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00:01:41Look, Robert.
00:01:45I thought they all had to have license numbers or something.
00:01:48This one just has a big X on the wing.
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00:02:0021 new planes have been added to the search for the Prairie Schooner,
00:02:04cracked coast-to-coast airliner which has been missing for the past 52 hours.
00:02:11Good morning, Mr. Goring.
00:02:18Any news?
00:02:19No sign of either plane yet, sir.
00:02:21Got a further report just a moment ago.
00:02:24Where's my son?
00:02:25Over there.
00:02:33Hello, Dad.
00:02:35Carl, this is bad about these planes.
00:02:38Very.
00:02:39It isn't our fault.
00:02:40No, but five ships have crashed mysteriously all within the last two weeks,
00:02:45and three of them have come from our factory.
00:02:48I can't understand how those pilots keep getting into trouble.
00:02:51And all in this district.
00:02:53Terrible, I know it is.
00:02:55But our ships aren't to blame, Dad.
00:02:57They were perfect when we sold them.
00:02:58Yes, but these accidents are hurting our good name, Carl.
00:03:02Is that joining the search?
00:03:09I had to rush an overhaul job to get it out.
00:03:12What about the government planes?
00:03:13They're sending them out just as soon as they come in for maneuvers.
00:03:16A wire came from Washington, from Inspector Gallagher of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
00:03:22Uh-huh, that means he'll be in this afternoon.
00:03:26That means he's moving his investigation here.
00:03:29Reports prove that none of these mysterious crashes were due to weather.
00:03:34Then you do blame the planes, huh?
00:03:37Tell me, when these ships were found,
00:03:39were there no clues as to what happened, what was wrong?
00:03:43Carl is in charge of construction.
00:03:45He'd know more about it.
00:03:46They were too badly smashed to tell.
00:03:48You fly, I suppose?
00:03:50My only interest is in motors.
00:03:52Inspector Gallagher, we're anxious to cooperate in every way we can.
00:03:56Why not have a test flight made with one of our planes?
00:03:59As a matter of fact, I think you should, for our sake.
00:04:03I'll arrange for just that tomorrow morning.
00:04:21Your man Blackwood can certainly handle a plane.
00:04:23He's one of the best.
00:04:24Used to make test flights for me back east.
00:04:54Good morning, Dad.
00:04:57Oh, you have a daughter, too.
00:04:59No, that's my wife, John Gage's daughter, Helen.
00:05:02She and my son are practically engaged.
00:05:24Say, who's the mania?
00:05:27A fellow by the name of Blackwood.
00:05:29He's trying to tell one of our ships.
00:05:46Well, I guess he's found he can't tear the wings off,
00:05:49so now he's trying to burn the motor up.
00:05:52He must be doing over 200.
00:05:54He certainly knows how to handle a plane, though.
00:05:58Say, I'd like to meet him.
00:06:00What for?
00:06:02Oh, I don't know.
00:06:04Just to see if he really has a lot of nerve or just no sense at all.
00:06:08Now, don't tell me you still have that schoolgirl idea that flyers are romantic.
00:06:13Oh, of course not, Carl.
00:06:15There's usually more tragedy than romance in flying.
00:06:19Airliner, for instance.
00:06:22It hasn't been found yet.
00:06:24No.
00:06:26And that crash is what started these government investigations.
00:06:36Flash. With both pilots and all passengers except one dead,
00:06:39the missing coast-to-coast airliner was found erect today
00:06:42on a mountainside 15 miles southwest of Greenville in Morgan County.
00:06:47The wreck was located from the air by Lieutenant Jerry Blackwood,
00:06:50U.S. Army Reserve,
00:06:52who was flying one of the planes in a wide search made for the airliner.
00:06:56A squad of state police accompanied by Inspector Gallagher
00:07:00of the U.S. Department of Commerce
00:07:02and Henry Goring, the plane manufacturer,
00:07:04immediately rushed to the vicinity of Greenville.
00:07:08You hurt badly, doctor?
00:07:12Can you talk? Can you tell us what happened?
00:07:15We were flying all right
00:07:17when I saw a plane above us
00:07:20to one side
00:07:22had a big X on the wing.
00:07:24An X?
00:07:27Suddenly there was an explosion in our plane.
00:07:31Then everything got dark,
00:07:35like, like it is now.
00:07:44Oh.
00:08:02Ah, doctor.
00:08:04Allow me to present the eminent Dr. Norris,
00:08:07Inspector Gallagher.
00:08:08How do you do, Dr. Norris?
00:08:10Gentlemen, I have some delightful old wine.
00:08:15Mr. Goring tells me that you have a theory
00:08:17to solve these mysterious plane crashes.
00:08:21It's no longer a theory.
00:08:23It's a certainty.
00:08:25All of these accidents are the work of one man.
00:08:28You mean that fellow's story about the plane
00:08:31with the X on the wings?
00:08:33Nonsense, for that man's out of his head.
00:08:36On the contrary, he was perfectly rational.
00:08:39I've talked with the doctor who attended him.
00:08:41Gentlemen?
00:08:42But why should anyone want to do a thing like that?
00:08:46Direct result of the war.
00:08:51As I listened to the wild ravings of the fliers
00:08:53in the base hospital,
00:08:56I recognized the dangerous possibility
00:08:58of just this thing,
00:09:00that someone of them might go mad
00:09:02on the fixed idea of killing in the air.
00:09:06Troopers had a strong pride in their score of victims.
00:09:11The killer, in this case, is obsessed by the fixation
00:09:14to add to his wartime records.
00:09:17Such a madman would have given himself away long ago
00:09:20and been recognized.
00:09:22No, not if his is a case of split personality.
00:09:26In his sane condition,
00:09:28he is living somewhere here amongst us, unsuspected.
00:09:33A supreme egotist,
00:09:35satiated for a time with his victories.
00:09:38Then, suddenly, the brain mechanism goes out of gear
00:09:42and he becomes the winged demon again.
00:09:45A bloodthirsty killer.
00:09:47I'm sorry, doctor, but I just can't believe that.
00:09:50Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:09:51They just picked this up at the wreck of the airliner.
00:10:03You see?
00:10:04A confirmation
00:10:06from Pilot X himself.
00:10:08Seven.
00:10:09That must mean planes.
00:10:12Eighteen victims.
00:10:15And this.
00:10:16You recognize, of course.
00:10:17Yes.
00:10:18Flechette.
00:10:19Army flyers use it to drop messages
00:10:21or shower gun crews.
00:10:23Exactly.
00:10:24Another point to support my claim.
00:10:27Maybe you're right, doctor.
00:10:29Go ahead.
00:10:30But I'll continue my investigation anyway.
00:10:33If I can help you, let me know.
00:10:35You can help us right now.
00:10:37We need a trustworthy man
00:10:39to serve as our detective in the air.
00:10:41What about the young man
00:10:42who made the test flight this morning?
00:10:44Jerry Blackwood.
00:10:45The very man.
00:10:46I'll have him report.
00:10:48Good luck.
00:10:49I'll see the inspector out.
00:10:53And now, what's the first step?
00:10:57From investigation,
00:10:59I have learned that there were only five ex-war aces
00:11:02living in this accident area.
00:11:04Who could answer to my construction of Pilot X.
00:11:07And any one of them can be guilty.
00:11:10So we shall invite all five
00:11:12to help us unmask this murderer.
00:11:14But if one of them should be Pilot X...
00:11:17Then the other four will help us to trap him.
00:11:21But we must contact these men
00:11:23and invite them for the weekend.
00:11:25Now, first,
00:11:27there is Lieutenant Baron Otto von Gutter.
00:11:32Well, this old space has finally come in handy.
00:11:35Just the thing.
00:11:37I have openings in the wall
00:11:38through which I can observe the rooms at all times.
00:11:41This is one of them.
00:11:47Splendid. Splendid.
00:11:49I've installed a system of photoelectric cells.
00:11:52And this light informs me of the approach of anyone.
00:11:56This one, if in the dining room,
00:12:00and this one, if in the library.
00:12:03I've also planted a system of microphones
00:12:06connected with this Magnavox.
00:12:09And the combination allows perfect observation
00:12:12of our suspects all the time they are downstairs.
00:12:15What about those pilots, by the way?
00:12:17Did they all accept?
00:12:18Yes, they'll be here in time for dinner.
00:12:20Good.
00:12:21But that doesn't mean they're going to accept
00:12:22the proposition of staying here to help us catch Pilot X.
00:12:25They will.
00:12:26Whichever one is Pilot X,
00:12:28will have to as a blind.
00:12:30The rest will want to, to avoid suspicion.
00:12:33We'd better close this place up.
00:12:35It's almost time for the observers to return.
00:12:43By pressing this molding here,
00:12:45you release the secret spring.
00:12:50We must be very careful to keep this room our secret.
00:12:54Doctor, you still feel sure of your theory?
00:12:57I mean that a Pilot X is the murderer
00:12:59and that your plan will uncover him?
00:13:02More positive than ever.
00:13:03That cabin plane this morning, three more killed.
00:13:06His work, I'm sure.
00:13:08These mysterious crashes have not only been
00:13:10killing innocent people,
00:13:11but they've been hurting aviation.
00:13:13Now, don't worry.
00:13:14We will run down Pilot X.
00:13:17But I'm afraid he will never be taken alive.
00:13:19Just before he's stopped.
00:13:21He will be.
00:13:23What time do our suspects arrive?
00:13:25They're due at seven.
00:13:28All right.
00:13:29Well, thank you.
00:13:31You hear the news?
00:13:42Helen, my dear, you're looking lovely tonight.
00:13:44Thank you, Father.
00:13:46Gentlemen, our hostess.
00:13:49My ward, Miss Helen Gage.
00:13:53A truly international group on us.
00:13:57Lieutenant Ives of the American Expeditionary Force.
00:14:00How do you do?
00:14:01How do you do?
00:14:03Lieutenant LaRue of the French Air Service.
00:14:06Enchanté.
00:14:08Captain Saunders of the Royal Air Force.
00:14:13Lieutenant Thompson, formerly of the Lafayette Excadrilles.
00:14:16Miss Gage.
00:14:17Lieutenant Baron von Gouda,
00:14:19former squad leader of the German Tango Service.
00:14:26And Lieutenant Blackwood of the United States Air Corps Reserve.
00:14:31I'm very glad to meet you.
00:14:33I'm very glad to meet you, too.
00:14:35Are you?
00:14:37I'm glad to have you in my home.
00:14:39Indeed.
00:14:40It's a pleasure.
00:14:41Would you like a cigarette?
00:14:42No, thank you.
00:14:43I can't get used to American cigarettes.
00:14:46Yes, I...
00:14:50I have to send to Paris for them.
00:14:53And then I make myself think that I can't smoke any other brand.
00:14:56I know.
00:14:57I'm the same way about scotch.
00:15:03Thank you very much.
00:15:04Not at all.
00:15:05Lieutenant, may I replenish your cocktail for you?
00:15:07Oh, with pleasure, sir.
00:15:10You know, you look very familiar to me, Lieutenant.
00:15:14I do?
00:15:15Yes.
00:15:17You know, I was captured early in the war
00:15:19and held in a German prison camp at Koblenz.
00:15:21Were you ever around there?
00:15:22No.
00:15:23I never was in that sector.
00:15:25Well, have a cigarette.
00:15:28But you mustn't overlook our own Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.
00:15:31Considering the short time that he was in service,
00:15:33I think he was one of the great air fighters.
00:15:36Well, I don't think so, Lieutenant.
00:15:41Then who do you consider was the greatest air duelist?
00:15:44Ginmayor, unquestionably.
00:15:48But you must admit that a year previous to that,
00:15:50the German Air Corps was superior to any of the Allies.
00:15:54I owned that until we got AC-5.
00:15:56And talking of ACs reminds me of Major Bull,
00:15:58one of the youngest squadron commanders in any air force.
00:16:01Well, he's a great pilot.
00:16:07I don't agree.
00:16:08If I take Billy Bishop of Canada with 72 planes to his credit,
00:16:12why, he was one of the greatest flyers that ever...
00:16:14Amateurs! All of them!
00:16:16Baron von Richthofen, the master of ACs.
00:16:1980 planes to his credit.
00:16:22And if it hadn't been for the French infantry
00:16:24murdering him in a wrecked plane...
00:16:26That's a lie!
00:16:27Gentlemen, gentlemen.
00:16:28Bosh!
00:16:30Remember, the war is over.
00:16:35So, Lieutenant.
00:16:38Lieutenant.
00:16:39Lieutenant.
00:17:07Beg pardon, sir.
00:17:08Dinner is served.
00:17:10Helen, shall we go in to dinner?
00:17:12Yes, sir.
00:17:13We'll be glad to.
00:17:32Excuse me.
00:17:33Lovely.
00:17:42Yes, we've had phenomenal success.
00:17:44Our plan is running at full capacity.
00:17:46How many men do you employ at the present time?
00:17:49I can't tell you offhand,
00:17:50but we have more men on the payroll now than we've ever had.
00:17:53That sounds very encouraging, doesn't it?
00:18:03I saw you trying to commit suicide yesterday.
00:18:06Suicide?
00:18:07Testing that ship.
00:18:09I didn't know you were on the field.
00:18:11Of course not. How could you?
00:18:13Well, I should have sensed it.
00:18:15My son and I are really the foreign element here.
00:18:18The rest of you all being flyers.
00:18:21So, when will they fly?
00:18:23No, not yet.
00:18:25Then you'd make the ideal passenger.
00:18:28Well, thank you, Captain.
00:18:33Eight, nine, ten.
00:18:49I heard the local aviation school graduated 100 new pilots last week.
00:18:54Well, that's just the trouble.
00:18:56The air's so full of these correspondence school pilots,
00:18:59it's getting increasingly difficult for a real flyer to get a run.
00:19:02Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
00:19:05Most of these young transport and mail pilots, good, reliable flyers.
00:19:09Seems like it from the way they've been crashing lately.
00:19:12And that, gentlemen, brings us to the main reason for this gathering.
00:19:17The recent air crashes.
00:19:19Shall we adjourn to the library?
00:19:22I have a proposition to put before you.
00:19:25All right.
00:19:29Carl.
00:19:32Will you get that Napoleon brandy from the cellar, please?
00:19:35All right.
00:19:36Will you excuse me a moment? I'll be right back.
00:19:38Certainly.
00:19:41Nice cellar call. I like it.
00:19:43It's polite to like one's host.
00:19:47Then why do you suppose I like my hostess? Just because it's polite?
00:19:50Oh, because you're one of those congenial souls who like people, I suppose?
00:19:54Oh.
00:19:55Well, there are few people here tonight I could get along very nicely without.
00:19:59Say, do you think Palladex was here tonight?
00:20:02Ah, then you know about that.
00:20:04Yes, Dad told me.
00:20:05Dad?
00:20:06Yes, Mr. Gorey.
00:20:07I always call him Dad because he seems so much closer to me than just a guardian.
00:20:13Shall we join the others inside?
00:20:15I know what they're saying.
00:20:17I brought you here to make an appeal in the name of humanity and to safeguard aviation.
00:20:25Why don't you like flyers?
00:20:26I didn't say that. They're all kind of crazy.
00:20:29Well, it's fun to be crazy.
00:20:30I wish Carl were a little bit sometimes.
00:20:33He's always so serious.
00:20:35But I think a great deal of Carl.
00:20:37He's always so considerate and attentive.
00:20:40Yes, I've noticed that.
00:20:42Oh, you're still here.
00:20:44Yes, but I'm just going.
00:20:48So you see, there really is a Palladex.
00:20:52A cold-blooded murderer who is making the air unsafe through some strange impulse.
00:21:01Then you're all ready and willing to cooperate in capturing Palladex?
00:21:05I assure you of my support, sir.
00:21:07Yes, sir.
00:21:08It's all right with me.
00:21:09Excellent. I felt sure you would.
00:21:11So sure, in fact, that I've already had your rooms assigned here.
00:21:15Now, Lieutenant Blackwood will be in charge of all arrangements.
00:21:18He will act for me with full authority.
00:21:24The patrol begins at dawn tomorrow.
00:21:28The objective is to try to draw Palladex out into the open.
00:21:34There are your patrol sections. I've outlined them to you.
00:21:39Got them all straight?
00:21:40Yes, sir.
00:21:41Yes, sir.
00:21:42Yeah.
00:21:44Each of you will serve as a decoy in your particular sector.
00:21:48And this time, gentlemen, Palladex won't find some harmless commercial plane to contend with.
00:21:54Why, are the planes armed?
00:21:55Fully armed. So I'll have them ready.
00:21:57I'm having them carefully checked tonight. They'll be on the line early in the morning.
00:22:02All right, then, gentlemen. We'll call it caps for the night.
00:22:07And be ready to start the first thing in the morning.
00:22:11Yes, sir.
00:22:41Good night.
00:23:11Oh, so that's where the light button is, huh?
00:23:17I couldn't find it.
00:23:19Yes, I came down for my cigarette.
00:23:21I thought there were some in your room. I told the butler.
00:23:25Oh, no, there...
00:23:26Oh, yes, I mean, there are some there, but you see, I prefer my own brand.
00:23:33Good night, sir.
00:23:37Good night.
00:23:42Good night.
00:23:53Well, maybe Leroux was telling the truth, we...
00:23:58The dining room.
00:24:11Who is it?
00:24:37Carl!
00:24:39What happened?
00:24:48I thought I heard someone pass my room.
00:24:51But by the time I got out, they'd gone.
00:24:54I came down here and...
00:24:57and someone hit me from behind.
00:24:59That's all I know.
00:25:02Hmm, slight bump.
00:25:04Did you see which way he went?
00:25:06As I fell, it seems that I heard someone going upstairs.
00:25:25One of six is next.
00:25:29Signed, X.
00:25:30Now we are certain that Pilot X is in this very house.
00:25:34Why, that means that one of my guests is marked for death.
00:25:39By one of your guests.
00:25:44Well, okay.
00:25:45What?
00:25:46Am I right?
00:25:47Yes.
00:25:48Listen, we'll all stay at 10,000 feet.
00:25:49All right.
00:25:50All right?
00:25:51Keep the man on your right in sight.
00:25:52Yeah, let's go.
00:25:53Okay.
00:25:54Well, good luck.
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00:29:24But it must have been the rules.
00:29:27You saw the enmity between him and Von Guder?
00:29:29We mustn't jump at the obvious, Mr. Goering.
00:29:32Pilot X is not one who does the obvious thing.
00:29:35The rule was patrolling on my right.
00:29:36Would have been impossible for him to shoot down Van Gutter without my seeing him.
00:29:39Is that the message?
00:29:42One of the men found it in the field.
00:29:449-22-X.
00:29:46This is horrible.
00:29:48Who may be next?
00:29:49Something must be done to stop him.
00:29:51Yes.
00:29:53It's a small consolation to know that he is
00:29:55proving only my theory of war neurosis.
00:29:58But the patrol.
00:29:59You're going to keep it up?
00:30:01Absolutely.
00:30:04Hey, come on, you two.
00:30:06The water's awfully warm.
00:30:08Come on.
00:30:18Gee, it seems good to relax before a change, doesn't it?
00:30:22It would seem good if Pilot X was down.
00:30:26But I thought an afternoon off would do the boys a lot of good.
00:30:30We've been at that grind pretty steadily.
00:30:33You don't know which one.
00:30:35I mean...
00:30:38Oh, it's horrible to even think about it.
00:30:41Why don't you go away for a while?
00:30:43I can't. I'm too worried about Dad and Carl.
00:30:46And all the rest of you.
00:30:49You do include me in that.
00:30:51Come on, little man.
00:30:53Hello?
00:30:55I was talking.
00:30:57What about it?
00:31:00Say, you've got to get it for me.
00:31:02Why do you think I took that chance this morning?
00:31:05What's that?
00:31:08Oh, all right.
00:31:09Yeah.
00:31:11I'll see you tonight.
00:31:13Goodbye.
00:31:19Come on, pal.
00:31:21Nice day.
00:31:23That wasn't so nice.
00:31:25Oh, it's time he went in swimming.
00:31:28Lieutenant LaRue?
00:31:30Who are you?
00:31:31Lieutenant LaRue, sir.
00:31:33Oh, sir.
00:31:34We've got a serious matter.
00:31:36Who's that?
00:31:38You know him?
00:31:39He's a terrific man.
00:31:41But you know where he's going, don't you?
00:31:45I'm sorry.
00:31:46Very sorry indeed.
00:31:48You've got to get back to the station.
00:31:50And see that he doesn't get hurt.
00:31:53Lieutenant LaRue.
00:31:59Say, do I look like my name is Lieutenant LaRue?
00:32:02I'm sorry, sir.
00:32:03I'm looking for Lieutenant LaRue.
00:32:05Over here.
00:32:12Telegram for you, sir.
00:32:44Hey, Jerry.
00:32:45Oh.
00:32:52I'm sorry, but I have to leave for a while.
00:32:56Leave? Why?
00:32:57Why, it's rather important and personal.
00:33:04But I have to go immediately.
00:33:07How soon can you get back?
00:33:09Well, I could get back by 10 o'clock tonight.
00:33:15If I can take a plane.
00:33:16Then do so, by all means.
00:33:17Carl's in a hangar.
00:33:18Tell him I said to give you one.
00:33:20OK, thanks.
00:33:31No, thanks.
00:33:32I have to go into town for a few minutes.
00:33:34My chauffeur can drive you.
00:33:36No, thank you.
00:33:37I have my own car.
00:33:38Excuse me.
00:33:46I guess I'm the three handicapped coffee drinker in this group.
00:33:50Someday your liver's going to put you back on scratch.
00:33:53I suppose that's a health tonic.
00:33:55It's only the first one that hurts you.
00:33:57After that, you're on the free list.
00:33:59I think some of this would be good for my cold, don't you?
00:34:01Oh, good idea.
00:34:02I feel one coming on.
00:34:06I beg your pardon, sir.
00:34:07One of the boys found us outside of hangar number four.
00:34:1210 o'clock tonight.
00:34:14Signed X.
00:34:15Hmm.
00:34:16Very obliging to announce himself in advance.
00:34:19Must be pretty sure of himself.
00:34:21Sure enough to get von Gutted.
00:34:23And if we don't get him tonight, there'll be one less of us.
00:34:31Jerry seems a bit excited.
00:34:33Well, who wouldn't be?
00:34:35I'm getting a bit jittery myself.
00:34:37How long could that flechette have been there?
00:34:39Well, I don't know, sir.
00:34:40You see, we were all working in the hangars.
00:34:42It may have been there for some hours.
00:34:43There's another.
00:34:49A nice collection.
00:34:50And every one stained with blood.
00:34:53Do you think, by any chance,
00:34:55LaRue's going to town would have anything to do with these warnings?
00:34:58It's entirely too simple to think that LaRue promised to be back at 10
00:35:02and then sent this warning.
00:35:04But a theory is only good when it works.
00:35:07At present, I have no good proof of my suspicions.
00:35:11So I can only advise you to depend upon a machine gun.
00:35:42Have you ever been to the city of Rio?
00:35:44I told you I'd never been to South America.
00:35:47Beautiful country.
00:35:48But dangerous.
00:35:50Jungles.
00:35:51Fever.
00:35:52Rio?
00:35:53Yeah.
00:35:54Oh, no, no, no.
00:35:55What am I talking about?
00:35:57I'm sorry I'm such stupid company.
00:35:59Say, what's wrong with you?
00:36:01Nothing.
00:36:02Nothing at all.
00:36:03All of you have been looking at your watches for the past half hour.
00:36:06What is it?
00:36:08Well, to tell you the truth, we've been expecting a visitor.
00:36:11A visitor?
00:36:12Mm.
00:36:13But I have a hunch he won't show up.
00:36:16Where's Jerry?
00:36:17I told you, he's staying at the hangar.
00:36:19Having the motors warmed up.
00:36:21If there's any warning of a plane, Jerry will phone immediately.
00:36:25Oh.
00:36:30Beastly stuff in here.
00:36:33Beastly stuff in here.
00:36:49You recognize that, Saunders?
00:36:51I sure do.
00:36:59Hello?
00:37:01Yes, Jerry.
00:37:05All right.
00:37:07That's it.
00:37:08Come on, we're going up.
00:37:26There they go.
00:37:27Three of them.
00:37:31Three of them.
00:38:01Three of them.
00:38:31Three of them.
00:39:01Three of them.
00:39:08This time, LaRue.
00:39:28Well?
00:39:29Where's the latest?
00:39:30On the driveway.
00:39:33It could have been placed there any time, I suppose.
00:39:36I'm puzzled about last night's affair.
00:39:39The question is, was LaRue shot down accidentally or deliberately
00:39:44by one of the planes piloted by Thompson, Saunders, or Jerry?
00:39:50I include you hypothetically, of course.
00:39:54Or was LaRue the victim of another plane?
00:39:58By assumption, pilot X.
00:40:01Well, I'm sure there were five planes in all at one time.
00:40:04And I thought I caught a glimpse of an X on one's wing.
00:40:07Then if there was the fifth plane,
00:40:09our problem is to establish the identity of its pilot.
00:40:12What about Lieutenant Ives?
00:40:14Where is he, by the way?
00:40:16He hasn't returned from that few minutes in town yet.
00:40:18Well, our next step is to account for his movements last night.
00:40:22As soon as he shows up.
00:40:24If he does.
00:40:29Then you mean that Ives may not return?
00:40:32I don't know.
00:40:33The whole thing's sort of getting on my nerves.
00:40:38Who is that?
00:40:39Lieutenant Ives.
00:40:40Good.
00:40:42Morning.
00:40:43Good morning.
00:40:58Let that go for a while.
00:41:00I want to talk to you.
00:41:02You've heard about LaRue?
00:41:04Oh, yes.
00:41:05I saw it in the papers.
00:41:06Well?
00:41:07Too bad.
00:41:08That's one more pilot out of circulation.
00:41:11And you once thought there were too many, you know.
00:41:21Hey.
00:41:23What are you driving at?
00:41:25Where were you last night?
00:41:27You said you were going to town for a few minutes.
00:41:29Well, I did.
00:41:30But I was detained.
00:41:31What did you go for?
00:41:34That's my personal business.
00:41:38Maybe.
00:41:40Did you go anyplace else?
00:41:42No.
00:41:44Say, what are you two trying to do?
00:41:46Pin something on me?
00:41:49Hello?
00:41:50Blackwood speaking.
00:41:53Yeah.
00:41:55I see.
00:41:59I see.
00:42:01Yeah.
00:42:02All right.
00:42:04Thanks, Inspector.
00:42:05Goodbye.
00:42:06Goodbye.
00:42:07Goodbye.
00:42:08Goodbye.
00:42:09Goodbye.
00:42:10Goodbye.
00:42:11Goodbye.
00:42:12Goodbye.
00:42:13Goodbye.
00:42:14Goodbye.
00:42:15Goodbye.
00:42:16Goodbye.
00:42:17Goodbye.
00:42:20Are you sure you didn't go anyplace else but to town last night?
00:42:23No, I told you once.
00:42:26That was Gallagher.
00:42:28Says one of his men followed you after you left town last night in an automobile.
00:42:32Oh, so I'm being shadowed.
00:42:34You are.
00:42:35By a detective who traced you to the municipal airport.
00:42:38Says you spoke to a pilot of a plane that landed at nine o'clock.
00:42:42Anything else?
00:42:43Yeah.
00:42:44Yeah.
00:42:45You both left town in your automobile.
00:42:47He followed, but he lost you.
00:42:49Later, when he returned to the airfield, the plane was gone.
00:42:52Look here.
00:42:53I don't have to stay here or take any more of this.
00:42:55You'd better stay.
00:42:56This is no time for you to walk out.
00:42:59Well, what about last night?
00:43:03So that's what it's all about.
00:43:05You think that I killed Aru.
00:43:07Oh, I'm not accusing you of anything.
00:43:10I'm just asking some questions.
00:43:12Did you fly at any time after you left here last night?
00:43:14I've answered all the questions I'm going to.
00:43:16Now, if you think I killed Aru, prove it.
00:43:18Stop it, I say! Stop it!
00:43:21Quit harping on killing!
00:43:22You're driving me mad with your crazy suspicions!
00:43:25All I hear is killing!
00:43:27You call me killing men in my sleep!
00:43:30Of course I'm a killer!
00:43:32We're all killers!
00:43:34Innocent lives on our bloody hands!
00:43:36Saunders!
00:43:38Murder in the air!
00:43:40You want to hear about murder in the air?
00:43:42I'll tell you!
00:43:43I'll tell you stories that'll make you shrivel in horror!
00:43:47Men dropping thousands of feet!
00:43:49Machine guns spilling their blood!
00:43:53Human beings crashed to bits by me!
00:43:56Burned alive by me!
00:43:58Me!
00:43:59Stop it! Stop it, I say, or I'll...
00:44:06Take it easy, old boy.
00:44:08Take it easy.
00:44:27Another wild goose chase.
00:44:29Another wild goose chase.
00:44:37I took after that black plane.
00:44:38Turned out to be the mailman.
00:44:41The eyes look like a swim.
00:44:43All right.
00:44:44Maybe we can find him in the bottom of the pool.
00:44:46All right.
00:44:47I'll stay here. I've got something to work out.
00:44:52There was a letter for you in the last mail.
00:44:54At least I found it after the postman rang.
00:44:57Thanks.
00:45:28Look at that.
00:45:31If curious as to my identity,
00:45:33meet me tomorrow morning...
00:45:35This fellow hits me in a soft spot when he appeals to my curiosity.
00:45:38I hope he intends to keep that date.
00:45:40It's an opportunity.
00:45:44Well, it's genuine at any rate.
00:45:47Same lettering.
00:45:48Say it.
00:45:51It's genuine at any rate.
00:45:53Same lettering.
00:45:54Say it.
00:45:58What did you make of that exhibition of solemnness, by the way?
00:46:01You bear watching.
00:46:02A new rotting with persistent hallucinations that could induce violent insanity.
00:46:27All right.
00:46:44All right.
00:46:57All right.
00:47:27All right.
00:47:58All right.
00:48:00All right.
00:48:26Jerry!
00:48:30Jerry!
00:48:43Jerry!
00:48:59Jerry!
00:49:29Jerry!
00:49:30Jerry!
00:49:31Jerry!
00:49:32Jerry!
00:49:33Jerry!
00:49:34Jerry!
00:49:35Jerry!
00:49:36Jerry!
00:49:37Jerry!
00:49:38Jerry!
00:49:39Jerry!
00:49:40Jerry!
00:49:41Jerry!
00:49:42Jerry!
00:49:43Jerry!
00:49:44Jerry!
00:49:45Jerry!
00:49:46Jerry!
00:49:47Jerry!
00:49:48Jerry!
00:49:49Jerry!
00:49:50Jerry!
00:49:51Jerry!
00:49:52Jerry!
00:49:53Jerry!
00:49:54Jerry!
00:49:55Jerry!
00:49:56Jerry!
00:49:57Jerry!
00:49:59Frank.
00:50:21Carl found this at the hangar in Ives' locker.
00:50:24It matches the paint on the wing.
00:50:48Jerry!
00:50:49Jerry!
00:50:53Say, you'd better get your mind off of this.
00:50:55It'll drive you absolutely crazy.
00:50:57crazy already. I
00:51:10just wanted to tell you how sorry I am old man. I've got to get over the plant
00:51:15I'll see you later.
00:51:20When I think of the satisfaction with which I pull that trigger you would have
00:51:24done the same thing in time of war and this is war you can't blame yourself for
00:51:30something you didn't know.
00:51:38Near circumstantial evidence could have been planted in my locker I saw no one saw
00:51:44him until the middle of the morning he claims he couldn't sleep and went for
00:51:48a long walk well of course it could have been I've read the last one no I
00:51:55brought it in just as my gardener found pilot X just the same as the others and
00:52:01he has added one more to his car.
00:52:02Beasley
00:52:18night. Lightning night like gun flashes.
00:52:26Under like heavy artillery that's terrible maybe a shot of brandy would do us all
00:52:31good I'm a bit shaky myself since poor Thompson's death. Who's that I am as
00:52:39usual it's just been down to the village on business with
00:52:41a friend. Just
00:52:44a moment I would like to talk to you.
00:52:53Or business of pilots I suppose you ought to know. What are you getting at a few
00:52:59questions we'd like you to answer.
00:53:01Personally I think the matter is going beyond all of us I'd like to see the whole
00:53:05investigation turned over to the police. Good with me you can count me out any time
00:53:12in fact I'm through right now. Nobody is through till we get that killer tell
00:53:18every man in this house gets
00:53:19a clean bill of health wait a minute are you accusing me. What do you mean I'm good
00:53:26it was killed by somebody in his house. You've been staying in the house haven't you
00:53:30and you fly don't you Lieutenant Blackwood. All right. I killed my friend Thompson
00:53:38because somebody framed us both in
00:53:40a dirty cowardly trap say wait a minute now just a minute let me get this out of my
00:53:43system. The man who did these killings is the lowest type of coward no way I've ever
00:53:48known in any army would refuse combat out in the open. I'm flying tomorrow morning
00:53:53from six o'clock on. The pilot X has one ounce of nerve left in the system you'll be
00:53:59out there to meet.
00:55:00The. Hello is this Mr going to the doctor Norris.
00:55:08I've got it I know who pilot X is. And you come over right away yes I'll be right
00:55:16there good.
00:55:59I. In fact you're going to.
00:56:12This is
00:56:12a growing resident locate him tell him to call me at once. Where's
00:56:20Jerry you know in his room I guess well Blackwood's not in his room I've been there
00:56:25and he's gone but he can't get far I let men stationed around the house when I
00:56:30came here to spread the word around to pick up Jerry Blackwood have been sent here
00:56:36immediately very good in spite of his there's something special you want him for
00:56:41yes or murder. Murder. He is pilot X no
00:56:49no Jerry couldn't possibly be but you yourself recommended you yes I know but
00:56:55proof is proof in the first place he shot down Thompson's plane oh that was just
00:57:02an accident so he says what about this found in Jerry's room and
00:57:08this found on a shelf bloodstained with his initials J.B.
00:57:15Seems unbelievable. Thank you. He's got away Blackwood's just taken off
00:57:22what he's playing God is there anybody else around here that can fly from there's
00:57:27a nice good we'll get Blackwood if we have to shoot him down.
00:57:52Oh. Captain
00:58:01Thomas inspector Gallagher wishes to speak with you upstairs thank you.
00:58:08I'll go right up.
00:58:35Founder certain he's gone where's Lieutenant Andrew now in the hall.
00:58:45Oh I'm going to come up on the plane on the line Miss he asked to have it ready
00:58:48thank you. Just
00:59:03as I thought.
00:59:18I.
01:04:18I.
01:04:37Call.
01:04:49I.
01:05:13I was mad I was.
01:05:18Do you recognize this?
01:05:36Von Gooder.
01:05:37Now I know why you look at Karl all through the dinner.
01:05:43The Army Intelligence Department has just identified this as the person deserting from
01:05:48our side and joining the German Air Forces under the name of Muller.
01:05:54Afterwards, he told the story about being in a German camp and escaping just before
01:06:00armistice.
01:06:01Poor Dr. Norris.
01:06:04His theory was right after all.
01:06:07He was an ace with a bloodlust of war.
01:06:11Did you hear that?
01:06:15Uh-huh.
01:06:16Yeah.
01:06:17You know what kind of a motor it is?
01:06:20Sure.
01:06:21Supercharged what?
01:06:22What?
01:06:23Supercharged what?
01:06:24Oh, I suppose you can tell me where it is without looking.
01:06:28Uh-huh.
01:06:29Too southeast.
01:06:30Oh, it isn't.
01:06:31Go on.
01:06:32Get up and look.
01:06:33Oh, it isn't over there.
01:06:40It's over here.
01:06:41Look.