The Falcon - The Case of the Missing Patient

0:00Save with digital deals at Vons and Albertsons. This week at Vons and Albertsons, Ginny O, 93% lean ground turkey is 399 per pound, sold in a 3 pound tray with digital coupon limit two packages. And a 1 pound package of strawberries is 199 with digital coupon. Plus Kellogg's giant size cereal, 22.6 to 29.5 ounces, selected varieties are 299 each, with digital coupon limit three. Hurry in! Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Hello? Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh, Kara! Thanks for the call, but I can't make it tonight, Angel. I'm working on a case. Seems the fellow is disturbed in the middle of the night and didn't get any sleep. So by the next morning he was dead tired. The adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere. Those hard-hitting detectives who like Mike Wirling, risk their lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join him now when the Falcon solves the case of the missing patient.

1:05It's late Sunday night as two figures move cautiously among the packing boxes, piled in a darkened pier on the New York waterfront. The taller of the two figures carries a flashlight and runs its beam over the pieces of the boxes as he moves slowly down the pier. It should be somewhere right along here, Decker. Yeah, but why? Why don't we come to it? Patience fellow, we will. Crain gear. It's a chance that maybe we made a mistake. A mistake? Wanna street pier section E cargo from the Golden Star? There's no mistake unless they made one at the other end. And we ought to come to it. Well, I've news for you, Decker. We have. Huh? Feast your eyes on that, felon. A beautiful little crayon cross. Lovely sight, wouldn't you say? This is it. This is it. Don't tell me. Let's get it open. Well, you have the crowbar, remember?

2:05Oh, here, Crain. Guess I'm kind of excited. And try to control yourself. We have work to do. I'll hold the light. Yep. I don't even have to take off two boards. It's supposed to be right on top. Right. All right, now look at all reaching. Okay, you got it? Just a sucker, fellow. Yet, I have something that's a bag. And it feels like... Here, you hold the light. Okay. I'll open it and pour up with Cinnatine. Brother, look at them, rocks. Well, Decker looks like we've hit the jack. All in you, too. Right. Right. I'll be here in this case. Quick. Click off the light. Yeah. Come on out of there, both of you. What are we gonna do? Sit tight and shut up. I thought we left that watchman get for us. It's not the watchman that's cops. You don't come out or come in for you. What are we gonna do? They got the light on us.

3:05I don't think they can see to the right of this box from where they are. If nothing happens, you'll fall. Okay. They can see. They got you. The shoulder, it's all up. You're asking for it. Are you gonna come out, peaceful? All right, let's move in. Looks like they got us. No. Let's stay low and make a run the other way for the ship. Maybe I could but you'll never make it. They won't just stay here. You go. You but could. If you're lucky, you can make this ship that'll draw them off me. You still want it the hard way, Fahas? He's close. I'll get going while it's time. If you make the ship duck down behind the rail and lose you run for the ball. There's a rope where she's tied up. You can slide down it and you'll wind up near the car. You'll have to be able to make the car before they realize what's happening. Yeah, but how about you? Maybe I can get away while they're after you. I'll keep the stone so they do catch up with you. You're clean. If they don't catch up, go to my place. I'll be there so as I see a duck. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know where it works. I'll get going. But I can go on. Okay. Call it.

4:05Oh, Carl, the door. Sorry, I hear it. You want me to go? No, no, I'll go. As soon as I find my sleeper, here. Coming, coming. Yeah? You the doctor? Yeah. Good on the patient. So I see, all dead blood. Come right in here. Yeah. Sorry to disturb you this time of night, but it was an emergency. No. No things happen. Actually, then? Not exactly. This was intended for me. A bullet. Oh. Well, fit right here. Right. Now, if you can get off this jacket, or you can't lift arm.

5:08No, no. Well, here I'll help you. Now, easy, easy, easy. We flip the jacket down. All right. Yeah, yeah, all right, thanks. Now we see. Well, I have to tear the shirt. Go ahead. Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's a very bad. Mm-hmm. Not too bad. I think I can with not too much difficulty get it out. Well, I'll get Elsa to help with anesthetics. Oh, no, that. No anesthetics. What? I want to know what's going on. It will hurt. Not the patient all has it. I'm prepared for it. Well, as you wish. What I don't like to hurt. Short of snubs, perhaps? If you let me watch you open a bottle, I don't want anything in it. You are a very suspicious man. I have to be. I gathered that. You've already guessed this happened to me. I haven't given it much thought.

6:09It's my job to cure people, not to judge them. I know it also happens to be a job to report any shooting. Formality, the Lord, required for the Lord. It requires the suspense with the formality. That's why I'm not going to be put to sleep. I want to be sure. Is it? Elsa, my wife. Tell her to stay out of here. She could tell her to stay out. One minute, Elsa. It's all right, Elsa. As a patient, I can take care of it. But don't you want me to help? No, no, no, no. Go back to bed. Well, I'll put on some coffee. It'll be on the stove. All right. Thank you, Elsa. Oh, you shouldn't be so alarmed of Elsa. She wouldn't harm anyone. I told you I have to be careful. Here. Is it worth it? I wonder. What's worth? Water, field, paint. I'm not complaining. I come on, how about getting a work? Here. Now we get to work.

7:18Carl? Are you sure you don't need me? It's nearly three o'clock. How much longer you're going to be? Carl? Carl? Carl? Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! Carl! Yes? Hello. Do I have the right apartment? Well, I don't know. What apartment do you want? Oh, excuse me. I'm looking for Michael Wearing. He's a detective. Sometimes called a folk. I'm looking for the right apartment.

8:18Thank you. Now what can I do for you? Are you the folk? Now who did you think I am? Well, I wasn't sure. Friend perhaps a secretary or something. I mean, well, I guess I expected someone... Well, not quite so polished. Well, the polish is on his skin deep, believe me. I need a perfect example of a private eye. Nose of steel, muscles of iron, and rocks in my head. As for you, tell me your name, and we'll go on from there. Oh, yes. I'm Mrs. Carl Eberhardt. And just why do you want a detective, Mrs. Eberhardt? My husband has been murdered. Oh, I'm sorry. That comes easy, doesn't it? What? I'm sorry. Like, good day or how are you? Figure of speech. You didn't even know Carl. What do you want me to say? I'm being difficult, aren't I? I don't worry. It's just, I'm not going to break down.

9:19So I'd go ahead of it, it'll make you feel any better. No, I've been through all that. I want you to find out who did this thing. Why not leave it to the police? They seem to have an idea. I did it. They were quite unpleasant. Well, at least they didn't lock you up. Not yet. Why should they suspect you? Because they don't know who else to suspect. Carl had nowhere in the me. I told you he was a good man. Everyone who knew him liked him. Including you. Yes. But I'm considerably younger than Carl. I think the police hope to make something of that. They're looking for the other man in your life. Yes. Is that one? You have the same sort of mind, I see. Well, if you mean one that considers all possibilities, yes. If I'm going to help you, I have to have the facts. You have them. I've told you the truth. All right. Then there's no triangle and your husband had no enemies. That's right. And you have no idea who might have killed him. Oh, but I do. Well, I thought you said you didn't.

10:20Well, I don't know his name. But a man came in the middle of the night. Carl said it was a patient. Did you see him? No, he took him in the office. After more than an hour when Carl didn't come back to bed, I went in the office. Patient was gone. Carl was dead. Could it have been one of the regular patients? I don't think so. Carl would have mentioned his name. Total stranger, no connection with your husband, nobody's so un. I guess I'm asking me impossible, aren't I? Maybe I'd better forget the whole thing and let the police think what they want. No, Mrs. Eberhardt. I'll find the man for you. You really think you can? Yes, sure. I don't you worry. Everything is going to be all right. I promise.

11:24You know, wearing even a firearm on the police force, I'm homicide, not traffic. So if you get a ticket, don't expect me to fix it. All right, Corbett, you don't like the way I drive? Get out. Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine today? I ought to give you a lift to headquarters. Yes, wearing, so you could pump me about the Eberhardt case. Well, a lot of good has been made. I told you all we know wearing. Which adds up to a big fat zero. You haven't any more than missing patient than I have. If there is a missing patient. There is sergeant, you know there is. Oh, no, no, no. Just because you stuck your neck out, don't expect me to follow. Look, I said I'd find that character for a Corbett, and I will. More power to you. After all, there are only 10 million people in New York. That's right. So why couldn't at least one of them have seen this guy? Still assuming there is such a guy. Oh, why couldn't he have left a clue? Why isn't there something one measly lead to his identity? Oh, why can't I keep my big mouth shut? Well, that wearing is the question. I promise, Mrs. Eberhardt, I'd find the guy when there's not a single thing to go on.

12:27Don't worry, just leave it to me. Everything is going to be all right. You know something, Corbett, I must be nuts. Wearing for the first time in my life, I'm inclined to agree with you. And now back to the adventures of the Falcon. A few days have passed since Mike wearing promise to pick a man out of nowhere. Now Mike is cooled off, gone to work on it, and he seems a little more cheerful as he enters Sergeant Corbett's office at 10 quarters. Hello, Corbett. You're wearing a little more human today. For you, that's quite a feat. Well, I'm feeling better, Corbett. What happened, Mrs. Eberhardt, fire you? No, and I don't think she will. I hate to spoil your fun, Corbett, but I'm on the track of the missing patient. You don't say. Oh, I do say, I've been checking.

13:27Two fellas were spotted looting cargo on the waterfront the night of the murder. Yeah, I heard about it. Suspected to being caught of a smuggling ring. So what? So the two guys got away, but they were shooting. The cop was spotted on the shurie hit one. Oh, you think? Eberhardt isn't far from the pier, and if the fella had a bullet in him, he'd need a doctor. And safe with digital deals at Vons and Albertsons. This week at Vons and Albertsons, Ginny O, 93% lean ground turkey is 399 per pound. Sold in a three pound tray with digital coupon limit two packages. And a one pound package of strawberries is 199 with digital coupon. Plus Kellogg's giant size cereal, 22.6 to 29.5 ounces, selected varieties are 299 each, with digital coupon limit three. Hurry in! Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Then, you might want to shut the doctor up. Yeah, could be. But if the guy's got away, you still don't know who they are. You should keep in touch with the other department's Corbett. Joey Decker was identified as one of the men.

14:27One who got hit? No, the other one. If he'd decker up the next day, he'd deny any part of it. Denies he was ever at the pier. But he has no alibi and they booked him. He's out on bail. So if we could crack Decker? That's right, Corbett. If we can make him name his partner, I'm willing to bet we'll have our missing patient. What are we waiting for? Who's waiting? Okay, wearing. Only this time I drive in a squad car. Decker's in. He wouldn't be if we announced ourselves so we can only take a chance. Yeah. Well, now. Sounds like trouble. Come on, call the cops. He's taken some problems. That's what it's coming from. Decker, take her. What's going on in there? Come on, we better try to break this door. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. They've stopped. Maybe now they'll answer. Come on in there. Open up.

15:29Where's the police? All right. All right, just a minute. Well, make it a short minute. Wonder what was going on in there. Just a nice friendly argument. If one of those friends doesn't open this door pretty quick, I'm still going to kick it in. I think somebody's coming. Well, I'm going to get the police. I think somebody's coming. Well, what do you want? Catch him wearing him. I'll drag him to this chair. There. Brother, odd cold. Yeah. Wait, his face is pushed out his shape. He wasn't playing solitaire. Which means whoever did this is probably still in the apartment. I better have a look. Yeah, go to it, wearing. I'll see if I can bring this fellow around. Right. Hey, Corpus. Hey, Corpus. Yeah, what is it? It's a back door and it's open. Whoever we're looking for is probably left. Well, he can't be far. Maybe you can catch him. Right, I'm on my way.

16:39Armicide, Sergeant Corbett. Hello, Corpus. Wearing wear in blazes, Arya. You've been gone 15 minutes. I went down the back way to the street. The fellow was just getting in a taxi, so I followed. Please, Pacha? No, he went to the bus station on 34th and picked up a package from a baggage locker. Then he went down to Penn station. He's eating out a lunch stand in the station. I'm calling from a booth where I can watch him. Are you sure he's the guy we're after? Well, he was at Decker's, his left arm's in a sling, seems to add up. Well, stick with him. I've got an ambulance here for Decker. They don't need me, so where do I find you? Public phone where the operator's on duty. Long Island side, Penn station. If I'm not here, that means our friend finished his meal and shoved off. But don't worry, Wearing. I'll be there before his coffee cools. Hello, Wearing. Is he still here? Corbett, you made a decent time. He left the stand.

17:40He said it for the subway. Come on. Right. There he is. Passing the news stand. The tall guy in the tan top coat. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I see the sling. But gets me the Wearing. Is how we could do the job on Decker with one arm out of commission. I guess he can still hold a gun on his hand. That way he could keep Decker from fighting back and he could slap him around with his good arm. Hey, going through the turnstile. Yeah, I thought he might. Sorry, I had a good time, Freddie. Let's hurry it up. We don't want him to hop a train that we can't catch. Right. All right, I'll put the diamond. Corbett, go on through. Okay. Over here, Wearing. These are the stairs he chucked. Yeah. It is a train on the platform. Come on, quick. You see him, Corbett? Yes, he's getting in the last car. Hurry it up. Wearing the doors are closed. Come on. Hurry, wearing it up the door. Come on, get in. Get in. That was close. Oh. Hey, now I see his face. I know that guy, huh? He's earning crane.

18:41I questioned him on another cave. Oh, he sees me. And he knows me. Look, he's pushing toward the back. That's all right, the doors are closed. He can't get out. He can't get out the back door to the tracks. Yeah. He's opening it. Come on. Excuse me, please. Let me through here, please. Hey, please. Don't call any need. Shump to the train, sir. Don't keep going. It will pick up too much speed. I'm sorry, lady. I'm not absolutely moving. I'm getting really heavy. It's my being. Well, listen to me. Here we are, wearing. But we're going pretty fast. And I may miss them on a brother, so I'm keeping a so long moment. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry. I'm not getting anywhere. Why don't you give yourself up? Well, I guess that's my answer.

19:42Is there any train out of bullets? Well, here's where we get together, then. All right, train. Stop pumping with that clip. You should have known you couldn't get it in fast enough for that bum arm. If I can't get it, then the gun maybe it'll do some good news. Hey, no. Don't run away. Let's go. We're going to the train. Hey, no, you don't run away. Let's go. I don't know what you're trying to prove, but you can't put up a fight with that arm. I told you. I want you to quit. Look out. I just come against the third rail as curtains for both of you. I'm not taking this. This is the way you want it. Here it is. Oh. All right, I'm not getting up. Hurry up as a train coming. I can't hear how healthy I am. Hurry up. Sorry, but if we don't move fast, come on train. And I just managed to drag him out of the way in time, Corbett. Yeah, good that you did wearing. Treasury boys hoped to pump him about the smuggling outfit, and they couldn't very well if he was mangled.

20:43Well, I don't know how far they'll get. He doesn't seem to want to talk. He'll talk. And that package of rocks he had with him would do a lot of talking for him. A couple of diamonds in there. There's this size of golf balls. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. This isn't fair, there's this size of golf balls. Well, the main thing as far as I'm concerned is that I've proved Mrs. Ebbahoth story about the Midnight visit. Oh. You know, I'm calling an hour to tell the good news. Hello. And I speak to Mrs. Ebbahoth, please. What? When? Let me see. All right, thanks. No, goodbye. How do you like that? Well, seeing as how I'm not a mind reader, Oh, how do I like what wearing? That was a nurse, Mrs. Eberhardt, as unconscious. Huh? Yeah, seems she was beaten up this afternoon, too. And now back to the adventures of the falcon.

22:00Half an hour has passed since Mike Wearing learned that Mrs. Eberhardt was beaten unconscious. He's gone to see her and now she opens her swollen eyes. Is that you, Mr. Wearing? Yes, Mrs. Eberhardt. Now don't try to talk yet. Oh, I want to talk. I saw the man this time. I can give a description. Well, good. I hope it fits the man we caught. Oh, you've caught him? Mm-hmm. Oh, we caught somebody. Now, if we can tie him to you, the whole thing will fit together. Well, this man was tall or a tan topcoat. A long face, long sharp nose, thin lips, and his left arm was in a slain. Well, I guess that does it. Is it the same man? Yes. What did he want with you? Well, I'm not sure it was so confusing. He said, I knew. But I didn't. He held her gun in his left hand and then hit me with his right hand. But told me to talk, said, I killed Carl.

23:00You killed Carl? That's what he said. Did he mention the diamonds? Diamonds? What diamond? Oh, oh, maybe that's what he meant. Stones, he said, something about stones. That could be diamonds. Yes, it could. But I don't understand. Carl didn't have any... No, it's all right, Mrs. Everhart. Don't try to talk anymore. But that may... Well, don't you worry about him. We've got him where we want him. And he had the diamonds on him, so that angle is taken care of. But the murder was another matter. However now that you can identify him, I think we can take care of that, too. Right now, Crane, are you going to talk around you? I hate to disappoint you, Sergeant, but I can't think of a thing to say. Waring, I'd like to give this character a dose of his own medicine. He likes to rough up people.

24:00I don't think it's necessary, Corbett. The diamonds are in definitely time to the smuggling mob. That's right. And Mrs. Everhart's identification will time to Ebot. And finally, he's beating up Deckard. Who's that? As if you don't know. Oh, you'd be surprised how many things I don't know, Sergeant. You're too modest, Crane. Rizzo. Yes, Sergeant? Send Deckard in. Right. All right, Deckard, inside. OK. What do you want with me, Sergeant? We have a friend of yours here. Huh? Him? Yeah. I don't know him. Huh? You don't know Crane? I have a song before my life. You mean he's not the guy who did that job on your face this afternoon? I told you I never saw him before. OK, put up, Sergeant, you're doing fine. I don't know how to expect it, this Corbett. Deckard's been denying any partner, Joel Smuggling. Naturally, he's going to deny any tie-up with Crane. Yeah. Still, I don't see why he's so worried about a smuggling charge when we've got a murder rap to hang on him.

25:01What's that, Warren? You heard me, Deckard. You're the one who killed Dr. Abberhardt. I never even heard of a Dr. Abberhardt. He's the doctor Crane went to after the shooting on the pier. You must have followed him there. I didn't. I wasn't on the pier. I didn't go to the doctor's. The Crane must have passed out while the doctor was working on him. The doctor was going to phone the police. That's when you showed up. You killed him to keep him from calling the police. Well, you're crazy. Crane had the rocks. Crane went to the doctors. Why do you try to drag me in? How do you know Crane had the rocks unless you were with him on the pier? Well, I mean, I... All right. Sorry, I wasn't on the pier. Crane got me into it. But he took the rocks and him and me split up. I didn't even see him again until a certain moment he tried to scare me into shutting up about him. That's why he beat up a me. You're the rap. Wait! I'm going to die! I'm going to die! All right, Warren. Hang on your face. The doctor's right. Hold on here. Now the doctor is talking, Corbett. I think you can wrap up the case. You'll bet I'm talking. Crane took the rocks. That's right, Decker. And he killed the doctor. No, that's wrong, Decker. I still nominate you for that. So just keep talking and you'll prove it.

26:19Well, hello. Oh, hello, Mr. Wearing Command. Thank you. How do you feel today? Better thanks. I hear you saw the case. Uh-huh. And I understand the man who attacked me wasn't the murderer. That's right. It wasn't Crane. It was his partner, Decker. But how did you know? Well, I was sure the murderer had the diamonds. Since Crane was looking for them, he obviously wasn't the murderer. I see. He thought you might have them, but you couldn't tell him anything. Or he wouldn't have had to try Decker. That meant you weren't the murderer. And that leaves Decker. That's right. Crane was able to go directly to the diamonds when he left Decker. So Decker must have told him where they were. Mm-hmm. Well, I don't know how to thank you for clearing the submissive wearing. You hired me to do a job? I did it, that's all. And risked your life doing it. Don't minimize it. Would have been a bigger risk if I hadn't. What do you mean? If I hadn't cleared things up after the promises I made, Sergeant Corbett would have reared the life out of me. Good night, Mrs. Everhan.

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