Charlie Chan in Panama Page #4

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his place is full of creepy animals.

- Tarantulas, monkeys and rats.

- Yes, yes. I know.

Have not been asleep while living

across street from mysterious doctor.

But do you know his rats are infected

with bubonic plague?

- Bubonic plague?

- Yeah. He's gonna use 'em to infect the fleet.

Must see rats.

When prepared for worst,

can hope for best.

You must feel pretty foolish, Lieutenant,

arresting Charlie Chan for espionage.

Maybe not so foolish

While still posing as Mr Fu Yuen

Chan told me that Seor Godley

die in his hat shop.

He did? Is that why

you arrested him, Lieutenant?

I don't talk police business

before nobody.

You don't have to worry about Halide, Pop.

I saw him following Dr. Grosser.

Hey, Pop,

that room wasn't lit before.

[Charlie]

Rerhaps doctor has returned

Dr Grosser

- Dr. Grosser.

- [Low Yowl]

Oh. Don't be nervous, Pop.

It's probably just that monkey.

- [Yowls]

- Oh! That was no monkey.

Honorable pussycat.

Oh. I knew

it was some kind of an animal.

[Quiet Thud]

That's funny.

I could have sworn I heard a noise.

I must be hearing things

Think you hear own imagination.

Did same imagination create infected rodents?

Why, they're gone. I tell you, Pop, these cages

were full of rats when I left to get you.

These lights weren't on.

Somebody came in here and took 'em.

He's going to infect the fleet.

He's gonna spread the plague

through the canal zone everywhere.

- Pop, Dr. Grosser is Ryner.

- Possible.

Colonel Webster,

Lieutenant Chan speaking.

Request detention of Dr. Grosser.

Bubonic rats?

That's fantastic.

All right.

We'll pick him up for questioning.

Call Medical Corps

and send out plague warning.

And have Dr. Grosser

brought in for questioning.

- Yes, sir.

- Anything else, Charlie?

No, but One moment, please.

Yes. Please request

from British consul...

complete information on Cliveden Compton,

English novelist.

- Thank you so much.

- Cliveden Compton?

But what's he got to do

with Grosser?

When answer is known,

may prove very interesting. Come.

But what are we gonna do now?

Put number two son to bed.

Ah, gee, Pop, you can't drop me

right in the middle of a case.

- [Chittering]

- Pop!

To bed. Young brain like grass

need dew of sleep.

- Oh, but, Pop, I've got a swell theory.

- Theory also belong in bed.

Oh, well, all right.

Will return after small errand.

Do not wait.

[Rattles Doorknob]

Good night.

- Mr. Compton, please.

- Mr. Compton?

Room 35.

The key is here.

I'm afraid the guest is out.

- Thank you. Will wait.

- Seor

Coffee, please.

- Quick, Lieutenant, follow that man.

- What?

He was on the airplane today

with Mr. Godley.

I think someone on that plane

killed him.

I think if you don't stop playing detective,

somebody gonna kill you.

All right, I'll behave.

Thanks so much for escorting me.

Shall we say the same time tomorrow night?

Excuse, but I'm not on duty tomorrow night.

I'll send someone else.

Thank you. Very well.

- Buenas noches

- Good night, lady.

What are you doing here?

Why you are not at the cabaret?

I-I was looking for you.

Mr. Manolo,

l-I can't go on with that job.

You saw what happened tonight.

You are very independent

for a girl without a passport.

Go back to work.

[Speaking Spanish]

[Spanish Continues]

[Handset Settles In Cradle]

[Knocking]

[Grunts]

- Pop.

- You.

It's a good thing you turned on that light.

I might have hurt you.

Thought too horrible to contemplate.

This was theory

that overheat son's brain?

Yeah. I-I must have been thinking

along the same lines as you.

You're here.

- Was door unlocked when you arrive?

- Yes.

And what has amateur housebreaking

revealed Dr. Grosser's rats?

Well, no. But I found out

Compton's an Englishman.

Excellent. How you arrive at that?

Well, I figured Compton might be Ryner

posing as an Englishman.

But his clothes are really English.

So is his soap and his shoes.

Why, even this humidor has

an English school emblem on it. See?

Huh.

You know, the Englishmen

are very sentimental about their schools.

Does son suppose operator as clever as Ryner

would be ignorant of same?

Gosh. I never thought of that.

If he was posing as an Englishman...

this is exactly

the kind of stuff he'd use.

Rop, be carefull

Did-Did you see him?

That gun was aimed right at you.

Am now very happy offspring divide time

between study and baseball team.

They're gonna let me

pitch next year.

Why wait?

Aim already perfect.

What's that?

Son also reveal secret

of tobacco mixture.

Close doors.

[Jimmy]

Who's that girl?

Young lady who calls herself

Kathi Lenesch.

Gee, Pop, that's the way

they photograph convicts.

Also method used in some

European countries...

where police keep record

of all citizens.

But what's Compton doing with it?

Is only one of many questions

would like to ask invisible Mr. Compton.

[Jimmy]

A military map

Pop, I've got it.

That tobacco came from Halide's.

I heard Compton ask him for a special mixture

tonight, and Halide said it was expensive.

Don't you see?

They were talking about secret information.

Compton is Ryner.

And Halide's been spying on fortifications.

He sent him this map

in a jar of tobacco. Look.

Here's the canal.

These buildings are probably fortifications.

And this "X" is the spot

where they're gonna strike.

- Sincerely hope so.

- Huh?

If enemy strikes at spot marked "X"...

- then fleet is very happily out of danger.

- Why? What do you mean?

This is map of old Panama cemetery.

- Old Panama cemetery?

- [Knocking]

[Knocking]

Mr. Compton?

Mr. Compton?

[Charlie]

Excuse, please

You seek document containing

most unflattering photograph?

Can explain how Mr. Compton

obtain possession of this?

No. But he telephoned me

tonight he had it.

He said he'd return it if I came here

and answered a few questions.

- What sort of questions?

- I don't know

Did he suggest Baroness von Czardas...

- might be secret agent?

- No, no.

Truth win more friendship than lies.

Yes. He suspected me

because I concealed my identity...

because I'm so afraid

of being sent back.

Why? Map of Europe

has lost your native country.

But I could be sent back.

I have no passport.

Rlease Rlease don't give me away

I want to make a new home

in the United States

I want to forget how my father

and brother were executed...

because they spoke against

the cruelty of the invaders.

Don't you see?

I can't go back.

It means death for me or

or the concentration camp.

You know person named Ryner?

How do you know that name?

Excuse. I ask question first.

Ryner was a member of the secret police

who arrested my father and brother.

Is he here?

Has he come for me?

No. On soil of democracy,

you are safe from persecution.

May I have my identity card, please?

Later. Inside pocket

like vault of national bank.

You won't show it to anybody?

- May I go back to work now?

- Yes.

- Thank you.

- Good night.

Gee, you sure believed

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