The Brides of Fu Manchu Page #5

to Sidi B'Hair to get the supplies.

- Yeah?

- I'm supposed to go with them.

Look, here, take my robe.

- You want me to take your place?

- Yes.

Come on.

Listen, here are the keys.

Now, you take the ropes and tie me up.

- Now down there, through that door.

- Yeah.

- Through another door.

- Yes.

The second door.

There are a lot of Arab men waiting

with a lot of load.

Now you go there...

..you pick up one of the loads,

and wait with them.

Right.

Now, good luck.

Hey, wait.

Wait, it must look real.

You must hit me.

- I can't.

- No, you must.

Every inch has been searched, Father.

He cannot be in the temple.

The doors did not open,

he cannot have escaped.

Do you want me to search again?

No, not you.

The Arab who allowed him to escape,

he will conduct the search.

He is called Abdul.

Tell him that if the prisoner is not found,

his body will feed the snakes.

Feng.

I have been thinking

about destruction two.

We must continue.

Without the real Lentz, we cannot.

We must.

The set has been placed

at some distance from the target...

...because we intended

to use the full power.

But now that we no longer have Lentz,

there are only two alternatives.

Yes?

We can increase the output

beyond that used in destruction one.

To overload this system

would start a chain reaction...

...that could destroy the whole place.

All of us. You know that.

Or we can move the set into the target.

At this late stage? Is that possible?

They are the only alternatives.

- We could postpone.

- No.

We are ready.

When those men die, I shall rule.

And the world will be mine.

How much longer

do you think they'll be?

Here they come now, sir.

- So you found the set?

- Yes.

Mr. Lentz followed Merlin's instructions

and disabled it.

- Where was it?

- In a wireless shop, three streets from here.

No wonder it took you five days

to find it.

- Good Lord, three streets.

- Exactly.

Not only could St. Paul's

and the conference...

...have gone up,

but half the city of London as well.

Can we let Nayland Smith know

that all is safe now?

Yes, I'll send him a cable.

Tell him we haven't moved it.

And we're watching it.

Right. Now, he may have left the fort

and started a search.

Now, the next area to search

is from this ridge here.

- Now, when the patrol gets back--

- Sergeant, le patrol.

Baumer.

Bring him in here and get some water.

- Where did you find him?

- Coming out of the foothills.

We cannot let them kill Abdul.

But if he tells where Franz is,

they will murder him.

We must do something.

We have the knives,

but only three of them.

That's not enough.

We've always said we must have one each

before we can do anything.

You know, I've been thinking.

Have you noticed

that every time the machinery starts...

- ...they send most of the guards away?

- Yes.

Abdul says

they are needed on the experiment.

That is when we must do it.

When they are all busy.

Abdul could come with us.

It's like a fortress.

You'd need at least a hundred.

- No, the fewer, the better.

- Why?

Because if we made an open attack...

...you can imagine

what Fu Manchu would do to those girls.

No, we must use stealth.

- And quickly.

- I see.

Now, tomorrow is the first day

of the Arms Conference in London.

And he plans to destroy all the delegates

in St. Paul's.

Good heavens. Haven't you cancelled it?

And have him wipe out a dozen cities

in revenge?

But you can't take a risk like that

with the Arms Conference.

There is no risk, Franz.

We found the set and disabled it.

What is it?

That was Sergeant Spicer.

The set's gone.

It was there when the shop closed.

Nobody's been in or out.

Yet half an hour ago, when Spicer checked,

the set had gone.

They may be just moving it.

And supposing that they test it

or check it or overhaul it....

They would discover

the reversed section.

It's only 12 hours

before the service in St. Paul's.

- We'll never find it in that time.

- There is one other way though.

They are transmitting their energy

as sound signals.

Now, we've recently discovered

that you can block a sound signal.

We call it jamming.

What you do is, you transmit the

stronger signal on the same frequency...

...and that stops the receiver

from picking up the original signal.

- You think this might work?

- It could. We must find their frequency.

And for that, we need the cooperation

of the British Broadcasting Company.

Right.

- Whom are you phoning?

- One of the directors of the BBC.

Once in his life, Uncle Richard Petrie

is gonna be of some use to somebody.

It is from London.

Read it.

"The set is in a copy of a police van.

It will park outside St. Paul's

at exactly five minutes to 11 .

That is 10 minutes

after the service has begun.

Everything else is in order."

Excellent.

Start the build-up.

Marie.

Listen.

The machines have started.

only one guard.

We must do it now.

Number three in.

Number four in.

Number five in.

All circuits complete.

There is no danger of overload.

What if the staff in the power house

make a mistake?

Generate more energy than we need?

That is impossible

since Feng installed his safety lock.

When this lever reaches the bottom

of the groove, we are at safety maximum.

It is necessary to take the lever

and move it down into the second groove...

...before the auxiliary channels

will feed in.

Help, she has a knife!

She's killed herself.

- Hey, quick, the keys.

- No, no.

We must save her quickly.

If Fu Manchu finds out, he'll kill us.

Phase two coming in, now.

In and steady.

Abdul.

The walls open there.

Then passages lead on to the caves.

- Do you know how to open them?

- Yes.

Come on.

Nayland Smith.

Stay in your places.

Lin Tang.

Feng, take over for me

and position the aerial.

Position the aerial.

Who helped you to escape?

Abdul.

Who was the ringleader?

Michel.

As you were the leader of the rebellion,

you shall be the first to go to the snakes.

No. No, no.

Help.

Help.

Help. No.

Release that girl at once.

Commissioner Nayland Smith.

Foolhardy as ever.

Release that girl.

She will not be released

and neither will you.

But your presence

will add to our celebrations.

You have nothing to celebrate,

Fu Manchu.

The Arms Conference is safe.

You are beaten.

That is where you are wrong,

commissioner.

In a few moments,

there will be no Arms Conference.

You will release that girl now

and order your men to line up over there.

I will count three before I fire.

One, two....

Send her to the snakes.

Franz.

He's gone. Fu Manchu is gone.

Seal the other doors.

London report that the van with the set

is on its way to the target.

We have to blast our way there.

Not now. We must get out.

I'm not letting Fu Manchu escape again.

But he's building up the energy

and there's no safety device.

If he overloads it,

this whole place will go up.

Sergeant.

Once we locate their signal,

how long is it before we can start to jam it?

only seconds.

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