Standby!
Peterson is just as crazy, arrogant and eccentric
as old man Luben is.
Was.
This is ridiculous.
Nothing of importance here.
If any of you find anything different, let me know.
I'm going to check the servants' quarters.
Those of you that haven't read this
I suggest you do.
I really don't know why I came here.
Same reason we all did.
Mr. Alexander spent several nights here in the past.
Alexander, show the people to their rooms.
Sure, I'd be happy to sir.
May I help you, Ms. Nichols?
Yes.
This way.
Hmm. Chemistry.
Miss depriest, I've been here before too
only once and some time ago.
May I help you?
Oh, thank you.
I believe it's this way.
I knew the old man wouldn't leave me a dime.
Yeah...
Maybe you won't even get it this time.
What do you mean?
Maybe this is just one of Axel's charming practical jokes
arranged with Peterson.
Maybe he isn't really dead.
What?
They never found the body.
Haven't even found the wreckage of his plane.
Jeffrey, I'm sure you were as well informed as we were
that the jungles of Panama are so dense
they hardly ever even find the crash site.
Between private and commercial,
they lose an average of three flights a year.
Two of those three are never found.
Axel would find his own way back.
Yeah, this is it.
After you.
Thank you.
I wonder what's to eat.
Knowing Axel, probably you.
Just leaving the island
eta 14 hours.
Over and out.
Alright. We won't wait for Peterson any longer.
I'll fill you in as much as I can.
Mcgowan, we all know Axel sold his holdings,
and converted the assets to gold bullion.
Anticipating a recession.
Yes, that's right.
Now tell us something we don't know.
The last spot I can pinpoint the gold was Bogota, Colombia.
Now whether the gold went down on the plane with Axel
or on the second aircraft, or if it went down at all
I'm not sure.
Peterson claims the gold made it here to this island.
He being closer to Axel, would know better than I.
It's getting interesting.
Yes, you've all made it interesting.
There being no will
several of you have initiated proceedings against the estate
made inquiries to the authorities about the crash
brought in the internal revenue.
Very interesting.
Mcgowan exactly why did you and Peterson ask us here.
Very simple, Mr. reardon.
Peterson says he has the gold
he feels he can't get away with all of it.
I was closing in on him
several of you were.
He's going to propose that we split it equally.
The IRS could be called off.
Years of arbitration and probate
and he wouldn't have to steal it.
We all would help.
As far as anyone else is concerned
the gold went down in the jungle, and it's never been recovered.
He feels a share is a safer bet
than going for the whole thing.
Except for you and Peterson
we're relatives. Don't call it stealing.
It's ours.
Miss depriest, there's no will.
How would all of you, amiably, divide it?
Then why the note?
Then why hasn't he shown up?
That, I don't know.
You don't know exactly where the gold is either, do you?
No.
Peterson not being here...
He could have done this to set us all up.
Exactly.
We're all together.
You told us
not to tell anyone where we were going.
Peterson could kill us all
keep the gold for himself
unless you're part of it
- tuttleman! - If...
Axel's really dead.
This could be Axel's plan...
With Peterson.
And with you.
Axel's only respected him and tolerated him for his money.
Yes.
I wouldn't be surprised if that crazy old man
wasn't staring at us from behind one of those pictures...
Laughing his head off.
Mr. mcgowan, I tried to reach the marine operator again
but the phone's still dead.
Are you sure that it worked before?
Yes, he always had a line in here that worked.
Has anyone seen the maid?
I didn't see him.
He could be... listening.
There has to be somebody else here besides us.
This table was set
the food was cooking...
And we haven't found anybody.
Maybe you people are foolish enough to eat it
I'm beginning to wonder
if I made the right choice in coming here in the first place.
Miss Daniels, I'm sorry, i didn't mean to imply that you, uh...
But eventually you would have all rocked the boat.
Four million dollars apiece is a very persuading factor.
I think...
We should look for the maid.
I spoke with him earlier.
He said he was going to eat in the kitchen after serving us.
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
I'm sure you're sure.
I'll check, if it will make you feel any better.
Miss depriest, if it'll relieve you
I'll check on both of them
- David? - Yeah
they didn't know where you were.
- They're worried... - Look, I don't know what you're all up to
and I don't care
it's like I told you before, i just work for Mr. lubin's company.
I know, they were just upset.
They told me to check on you.
I'm sorry, I thought you'd prefer if it was me
and I love you, David.
Yeah
thanks.
- You finished eating yet? - Yeah. And you?
Yeah.
It's boring in there.
Ls it? - Yeah.
- Would you like to go for a walk? - I'd love to!
It's a beautiful night.
Ok, let's go.
Do we wait for Peterson to show or try to find it ourselves?
Wait 'til morning at least.
I have no idea where to even start a search.
I didn't expect Peterson not to be here.
Male and female, gentlemen.
I don't think you'll have trouble sleeping tonight, Harvey.
So peaceful.
It's for how long that bothers him.
I suppose we're both looking for the same thing?
Hey!
What is this?
What do you think you're doing?
What's going on?
Listen...
Hey!
Hey'.!
Good enough reason
for not coming down to breakfast.
It's like some wild animal tried to...
Or a very strong man.
I don't think she could have upset Axel that much
by what she said last night.
This whole thing's beginning to stink.
No, just miss depriest.
My dear second cousin
the only thing that stinks is your sense of humor.
Mcgowan, where's Peterson?
I have no idea.
He'll kill every one of us and keep all the dough.
Peppefman, shut up!
Only one of us has been killed.
It's more like the work of an animal than Peterson.
Hello?
Hello, yes marine operator, we've been trying to get you
look, we've had a...
Yes, he's here.
Hold on.
And operator...
We need to speak with you when you're finished with this call.
Your office...
I thought you said no one knew we were here.
Mcgowan speaking.
Of course I can hold on, operator.
Hello, bill?
What's your problem?
Oh no...
And the house?
How long?
I bet you'd like it even less if you knew what happened here
beh...
Bill?
Bill! Bill!
Operator, operator!
My partner was calling from Peterson's house.
It's been stripped
furniture, clothing, everything!
His family's left and the house was sold, yesterday
there was a shot...
Then the telephone was cut from that end.
How do you know it was on that end?
Makes sense, the shooter must've cut it
mcgowan, how did your partner know that you were here?
Yes, how?
He was the only person who knew,
in case of an emergency.
Like this?
Double cross?
Well, yes.
How can we trust you?
How can we believe that when you told us no one was to know?
You'll have to, mitchum.
Peterson set this thing up.
He'll kill us all, you included!
Shut up, tuttleman.
Is there any clue he might have given you as to where the gold could be hidden?
If not the gold, where he could be on the island?
Or some slip, anything he might have said
that would give us an idea?
Anything?
Yes, there was something...
What?
I remember...
It's in my briefcase, in my room
I'll go and get it!
Thank god, at last some action.
Does anyone know where the maid is?
I haven't seen him since breakfast.
That's right!
I haven't talked to him since then,
anyone else?
No...
We'd better go after mcgowan.
Anybody know which room's his?
Mcgowan!
You all check the upstairs, we'll do the down
we can maybe use the radios to spread ourselves around this place...
- Yeah, great - so we can contain him
mcgowan, where are you?
I'd better lock the door
yeah.
Which is better, lock us in or out?
Mcgowan!
The briefcase is empty.
How'd he get here?
No idea.
Leave him for the ID boys.
Alright.
We're getting paged.
It'll be safer if we stay as much together as possible.
We'll split up into two groups to go after Alexander.
He had a puncture in his neck
not just a slash
look, David...
Mr. Alexander was working with something
when I saw him in the kitchen last night.
He, he covered it up when I came in.
Could be fish blood just as easy.
No, there's nothing here.
Whatever it was, flashed in the light...
And he covered it with a towel.
I didn't think anything...
I didn't wanna think anything at the time.
I thought we were all being unfair.
It looked like...
A fat ice pick.
What about a spike, he had one on the boat on the way over
it'd be the right size.
Then he's our man.
Or Peterson's, or mcgowan's...
Or one of us?
Which one of us does Alexander work for?
Axel lubin.
The answer to that might be more accurate
when we find Mr. Alexander.
Vampire!
Don't be ridiculous.
Alexander's dead!
- Did you get him? - No.
Who then?
Maybe something else?
What?
We know one thing...
He's got big feet.
You...
Said it was Alexander!
Now who the hell is it!
C'mon, stay with the girls.
Didn't do much good.
Never even fired it.
Loaded?
Yeah, let's hope it does us more good than it did him.
This eliminates Alexander.
Or do you suppose he was in on the first two killings?
You mean whoever it was, among us or Peterson...
Had maybe two accomplices?
Yeah.
Of course maybe it wasn't Alexander at all.
Could be he found out who he was, was running from him,
and was stopped before he made it.
Yeah, maybe it's Axel lubin.
Try a werewolf, that's the only thing we haven't thought of.
Jeffrey, that's very funny, now let's just try to follow the tracks
this is as safe a place as any to wait for them
it's close to the kitchen.
If you ladies would like some coffee,
or something to eat...
- Coffee? - No thank you.
I guess neither of us do, thank you.
Suit yourself.
I need something in my room.
I'll be back in a minute.
Staying together's for your protection Harvey.
I know. I'll be right back.
I'm gonna get some coffee.
You change your minds?
Yes. Alright, black.
No thank you.
No...
Never let a man in the kitchen.
I'm beginning to wonder if he had to pick the coffee beans.
I was thinking the same thing.
Let's wake the eternal stomach here and let him go check.
If he's not eating, he's sleeping.
Maybe so.
Desarro? Hey, desarro?
Coffee's up.
Gee, we thought they'd killed you.
Not me. Not knowing the kitchen, i had to pick up all the pieces.
- Lost him. - A quarter mile in.
This island's all swamp, tracks go clear to the water's edge, that's it.
You couldn't go in after him?
It's too dark, besides he could have doubled back after he got out of the swamp.
In fact he could have beat us here.
Is that a fact?
Yeah.
What's to eat?
Where's tuttleman?
He went to his room, I think he's too afraid to come back down.
We'd better check, who knows which room's his?
I do.
Let's you and I go.
Orsatti's a strange man.
Dear, one of us is so strange he's killed three people!
And maybe it's a she!
You're welcome, I'm sure.
Tuttleman?
You sure this is his room?
Yeah
there's his bag.
I don't understand it, where did he go?
There's no window!
What's wrong?
Nothing.
We're gonna move everyone into six adjoining rooms.
We can't take a chance on any one of us disappearing
I know that puts us all closer to the killer
if one of us is the one but that seems to be the best alternative.
If it's Axel or Peterson it's definitely the best arrangement.
It's the safest way.
Could be tuttleman...
There's no body and that doesn't fit the pattern.
But maybe tuttleman's the victim and we just don't have the corpse.
Let's eat, I'm feeling better.
There's nothing else?
Nothing more we've made the community poison test on.
If it's Peterson
it's just a matter of finding him.
Before he finds the rest of us.
But if it is Axel, if he's alive, why?
If he's alive
and if we find him.
He could be dead and it could still be him.
Famous for his elaborate long range plans.
And Axel could be in it together with one of us
there's an unlimited number of possible combinations.
But if none of us are involved, what's Axel's motive?
He was a degenerate animal.
We must have all let him know we felt that way.
He also knew that he still wanted his money.
He was an immoral, vindictive man.
Need any more motive than that?
Maybe we aren't all going to die.
Maybe one or more of us is going to be spared.
Well that's the most optomistic thing I've heard.
Which takes us right back to Axel being involved with one of us.
But does anything explain the size of the footprints?
Or the brutal way they were killed?
Yeah, the holes in the neck
nothing explains everything completely, that's the problem.
Axel was always a bit eccentric...
He could just be insane!
If Axel's the one.
Maybe all this talk is getting us away from the real killer
sitting at this table right now.
We're kinda stuck with a thousand possibilities, ain't we?
It's Peterson.
Peterson...
Then who is... Is trying to drive us
crazy?
Yeah.
Who is it?
Come back!
Halt right there!
- Turn on the bloody lights! - Someone's pulled the power on this wing!
They can never...
Did you get it?
I don't know, I'm not that bad a shot...
- There are hurricane lamps in each of the bedrooms. - Great.
- Where's orsatti? - Here.
- There's the fourth. - But where's the other two?
Two ricocheted down the side to there, and two without glancing off anything here.
There's no blood so you couldn't have hit him.
Fellas!
What the...?
There's another one here.
That's impossible.
I told you, some monster.
Knock off the superhuman stuff.
There's some logical answer.
Then tell us! You saw what it did to my door.
Could've been tuttleman coming back for his suitcase.
That's not the least bit funny!
I wouldn't try to help her, not until the shock wears off.
You all better try to get as much sleep as you can. Jeff and I will...
Stand guard the rest of the night.
If you didn't have the pistol, i wouldn't have missed you know.
Jeff, the bullets are glistening.
Yeah.
There's gotta be an answer.
What to do you think, we stay in the hall in front of the rooms?
Take turns sleeping?
That's fine.
Hey, easy!
Let's go. The girls oughta be safe together,
locked in their rooms.
Whatever it is always seems to attack when one of us is alone.
Let's hope that's the theory.
We'll fan out, one of us every 30 feet and cover the perimeter of the swamp.
Look back at least 10 feet from the water's edge
for any kind of signs where he could've come out.
We know he did after last night.
You ain't still in the service, kid.
Apparently you never were. Let's go.
Help!
Where the Jesus is orsatti?
I have a key.
What are you doing back in the house?
I... I came back for some...
I... I heard screaming, I...
Which is it?
You heard a scream, but you were here before.
Orsatti!
They're dead.
Superhuman, I tell you.
Right under our noses.
I started to point to orsatti and... I thought it was too obvious.
But I don't understand wh...
Why the bullets didn't hurt him.
Must've ducked into his room when I fired.
Same direction the killer went.
But, that distorted bullet they found.
He found... remember he found the first one.
Probably planted the others after he came back from the hallway.
While we were all there.
A... and the huge footprints?
Phonies, probably oversized shoes.
That could've even been Peterson, he was 6' 10"?
Ls it all over now?
Yeah. Why don't you go on back to the house.
Just go outside for awhile.
I'll take care of this.
8, 9...
My god,"...
9,10...
And 11.
Fire would've burned all the evidence in one crack.
Fantastic!
Of course.
Where else would he have kept it?
I've missed you.
I've missed you very much.
Being this close to you and...
Not being able to touch you or even talk to you.
It's been very difficult.
I love you.
Do you love me?
I love you.
Really?
You know I do.
I've always loved you.
It's hard to believe sometimes.
Don't ever think like that.
I love you for what you are.
I always have.
Since I was a little girl.
Thank you.
Don't ever say that.
You don't have to.
Well, I didn't, uh...
You're right.
You lost this back there.
You shouldn't have worn that.
Doesn't matter.
Nobody knows what it means.
Have you needed me?
I wanted to comfort you so many times.
Just to kiss you and let you know that...
It's all gonna be over soon,
and everything's gonna be alright.
It's all over now.
You can forget it.
I have already!
Well, I, I have, uh...
I have reardon, I have to take care of reardon.
What?
What do you mean?
I left him alone for you.
He's the only one left.
Alright, I'll go, I'll go now.
Do it!
But I had to see you!
I had to touch you,
and love you for just a second.
I know. I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
Yes... oh, yes.
I'll go now.
Where is he?!
Part of the gold from Colombia?
Yes.
I'm insane, you know.
Yeah.
Gonna turn me in, aren't you?
I know you will.
Yeah.
That's alright, I've been there before.
They'll keep me 3, maybe 4 years.
Then they'll let me out.
So don't feel bad.
I want it all!
You killed the only person that ever loved me for myself!
The only person that I ever loved!
That's alright, I, I... I don't blame you.
You had to do it.
Groundswells, hold on!
Then they'll let me out...
Little change in things here.
I lost miss... I'll tell you when I get back.
We've got a rather
interesting development here too.
The authorities in the states have a lead on who killed capt. Jennings.
You know that big tall fellow
that you say did all the killing there on the island?
They think it was his brother that got Jennings.
You can't believe this...
they're identical twins, two of them seven foot tall!
Our constables have tracked him
to the fishing docks at the inlet here at Nassau.
They're down there now trying to bring him in.
10-4
I say, reardon, 10- 4
this is Nassau, brubaker, Charlie, 3