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Thousand lovely dollars. Unique. Easy to handle stacks.

Twenties, tens, fives, ones.

Ones?

You can't expect a man to be bothered with ones.

I gotta move this furniture.

Can't have the man bumping into things.

Might hurt his self.

Hello, Superman.

You don't seem very surprised to see me.

Well, being a wrongdoer, I figured sooner or later you got to catch me.

What's got to be has got to be. Well, now, that's very philosophic.

And may I say you left a very easy trail to follow, one very obvious.

Well, I'm just a little guy. I ain't very smart.

I see. Oh, the money's over there. Thank you.

There's less than $13,000 there.

Thank you.

I happen to know there's over half a million missing in that armored car

holdup.

Well, like I told you, I'm just a little guy. They give me a little split.

Meanwhile, you led me on a wild goose chase while your friends ran off with

the majority of the loot.

Where are your friends, Bates? No comment.

Well, in that case, we'll have to run down to headquarters and have a little

talk with Inspector Henderson.

Maybe you can find something to discuss with him.

You... You gonna fly?

Naturally.

Well, uh... Oh, my car's out back. I'll drive down to headquarters and meet you

there. Mm-mm. No? No.

You mean, I'm gonna fly with you? That's right.

I knew there'd be things about this job I wouldn't like.

Your bag?

This way.

Bates was a bit shaken up by the flight to my office with Superman.

Not enough to make him talk, evidently. He's obviously being well paid to keep

his mouth shut.

What about the money Superman found with him? The money wasn't from the payroll

job. Oh, fine.

That means you can only hold him a few days.

He won't be in jail long enough to lose a suntan.

They knew a job as big as this would ring in Superman, so they paid Bates off

to act as decoy. What you have to do is find out who they are and who this Mr.

Big is.

Yeah, that'll take a lot of luck.

Bill, how'd you like to stretch your luck a bit?

What's your idea?

Well, isn't Bates due to be transferred to the county jail today?

Yeah.

Why don't you take him yourself?

Oh, so you think there'll be an attempt at a break?

Well, there could just be.

Come on, I'll explain it to you on the way down to headquarters.

Okay, babe, moving day.

Yeah?

I understand the apartments in the county are superior to this.

Yeah, central heating, a view of the river, overstuffed furniture.

You'll enjoy it. I'm sure I will.

Whoa.

Cigarette?

Yeah, thanks.

I never use them myself, but I always carry a pack for the commissioner.

For a cop, you ain't a bad guy.

Never turn your back on a guy like me, Inspector.

I ain't to be trusted.

Special edition will hit the streets in about a half hour, Bill.

Yeah, I can hardly wait.

After what the police commissioner said, nothing could be worse.

If these things can pick up a heartbeat loud enough to hear, they can certainly

pick up a voice through a door.

I feel sort of sneaky, but you know, I like it.

Jimmy, you're positively brilliant.

Well, it runs in the family, and sometimes I catch up with it.

Well, he fell for the chance like a ton of bricks. Nearly broke my neck.

Well, the important thing is that Bates is loose now. Let's just hope he leads

us to Mr. Bates. Yeah, I have three men tailing him. Unofficially, of course.

It's a chance, Bill. It's a long chance, but it's still a chance of sorts.

Oh, sure.

You know, I must be crazy.

If the commissioner ever learned that I let Bates escape on purpose, he'd boil

me in oil.

I could be disgraced, ruined, even go to jail myself.

I just can't believe it. A deliberate escape.

If this thing blows up in their faces...

But it will if somebody doesn't find this Mr. Big.

And there's no reason why it shouldn't be us. Come on.

Well, I'd better get back to headquarters.

The men who are trailing bait should be reporting in pretty soon.

Good hunting.

There. Give me 20 points. Double.

Gablotnik? What kind of word is that?

It's a very good word. Used frequently in South Pago Pago.

Yeah, what does it mean?

What do you think it means? It means Kiplotnik.

Well, we ain't playing in South Pago Pago.

Sure wish we was.

I'm sick of this bomb shelter.

And what are we doing in the bomb shelter anyway?

Who's going to bomb us?

Nobody, stupid. I rented this joint from a rich dame because it's a perfect

hideout. And the walls are lined with lead for protection against atomic

radiation. Don't talk like that.

It ain't atomic radiation I'm thinking about. It's Superman.

And the lead lining makes it impossible for him to see us.

Oh, great.

Superman can't see us. So here we sit with a half a million bucks hibernating

like a couple of bears.

Sure, but the cops got the city sealed off. The airports, the railroads,

roadblocks on all the highways.

But as long as we sit tight here till the heat's off, we're okay.

Yeah, well, when does the heat get turned off?

As soon as I figure out a way to get a certain evidence file from our pal

Inspector Henderson.

Don't call that cop a pal. It gives me the creeps.

That file could send us up for life if he ever gets his hands on us. And if we

had it, we could blow this trap tomorrow.

Yeah, if we had it.

There. Give me 30 points.

Kademiwag?

Where'd you find that?

North Pago Pago.

Oh, some bum shelter.

Telephones and everything.

Yeah?

Who do you want?

Hello, Arnold? This is Bates.

Bates, you stupid idiot, I told you never to call... Listen, I'm calling

from Central Avenue. I escaped.

You fool, I paid you to get arrested, not to escape.

Gee, that's right, I forgot.

My instincts just got the best of me.

Well, you go back and give yourself up.

Okay. Okay, Arnold, if that's what you want.

Uh, no, wait a minute, wait a minute. Listen, Bates.

I want you to turn around real quick and look outside the booth.

Oh, I see what you mean. I'm being followed.

Exactly, but don't worry about it. Look, get yourself a room someplace and let me

know, huh? Just make sure you keep on acting like you're on the lam.

You'll be all right.

You're the boss, Arnold. I'll let you know.

You look like a canary what just swallowed a cat.

Inspector Henderson set a trap to catch me. Instead, he walked right into it

himself. How do you figure? It's perfect.

That evidence file is practically in our hands.

You ain't slipped a marble, have you, boss?

No, I ain't slipped a marble. Look, Eddie, get me 20 grand out of the back

room. We're blackmailing Inspector Anderson, and he don't even know it.

Come in.

I'm the one they sent up from downstairs.

Oh, for pains of my laryngitis.

You said you had information on the Benton robbery job.

Sure I have.

In fact, I can point out one of the characters who was in on it. You can?

Who?

Me.

Forget it, Buster.

Better think first.

I guess you already read the newspaper.

The headline says, uh, Payroll Thug Escapes Police Inspector.

Pretty good story, too.

The police commissioner says every effort will be taken to... All right,

get on with it. What do you want?

All we want is the Benton job evidence file. Complete by midnight tonight.

Are you crazy?

What makes you think I'd give you that file?

You let Bates escape, didn't you?

Of course not. Sure you did.

For a bribe of 20,000 bucks.

That's a lie.

Sure, but it's a lie we can prove.

The money's already been planted.

And we've got definite proof set up to connect you with it.

I never took a bribe in my life.

No?

Look in your left-hand pocket.

Now look at the serial number.

It's from the payroll job, same as the rest of the 20,000.

I wish I had evidence to arrest you, but I haven't.

But I'll get you sooner or later.

Sure. But you wouldn't arrest me anyhow.

Because then I'd have to tell them about the bribe and prove it.

You gotta admit, an old pro like you letting a hoot escape don't smell too

good to begin with.

Get out of here.

Okay, okay.

But look at it from the humorous side.

There is something funny about a cop being blackmailed. Get out of here.

Mind it, Bill.

Can't I?

I was half kidding before about going to jail, but I'm not now.

It's going to happen.

Why do you say that?

Well, we started out to uncover the identity of Mr. Big.

Now, if I knew who he was, I'd make it my duty to arrest him.

But if I lay a finger on him, I'm ruined for life.

Yeah.

Well, I got you into this. I only hope I can get you out.

Even Superman couldn't help me now.

How'd it go? How'd it go?

Smooth as silk. After midnight, no more worries. Real smooth, huh?

Yeah, you should have seen his expression.

Just like I shoved this in his kisser. Put that in the back room, you fool.

It's dangerous.

The first weapon ever invented to knock out Superman.

Yeah, except we're not sure it's perfected yet. Now put it away.

Okay, okay.

be needing any weapons before long.

Yeah, how about that, huh?

Oh, incidentally, that, uh, Clark Kent didn't look too happy about it, neither.

Kent? Where was he?

He was calling on the inspector just as I was leaving the premises.

Now, what's the matter? I don't like it, that's all.

What if the inspector tells him about the pitch we made? So what?

So what? So Kent tells Superman, and maybe Superman tries to interfere when

we're making a pickup on that evidence file.

I hate to say this, Arnold, but you got a point. A very sharp point.

What can we do?

We gotta get a hold of Kent and keep him locked up till we're in the clear.

Oh, Kent ain't the type to walk right into our mitts, you know.

Our boy Bates is still on the lam, right?

Yeah, sure.

But suppose... Just leave the brain work to me, Eddie.

Clark might have come in while we were downstairs.

He's probably still on Inspector Henderson's waiting for Bates to make a

move. Yeah.

I guess so.

If they're concentrating on it from that angle, we'd better figure out one

ourselves. If we only had something to start with.

I wonder.

Somebody must have brought it in person.

Um, it reminds me. I need some ink in my office.

You spilled it all over everywhere.

Clumsy of me, wasn't it?

Incidentally, are you sure Mr. Kent's name was on this letter?

Well, the handwriting wasn't very legible.

Maybe we should look to make sure?

It's our duty, Miss Lane.

Mr. Kent, I am ready to give myself up, but only to you. Come alone to the shack

where Superman captured me. No tricks.

Signed, Bates.

Miss Lane, if he's willing to give himself up to Mr. Kent, he must be ready

to talk.

And if he's ready to talk, it's our duty to provide someone to listen, like us.

Let's get in the car.

I, uh, I only hope Superman's somewhere close just in case.

Okay, what is it?

Are you Mr. Bates?

Who are you?

I'm Smith, and she's Jones, and this is all a mistake. We're sorry we bothered

you. It sure is a mistake. Come on, Buster, what's this all about?

Might as well tell him, Jimmy.

You sent for Mr. Kent, and he was busy, so we came in his place.

We're reporters on the planet, too.

Only one thing wrong.

I ain't Bates.

Then this is a trap.

Now you're thinking, kid.

But no harm done. Three is better than one any day.

Go on, sit down. Make yourself comfortable while we wait for Kent to

come after you.

But, Mr. Kent... He isn't going to be here for an hour.

We can wait.

Sit down.

Sit down.

My nerves is on edge, so don't try nothing.

I'm a sick man.

Besides nerves, I got high lava tummy pressure and sideways metabolism.

Sit down.

Sir, uh... Sir, if, uh... If you would allow me to reach my hand in my pocket,

your health may be greatly improved.

Go ahead.

But don't forget I'm holding this gun on you.

Hey, you ain't a doc, are you?

Well, sir, I can truthfully say I didn't waste all those years at the Vienna

Medical Conservatory.

Hey, them Vienna guys got ailments I never heard of over here.

Oh, sir, if you would give me the chance, I'm sure I can find a new one

for you.

Go ahead, find something.

Something's wrong with my cranium, ain't there? I knew it.

Yeah, you got a very bad case of cerebellum.

Hey, that sounds important.

They got pills for that?

Be quiet while I listen to your lobar pendulum.

Lobar pendulum?

Congratulations, doctor. The operation was a success.

Thanks, Miss Lane. Now...

All we have to do is sew him up without that.

As Bates' pal pointed out, it does have its humorous side.

If Bates doesn't know he's being tailed and should lead us to Mr.

Big... Well, that's the last thing we want.

We don't want to find Mr. Big until first we find that money. Just give him

a better hold on you.

Inspector Clark, we got one of them.

One of whom?

One of the gang. While you two were loafing, Jimmy and I went into action.

He's tied up in that shack where Superman got dates. And if he talks,

you're going to have your Mr. Big in an hour.

I'm sorry, Bill.

Sorry? Sorry for what?

We got you both out of a jam.

Out of the frying pan, you mean. The case is practically solved.

Isn't that what you wanted?

It's a long story, Jimmy.

Well, Bill?

I've got no choice, and you know it.

This is Henderson. Get my car and two officers. I'll be right down.

I haven't even got that six hours anymore.

You like to come along?

It's your story now.

Jeepers, thanks, Inspector.

I'm going to use Clark's office. My typewriter hasn't been returned yet.

Stand by to fan the typewriter, Jim.

I want to get this story on paper while it's hot.

And before Inspector Henderson gets back to his office and gives it to Mr. Kent.

I think we've scooped Mr. Kent for once on the arrest of Eddie Perkins.

Hello, Mark.

Hello, Bill.

I take it Eddie spilled the beans?

All over the commissioner's office.

Just about the end of the road for me, Kent.

In a few minutes, I'll go downstairs and get into a car with the commissioner, a

couple of good cops, and Eddie.

We'll drive to wherever he tells us, find the evidence that I took a bribe.

Look at these, Kent.

I used to wear them when I was pounding a beat on Delancey Street, when I used

to dream of becoming an inspector.

Now it's all over.

to get attached to things.

My club, badge, coffee pot, my desk, police car.

I know, Bill.

I hope someday you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

It was my decision, too.

Oh, put these in a box for me, will you, Kent?

I've got to get going.

I'm under arrest right now.

Sure, Bill.

All right, at the next turn.

Why don't you just tell us where we're going?

Oh, sure.

And you radio the car ahead, and they pick up the loot before we get there.

Why would we do that?

To save the good name of the department.

It's a frame-up, and you know it.

Even the commissioner ain't gonna believe that.

Then let's assume I took the bribe. How do you know where I hid it?

One thing you never trust is a crooked cop.

So when you was paid off, I trailed you.

Just in case you was figuring on double-crossing us, which you did.

Oh, then you offered him the bribe.

And that's a crime in itself.

Prove it, Commish.

All I did was follow the guy.

You ain't got nothing against me that'll stand up in court.

But you'll have an airtight case against the inspector.

How about that, Bill?

It's not true, Commissioner.

But I admit it looks bad.

Want a club?

Badge?

Coffee pot?

Police car?

Police car?

Well, that could be it.

770. Must be the Central Depot.

Okay, pull over there.

Central Depot.

So that's it.

You hid it in a public locker. As if you didn't know.

And when I tell the commissioner where to find the locker key, we'll figure it

out. Eddie, whoever you're working for is a pretty smart cookie.

Go ahead, Commish.

Use the master key you got from the baggage room.

Lockfield's a little loud.

It's empty.

Hey, wait a minute.

There was a briefcase in here with 20,000 clams.

I put it in here myself.

Oh, you did, eh?

That's all I wanted to hear. I just want the pleasure of arresting you again,

Eddie. That Arnold, that dirty double-crossing rat.

He must have took a powder with that half a million bucks and couldn't resist

stopping for a lousy 20 grand.

So that's Mr. Big, Arnold Woodman. Yeah, that dirty rat.

I should have known after the way he cheated at Scrabble. Never mind that.

Where is he? If I knew, I'd be glad to tell you.

The only thing I know is we was hiding in a bomb shelter in back of 85 Chestnut

Street. Well, it's worth a try.

Let's go.

Superman! I thought you might want someone to talk to, Arnold.

You'd better come out, Arnold.

Come out, Arnold.

I've been waiting for a long time to try this out on you, Superman.

It looks like you missed.

Shall we go?

Hey, David.

Hey, hurry up and open yours, Jim. We got the raise.

Oh, am I going to celebrate tonight?

I'm going to go to two double features.

Well, that's funny. I didn't get any raise.

Well, naturally.

We helped Superman round up the gang, not you.

Oh, that's right, Lois.

I guess I wasn't much help, was I?

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