Plunder Road Page #2

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about 8 hours ago.

8 hours from Salt Lake.

You're really moving.

Hey, Tom, come up here a minute!

Hey, uh...

Hey...

Would you kinda take it careful, fellas?

If I get so much as a scratch on

that stuff, my wife will kill me!

Well, you know how women are.

You're okay, buddy.

- Take it easy, pal.

- Yeah, you too.

Hey, does that gum-chewing really

help cut down your smoking?

Oh, I don't smoke. I just want

to make sure I don't start.

12-33, stand by.

13-A-43, clear.

TSI-11, clear...

Hey, wait a minute. Hold on there! Halt!

Hold up there!

Halt!

Halt!

Halt!

TL-75, stand by.

Why don't they say something?

What do you want to hear, your name?

No. You know what I mean.

Nothing about those guards knocked out

by the gas, or the two guys we slugged.

They weren't hit too hard, were they?

How do you suppose the police know

about the trucks and the mask?

Yeah, but things happen sometimes.

609, can you handle the call?

No traffic unit available.

CM...[Click.]

I know one thing...

I'll be glad when we get past

one of these roadblocks.

This is it.

With that look on your face, you might

as well tell them the whole story.

You won't get this service every day.

- That's okay. We'll sit.

- Sorry, buddy. Everybody out.

- Let's check the seal.

- Yeah, yeah.

What's all that for?

I just follow orders, fella.

That guy looks like he's

trying to make his own road.

A fella could get hurt that way.

- Okay, Dave?

- All secure.

- What happened to him?

- He got hurt.

You're okay.

Say, um, I've been having

a little engine trouble.

Would it goof anything if I

pulled over and had a look at it?

Pull over there. About 25, 30 yards.

Thanks a lot.

Let's move.

So, they give me 10 lousy years.

Good behavior, I'm out in 6.

That's where I read all about Rio.

No kidding.

You ought to come down there with us.

We take you now to John Oliver

in Salt Lake City...

...for further news on

the gold train robbery.

The first break in the fabulous gold

robbery occurred about an hour and...

a half ago, when a part

of the $10 million...

Watch it! Watch it!

One of the bandits was shot and

killed while attempting to run...

- ...through a police roadblock.

- What's the matter? You deaf?

I wonder how they found that out.

You suppose they know

which way we're heading?

Well, if you'll clam up for a

while, maybe we'll find out!

The claimed man was tentatively

identified as Roland "Rolly" Adams.

Police have intensified their search

for the apparently abandoned van...

...and crane truck...[Click.]

I wonder how they found Rolly.

No wonder you got set up so many

times. You think cops are dumb!

Skeets?

Look, just relax, will you?

Keep your eyes on the road.

Maybe we should pull

over and wait for Eddie.

Maybe he'll want to change the plans.

Maybe you'll keep quiet

for a while, huh?

A huge dragnet for the white stocking-

faced bandits has now spread...

...to 23 states, with still no trace of

the truck believed to be carrying...

...the remainder of

the $10 million in gold.

The engineer and fireman of the

train, injured during the raid...

...and the guards who were rendered

unconscious by the gas fumes...

...have all been released from

the hospital at Vandervere, Utah.

In an effort to trap the elusive

gold bandits, police have tightened...

...the web by calling in reservists,

thus allowing them to establish an...

...unprecedented number

of roadblocks, covering...

...every highway and back

road as far east as Ohio.

Authorities have asked all trucking

companies to put as few vehicles on...

...the road as possible, in an attempt

to narrow down the truck traffic.

We're right, aren't we?

If we wasn't, I'd have told you.

There it is.

Hey, fella:
where's the, uh...?

Right around the back, to the left.

Fill it up, will you?

Don't get many trucks nowadays

since the new highway's in.

They, uh, caught those robbers yet?

No...I don't know.

They'll catch them.

How's that?

Can't help but catch them.

Fellas like that hardly

have a chance nowadays...

...with radio and all that

science against them.

- You think so, huh?

- Ah, sure.

Now back a few years ago, it was

different. A man had a real chance.

Nowadays, everything's got a system

that's pretty hard to beat.

I don't know.

I still think it's possible.

That's the way to talk. Don't let

an old codger like me get you down.

Yes sir, I can remember when

I was a young buck like you...

Oh, it'll take 25 or 30

gallons. It's almost empty.

Yes sir, there are all

sorts of opportunity.

That was my mistake: there's

too much opportunity!

Now, if when I'd have been your age, I'd

have hitched onto one single thing...

...and stuck to it -- heh -- there's

no telling where I'd be today.

Y'know, that's what I'm planning to do.

I figure that if a guy is going to

make it, he's got to specialize.

He's got to find one thing and

stick to it, no matter what.

That's the spirit.

How's the oil?

I'll check.

No sir, that...that don't

mean nothing to me.

Had to.

Look, the Canadian border is only 500

miles from here. New York is 2000.

Right. So the cops figured

they'd head for the border.

I say they're smarter than that.

I say they're headed for New York.

Well, you'll see.

What would you like?

A couple of ham sandwiches

and two coffees to go. Black.

White or rye?

White.

You come through any roadblocks yet?

- Any what?

- Roadblocks. You know, the gold robbery.

Oh ... no, not yet.

You know? I'd like to see

them get away with it.

You've got to watch her, mister.

She's got a criminal mind.

What would you do with

all that loot, Hazel?

Go to London and Paris.

Get the best of everything.

Me, I'd build me the fastest job on the

road. About 4 inches off the ground...

...4 pots, chrome heads, 3/4-inch cam.

That'd feed the cops a lot of smoke huh?

We now take you to Salt Lake City, where

our special correspondent John Oliver...

...is standing by with further

information on the gold train robbery.

The grim shadow of murder may have

fallen over the desperate flight of...

...the gold thieves tonight. Less than

an hour ago, a passing motorist...

...discovered the body of an elderly

gas station attendant, shot to death...

...near Lynn, Nevada. Police ruled

out robbery as a motive when...

...the victim's wallet and the money

in the cash drawer were found untouched.

An unusually large sale was still

registered on the gas pump...

...leading the authorities

to suspect the assailant...

...to have been the driver

of a commercial vehicle.

Investigators are now working on the

possibility that the killer may have...

...been one of the gold train robbers.

Stay tuned to this station

for further details.

What would make them

do a thing like that?

Money.

Dollar twenty. [$1.20]

Keep the change, honey.

Don't listen to him. He's always

very generous with my money.

I know the type.

I know.

Driving back this way soon?

I'll drive.

Why would they pull a

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