01x14 - Freeway to Death

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"Skyline Freeway- Crown Construction Co."

I've got $1,000 there. What have you got?

You said on the phone you'd give me
the name of the man behind the
construction company insurance racket.

Show me the money first.

What's that?

Bulldozer.

Another challenge for the Green Hornet,
his aide Kato and their rolling arsenal the Black Beauty.

On police records a wanted criminal,

the Green Hornet is really Britt Reid,

owner publisher of the Daily Sentinel.

His dual identity known only to his secretary

and to the district attorney.

And now to protect the rights and lives
of decent citizens rides the Green Hornet.

We got here just in time, didn't we, Axford?

Did you get it?

Get what?

The name of the man behind the
construction company insurance racket?

Was it Emmet Crown?

You offered to give that night watchman
an a $1,000 for the name, was it Crown?

Well?

I don't know, he was k*lled
before he could tell me.

Then I have a proposition for you,

I want the name too.

If we work together, we can get it.

Working together?

You want to expose the
Mammoth Insurance company,

I want to eliminate competition.

Working togeth...
I wouldn't work with you if...

Shouldn't you discuss that
with your employer first?

I don't have to ask him,

I know Britt Reid, I know what he'd say.

Do it, Mike.

Do it?

I'd cooperate with Satan himself
to smash Crown and his operation.

Satan is one thing, but working with the Green Hornet.
Besides we haven't any proof it is Crown.

Can you think of a better way of getting it?
It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Britt would you listen to me?
It's all settled, Mike.

When the Green Hornet contacts you,
you tell him you'll meet him any place any time

ready to cooperate completely.

You realize you're stepping on his principles, aren't you?

If we can get what we need on Emmet Crown
I'll soak his principles in warm water

in the form of a bonus.

Then they could pay Mr. Crown a visit.
Why?

Crown's too clever to buy, Mike is a turncoat.

Unless the publisher of the
Daily Sentinel sets up to sale.

Mr. Reid.

I'm Emmet Crown.
Mr. Crown, thanks for seeing me.

Well, here it is. it's like I told you
on the phone, it's a...

same shack standing in the same spot
since we started this project six months ago.

Come on in.

Sit down, Mr. Reid.

Thanks.

You say, this uh...

night watchman my reporter claims
to have met here last night,

quit his job three weeks ago.

Uh yeah. Well,

actually I, uh... I had to fire him,

he got in the habit of bring his lunch in a bottle,
if you know what I mean.

Uh, maybe your reporter came up
with that story out of a bottle too.

What did you say his name is?

Axford, Mike Axford.

That's a good possibility, Mike's been
known to take a drink or two.

Yeah well, I guess we all do now and then.

There's another problem, though. He asked for
and received a $1,000 to buy the information.

Maybe put it in his pocket,
it's have been known to happen.

Could be.

He hasn't been himself lately
since he started working on this, uh...

construction insurance racket story.

Have you read about it?

Yeah, yeah, I read a few //.

What do you think?

Well, I don't really have much opinion
about him one way or the other.

But you do have a policy with Mammoth
Insurance company, don't you?

I'd rather not talk about it, Mr. Reid.

I can't afford any trouble on this job,

I got a deadline to meet. If I start
having accidents and breakdowns,

I don't finish on time, I lose my shirt.

Now, why don't you give up? You can't win.

Whoever they are, the men behind the
Mammoth Insurance company are too powerful,

and they're too dangerous.

Oh, when I start a fight I like to finish it.

Well I gotta get back on a job.

Well, if you change your mind and decide
to give me a few hints, let me know.

Well, I... I don't think that's likely,
I got too much at stake.

Good luck.
Thanks.

Are you alright?

Just barely.

Would you call that one of those

accidents?

Get in.

Where we going?

To the Mammoth Insurance company.
When we get there,

all you have to do is look wise
and agree with everything I say.

Understand?

Hmm.

"Mammoth Insurance - Progress Report"

...and he wants another $50,000 premium from
the Mid-City construction company tomorrow.

Let's talk, mr. Giles.

What do you want?

My partner, Mike Axford of the Daily Sentinel
and I have something to sell.

We thought we'd give your employer
the first chance to buy it.

What are you talking about?
My employer?

The man that really runs Mammoth Insurance.

But you talking to him!

Don't waste time, Giles.

You're neither smart enough not tough enough
to run a racket like this and we know it.

Don't we?

Uh, yeah!

You get in touch with your employer,
tell him we want a meeting.

What about?

if I told you I wouldn't have to tell him,

would I?

Call him.

Hello.

Yeah.

The Green Hornet?

And Mike Axford of the Daily Sentinel.

Axford?

Yes, they say, they have some information
that you might be interested in.

They want to meet with you.

Maybe we didn't get the Wiggins quite
soon enough last night, huh?

Maybe,

and maybe they're just bluffing.

No, Axford being there might figure,

Britt Reed says he's a lush and he's got
money problems.

Wiggins did talk, why uh...

maybe Axford figured he'd hook up with a
Green Hornet and cash in big once and for all.

Now listen,

ask him if it's okay if we contact Axford
to set a time and a place for tomorrow night.

He wants to meet with you tomorrow night.

He'll be in touch with Axford,
we let you know where and when.

That's fine, but don't get cute.
Let's go.

They said OK and left,

the Green Hornet said not to try anything.

I'm not gonna try anything,

I'm just gonna do it.

We don't need the Green Hornet anymore.

When this guy Giles calls and tells me where and when,

and also meet me...
I don't want any more argument, Mike.

We started this with the Green Hornet
and we finish it with him, is that clear?

I asked you a question, Mike, is that clear?

Yeah!

Eddy?

I want you, d*ck and Jo to put in
some more overtime tonight.

I got a job for you.

Britt's gone?
Mm-hmm.

You know where I can reach him?
He took some work home with him, Mike.

Mike, if you're gonna bug him again about working
with the Green Hornet, you'd better forget it.

But I try to...

Excuse me.

Mr. Reid's office.

Yes, just a moment please.
Mike, it's for you.

I'll be in the city room.

Axford speaking.

Axford, this is Clinton Giles.

Meet me in front of my office building
at 10 o'clock tonight.

Daily Sentinel, Mike Axford please.

Hello.

Axford?

Yeah.

The Green Hornet.

Have you heard from Clinton Giles yet?

Axford?

No.

No, I haven't heard from Giles.

I'll check back with you in about an hour.

Mike?

Are you leaving?
Yeah,

and if you talk to the boss,
give him a message from me.

Tell him I don't need the Green Hornet
to wrap up the construction racket story.

Mike,

those aren't mr. Reid's orders, Mike.

'Mr. Reid's orders'.

Look, Casey, it called me to do business
with the Green Hornet,

now I've got a chance to wrap this up without him.

Well, what difference does it make,
with him or without him?

Just this, I've been on this paper a long time,
some people think maybe too long.

Now I've got a chance to show those young punks,
who snicker when I walk through the city room,

that I'm still the 'News Hawk' I was 30 years ago.

Mike.

So you're crossing the Green Hornet?

Forget him, he served his purpose.

I figure, why should I cut him in on the payoff?

You have a real talent for
double-crossing people, Axford.

First your employer and now the Green Hornet.

I hope you know when to stop.

What are we gonna do?

With Mike's life in danger what can we do,

except walk into Crown's trap and hope we can get out?

So you playing the lone hand now?

What's this information you want to sell?

Well, let's have it!

Before...

Before that bulldozer hit the shack last night

the night watchman told me that

you were the one behind the construction company
insurance racket.

So what?

Well,

I'm tired of working for Britt Reid for peanuts.

so for, say, ten thousand bucks I'm willing to forget what Wiggins told me.

You think I'd go for a shakedown like this?

I'd pay you once and you'd bleed me white.

No, no way, I wouldn't...
Take kare of him!

No, all I want... will you wait, fellas...
No don't...

Fellas, I'm trying to tell you...
all I'm asking you, just let me /comment/.

The Green Hornet.

Get him!

Mike's getting away.
Let's hope he makes it.

Look.

They're coming at us from all directions.

That blaze like armor plate.
Activate the hornet mortar.

Axford got away.

That - doesn't.

Not quite.

They're all yours, Axford.

...and records found by the police at the
Mammoth Insurance company office

will ensure the convictions of Crown, Giles
and their entire organization.

This marks the end of another vicious racket
brought to its knees by the daily Sentinel.

Beautiful!

But why did you disobey orders?

Why did you go chasing off last night by yourself
instead of cooperating with the Green Hornet?

Who says I didn't cooperate with him?

Mike, I gave him your message about you wrapping up
the Mammoth Insurance story all by yourself.

Well, that? That was just a little joke.

A joke?

Yes.

You see, everything worked out just like
the Green Hornet and I planned it.

Ow?

Sure!

See, I told the Green Hornet that Emmet Crown
had probably set some sort of a trap for us.

You told the Green Hornet that?

Right!

So I said maybe I better meet with Crown alone.

That way the Green Hornet could move in later

in case it was a trap and I needed help.

I see, that's very smart!

I wonder why the Green Hornet didn't think of it.

Let me tell you something, that crook isn't as
smart as some people think he is.

Well, it's a good thing you used your head.
Yeah, it sure is! Ha!

I'll see you later.
Okay, Mike.

Oh, that big phony! Are you gonna let him
get away with a story like that?

What can I do?

Why don't you let me tell him?

Oh, come on.

And spoil his fun?

Never.

Come here.

Look at this.

Oh, boy.