The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Unedited Drama Portions)

From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmundo Bryan as... Johnny Dalla. Yes? That's right. Why don't you get it off your chest, Mr. Hawley? Edmundo Bryan, and another transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly Johnny Dalla. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dalla to East Coast Underwriters Association, Hartford, Connecticut. Connecticut, attention Edward Hawley. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Sydney Reichhoff matter. Expense account item one, a dollar and a half cap, Terry, or up.

Now, I'm not in the habit of beating about the bush, Mr. Dallai, but the situation from which we must extricate our terms is well delicate enough to warrant your extreme caution. The Sydney Reichhoff will be dead in seven hours.

You want to pay off the ransom note, is that it? Now, you understand that this requires the utmost secrecy. Because few people realize the necessity of insurance companies, such as ours, being forced to negotiate with unscrupulous prisoners.

His or not? It was a mayo yesterday in Kansas City. Have the police seen this? Certainly not! I'm afraid you don't understand at all, Mr. Dulles. Now, you see... Yeah, I see. $25,000 is against the $100,000 for you boys.

No questions asked, right? Er... It was what anyone would expect a ransom note to look like made up of prints taken from newspapers and magazines and paces on a plain sheet of yellow papers. It read, We Have Sidney Reichhoff. If you want them alive, bring $25,000 to the Anthony Milstone, Mozzolium, Johnson Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri at exactly midnight May 13.

If you call the police, forget the money. Reichhoff will be dead. And actually $25,000 is a loss of money. If there's a possibility of saving it, we'll wish you do a little investigation. Now look Mr. Hawley, it's five o'clock in Kansas City.