Episode #7: A Pledge Drive Special! (Part 1)

Dan is greeted by a Rita Martin, who takes him to Gilbert. Gilbert reinterates what’s up, then introduces Dan to Kennth. Suddenly, Rita takes Dan out on the balcony to monopolize his time. Dan realizes he’s being set-up, so he ditches Rita to spy on the party, where he thinks he sees Gilbert put something in Kenneth’s drink. Dan rushes in to knock the spilled drink on the floor. Suddenly, Gilbert seems a little annoyed, then Rita suggests they migrate the party to Gilbert’s penthouse, and tells Dan to follow him in his car. 

Dan calls the Star Times morgue, and realizes someone else is listening in. But dan gets enough information to think that Kennth’s father’s murder might have been a poisoning. On the way to the penthouse, Gilbert looses Dan, over some railroad tracks, but Dan and Flitt go to the Greenhill Park, what the penthouse supposedly overlooks. Dan and Flitt split up, to search the penthouses to try and find Gilbert. Dan gets there first, and leaves a message for Flitt with the elevator operator. 

Dan finds Rita at the penthouse door, and she refuses to let him in, telling him that he’s off the case, and should leave. Instead, Dan finds another entrance, and begins to eavesdrop. He can hear that Gilbert & Rita on the balcony are trying to push Kennth over, to make it look like a suicide. Gilbert knocks Kennth unconscious, and threatens to murder Dan, making it look like Kennth killed him before committing suicide. Gilbert explains that he and Rita have embezzled a lot of money, don’t want to get caught. 

Suddenly Flitt barges in, gets shot at my Gilbert, giving Dan enough time to knock out Gilbert, and get the situation under control. Dan calls the police to come in and clean up the mess. 

Flitt was only grazed, and Gilbert & Rita are being held until their trial. Flitt gets the last joke, as they go to credits.  

Will Bradley

The Colonel tell Karney that Kang’s daughter, Nan Hua, has been kidnapped and Kang has gone to another city to negotiate the $10,000,000 ransom. Karney’s boss has liquidated his Shanghai holdings to raise part of the ransom.

In a final attempt to get his adversary to cooperate, the Colonel reveals that Karney’s new chief mate, Mangan, is actually another Constantino henchman. The trio of Shanghai operatives don’t realize that Mangan, a man who they have never met, is dead and Red Gallagher is still his mate. The chief mate comes in and plays the role of their deceased confederate. The newcomer is left alone with Karney to get the needed information out of him.

Red quickly tells his skipper that Nan Hua is actually being held in the building. Gallagher even knows the phrase to get the Parrot to speak to reveal supposedly important information: “Where away the Scarlet Queen”. Red then works over Karney to make it look like he beat the key words out of the captain.

Mrs. Fenwick, The Colonel, and Yen return to hear Karney tell the parrot the special phrase that will disclose vital information about the treasure. Upon hearing Karney speak, the parrot replies with, “Awrrk! Where away … Steady on. Stink … steady on. Nan Hua … Nan Hua.”

Red convinces the Colonel that Nan Hua will never give up the information of the prize Constantino and Kang seek to them, but she might give it to Karney. Yen is ordered to take Karney and Gallaqher to Nan Hua. When Karney and Nan Hua meet, Yen realizes that Gallagher has tricked them, shoots at Phil and runs to warn the Colonel. Red shoots and kills Yen.

Karney, Nan Hua, and Red, take the parrot and waste no time in heading for the Scarlet Queen and about an hour later are on their way out to sea. Red tells Karney that Fern, Fenwick’s ninth niece, is Kang’s operative and helped him get the parrot to speak nonsense. The Queen is now on course for Swatow, where Karney is to meet Kang.

Bob understands that the announcer on stage, next to the band, introduces exotic dancing girls, who seems to be selling them to different men. One girl for sale, Natasha, catches Bob’s eye, as she isn’t much older than Dot. Eventually they see Dorothy on the stage, being offered for sale, like the other girls. Chandu and Bob grab Dorothy, Dot, and Natasha, and rush out of the place, out on the street. 

Chandu sends Natasha to be looked after by one of his contacts, explaining that Natasha is from the Basque country, in the Pyrenees, and that she ran away to mark her fortune. Chandu suggests that they should put her on a boat and send her back home. Dorothy explains that two thugs tried to nab her, but she ditched them, and ducked into the first nice looking cafe she could find. She was immediately whisked away to a room full of girls, seemingly motivated by discovering that her name is Dorothy Regent. 

As they were about to prepare for their train ride to Cairo (their destination before Dorothy got lost), Chandu’s friend reveals that someone set the train on fire, and has killed 40 people in doing so. 

Will Bradley

They have a pretty rough landing, and the ship seems to have been damaged even more. Even worse, they were unable to send out an SOS, meaning that no one back home even knows where they are, nor will anyone come looking. The ship’s Powerman, Denton, starts acting up, and refuses to give estimates about how long it will take him to fix the ship. One of the crew finally fixes the video receiver, which means they can receive their mail and messages from their friends and family. Everyone is excited to get their mail and messages, but Denton doesn’t have any messages that day. He immediately gets angry, accuses the other crew of speaking to his girlfriend behind his back, and smashes up the communications devices on the ship, then leaves via the airlock. 

The Captain assembles some search parties, and they go out in search of Denton, as he is the only one that can repair the ship. In searching for Denton, they find some sort of amphitheater, with a huge screen, with a strange machine, and a symbol that is some sort of warning. In trying to figure out how to use the machine, they discover that the machine can project what they think is a 3D Television view of wherever the user is thinking about. However, they are distracted by an explosion near the ship. Someone has caused an explosion, damaging the main jets. The other search party has found Denton, which means that Denton is innocent. Other things are missing, too. Someone else is sabotaging them!

The Captain decides that they should return to the amphitheater and the machine, so they can hopefully use it to find out how the ship was damaged. But this time, it doesn’t seem to work the same way. However, a cave-in reveals a burial chamber, with the remains of two of The Lost Race, the first discovery like this of it’s kind. These remains are a mother and a child, and the child is clearly mutated, different than the mother. The mother looks more like an ape, and the child looks like something new

Returning to the machine in the amphitheater, they realize that it actually amplifies thoughts and projects them, and has nothing to do with communication. A theory is posed, that the Lost Race, able to see what everyone else is thinking, would rather die out than continue with the knowledge they were so sure of. They now realize that Denton must have damaged the ship somehow, after seeing in the machine his own thoughts amplified, and thinking that it confirmed his suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating on him with other crew members. 

However, Denton gets the drop on them, suggesting that he can escape on his own with a space lifeboat that he stole from the ship. Denton totally believes everything he saw on the machine, and wants to kill the crew of the ship. However, one of the crew shows Denton on the machine that the entire Space Guard is preparing to land on the planet, and that Denton has no chance to getting away. Denton tried to escape, but falls into the open burial chamber, dead. With Denton’s body next to the other two, it’s now clear that The Lost Race were worried that their own race mutating and evolving into humans, which suggests that they didn’t exactly die out, but died out rather than become human.