Chapter 1: What happens at the beginning of the episode?
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Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. THE END Okay, Doc, how many cars do you want? I'll take three, boss. Make them good. One, two, three. As good as you'll get. Yeah? Hiya, boss. Oh, Pete, come on in. Oh, you look sour, Doc. What's the matter, boss? Taking you again? Not yet. You might try cheating. If Doc cheats, he won't get thrown out of here like he was out of medical school. He'll get carried on.
Don't I know it. What do you know, Pete? Plenty. How much is plenty? I've been trailing him since early this morning. He went to see the girl in jail, talked to her a long time. Think she told him? The way he went out of it, I'd say she told him everything. Well, that means we're ready for you to go to work, Doc. Anytime. If he knows, we'll know too. Doc says we can make him talk. We can't.
But science can. Okay. And Joe and I will go ahead with your plans, boss. Get going, Ed. Doc, you're sure this stuff of yours will work. Look, all you have to do is get me Boston Blackie. And now back to Boston Blackie. Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friend. Coming up to floor nine, Joe. This is Blackie's floor.
Ain't it a shame Blackie don't live up a little higher, Pete? In the middle of the night, I have to climb stairs. Quit your griping. We had to walk up. Couldn't come up on the elevator and have somebody remember us. We're taking Blackie down this way, too, huh? Sure.
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Chapter 2: How does Blackie get kidnapped?
See, now, here's the front apartment. Down the hall this way. Come on. How do we know Blackie's home? Because I saw him come in before you got here. Here's his door. I'll get to work on a lock, huh? Wait a minute. Let's try it first. It'll be open already. Oh, no. Ah, yes. Well, what do you know about that? I know we're in.
You know, Blackie's smart enough to know that anybody wants to get in here will get in anyhow. So he leaves the door open to save Splendor's. Got the gag out? Sure. The black cat, too. Better close the door. Sure. I guess Blackie's asleep, all right. That's the bedroom door. You're not a joint, could be. Yeah, there's only one other room outside of the kitchen. It's got to be the bedroom.
I got the gag ready. Okay. There he is, in bed. Sleeping like a baby. Yeah. Yeah. Quick, now, get that gag over his mouth. I got my gun on him. You all set? Yeah. All right, now. I got him. Hiya, Blackie. You know me, huh? Try to gag on good and tight, Joe. Blackie sees my gun, he won't try nothing fancy. Okay, Pete. He'll have to chew and swallow the gag to get rid of it now.
Now he was trying to say anything, Blackie. That gag's talk-proof. Guess he gets the idea, Pete. Yeah, most guys do. All right, Blackie. Over to that desk there. Go on, get out of bed. Go on, you heard him. Get over there. Okay, Blackie, now pull out the chair and sit down at that desk. Go on, sit down. Give him that pad and pencil, Joe. Sure.
Now then, Blackie, write a little note to your pal Shorty. And make it look like everything's okay. You ain't doing nothing. Go on, Blackie, write. Didn't you hear him? He said write. R-I-T-E, write. No more rough stuff, Joe. He's writing. Yeah, I know, but what? Tell you in a minute. Ah, that's making it quick, Blackie. Have a look at that. You hold the gun on him, Joe. Sure.
What's the note say, Pete? I have been called to Chicago on a case. Don't worry about me. Everything is going very swell. That seems to be okay, Blackie. Thanks. I don't think anybody will come looking for you. Until it's too late. Okay, Joe.
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Chapter 3: What leads to Blackie being interrogated with truth serum?
Do it. Okay, Pete. He's knocked out. Now let's carry him out. Oh, Blackie ain't down at the Turkish bar, Tony? No, shorty, he ain't anywhere around here. Oh, gosh, I wonder where he is. I call all over town, nobody ain't seen him. Why not try his apartment? Try it? I'm in it. Oh. I know one more place to call and find him, maybe. Thanks, Tony. Okay, sure. Hello, shorty.
Oh, gee, Inspector Friday, you seen Blackie? No, I've been looking for him all morning. Gosh, where is he? Don't you know? I know where he ain't, in Chicago. Because he leaves a note saying he was in Chicago, and it's a phony. Let's see the note. Sure. Here. I've been called to Chicago on a case. Don't worry about me. Everything is going very swell. What's funny about that?
Well, a flacky was gone someplace, he'd have told me. Or Miss Wesley. And he didn't tell neither of us. How do you know he didn't tell Miss Wesley? Because I phoned, and she didn't know nothing about it. She says the note's a phony, too. Oh, come in.
Chapter 4: What clues does Blackie leave behind?
Hello, Shorty. Hi, Miss Wesley. Hi. Find Blackie yet? No, I haven't, Shorty. Not anywhere. Hello, Inspector. Look, Miss Wesley, what's Blackie up to? He was in my office yesterday while I was out. And he told Rollins he'd be in again this morning to take me to the money stolen from the Eggersville bank. Gee, how did he find out what a Johnson Marge stash, huh? I don't know.
But I'll bet you anything I know where it is right now. You do? Sure. The same place Blackie is. And that's gone. He found out where it was, grabbed it, and skipped. Oh, you know that's not so, Inspector. Shorty, you said Blackie left a note. Can I see it? Oh, sure, sure. Here it is. Uh, I've been called to Chicago on a case. Don't worry about me. Everything is going very swell.
That's a strange way of putting it. Yeah? What's wrong with it? Nothing, maybe. But I have a hunch this note is trying to tell us something. Look, Inspector, are you sure you got Blackie's message exactly as he left it with Rollins? In plain English, Blackie told Rollins he'd be in my office this morning. Well, why don't you call Rollins and check just to make sure? What? And waste more time?
Please, Inspector. No. All right, then I'll make the call myself. Yes. Get me police headquarters, Inspector Faraday's office. Yes. I tell you, Miss Wesley, this is just a waste of time. When Blackie isn't sure of something, he checks it. Now, I'm just doing what he would do. Well, why don't you do what Blackie's just done? Disappear. Ah, you don't mean that, Inspector. Here's your party. Hello.
Sergeant Rollins, this is Mary Wesley. Oh, yes. Did Blackie tell you that he'd see Inspector Faraday in his office this morning? That's right. Well, where had Blackie been just before he came into the office, did he say? Ah, no, he didn't say, Miss Wesley, but I know where he was just the same.
He just got from the woman's attention cells where he was talking to Carolyn Johnson of the Johnson mob. Oh, thank you very much. Goodbye. Goodbye. Inspector, why are you holding Carolyn Johnson? I thought you'd arrested the entire mob and sent them to prison months ago. We just picked her up. We think she knows where her brother hid the money he stole from the Eggertsville bank.
You think she told Blackie where the money was hidden? How should I know? Well, I know how we can find out. Yeah, how? By going down to jail and asking Carolyn Johnson. Now, wait a minute, Miss Wesley. I'm taking charge of this. Oh, oh, I'm sorry, Inspector. And I know how we can find out. Oh, wonderful, Inspector. How? By going down to jail and asking Carolyn Johnson.
Now, I wonder why I didn't think of that. We want to see Carolyn Johnson, ma'am. Of course, Inspector Faraday. This way. How's she behaving, ma'am? Since she had her visitor last night, quite well. Um, was Blackie her only visitor? Yes, he was, Miss Wesley. No other callers, huh? Only a man who brought her a package from the drugstore. He said it was from Boston Blackie.
I opened it and took it to her. What was in it? Just soap, a comb, some chewing gum, and toothpaste. Here's Miss Johnson's cell. Hmm. She seems to be asleep. That's all there is to do in jail. I suppose you'd like to go inside and talk to her. Yeah, we would. If she'll tell us where the money's hidden, Inspector, we can go there, find the money, and... Maybe Blackie, too.
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Chapter 5: How do Mary and Shorty search for Blackie?
Write it all out, Blackie. All of it. Hey, it's finished. Read the pair before he changes his mind. Oh, don't worry. He has no control over his mind. What did he write? He wrote, Johnson hid the money in the well on the first farm north of Owensboro. Oh.
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Start your show today at Spreaker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Blackie finds out from Carolyn Johnson where the Johnson mob hid the money they stole from the Eggertsville bank. So he is kidnapped by another gang, given the truth serum, and forced to tell the location of the loot.
Meanwhile, Mary, Shorty, and Inspector Faraday are frantically searching for him. To complicate matters even more, Carolyn Johnson is found dead in, of all places, jail. As we return to our story, Mary and Shorty are in Blackie's apartment trying to find something else that will tell them where they can locate Blackie. Gosh, Miss Wesley, I can't find none. Neither can I, Shorty. Oh, golly.
What would Blackie do right now if he were looking for me? Gee, I don't know. He'd just find you, that's all. But don't ask me how. No, no, seriously. What would Blackie do? Well, don't look at me, Miss Wesley. I'm even dumber than you. Thank you. You know, I think Blackie would take the one clue he had and he would work on it until it made some sense. Yeah, but we don't have no clue.
We have the note he left. It must be some kind of clue, Shorty. If only we could figure it out. You got the note, huh? Oh, yes. It's right here in my pocket. What was it he wrote? All right, I'll read it again. I have been called to Chicago on a case. Don't worry about me. Everything is going very well. Everything is going very well. You know, I think that's the clue. Is it cold or something?
It's not cold, but it's something. Oh, I'll get it. Hello? Miss Wesley? Yes. This is Inspector Faraday. Still trying to find your boyfriend? Yes. Well, I just wanted to tell you that money wasn't the only reason he skipped. And what's more... You better hope we never find her. Why? Because Carolyn Johnson was killed by poison chewing gum that Blackie sent to earn a package.
Now, how do you like that? I don't like it, Inspector, and it's not true, and you know it. I know Blackie sent her a package from the Waltham drugstore. I know it contained poison chewing gum. I know Carolyn Johnson died from poison chewing gum. And I know Blackie skipped. What else do you want me to know? Who really killed the Johnson girl? Blackie did.
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