The Phantom Chase Matter - Ep 6 (6th of 9)

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Deller. This is Connie, Mr. Deller. Well, you're about the last person in the world I thought I'd be hearing from. What do you mean, I waited for you last night at the trade winds bar, but you didn't show up?

No, I got delayed on the way by a hit over the head in the warehouse and a pier. What? No, don't tell me that surprise is you. Of course it does. Look, that whole routine of yours yesterday about telling me where Tom Chase is hiding was just a decoy so he could get me down there and try to finish me off.

If that night, Watchmen hadn't come along when he did, I'd still... I don't know what you're talking about. I want to prove that by opening up and telling me what this is all about. Where are you now?

Downstairs in the lobby. I'll be right down. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator... Yours truly... Johnny Dollar.

From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location Barbados, British West Indies, To the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment? The Phantom Chase Matter. Expense account continue. Item 21, two cents.

Exactly what I'd have taken at that point to chuck the whole deal. Getting slugged on the head the night before was bad enough. But when I got down to the lobby that morning and found that Connie was nowhere in sight, I realized I was right back where I started from, which was nowhere.

I went over to the desk. Yes, sir? Hey, look, a girl just phoned me from the lobby. Did you see her? Yes, sir. The most attractive young lady. Yeah, and right now our most invisible young lady. Where'd she go?