King Of California Page #3

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[Machine powers up]

Is that a metal detector?

[High-frequency whine,

beeping, chirping]

[Beeping faster]

Now you hear that?

That's maybe tin foil or nickel.

Nickels and tin foil

make that low tone.

We call that the fool's gold

of modern prospecting.

Prospecting?

Yeah.

[Beeping faster]

[Tone changes]

High tone,

could be silver.

Silver is a great conductor.

Must be one

of the old quarters.

The new ones,

they don't have much silver in them.

We are well on our way

to paying off the Visa.

[Chuckling]

You know, Charlie,

the manual says

you can plug headphones

into that thing,

so why don't you do that

so that we don't get popped?

No, then you wouldn't

get to hear it

when it makes a noise.

- [Sighs]

- [Beeping grows higher]

Huh!

[Dog barking]

[Whispering]

Get the shovel!

- We have a shovel?

- It's in the bag!

I'm am out of here.

We're going to get busted.

We're not doing

anything illegal.

This is public land.

There's gotta be

something illegal about...

You are so lame,

Miranda.

I can't believe I raised

such a law-abiding citizen.

Oh, you raised me?

Of course,

the highest tone

is for the best conductor of them all.

[Spits]

[Laughing]

[Crying]

Eureka.

Can we go now?

Don't you want to

even know what this is?

Okay.

What is it?

This is a doubloon.

A what?

A doubloon

from the 17th century.

The diary of Father

Juan Florismartes Torres,

So, I picked up this book

in the hospital library

and it got me thinking.

I thought the whole idea

behind the hospital

was for you

to stop thinking.

And I got some other books.

More books, eh?

Along with a gold crucifix

and the statue of the Virgin,

Father Torres' expedition

had a cache of gold doubloons.

Now, these doubloons were dated.

This one...

it's hard to see.

Something...

Something, 1624.

Let me see.

That's 24 carats.

Records that I obtained from

the Spanish Treasury indicate...

Okay. Wait, wait, wait.

How the hell

did you obtain records

from the Spanish Treasury

from a mental institution?

The internet.

- Perfect.

- No, I'll show you.

Here.

[Paper shuffling]

See for yourself.

Father Torres' doubloons

were dated.

Now, coins minted in 1624

were allocated

for what we call now,

you know, "petty cash,"

which Torres lost sooner.

Nobody else was around back then,

so it's gotta be his.

Now based upon

where we found this

and the reports of

the underground cave system...

- Cave system?

- Right. Right.

So all we gotta do

is follow this journal

and it's going to lead us

to the treasure.

It's just...

It's waiting to be found.

You're serious.

Yeah.

Look, a lot of people

must've read this journal.

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