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Mine always do.

I'm sure they do. But I thought maybe

you had a daughter around my age.

What do you want?

We're getting up a game

of hopscotch tonight and

could you play on my side?

You're wasting your breath, Granger.

Trudy's all business.

Believe me, I know.

You sound like an adding machine.

Hello, Mr. Walters.

I only dropped over

because I had an idea.

Chippie tells me that Trudy

works the races for you.

And I thought maybe I ought to go

out there with her and uh...

See just what the setup is.

You can do that later.

For the first few weeks you're

gonna have enough to do

wiring up that new system.

Well, I'm uh...I'm glad

we had this little talk.

SHAKE-UP ON L.A. POLICE FORCE

NEW GANGSTER SQUAD FORMED

How are you, lieutenant?

Hello, Wright.

Thanks for requesting me for your squad.

Sit down.

Where do I start?

You have a reputation of being a guy

nobody can approach.

That's why I asked for you when

they gave me the gangster squad.

You can start by checking up

on the bookie racket.

They've been having things

their own way too long.

There's one outfit in particular.

They call themselves the

Libertt Finance Company.

That's all we have on them so far.

There was enough there to convince me

that the Libertt Finance Co.

was the front

for one of California's largest

bookmaking organizations.

We didn't know then that Vince Walters'

Tri-State Wire Service

was actually behind it.

And that Mal Granger

was the technical brains.

His improvements ran the daily take

up to staggering figures.

They're on the track in Chicago

and ready to go.

Where's Vince?

-In Mal's workshop.

And there they go. They're ready

in Chicago at 36 1/2

It's a switch on those

walkie-talkie radios, huh?

That's right and miniature.

If it works.

-It'll work.

He receives me

through this hearing aid, see?

And the amplifier and microphone become

a transmitter

and that's how he gets back at me.

His cane here serves as an aerial.

Pop, just keep that ring

right on the metal band, will you?

The only trouble we might get into

is if a federal monitor car

picked up his frequency.

Then they could triangulate the beam.

How does that feel, Pop?

Fine, fine. However I must say

that I feel utterly ridiculous

being wired for sound.

Still the erector set kid, huh?

Well, why work when

electricity will do it for you?

There's things it hasn't been able

to do for me.

Mal wants to try out this new

gadget today, Trudy.

I thought maybe you'd better take him

out to the track with you.

Show him how you work.

Things have getting

a little hot out there.

It'll be my pleasure.

Madame.

Eight on top.

Twelve.

Two and a half.

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