1 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,740 Mr. Britt Reid, please, this is Pat Allen at the office. 2 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,760 When you expect him, this is important. 3 00:00:24,260 --> 00:00:28,440 Then can you try to reach him and have him call me back in the night line? I need his okay on something. 4 00:00:28,660 --> 00:00:30,180 No, it can't wait till morning. 5 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:34,000 Look, I'm sitting on a hot story, and I have to have his permission to break it wide open. 6 00:00:34,380 --> 00:00:37,880 Yeah, okay, I'll be right here. 7 00:01:40,460 --> 00:01:47,140 Another challenge for the Green Hornet, his aide Kato and their rolling arsenal The Black Beauty. 8 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:49,820 On police records - a wanted criminal, 9 00:01:49,820 --> 00:01:52,480 the Green Hornet is really Britt Reid, 10 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:54,780 owner publisher of the Daily Sentinel. 11 00:01:54,780 --> 00:01:58,140 His dual identity known only to his secretary 12 00:01:58,140 --> 00:01:59,800 and to the district attorney. 13 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:07,300 And now to protect the rights and lives of decent citizens rides the Green Hornet! 14 00:03:03,380 --> 00:03:08,400 ...during a stormy session in Council Chambers today City Councilman Bright assured the mayor special committee, 15 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,800 that he would vote against any increase in taxes this year. 16 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,100 And here's an additional note of the bizarre death of Daily Sentinel reporter Pat Allen. 17 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:20,140 The only witness, maintenance worker Mrs. Martha Crown, hospitalized by shock, 18 00:03:20,140 --> 00:03:22,100 has shed no further light on the matter. 19 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,160 District attorney Scanlon and the police have theorized, that the leopard, 20 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,200 which escaped from the zoo only blocks from the Sentinel building, 21 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,580 was panicked by traffic and sought shelter in the building. 22 00:03:31,580 --> 00:03:33,700 Meanwhile on the national scene today... 23 00:03:38,540 --> 00:03:43,060 But how could the leopard have gotten to the city room 8 floors above the street, 24 00:03:43,060 --> 00:03:45,000 and why would it kill Pat Allen? 25 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,280 That's something we have to find out. 26 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:48,500 How's Mike taking it? 27 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:52,500 Badly. He's in there now cleaning out Pat's desk. 28 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:03,280 What's that? 29 00:04:04,180 --> 00:04:07,580 'On a huge walled estate near Danforth'. 30 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:11,920 All that's left of Pat Allen. The rejected lead line. 31 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,160 Shouldn't we say that for the police? What for? 32 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:18,700 They've already closed the file on this case. 33 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:21,220 'Accidental death' indeed. 34 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,140 When was the last time you saw a leopard accidentally wander into a city room and kill a reporter? 35 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:30,220 Easy Mike, we all feel as bad about this as you do. 36 00:04:30,420 --> 00:04:32,680 I never had a son. 37 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:37,220 Pat Allen came as close to being that as anyone could. 38 00:04:37,220 --> 00:04:42,200 He was really keyed up about that story he was working on. I wonder what it was? 39 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,020 Kato said when he... 40 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:46,280 Where that come from? 41 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,640 It fell out this package of cigarettes. They were Pat's. 42 00:04:49,980 --> 00:04:51,220 What is it? 43 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,020 Looks like a miniaturised transmitter! 44 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,060 Type that are used in space capsules. 45 00:04:56,060 --> 00:04:59,580 I told you, you can't, mister... I gotta tell him he's all wrong about this. 46 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:01,060 What's this all about, miss Case? 47 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:04,380 Well, I tried to stop him, Mr. Reid. So you're Mr. Reid. 48 00:05:04,380 --> 00:05:06,560 Flora would never have done a thing like this. 49 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,900 Mr. Melvin is the leopard keeper at the zoo. 50 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:11,780 And I want to tell you that Flora couldn't have killed your reporter. 51 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:14,520 Couldn't? Well, she's 18 years old, Mr. Reid. 52 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,820 She's lost most of her teeth and her claws are worn down to nubs. 53 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:20,370 If she were still in the jungle, I don't think she'd be alive! 54 00:05:20,370 --> 00:05:22,340 She was mighty lively last night. 55 00:05:22,340 --> 00:05:25,280 Did you write this story? So /as if I did, why?/ 56 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:29,740 I've lived with these animals all my life, and none of them would hurt anyone. 57 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:32,740 That's something poor Pat Allen might find hard to believe. 58 00:05:32,740 --> 00:05:36,440 The boy was just starting a great career, and it went out that window with him. 59 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,280 Thanks to your leopard. 60 00:05:40,900 --> 00:05:44,340 Oh, Mr. Reid? Mr. Reid. 61 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:45,980 Where will you be? At home. 62 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:48,580 I'll be back in about an hour. 63 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:58,980 I think you got a pretty tight case, captain. I'll send one of my deputies over in the morning. 64 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,960 Yes, I'll be waiting for your letter. Thank you. 65 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:11,220 Mr. Scanlon, here's the gemologist report. Thank you. Yeah, that's interesting, 66 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:12,900 that's very interesting. 67 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:15,960 I'll be gone for about an hour or so. Right. 68 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:15,660 You hadn't buzzed me, I would've called you. 69 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,800 There's one piece of evidence that I withheld from the press. 70 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,260 There was a good-sized diamond found on your reporters desk. 71 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:31,340 Diamond? Here's the gemologist report on it. 72 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,880 The stone is genuine all right, 73 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,220 it's worth between ten and fifteen thousand dollars. 74 00:07:37,780 --> 00:07:38,760 Hmm. 75 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:40,600 That fits in? 76 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:43,620 With what? This! 77 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:46,380 A miniaturised transmitter. 78 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,520 I don't get it. 79 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:51,780 You will. 80 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,620 Now do you understand? 81 00:08:02,820 --> 00:08:04,140 Should I? 82 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:08,920 Mr. Reid's residence. 83 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:10,860 It's Miss Case. 84 00:08:10,860 --> 00:08:12,300 Thanks, Kato. 85 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,100 Yes, Miss Case. 86 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:21,080 According to the Humane Society there are 9 leopards in the area, and all accounted for last night. 87 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:26,220 Thanks. Something else, 3 years ago we did a feature on a gemologist Frank Miller. 88 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,800 /They/ got a copy and get it right to me? 89 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:29,720 Fine. 90 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,380 Miller? That's the name on this report. 91 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:35,900 He was working on a process to manufacture the perfect diamond. 92 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,299 The stone Pat had might be one of his. 93 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:39,619 But why? 94 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:44,500 Well, supposing Pat Allen stumbled onto something much bigger than he expected. 95 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,300 To cover, 96 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:51,560 someone using this, tuned to send out an ultra high-frequency tone, 97 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:56,300 and a leopard trained to respond to that tone and kill the nearest human to it. 98 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,660 That someone programmed Pat Allen to die. 99 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:01,280 Can you prove it? 100 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:02,340 No, 101 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:05,700 but the Green Hornet will. 102 00:09:45,820 --> 00:09:47,760 Check the scanner, Kato. 103 00:09:56,980 --> 00:09:59,840 Check. Stick to the backstreets, Kato. 104 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,700 I'll go in alone, Kato. 105 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,140 Don't move! 106 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:13,980 What do you want? 107 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:15,800 Do you know who I am? 108 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:18,880 The Green Hornet. 109 00:11:19,620 --> 00:11:21,980 I'm here to make you a proposition. 110 00:11:21,980 --> 00:11:24,460 What would you want with me? This. 111 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,780 How are you progressing with it? 112 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:33,400 I gave that up long ago. You are lying to me. 113 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,720 Please, please, if I perfected the process, would I be living like this? 114 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,140 You might 115 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,640 if you were waiting for the ideal plan to exploit it. 116 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,500 No. 117 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:47,060 I could flood the world diamond market with your perfect imitations. 118 00:11:47,060 --> 00:11:49,120 I can make you millions. 119 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,200 Millions. 120 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:54,980 Billions. 121 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,380 Come with me. 122 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,480 This is the oven. 123 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:28,080 Fragments of worthless carbon, pieces of coal. 124 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:33,500 I expose them to the same heat they would experience close to the Earth's core. 125 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:36,900 Of course I prepare them chemically first, 126 00:12:36,900 --> 00:12:40,300 and bring them singly refractive, a mark of the pure diamond. 127 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:48,680 /But these/ early stages of my scientific methodology. This is the final step. 128 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:01,500 Come closer. 129 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,540 This is the final step. 130 00:13:08,540 --> 00:13:12,300 Fifty degrees below zero. 131 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:14,360 They're beautiful, aren't they? 132 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,440 Don't touch them. 133 00:13:17,820 --> 00:13:22,460 Their extreme cold would rip the flesh from your hands. 134 00:13:22,460 --> 00:13:27,660 I'll get you something, that you can handle them safely. 135 00:13:28,380 --> 00:13:30,900 Let me get one for you. 136 00:13:34,660 --> 00:13:35,840 There. 137 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,700 Isn't it beautiful? 138 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,760 Examine it, look at it. 139 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,160 Have a good look at it, examine it closely. 140 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:17,680 You alright? I'm okay. Did Miller get away? Yes. 141 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:18,680 Let's go. 142 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,160 Kato, activate the scanner generator. 143 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,060 Activated. 144 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,720 Scanner loft. 145 00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:15,680 We got him, Kato. 146 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,620 Coordinates 2, 147 00:16:17,620 --> 00:16:19,020 47, 148 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:20,580 and 19. 149 00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:21,820 Let's go. 150 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,240 I've been here before as Britt Reid. 151 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:43,560 The widow of Vela de Lukens lives here. He was one of the wealthiest diamond merchants in the world. 152 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:48,790 /we witness with mine is right here I disagree now here somebody else has/ 153 00:16:48,790 --> 00:16:50,540 /gone away today/ 154 00:16:50,540 --> 00:16:52,920 Gentlemen, 155 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,700 please let's come to order. 156 00:16:56,060 --> 00:17:01,160 May I begin this meeting by expressing my regrets to professor Miller. 157 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:06,620 I know it was a trying experience, but we hope well worth it. 158 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,100 And now for the business at hand. 159 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:17,380 First, let me read you a note from Jeremy Clark, our Far Eastern representative. 160 00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:24,599 Just a short note to acknowledge your inquiry of June 2nd. 161 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,319 I will forward all requested information in the month... 162 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,980 What was that? Only a pet, gentlemen, 163 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,000 and also my burglar alarm. 164 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:59,440 And so by including professor Miller's diamonds in the shipments of my late husband's genuine merchandise 165 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,360 we can improve and increase profits 166 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,420 a thousandfold. Then there'll be enough 167 00:18:06,420 --> 00:18:07,700 for all of us. 168 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,100 You told me you got rid of him. 169 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,840 I thought I had. 170 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,900 The honorable Mr. Miller. 171 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:20,040 Please, I was frightened. 172 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,040 No need to be, 173 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,300 now that we're partners. 174 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:32,020 I don't know of any such arrangement. 175 00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:38,840 Five years ago I accepted the responsibility to manage my late dear husband's business. 176 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,740 It does very well, and it's quite legitimate. 177 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:43,180 Naturally, 178 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,520 but you cut me in or I cut you out. 179 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,220 And I want half. 180 00:18:49,220 --> 00:18:51,080 And how do you propose to do that? 181 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,900 By informing the international diamond merchants association of your operation. 182 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,440 You know my terms, take them or leave them. 183 00:19:05,540 --> 00:19:06,980 Gentlemen, 184 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:10,440 the Green Hornet leaves us little choice. 185 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,120 I'm afraid we must yield to his demands. 186 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:20,700 Let me go, you gorillas! I'm just off my evening stroll. 187 00:19:21,380 --> 00:19:22,980 Now who is this man? 188 00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:26,580 His name is Axford, he's a reporter for the Daily Sentinel. 189 00:19:26,580 --> 00:19:30,380 The Green Hornet, hey? I should have known you were involved in this. 190 00:19:30,380 --> 00:19:33,300 It seems your plan wasn't as secret as you thought it was. 191 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:34,820 Not by a long shot. 192 00:19:34,820 --> 00:19:37,520 You don't go around killing reporters and get away with it. 193 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,700 Besides you left a trail a Cub Scout could follow. 194 00:19:40,940 --> 00:19:44,260 Now really, Mr. Axford, you're being too modest. 195 00:19:44,260 --> 00:19:48,040 If I start taking a keen investigator to uncover us. 196 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,380 How did you find us? 197 00:19:49,380 --> 00:19:50,380 Easy. 198 00:19:50,380 --> 00:19:54,800 Knowing the cops had closed the case I went to Pat Allen's apartment and shook it down real good. 199 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,580 And what did you find there? 200 00:19:56,580 --> 00:20:00,900 A piece of paper in one of Pat's jackets hanging in the closet, and your name on it, 201 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:03,740 and the address of one of those electronics outfits. 202 00:20:03,740 --> 00:20:06,320 They told me you bought quite a few of those transmitters. 203 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,420 Didn't take much guessing to figure out who planted one of them on Pat. 204 00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:16,140 In any case, all this information is going to die with you, Mr. Axford. 205 00:20:16,140 --> 00:20:19,400 Don't count on that, my boss Britt Reid is pretty clever. 206 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,080 If I can pick up the pieces, he sure can too. 207 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,380 That is a chance we'll have to take. 208 00:20:24,380 --> 00:20:27,320 You kill a second reporter, you've got big trouble. 209 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,300 That's a chance I'd be pleased to take. 210 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,300 My first contribution to our partnership. 211 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:34,820 Why you... Let go! 212 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,260 You can't turn me over to the Green Hornet. 213 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:42,680 I don't mind dying, but if someone's got to kill me, let it be anyone but him. 214 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:48,140 We'll take him. 215 00:20:54,260 --> 00:20:56,880 I'll be in touch, partners. 216 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,820 Nothing to concern ourselves about, gentlemen. 217 00:21:01,820 --> 00:21:06,160 That partnership would be dissolved in a matter of moments. You see, 218 00:21:06,380 --> 00:21:12,520 my young man planted one of those transmitters in Mr. Axford's pockets. 219 00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:22,160 She's released the leopard. 220 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,740 Double-crossed, now isn't that beautiful, Wyatt? 221 00:21:25,740 --> 00:21:29,840 You better make our stand here. That cat can outrun us. 222 00:21:39,980 --> 00:21:42,120 Axford, come back! 223 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,020 Axford! 224 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,640 Axford! 225 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,100 Axford, the cat's after you! 226 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:58,160 Axford. 227 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,200 He'll be alright. He just got a whiff of the gas. 228 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,340 Let's get back to the house. 229 00:23:12,340 --> 00:23:15,220 Time has come to end a beautiful partnership. 230 00:23:18,260 --> 00:23:20,680 "Reporter Captures Fake Diamond Gang" 231 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,180 You're a 14-karat hero, Mike! 232 00:23:24,180 --> 00:23:25,720 We're all very proud of you. 233 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,900 Hahaha, oh thanks. 234 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:29,840 But that blasted Green Hornet. 235 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,000 First, he knocks me out with the green gas, even though it saves my life. 236 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,600 Then, he leaves that gang tied off with me like a gift package! 237 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,880 Makes me wonder if he's as bad as I think he is. 238 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,860 Pretty confusing, isn't? I'll say it is. 239 00:23:41,860 --> 00:23:45,140 Next thing you know, he'll be helping old ladies cross the street.