The Shadow - Death Stalks the Shadow

Oh no! What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows.

Today's story, death, dark, the shadow.

Malle is in the end cell, Mr. Murdoch. Just talk to them to the bars.

You're the last visitor, you don't see.

End cell, right?

Hello, Malle.

Huh?

Me, kid. Be the Murdoch.

Murdoch.

Chief, I thought you'd never get here.

Come on, pull yourself together, Malle.

It's easy enough for you to talk.

You ain't been sitting here waiting.

Every day the chair getting closer.

Now, Malle, sit just in the corner.

Listen, could that big dynamo turn over?

Come and sit next to me, for me.

Shut up.

Murdoch.

You see the governor?

Yeah, I saw him yesterday.

Well?

Well, say something.

There won't be any reprieve, kid.

We're elect.

We're elect.

That's money, Murdoch.

You ain't in here.

You ain't gonna sit next to him.

I didn't kill anybody, Malle.

Are you dirty, double-cross and rat?

Who planned that killing?

Who promised I'd never even do time for it?

You did.

Well, I didn't think you're on the shadow, Malle.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

The shadow.

He caught me.

He didn't know I was only doing your dirty work for you.

I should have told him.

No, but you didn't.

I trusted you.

He's a murderer.

It's a great lawyer.

You said you'd get me off.

I can't win all my cases.

You didn't even try.

Come here to the world.

So the shadow wouldn't learn the truth about you.

Well, it worked, didn't it?

I could get through these bars.

I'd fix you, Murdoch.

Anyhow, I can tell the truth about you.

I'll sing so loud in your head off.

My reputation is too good.

Nobody will believe you.

Shadow might believe you, Murdoch.

Suppose I told a shadow who turns Dan Malle

from a decent kid into a killer.

Stop dreaming, Malle.

This is a death house.

Tonight you're walking right through that door down there

and you're not coming back.

Why, you...

Oh, you'd better forget all about the shadow.

So long, Malle.

Come back here.

Come back here.

So long, Father.

Hey, Malle.

Malle.

And he knows for you.

Yeah.

Bad news.

He's tough luck, Kent.

Yeah, but I ain't through yet.

Before they burn me, there's something I gotta do.

God!

They got it!

With that thing coming.

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

I can't, you guys.

What's the matter, Malle?

I want to talk to Commissioner West.

I gotta see him right away.

He's gotta locate somebody for me.

Somebody I want to talk to.

Well, don't stand there.

Give me Commissioner Weston!

Why did you happen to choose this cafe, Le Mans?

Well, Margot.

Mrs. of Place Commissioner Weston showed me night.

And I hope the gady might stop my thinking.

What father in you?

Today is the twelfth, Margot.

Young Dan Malle goes to the chair tonight.

Thanks to the shadow.

But the marshal you don't regret the shadow

is having captured that murderer for the police.

No, not exactly.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

The murderer for the police?

No, not exactly.

Malle fired the shadow, right?

But I've never felt the case was completely solved.

Oh, well, let's forget that.

Oh, Lamont, look.

When that waiter started the kitchen, the door opened without his touching it.

Yes.

Words by foot of electric ray.

Oh, what's that?

Look, he's set of the door, Margot.

See those chromium fixtures sticking out of the floor?

Light's hidden at the top of them?

Yes.

Boy, his body breaks that ray.

Whenever the ray is broken, the door opens without touching it.

The door opens without touching it.

Yes, and convenient.

But Margot, I've sometimes thought it might even prove dangerous

to a certain friend of yours.

Who do you mean?

The shadow.

I don't understand.

The shadow can hide himself from the human eye, Margot.

But he has a physical being.

And the photoelectric beam could detect his presence.

Oh, come on.

Here comes Commissioner Westerner.

Oh, I see.

Well, good evening, Commissioner.

Westerner, how are you?

Very well, Commissioner Westerner.

Won't you join us?

Thanks, but I think not.

I'm rather upset tonight.

Well, it's not a commissioner.

Well, Miss Lane has never heard of this shadow?

The shadow.

Yes, Margot.

All right, this minute.

It's fine.

A foreign named Dan Malley goes to the electric chair tonight

with vital information.

The only person he'll talk to is the shadow.

It's because I don't know how to find a shadow and beaten.

Well, I won't find him here.

So if you forgive me, I'll run along.

Good night.

Good night, Commissioner Westerner.

Good night.

Margot, my hunch about Danny's case must be right.

Waiter?

Yes, sir.

I'll come over quick.

I'm going to the death house now as the shadow.

Why doesn't he come?

Why doesn't he come?

Were you waiting for me, Dan Malley?

Who's that?

Who spoke?

The shadow.

There isn't much time, Malley.

They're coming after you to take you to the chair.

Speak quickly.

What have you to say?

Funny.

I can't save you, you know.

You killed a man, Malley.

Yeah, I know.

But it wasn't my idea, Shadow.

Honest it wasn't.

There was no evidence against anyone else.

Yeah, don't I know it.

He's too clever for that.

Oh, he's too clever.

The bird that got me into this.

The smart fellow that saw the dumb kid on crime

being a good business.

His name?

Peter Murdoch.

Do you know what you're saying, Dan?

Murdoch's a famous criminal lawyer.

His reputation.

His reps are blind.

Listen.

Peter Murdoch's the biggest crook in this section.

He's got a piece of everything.

Well, right now he's planning a slum fire that'll kill thousands

and net him a million from insurance companies.

You're telling the truth?

A man doesn't lie when he's only got a few minutes to live, Mr. Shadow.

The job's going to be poorly this week.

I'll investigate it, then.

If it's true, Peter Murdoch will pay for his crimes.

Look at how can I get proof?

That's easy.

Now listen.

There's a friend of mine named Dopey Jake,

done by the wards.

Number five, South Street.

Jake knows enough about Murdoch's latest plan of proof what I see.

I'll see him.

Yeah.

Listen.

If you can get to the filing cabinet and Murdoch's house,

there's records and things and not the finish.

The Shadow promises justice, Dan, Malley.

That's all I want.

They're coming, Dan.

Okay.

I can take it.

Thanks, Shadow.

Thanks for coming.

Well, Dan, it's the time.

Yeah.

I know one.

I'd like to do our best.

Night one.

Well, here goes.

Take his arm with you.

Very good.

I ain't scared.

I ain't.

Not as scared as Murdoch will be.

Wait a minute, Shadow.

Get him.

All right, men.

Forward.

Shadow.

There's don't be Jake.

Don't fix him.

Bye, Malley.

Come on, kid.

Keep your chin up.

How long, Malley?

Dan, the other person is the same as that.

What's the long boy?

I'll be seeing you, Malley.

No, that.

Hey.

What was that about the Shadow?

A shadow caught Dan, Malley.

He put him here in a big house.

Oh.

Hey.

He's supposed to hurt much when he pulls a switch.

Well, we'll find out.

Yeah.

You know what?

Funny how a nice kid like that gets to be a Dunman?

Yeah, either.

The man responsible will answer for that, my friend.

Hey.

Who said that?

The Shadow.

What the...

There it goes.

The George.

Ah!

Oh, my luck like you planned.

I got the job of getting Dan Malley out of the hot spot, and he went.

Raven?

Yeah, just to usually do.

That's right.

All right, all right, cut a chick.

That's what Malley's saying when he was Raven.

Something about you, my luck.

He meant to.

What?

I love you.

Don't stop.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you too.

Something about you, my duck.

He meant to name?

Yeah, best.

He was yelling something about dopey Jake and his shadow.

The shadow?

Seems like it'd been talking to his shadow in the death house.

My duck.

That means the shadow got to die now.

All right, all right.

Be the ghost.

I'm busy.

OK.

Hey, Joe.

Air boss.

Shoot yourself.

OK.

All right.

Come on, gas this way.

I was OK.

I'm the shadow.

Shadow?

Molly Blast.

Shut up, all of you.

Dustin's your soul getting in a valley.

Yes, follow the shadow hides from human eyes.

Yeah, that's right.

He knows about dopey Jake now.

If he should get dopey to talk.

Listen, you have which we've got to beat the shadow.

I lose the juiciest set of a gang of a head in this country.

A fire that'll let us a million bucks.

Clouds and mud, I can't lay hands on a shadow.

But that's just what I'm going to do with the shadow.

Wait, really?

He's kind of a sport.

No, he's real enough.

He's a man, all right.

He can die like any other man.

Way to see the trap I'm building.

But how can you find the shadow?

You know, and I know where he can always be found.

Where a crime has been committed.

Yeah, but there ain't any crime murder.

It's going to be one crime that will set the shadow on my tray.

Well, I won't meddle with him.

Yeah, leave me out of this, boy.

And me?

Are you listening to me, best?

Jake, are you two, Joe?

You're in this hall of yours.

If anyone tries to ratten, I'll put you on the same spot

with Dan Malley.

I mean it.

Oh, what do you say?

You're going to be good?

All right, you win.

For what's this wonderful crime going to be, murder?

A little job down on the waterfront, Jake.

At number five, South Street.

I want you and Joe to go down there tonight

and kill our good friend.

Don't be Jake.

That's me and that flashlight model.

Here we are.

I have South Street.

Here's where Doki Jake lives.

The mud, do we have that water?

Yes.

These old empty tournaments are built on piles over the river.

It's the tide rushing out to sea.

It takes you through the creek.

Yeah.

Take my arm, Mago.

We've got to go down the dark passageway to the door.

And Mago, after we enter the passageway here,

we mustn't speak.

Just go up to the door.

Down up.

Yes, the mud.

I'm ready.

Come.

There's no one here.

Wait.

The mud has get away from here.

No wait.

I'm Mago.

The door's not locked.

I'm in.

I'm going with you.

I'll be left behind.

No.

Let me get my flashlight out.

There.

Come on then.

The mud.

What is it?

Can you like that we have a floor?

There's a man lying there.

Yes.

I think they look at him.

Oh, cool fella.

We like those people.

Yes.

The sunlight through his heart.

Oh, no.

It's been a nutwist.

A nutwist?

Good.

Let me see.

It says, this is our pile.

Don't be Jake.

Get him to talk to you now, Shadow.

Mago, this is Murdoch's challenge to the Shadow.

And it must be accepted.

I'm going directly to Murdoch as the Shadow.

Yeah, he finished with your wiring job, Steve.

Yeah, almost, Mr. Murdoch.

Yeah, I hope it works.

Oh, don't you worry, Mr. Best.

When I got the electric wires connected with his sliding steel door,

this room of Mr. Murdoch is going to be fixed so nobody can get in or out.

Sir, say, I've been wondering why you want this arrangement, Mr. Murdoch.

What's it for?

Well, we call it the lion's cage, Steve.

The lion's cage.

You aren't going to put a lion in it, are you?

Your kid.

Sure, of course I am.

Though we do plan to use the room soon.

By the way, you haven't mentioned this job to anyone, have you?

Well, most of you.

You said not to, so...

Well, I didn't.

Then why does this steel door work, anyway?

I'll show you, Miss.

Ready?

Oh, yeah.

Now, Mr. Murdoch, if you'll have your man outside, so the switch then,

tap out in the hole and tell the chick to switch on the curtain.

He's in the room next to this.

Okay.

Turn on the door.

Oh, Steve, won't that photorelectric ray be visible to anyone coming down the hall towards the door?

Oh, not a chance.

The ray is infrared, invisible.

What's for yourself?

You're right.

You can't see the light.

You understand that the ray goes from one door to the other.

And anyone crossing the threshold breaks the ray?

That's right.

And when the ray is broken, the steel door slams shut.

What?

Miss.

Would your mind step and back into the room for a minute?

Sure.

What happened there, Steve?

Good night.

What happened?

When you came in, you broke the ray and the steel door slams shut.

Yeah, and it locks automatically.

I don't like being locked in.

I'm going on.

Hey, look out.

Don't touch that door.

That door is charged with electricity, man.

You touched it.

You've been electrocuted.

You see, Beth, I figure even our clever friend, the shuttle, will do the first natural thing after we travel many years.

He'll try the door to see if it's locked.

I get it.

And when he does.

When he does, it's good by shuttle.

You sure he'll come?

When he finds Toby, Jake, he'll be here.

Say, Mr. Murdoch, you don't want to fool around with this door.

You know, it's dangerous.

I don't know who this guy's shuttle is.

Young man, you talk too much.

Yeah, certainly.

Yeah, Beth, go over to that panel in the wall.

It's open.

The yellow chick in the next room to shut off the current.

Okay, man.

I don't get the idea of the panel in the wall with the steel screen open, Mr. Murdoch.

You were, no, don't worry about it.

Jake, shuttle off and come out here.

Chick's coming.

Sure.

Ah, it's true, it's heavy.

If you hadn't turned off the current, you couldn't have moved it.

Yeah, chick.

Pay off this, man.

Like we agreed.

Okay.

Thanks.

But he, Bill, is going to be settled.

In full.

Hey, he put that gun down.

What do you...

Hey, off, mister.

Come on, all you can.

Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Murdoch.

Oh, God.

Good hunting, chick.

You know where to hide the body.

Chick.

Yeah, my little thing.

Stand by the front door, ready to open it for the shuttle.

Can't suppose to let him in?

Yes, you are, you fool.

And if he speaks to you, you know what to do.

Pretend to be scared and answer his question.

I don't have to pretend.

I'm scared, all right?

No, he's gonna be the shadow here.

No, there's a first time where everything's...

You sure you'll come.

It's getting late.

You'll come all right.

It doesn't matter how late it is.

We'll be here waiting.

I'm not too talkative.

I'm not crazy to talk.

No, no.

I've got to get behind the glass panel in the room next to the lion's cage,

so I can see what's happening in there.

What's that?

The door, Bill.

You ready?

Go ahead, peek between the curtains.

There's no one out there.

Somebody's touching up over there, but it's ringing.

Pull yourself together.

It's the shadow.

So you give me a second to get away before you let him in.

And remember, watch out.

I don't like this.

I don't like it up there, but...

Here goes.

Well, what do you want?

Who's there?

Who is it?

Who shut the door?

Who is it?

The shadow.

What do you want?

I never speak softly.

Where does Peter Murdock keep his iron cabinet?

Wait.

Do you know what's good for you?

It's down the hall in the room.

That room.

That's Murdock's private room.

Of course there he is.

Yes.

And I won't stop until I get Murdock.

It's what?

That electric race saw him, all right?

Murdock, we got him.

We caught the shadow.

That's taken to me.

Can you see him, boys?

No.

But he's in the lion's cage, all right?

Right in the next room.

Only this panel and a steel screen between us.

Open the panel, my doc.

Maybe we can hear him move.

All right, best.

Gee, better sound.

Maybe.

Maybe he ain't even there.

Oh, yes he is.

Hello, shadow.

Allow me to introduce myself.

Peter Murdock.

The one man in the world who's too much for the shadow.

Come on, speak up.

So I'll know you're there, even if I can't see you.

Yes, Murdock.

The shadow is here.

Getting all ready to beg for mercy?

No, Murdock.

You're doomed to disappointment.

I warn you.

Worn me.

You're my prisoner.

You can't get away.

If you don't believe me, try the door, shadow.

No, Murdock.

I'm sure that it's locked.

Don't try it. Why don't you?

Come on, you can't be sure. Try it.

You're much too anxious to have me touch that door.

I don't wish to be electrocuted as young Dan Malley was.

You're smart, shadow.

But I'm smarter.

Smart enough to type and kill you.

I'm not dead yet, Murdock.

If you will be very soon.

And before I die, I might at least read the record of your crimes.

Dan Malley said they were in this spiling cabinet.

All right, go on then. Open the cabinet.

Oh, why is lead to what I see?

Yes, Murdock.

I think I shall open it.

Good Lord.

You like what you found, shadow?

Don't be afraid.

It's only a body, just a dead body.

Who was this man?

Murdock.

Answer me.

Let me see.

Young man and overalls.

They're a priors in this pocket.

So, he's the poor devil who wired this room for you.

You killed him so it'd keep the secret of this death chamber.

It is a death chamber.

The death chamber of the shadow.

Margolaine.

Margolaine.

The shadow calling Margolaine.

Phone commissioner Western.

Get him to surround the house of Peter Murdock.

I am held captive there.

Sorry.

Sorry.

This place is looking into an empty room.

Give me the girth.

You're sure he's still there?

Sure, there.

No way to wait.

I'll raise the panel and speak to him.

Shadow.

Does the time drag?

Don't you admire my room?

Don't put too much hope in this room of yours, Murdock.

The shadow has escaped from worse places.

Ah, you talk a lot, Shadow.

Yeah.

At least we could sing, Murdock.

We'll see him soon enough.

We'll see him dead.

We'll be able to see you when you're a stiff shadow.

What do you plan it?

You can't shoot, but you can't take it.

No, but we can smoke him out.

You already with that gas line, chick?

No.

I'll step forward.

Every time you say, this is your finished shadow.

Where's the shadow?

This is your finished shadow.

We're slipping a tube through this panel

and feeding you a nice little smoke screen of poison gas.

There, Shadow.

Take a deep breath of this gas.

In ten minutes you'll be dead.

Turn the valve, chick.

Give all regards to Daniel Malley, Shadow.

When you see him.

How do you like it, Shadow?

Make your cough, doesn't it?

It's not for long.

I must guess, Shadow.

Tell him everything.

All right, watch now.

Watch, he'll be dead in ten minutes.

Then we'll be able to see just who the shadow was.

He's...

He's fucking around the course.

How do you know, Beth?

You can't see him.

No, but the body of the electrician...

Dick, that workman didn't have a gun.

No, Murdock.

I went for a waste pocket.

Nothing left a number.

That's a pair of pliers.

Flyers?

Yeah, he can't do much with flyers.

I wonder.

Calm down, Beth.

Won't be very long.

Madam, look.

The light in the room went out.

He unscrewed the bulb.

I don't like that.

Oh, you're all scared, silly, silly.

The light.

They're out.

Come on, turn off that gas.

It's all dark.

The currents are off.

The shadow blew the fuse.

He must have used those pliers.

That means they're still doors unlocked.

That's the steel door opening.

He's out.

The shadows out.

To the front of the house, quick.

Don't let him get away.

I can't say anything.

Come on, everybody in the hall, hurry.

Come on out.

Line up there.

Cross the front door.

That's better, you fools.

You can't let him sit to our fingers.

Now, after we've nearly had him.

No, we can't.

We're gonna hear.

Be quiet now.

Everybody listen.

I hear something.

Murdock.

It's outside the house.

Open up.

Open up.

Open up.

That isn't the shadow.

Open.

Open up.

The cup.

We're raided.

Shut up.

They can hear me, Murdock.

Smash in the dark, a mission to Western.

They're all here.

Shadow.

Yes, Murdock.

The shadow.

All right, commissioner.

All right, man.

What a wonder.

That's not a year.

Come on, run for it.

I'll shoot the first one that moves.

Murdock, we gotta run.

It's the car.

Stay here and I'll bluff it out.

You say you're stuck.

I'm getting out.

No, no, you're nonsense.

Murdock, shut up.

Shadow.

Where are you?

Come on, I tell you to show yourself.

I'll take that gun, Murdock.

You'll take you.

Damn.

My arm, Shadow.

Let's go, man.

Now stand still.

All right.

You've got my gun.

Shoot.

Go ahead.

Shoot.

I saw your friend.

Grab those friends.

Commission to Western.

These men are criminals.

Be the Murdock, the leader.

Just murder the woman lying on the floor.

And there's another body down the hall.

An electrician.

Be the Murdock, eh?

This is a surprise.

Yeah.

Why did you kill him?

This is a surprise.

Well, why didn't you shoot, Shadow?

I tried to kill you.

Were you afraid to fight back like a man?

No, Murdock.

I saved you for the same death that you sent Dan Malley to.

Death in the electric chair.

You evaded the law for the longest time, Murdock.

You had a great mind.

You were a brilliant lawyer.

But for wealth?

You threw all that away.

I'll crime upon crime.

But you went too far.

Now you will meet.

As must all men.

Justice.

The weed of crime.

There's bitter fruit.

Crime does not pay.

The Shadow knows.