236 00:26:01,030 --> 00:26:02,370 And this plaster behind the wood. 237 00:26:02,990 --> 00:26:03,990 Tear out the panel. 238 00:26:07,890 --> 00:26:09,110 Maybe we'll finally gain a break. 239 00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:10,430 We're overdue. 240 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,280 Open space in there, all right? 241 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,840 Wall so thick we couldn't stand it out by tapping. Room in there for a man? 242 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,960 Yeah. Enough. 243 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,000 Hey, wait a minute. What is it? 244 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,220 Well, it feels like a leather thing. 245 00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:30,660 JP. Jennifer Palmer. 246 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,880 To Commissioner Randall from Robert T. Ironside. 247 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,800 Subject, Palmer Warner case. 248 00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:51,060 I am writing this report in the same house where I began my investigation, 249 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:57,360 yet I seem to have been moved back to the time when the house was new. 250 00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:05,040 I have been confronted with specters. 251 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,640 and manifestations. 252 00:30:09,220 --> 00:30:14,600 But I have been drugged, undoubtedly, and have been hallucinating. 253 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:21,160 I believe what is happening to me is directly related to an incident in my 254 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,840 to someone who... 255 00:30:47,340 --> 00:30:48,880 Good work, Ed. What did you find? 256 00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:55,660 Well, where does it lead? Down in the basement. Came out through a false wall. 257 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,540 It's a door from the basement to the backyard. 258 00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:58,920 They could have been taken anywhere. 259 00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:00,720 Or it could have been a faint. 260 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,080 They're still in the house somewhere. 261 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,020 There's one secret passage. There could be others. 262 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,360 Well, keep looking. 263 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:07,700 Tear the house down if necessary. 264 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,120 Yes, sir. 265 00:31:09,180 --> 00:31:11,180 At least we've settled one thing. 266 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,680 Whoever's behind this is solid flesh and bone. 267 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,240 Ghosts don't need secret passageways. 268 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,560 This is Chief Ironside. Put me through to Commissioner Randall's office right 269 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,560 away. 270 00:34:10,940 --> 00:34:13,100 Yes, sir. I understand, sir. 271 00:34:13,940 --> 00:34:15,280 One moment, Peter. 272 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,500 Commissioner Randall's office. Betsy. One moment, please. 273 00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:23,340 I'm sorry, Mr. Delano. 274 00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:26,020 Well, yes, 275 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,300 the commissioner is certainly interested in promoting better relations with... 276 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:31,760 Hello? Betsy? 277 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:37,560 Betsy? Yes, yes, Commissioner Randall is for better lighted streets. However, 278 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:38,900 that is not exactly his department. 279 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,560 Bessie, hello. 280 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:41,679 Uh -huh. 281 00:34:42,219 --> 00:34:45,260 Yes. Yes, I'll tell the commissioner that you called. 282 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,820 And thank you, Mr. Delano, for your interest. 283 00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:53,840 Sorry to keep you waiting. Bessie, this is Irontide. Chief. 284 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:55,100 Put me through. 285 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:56,159 Yes, sir. 286 00:34:59,060 --> 00:35:00,060 Yes. 287 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:01,700 Well, put him on. 288 00:35:03,630 --> 00:35:04,630 Dennis, listen. 289 00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:05,870 There are two houses. 290 00:35:06,330 --> 00:35:07,450 Drew Griffith. 291 00:35:08,510 --> 00:35:10,330 Dennis, I... Dennis? 292 00:35:13,030 --> 00:35:14,770 Dennis, can you hear me? Hello, Bob? 293 00:35:15,610 --> 00:35:16,610 Hello, Bob? 294 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,480 There's no question in my mind. Could he tell you anything? 295 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,780 Oh, something about two houses and two Griffiths. 296 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,180 Then we'd be cut off. 297 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,780 What do you mean, two houses? 298 00:35:57,020 --> 00:35:58,660 I haven't got the foggiest notion. 299 00:35:59,580 --> 00:36:02,180 Well, Griffith adds up to something. Oh? 300 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:03,480 I traced the architect. 301 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,800 He's dead now, but his children kept the records. 302 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:10,540 The house was built for one Anthony Griffith, a very wealthy man back at the 303 00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:11,540 turn of the century. 304 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:12,640 Here's a picture of it. 305 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:16,240 The picture was taken the day the family moved in. 306 00:36:16,650 --> 00:36:17,730 Who are all these people? 307 00:36:17,970 --> 00:36:18,888 I don't know. 308 00:36:18,890 --> 00:36:19,890 Family, I suppose. 309 00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:22,190 San Francisco Globe. 310 00:36:22,490 --> 00:36:23,490 Old news photo. 311 00:36:23,810 --> 00:36:25,790 Globe? That went out of business years ago. 312 00:36:26,370 --> 00:36:28,410 Well, there must be some back issues in the main library. 313 00:36:29,090 --> 00:36:31,150 Well, that's all we have to work with. 314 00:36:31,410 --> 00:36:34,650 Mark. Fran, you take vital stats. I'll take the library. 315 00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:38,990 Yes, sir. Now, there was a real newspaper, the Globe. 316 00:36:39,270 --> 00:36:44,410 It's not like these modern sheets. Oh, they print the weather, crossword fuzzy. 317 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,280 Good old yellow American journalism. That's what the Globe gave you. There 318 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,700 murder, scandal, 319 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:56,560 sex, gossip, all the things that are fun to read. 320 00:36:56,940 --> 00:36:59,780 Oh, yeah, I'm sure. But what about those files? 321 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,840 Files? Yeah. 322 00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:03,300 There they are. 323 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:04,640 Help yourself. 324 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,820 Uh, don't you have them on microfilm? 325 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,080 Microfilm? 326 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:19,640 When they get around to it, when they got the money, all you want is up there. 327 00:37:20,460 --> 00:37:21,580 Don't you tear them pages? 328 00:37:22,980 --> 00:37:23,980 Yeah, thanks. 329 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,180 There's a lot of fine reading up there. Do you know there is more good old 330 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:33,080 American mayhem in one edition of the Globe than a whole month of Dick Tracy? 331 00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:33,859 Yeah, I'll bet. 332 00:37:33,860 --> 00:37:37,080 Well, let me tell you, young man, there is no art left in killing. 333 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,900 Nowadays, it's nothing but naked, dumb violence. 334 00:37:42,490 --> 00:37:44,010 All the fun gone out alive. 335 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:34,740 I'm certain this case will be closed very soon, one way or the other. I am 336 00:38:34,740 --> 00:38:40,580 now that the object of this plan was to cause my emotional breakdown 337 00:38:40,580 --> 00:38:44,940 and my eventual suicide. 338 00:38:45,540 --> 00:38:49,540 Since I haven't obliged, the plan now. 339 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,880 Must be my murder. 340 00:39:08,380 --> 00:39:09,380 Commissioner? 341 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,180 Mark. I'm on my way to pick up Fran. 342 00:39:12,940 --> 00:39:15,980 Will you get a hold of Ed and tell him to wait at the house for us? You found 343 00:39:15,980 --> 00:39:17,060 something? Yes, sir. 344 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,440 Another house. 345 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,360 Another... Yeah, just the way the chief called it. 346 00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:22,880 Anthony Griffith had a twin, John. 347 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,820 He built a carbon copy of his brother's house in the country, about where 348 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:27,820 Millbrae is now. 349 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,480 Okay. By the twins in the two houses, where did the chief fit in? He wasn't 350 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,160 born yet. Forget about it. No. 351 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:35,560 Let's concentrate on Anthony's son, Anthony Jr. 352 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,100 By the early 40s, he was 60. 353 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,800 His father and uncle were dead, and he inherited everything, including both 354 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,140 mansions. Yeah. He was one of the fattest cats in California. 355 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,860 There were stories of bribery and corruption. 356 00:40:47,260 --> 00:40:49,200 Eventually, the DA's office got in on it. 357 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:51,620 A young detective sergeant went inside. 358 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:53,598 Robert T. 359 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:54,600 Ironside. Right. 360 00:40:54,820 --> 00:40:58,540 He not only broke the book, but when Griffith tried to sneak out of the 361 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,820 he anticipated it, and arrested him on a gangplank of a boat bound for South 362 00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:06,000 America. Yeah, that was pretty hairy. The old man had a stroke right there on 363 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:06,578 the spot. 364 00:41:06,580 --> 00:41:07,580 Left him paralyzed. 365 00:41:07,740 --> 00:41:09,000 Has he ever brought to trial? No. 366 00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:11,400 His lawyers stalled the case for over a year. 367 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,020 Then one morning they found him dead in his house, the one here in town. 368 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,260 He had fallen down the stairs in his wheelchair. 369 00:41:18,260 --> 00:41:20,060 Griffith had a son, Drew. 370 00:41:20,859 --> 00:41:22,760 He was taken out of the country when his father died. 371 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,980 No line on when he came back, if he ever did. 372 00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:29,140 But he inherited what was left from the estate after all the lawsuits and fines 373 00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:31,640 were paid on him. How old would he be now? Late 20s. 374 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,960 Just the age of any of the men who were at the house the night Jennifer and 375 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:36,960 David disappeared. 376 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:39,800 Bastard. 377 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:04,760 Mr. Griffith. 378 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:13,160 Help me. 379 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:18,980 Help me. He's mad. Stop it. Control yourself. 380 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,520 Stay down. 381 00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:22,200 No matter what happens, don't move. 382 00:42:22,420 --> 00:42:23,880 You'll be all right. 383 00:42:24,220 --> 00:42:25,220 You'll be all right. 384 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,080 Get out of here. 385 00:45:03,790 --> 00:45:04,790 It's all right, Jennifer. 386 00:45:06,050 --> 00:45:07,410 I can't hurt you now. 387 00:45:11,690 --> 00:45:16,850 How's Jennifer feeling, Dennis? 388 00:45:19,230 --> 00:45:20,230 Vacation's a good idea. 389 00:45:21,030 --> 00:45:23,210 She needs it. It was a pretty terrifying experience. 390 00:45:25,550 --> 00:45:26,610 Oh, I'm fine. 391 00:45:27,030 --> 00:45:28,130 That is, I will be. 392 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,320 As soon as I get something to eat. It's just about ready, Chief. All right, 393 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,320 Dennis. We'll see you tomorrow. 394 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,680 Still haven't told us how Drew Griffith managed to take you, Chief. 395 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,500 You were armed, ready for something to happen? Some kind of vaporized drug was 396 00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:44,780 piped through the gas jets. 397 00:45:45,020 --> 00:45:48,260 I noticed the flame lowering and then blacked out. The next thing I knew, I 398 00:45:48,260 --> 00:45:50,080 in the bedroom in that old wheelchair. 399 00:45:50,660 --> 00:45:54,980 Think about obsessions. Gas, electric gear, lighting systems, restoring the 400 00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:56,960 house. Well, he must have spent a fortune. 401 00:45:57,180 --> 00:45:59,180 Probably spent another fortune getting his head on straight. 402 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,980 Should have been done years ago. I can still see him. 403 00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:09,420 A little boy in a gangplank of a ship, crying over his father, his whole world 404 00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:10,840 shattered, and blaming me. 405 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,260 Had a devastating effect on him. 406 00:46:13,620 --> 00:46:14,620 And on me. 407 00:46:14,740 --> 00:46:18,280 Well, it could have been our one and the other two guys. No, no, the party 408 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,100 wasn't their idea, nor the bed. It had to be David or Jennifer. She was the 409 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:23,780 avenue to the house, and to me. 410 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:29,300 What really beats me is you figured it out all by yourself while we ran 411 00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:30,440 ourselves ragged. 412 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,660 As a critic once observed about Gulliver's travels, once you've thought 413 00:46:34,660 --> 00:46:37,740 big men and little men, there's nothing to it. 414 00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:41,340 Mark, how about the old man's hungry? Coming up. 415 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,840 Uh, a big man, little man? 416 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:48,400 Just, uh, who was that critic? Who else? 417 00:46:51,460 --> 00:46:52,460 Are we?