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What evil, the earth is the heart of men.
The shadow of hell.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
The shadow who waits for the forces of law and daughter is in reality Lamont Clenston,
wealthy young man about town.
Years ago in the Orient, Clenston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the hypnotic
power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him.
Clenston's friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows
to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belong.
Today's drama, yes, coils to strike.
Maria, Maria, do you have to keep playing that same record over and over again?
No, dear.
We'll shut that thing off a second and come in here.
Will you, baby?
I want to talk to you.
All right, dear.
Yes?
Sit down, Maria.
Yes?
Sit down, Maria.
Over here next to me.
That's it.
What's the matter, baby?
What is it?
Nothing to do.
You have them enacting like yourself since we came to the state, Maria.
I feel strange since we lived South America.
That's why I've noticed.
Very strange.
Now you've got to quit thinking about the jungle and all that, Maria.
We're not in a South American engineering camp anymore.
We're here in the good old USA.
I know.
I'm going to try to act more civilized.
Will you, baby?
I'll just lie around like that and listen to that crazy music on the electrolyte.
All right, dear.
And Maria.
Yes.
Do me a favor.
Will you, baby?
Take off those anchors and all that native jewelry and coils.
Give me the creep.
The creep?
Yeah, I don't know.
They remind me of snake.
Maria.
I asked you to stop playing that record.
Maria.
Maria.
Get the stuff locked in that room.
I'm playing at the pool music.
No.
Maria.
Maria.
Maria.
Get the stuff locked in that room.
I'm playing at the pool music.
No.
Maria.
Maria.
Maria.
Malia, what are you doing?
Switch that, will you?
Stop it. Stop that, Malia.
Yes.
Oh, dear.
I was only dancing.
What kind of dancing is that?
Riggling and smithering around like that.
It's crazy, Malia. You've got to stop it.
Yes. You're upset.
Look at me like something. He's a martyr.
Something's happening to you.
I don't know what it is, but it's been coming over here
since we left South America.
You do not love me anymore, is that it still?
Of course, I love you, baby. Of course I do.
I guess it's you, but I think so funny lately.
You still love me?
I said I did.
And come here.
Now look, Malia.
Come here and kiss me, dear.
No.
Come here, dear.
I don't want your arms around my neck like that. Don't.
Kiss me.
Malia, let me go. Let me go.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
Kiss me.
It's the whole story, Mr. King.
It's lame.
I know it sounds a little peculiar, but it is the truth.
It is sort of a new assignment, isn't it, Malia?
Yes, I don't think I've ever before been asked to help locators make.
It's a little more than just that, Mr. King.
You see, ever since I've been cured of the zoo, I've tried to build a parental house.
This morning, I received seven new species in South America.
Among them was a small and very deadly snake called the Scabra.
The Scabra?
Yes.
And when we took the crate out of the truck this afternoon, we did not find the Scabra.
It's like an escape.
Yes, it's the same.
Somewhere between the duck and the zoo, it's a rather isolated neighborhood.
It was there that the tribe had to swell to miss an incoming car, almost over 10.
And you think that's when this makes the duck of its crate escape?
Yes.
Naturally, I sent my assistant, Malia, and I'd offer search.
But it has been almost four hours now, and I haven't heard about time.
Do you think the rest of the morning found the snake and in kind to catch him?
What's bitten safely?
Pretty possibly, Mr. King.
I don't want to call it an apiece yet.
The news that the poisonous snake is loose might cause a necessary penny.
I think you're right.
Now, you'll be able to help us search doctor.
Well, by all means, good.
Come on, Margaret.
It's almost dark now.
We better get started immediately.
Maria, come here.
What is it here?
I've got a talk to you, Maria.
I've got something I have to say to you.
What is it you have to say?
Now, look, Maria.
This isn't easy for you or for me.
But something's been happening to you.
I don't know exactly what it is.
I just know why it is.
Why it is?
Because it's Billy, and the way he was killed.
What do you mean?
That's the reason for this change coming over you.
The thing in the jungle that killed our son, that's responsible.
Do you think that killed our son is responsible?
Yes.
You promised me we would never have had to talk about it.
We know it was a snake that killed Billy.
We didn't want to say it, but we know it was a snake, don't we?
It's like a snake.
It's been playing on your mind.
You've been thinking about it brooding, about it happening.
Yes.
It's been in your conscience, in your heart.
Yes.
Well, you've got to stop it, Maria.
You've got to stop it.
It's doing something to you.
It's changing you in a terrible way.
It's obvious it is.
It's making you act different and look different.
Why it's changing you into it?
Do it bro.
Get back in your room, Maria.
I'll get rid of him whoever it is.
Go back in your room.
We can't let anyone see you quickly.
Maria.
Yes.
My name is Maulan.
Maulan.
Yes.
I'm sorry to tell you, but I wouldn't have if you could tell me.
What is it?
I know this sounds odd, but it's about a snake.
A snake.
It's escaped.
It's probably negligent of us, I know.
It simply got lost and we're quite sure it's around here in the neighborhood somewhere.
It is, huh?
Yes, I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
You see it's an important South America.
South America?
Yes.
It's called a cuscova.
And not a large snake.
A female.
Soft found color.
Even mocked.
How did you find out?
What did you say?
I said, how did you find out?
I don't know what you mean, but there's no reason to be alarmed.
A female cuscova is poison.
Shut up.
No.
Please, there's no reason to get excited.
You don't have to snake it.
I do have it.
But you'll never get it.
Sorry.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh, my.
Sorry.
I don't know how you found out.
But you're not going to stop.
About it.
Let me go.
Let me go.
Ah.
Ah.
Nobody's going to find out about Marie.
Nobody.
What time is it now, Mr. Kenton?
It's almost seven, Dr. Rittenhouse.
There's been almost two hours now.
This is the almost impossible to find a small snake.
Now that it's dark, what are you talking about?
It's between.
Someone on his left should have seen my assistant Marlon.
He had found it.
They can have been fatally bitten.
Someone on his table would have at least heard him cry out of something.
Mr. Kenton, I've got to get back to the sewer.
I'm going to notify the authorities.
All right, Dr. Marlon, I look for a little longer.
Fine.
Fine.
It checks back to me anytime.
Good night.
Thank you both very much.
Good night, Dr. Rittenhouse.
What do you think, Marlon?
The possibility of Marlon will be back to the zoo
by the time Dr. Rittenhouse gets there.
It's not.
That's pretty bad.
People don't just vanish in the same air.
No.
Thank you.
Want her?
Sounds like music played on an East Indian flute.
It's going through that house right there, Marlon.
That's one of the few we haven't been through yet.
I don't think we better put all this in this house any longer.
Come on, Marlon, let's go to the steps.
An East Indian?
Well, this is a strange neighborhood, isn't it?
What's the name played on the door, Marlon?
R-H-H-S-R-H-S-R.
There's no consultant.
An extensive sounding portantiller.
Mrs. Hussar is undoubtedly a very high-class one, isn't it?
Me like an East Indian take care.
Take care, yes, Marlon.
Probably in more ways than one.
Yes.
Mr. Hussar?
That is correct.
We're doing some investigating, Mr. Hussar.
A truck from the zoo was carrying some reptiles by her this afternoon
and one escaped.
Is make a escape?
The assistant curator of the zoo was supposed to be inserting this neighborhood
for the past six hours, but he disappeared.
He disappeared?
Yes.
We were wondering if you knew anything about this.
Well, no, no, I...
No, nothing.
You haven't seen a man making inquiries around the neighborhood?
I have seen no one.
I see.
Mr. Hussar, we heard some music just a few minutes ago.
I could have sworn it was an East Indian flute.
The kind used to charm snake.
You were mistaken.
I played the music, yes, but I played it only for my own amusement.
Now, if you were butterly, Mr. Hussar...
I'm busy, good night, but...
Well, that was a sudden exit.
What do we do now, Marlon?
I think we'll go next door, Marlon.
That's the last house on the block.
We don't find anything there.
We'll be back to see Mr. R. Hussar again.
All right, Marlon.
Help me get him over to the basement, Dylan.
Did you clear this man, Dylan?
I had to.
He found out.
He shouldn't have done it.
Because I had to.
He knew about you.
Did you know about me?
Yes.
Or me?
Don't worry, Marlon.
Here, we're going away.
We're going to go away.
Nobody will see you.
I'll carry him the rest of the way.
But...
Here, we'll be linked to an amended police.
We'll start asking questions.
At least I'll never find this guy.
We're going to bury him down here in the basement.
All right, there.
There is a shovel down here.
I will help you dig it.
Down.
Down here.
There.
Now, let's see.
Let's pick him around here somewhere.
What's the matter?
Look.
They're in the basement window.
What are you looking at?
Come on, Marlon.
We've got to get out of here.
Just a man.
We cannot leave the body.
We've got to.
We've got to get up the stairs.
It's all about.
Come on, Marlon.
You can't stay down there.
Come on, Marlon.
Yep, there.
Quick.
The basement door is open.
You think we ought to just break in this well, Marlon?
We know there's someone down here.
And yet they didn't add to their fun door there.
Maybe they couldn't hear them.
Maybe they don't want people to see what they're hiding in the cellar.
Come on, Clarence.
They're likely going to stay to get out of town.
Good chance to look around.
His blood is picked down.
It's a bed we have in the flesh.
I don't like this, Marlon.
I have a feeling there's something down here, sir.
Come on.
It's a man.
I quit.
It's a man.
Sorry.
What is it, Lord?
It's a man.
The body of a man might very well be Marlon, Dr. Rittenhouse,
of the system.
Please.
What is it?
Look.
I'm moving down here.
It kind of looks like.
It's a different sound.
It's coming from that corner.
Marlon.
We're seeing you.
I'm staring at it.
What a mark.
Is it a display?
Looks like a model.
Looks very much like a snake.
A few moments ago, Lamont and Vago discovered the body of the assistant curator of the zoo in the center of the house,
only to look up into the gleaming eyes of the deadly snake,
and they are standing in thick hollow when suddenly.
Come quickly, Marlon.
I'm firing it.
I don't know.
Right.
It's running footsteps.
It's a lot similar to just one of the kids.
There we go.
Look through the window.
Someone running across the lawn told you it's just a dog.
I see.
I'm very anxious for it not to find this body.
It may light a match.
Snake, Marlon.
It's gone.
Are they not down here now?
No, it must have been fighting the way by the shot.
Come on.
What's the assistant?
I don't know.
All I could see with the eyes.
Somehow they look good.
You must be.
What terrible kind of thing have we got ourselves into?
Something a lot stranger than we thought it'd be.
Come up here, darling.
What did I do?
First of all, I noticed that we saw Marlon's body.
Then, search this appellantly and the house from top to bottom.
If we find it, it's really easy.
I'm going back and pay a visit to Mr. Hassard.
This time, Mr. Sheppard.
Maria.
Maria.
Maria.
Where are you?
Here I am, please.
Oh, gosh.
I've been looking all over for you, baby.
Didn't know whether you're out in the yard or still down in the basement.
I don't know where someone was shooting.
That was me.
I saw the two of them in the basement looking at the body.
You saw?
Yeah, yeah.
I had to distract their attention somehow.
I know.
Got them out of the basement anyway.
Now we can go back and get the body.
Put them in the car and we'll get out of town.
No, Bill.
What do you mean?
I am not going back down there.
Come on, baby.
You can't stay here.
Somebody's liable to find you.
No.
I said, come on.
Let's see me.
Go, baby.
The only way Maria believes me.
Let's go, I'm my race.
Don't get it.
Come on.
And I told you to let me go.
Oh, my head.
You've got me.
I miss you.
Yes.
Yes, I miss you.
Good, me.
Great.
Head.
It's a little bit difficult to say it, but it's not...
...but it's going to be a struggle!
A lot of people do, but I feel a bit scared.
They just take somebody's hand, and I don't know how to say anything,
but they just pretend to be human.
They just pretend that they're human.
And then they refuse...
What makes you wish to come is that the deadly time and headgover of India
to speak on a precious and pointless cut-gabble of South America?
What was the way here, who is this?
It's the shadow of the shadow of death.
What do you know about the cut-gabble snake that escaped from the zoo?
Right.
I know that it escapes that is all.
Hey, I do not have a snake now.
What about Marlon, the greatest assassin, Mr. Hassan?
Young Marlon, him didn't show up.
Murder is low.
No, no, I did not murder him.
But perhaps you know who did?
Well, he taught him.
Come, he didn't come, he's a wife who lives next door.
What about him?
I told his man to speak.
Marlon, going to their hostage, absolute.
He has not come up.
Why is it coming?
It's murder and innocent man.
I do not know.
There have been many strange things going on over there.
The girl she is native of South America.
She acts funny, funny.
How does she act?
She does not go out of her house.
She never go out since they come here from South America.
Yes, and she does weird that.
And you think this girl has something to do with her mother?
She is a shadow.
Go to them, find the girl, the strange sense of girl.
The secret of life, then, it was hard.
I swear to them, Elasa.
I will go now.
But if you glide, the shadow will be back.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Marlon.
Marlon.
Marlon.
Marlon.
Marlon.
Marlon.
I've got to find a bit more somebody else.
I think she went this way, but the labor's good, right?
I do it, no, but I have a look around here.
Nothing in here.
I've got to find her.
What was that?
The money.
Into the hamper over there.
The hamper doing in the garage.
I like it.
Hey.
Good Lord Christ.
Good.
Husty Maria.
Maria.
Is that you?
Are you in there?
Maria, answer me.
For the love I have, answer me.
I wish the Marlon would come, I hate waiting out here.
There you are, Marlon.
Marlon, you cannot be waiting out here for 10 minutes.
I think I've got the answer to this whole wild business, Marlon.
The half?
You think it is ours, the shadow?
Yes, Marlon.
He may be involved.
It's more complicated than that.
More complicated?
I can't explain that, Marlon.
I want you to wait here for Commissioner Wester.
He should be here any minute.
And you?
I'm going to find the killer, Marlon.
And the missing snake.
This time, there are much supplies.
The shadow will find them both together.
Maria.
Maria, are you in there?
Maria, I don't know who that is.
What are you doing in here, young man?
Who are you?
What are you doing in my garage?
You're good, right?
You're good, right?
So you're the one...
What are you talking about?
You're the one who captured it.
You put it in that hamper.
You hit it in there.
Right.
I don't know what you mean.
No.
There's nothing in that hamper.
So, Commissioner, there is something in the hamper.
You better, sir, then you put it in there.
Didn't you?
Didn't you?
Right.
Maria, I thought there would be safer.
You thought I would be safer, huh?
You didn't believe things like this could happen.
Why, you had never seen anything like it before.
I thought if I put it in the hamper, you saw it.
People are gonna get it out.
You hear?
He's gonna take it out of here.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, I will be beaten.
You will be beaten.
I've already been beaten.
Now open that hamper.
What's going to wait for that?
Don't shoot.
I can't open it.
Next.
But he's not the guy out of my hand.
The shadow will be...
Shadow.
He was afraid to open the hamper, Shadow.
But I'm not...
No, I'll let her out.
I'll set his dreams.
They will not happen.
I'll make you out, little Maria.
I'll make you out.
Don't touch that hamper, you'll let the poisonous poison out.
Hey, little Maria.
I'll get you there.
I'll put your kill...
Little Maria.
What is that?
Stop!
No.
No, no, no, no.
You're still in, Shadow.
No, no, no, no, no.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
You're still in, Shadow.
He was guiding him.
He was guiding him to his place.
Before my eyes, he was ready to go, believe not true.
That picture of Maria was only a terrible distortion of your imagination.
That's a mix?
There was only one snake.
And it's my own now, there, the trophy.
Tell us what Maria you talked to after you had to see Mr. Charles, the shadow of the mind.
Yes, Marko, I found her out in the garage.
I got most of the story.
I don't understand.
It's Maria who was perfectly alright.
What may Bill think she was turning into some sort of wreck?
He received a terrible shock when his son died, Marko.
Young Billy was killed by a poison snake outside their mining can in South America.
Charles?
That's the twist of Bill's mind.
By the time they came back to this country, he began to read snake-like qualities
into every aspect just as wise name.
But I still don't understand.
That's what Richard has swarming had to do with housing.
Richard has star-bound the snake in his garage.
He hit it in the hammer hoping to collect a hand from reward for it.
What's going to happen to him?
Well, Marko, when the state takes all the facts in Bill's case in the consideration,
I think they'll hand down a billion thirty.
The weed of time is bitter fruit.
Time does not take the shadow known.
