Would you hand me that, please? Thank you. Now, let's see. Survey, survive, Susanna, suspect. Ah, here we are. Suspense, meaning held in doubt, expressing doubt, the state of being uncertain, undecided or insecure, state of anxious expectation or waiting for information, such as to keep one in suspense, therefore delay acquainting him with what he is eager to know. Suspense, an hour of suspense now, a full 60 minutes at this time, and with the distinguished actor-director Robert Montgomery as your host. Tonight our star is Howard Duff, famous wherever radio is heard as Sam Spade detective, and as Spade he will appear in The Candy Tooth, a suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. This is Robert Montgomery. My pleasure and privilege it is to be here during this hour each week as a sort of guide, philosopher and fiend, an accessory before and after the facts of crime and punishment, which calculatedly fill our minutes with suspense. This evening, before we chat a little about the private life of America's favorite private eye, let me on behalf of Mr. Spear and all of us thank you sincerely for your wonderful letters and telegrams, expressing appreciation and interest in this new full hour presentation. It's wonderful fun to have 60 minutes to play with in radio drama. In our new double strength king size format, we plan to bring you radio plays based on complete novels and on theatrical productions and pictures. Many of the best writers of this literature, James M. Kane, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Graham Green, Eric Ambler and Agatha Christie have been happiest with a more spacious canvas upon which to display their characters of passion and purpose. With a full hour for our theater of thrills, we can give these authors a full stage on which to have their people play out their lusts and desires, their temptations and frustrations, their frantic fears and villainous triumphs, their descent into black and terror laden bewilderment. Sometimes we find ourselves locked in the tortured brain of the scheming criminal. At other times, we know the dread of the hunted and hapless victim. But always the basic ingredient of suspense is not mechanical gadgetry, not the detectable piecing out of fingerprints and convenient clues, but always the basic ingredient is people. For people give us emotion, and emotion marks the high drama that cold logic can never achieve. Nowhere will you find stranger people, motives and situations than those that pass through the door of a little office in San Francisco's Post Street. The lettering on the door reads, Samuel Spade, Private Investigations. Once it read Spade and Archer, but that was before Miles Archer stopped a bullet and plunged Sam Spade into the greatest detective adventure of modern times, the search for the Maltese Falcon. It was literally a shot heard round the world, for it brought into prominence the name of Dashiell Hammett and the so-called hard-boiled school of crime detection. Since then the fictional Private Eye has become a national institution, but Sam Spade still rules the roost. In book sales, in motion pictures, the Maltese Falcon has been filmed four times now, and now on the air, every Sunday night, in the adventures of Sam Spade starring Howard Duff and produced by our very own Bill Speer. It's a great pleasure for me to introduce to our suspense audience now a young star from my home lot, Universal International, in the role with which he has become so closely identified that most of his fan mail is addressed to Sam Spade. Howard Duff. Thanks, Bob. I'd like to go on record right now saying that any checks I may sign with the name Sam Spade will be accepted at your own risk. The detective business has been pretty good lately, I hear. How much did Sam make during 1947? Uh, F, he would know. But no matter how much it was, it won't change Sam. He'll still do business at the same old stand in a rickety office building on Post Strait where the elevator seldom ever works and the janitor never ever works. As a matter of fact, I got into my Philip Marlowe pants this morning and did little Spade work on Spade myself. Don't stop me if I'm wrong, but here are some of the facts. F-A-X facts. The way I dug them up. Age, nobody talked. History, mysterious but was probably a Pinkerton man to start with. Height, six feet in a small chunk. Weight, enough muscle to go with his height. Hair, dim-out blonde. Eyes, yellow-grey, unmarried. Lives alone in a small furnished apartment within walking distance of his office. Is economical to the point of, uh, well, never takes a cab where street cars can get and has been known to walk where they can't get. Secretary Effie Perine. The only person who really knows what makes Sam tick when he wants her to. Otherwise, he's a lonely man who trusts no one, lives alone and loves alone and expects others to like it. Have I left anything out? Well, nothing you left out, Bob. Something you put in. It's not true that I don't trust anybody. I trust everybody. All my clients are honest until I prove them otherwise. Maybe that's what's kept you in the private eye business all these years. That and the strong hatred that I have. Hatred? Yeah, for time clocks and the hours between nine and five. That's why I went out of business for myself and that's what keeps me there. Then you regard it as a business, Sam, and not as an adventure. Well, when you break an arm in an adventure, the cost of setting it is not tax deductible. Yes, it is. Yes, I see. How many cases have you had? And do you think all private dicks are clever? Well, I've had so many cases, I can't remember them all. About being clever, I once knew an operative who, looking for pickpockets at Santa Anita racetrack, had his ward stone. He later became a lieutenant detective in Glendale. Sam, tell me, what was the most surprising thing that ever happened to you? The most surprising thing that ever happened to me was in 1936 in Washington, D.C. I met a young lady on a bus who did not remark that my work must be very interesting. Well, that's very interesting. Thanks a lot. But I guess my most exciting caper, since the Maltese Falcon, was the hugger mugger over the candy tooth. Usually when I wind a caper, I call Effie just to let her know I'm OK before I hustle down to the office to dictate my report to the client. But this time it was 4.30 in the morning before I could get to a phone. The reason was that I was in jail. Wake up, Angel. You're home in bed, not at the office. Huh? Hey, was that you saying? What time is it? 4.30 in the morning. Are you up already? Effie, put yourself together. Get dressed. Hustle down to the city jail. Oh, Sam, what happened? Well, that's what I got to get on the record now while I'm still alive to do it. Grab a taxi and hustle on down. Bring a book, pencils, the encyclopedia that has the letter K in it and any old $20,000 you got laying around. Sam, where am I? Harry, just as sad as I could, there was no taxi around. What are you doing in jail? My apartment's being redecorated. To bring you a book? Well, of course I did. And pencils too.  Whatever could have happened to you. Take it down, Effie. But Sam, what did you do? The San Francisco Homicide Bureau. Attention, Detective Lieutenant Dundee. Date, uh, fill it in. I will. From Samuel Spade, license number 137-596. Subject, the candy tooth caper. Dear Dundee, I don't know all the answers, not yet. What I do know is going down on paper while I'm still alive to get it there. Oh, Sam. The scenario runs something like this. This morning, a telegram came to my office. It was addressed to Samuel Spade, Esquire. And it was signed Casper Gutmann. Gutmann, the fat man. So far as I knew, Dundee, when you closed your books on the Maltese falcon caper, seven years ago, Gutmann was entered as dead. First, I fought the telegram with somebody's idea of a joke. But when I read it through the second time, I knew it was no joke. There's nobody else who thinks, or talks, or writes like Casper Gutmann. My dear Mr. Spade, you will no doubt receive with mixed emotions the news of my imminent reappearance in the city of the Golden Gate. Hence, the companion dispatch of a telegraphic draft and the amount of $1,000, which you are free to convert into coin of the realm. This trifling sum, sir, is merely a token of my esteem for a man of many resources and nice judgments. And for it I do not require any specific service. However, if you feel so disposed, sir, you are free to accept my considered advice in the matter of an invidious pair of rogues. To wit were Lawrence Laverne, DDS, and or Hope Laverne, whose charms and aliases are far too myriad to enumerate in this necessarily abbreviated communication. Should either or both of these persons approach you, beware the hidden tooth. Believe me, sir, they are untruthful and reliable and totally devoid of all moral sensibilities. I count upon you to make no commitments to them or anyone else until you have heard my proposition. This I hope to lay before you when I arrive in San Francisco this very evening. Dear Joel, sense regards. I remain your obedient servant, Casper Gutman. Casper Gutman, the fat man. I know, Dundee, you figured I didn't get hurt much the last time I tangled with Gutman this falcon, but that's because you didn't know Brigid O'Shaughnessy as well as I did, as well or as warmly. Well, I figured if Gutman was still in the land of the living, let him come. This time I wasn't going to get hurt in any way. There couldn't be two Brigids. Nevertheless, I ate a can of spinach, which I found on Effie's desk, then I sat down again facing the door. Nothing much happened for almost ten minutes. I was still trying to dig the meaning out of Gutman's double talk, and I'd gotten about as far as his warning about a hidden tooth when Effie ushered a man into my office. Mr. Spade, well, well, I must say that you are indeed a pleasant surprise, but pleasant. You said it. What can I do for you? My name is Laverne, Larry Lawrence Laverne. How do you do? I shall spare you the tasks and details and plunge right into the problem. Oh, dear, at the Hotel Royal George, there is a mildewed Cretan but mildewed, as Mr. Herman Julius. Oh, a really frightful person. Very frightful, huh?  The only thing about this creature that has any charm is a four-toothed lower bridge in his right jaw. Now, Mr. Spade, I want you to get that bridge for me. I'm sorry, it sounds as though you're saying I want you to get that bridge for me. Precisely. Why? Because he refuses to pay me for it.  I prefer to regard myself as a dentist sculpturer. I created this bridge for Mr. Julius with infinite pains. And now, now he refuses to pay me. I ask payment and he accuses me of acting without charm. Mr. Julius wouldn't happen to be a very large, fat man. Oh, contraire, skin and bones. Well, Mr. Spade? I'm afraid you come to the wrong man, Mr. Laverne, which you want as a lawyer to sue him. Sue him? Months of legal wrangling? Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. I intend to be vindictive about this. I am, by nature, a very gracious and charming person. But now, now let him beware. I shall have that bridge from Herman Julius, even if you must knock him down and wrench it from his jaw. You tried knocking him down yourself? Oh, I could never even bring myself to perform extractions. I always send those patients to less sensitive dentists. Well, I'm afraid you'll have to find yourself a less sensitive private detective. Oh, dear. Well, Mr. Spade, what would you advise me to do? Mr. Laverne, I would advise you to get out of California before Walt Disney sees you. Well, well, good day, sir. I would like very much to have you in my care some day. I might teach you some manners. Beware of the hidden truth. Hello. Hello. Please sit down, Miss, uh... Thank you. Laverne. Hope Laverne. Miss Laverne? Yes. What can I do for you? Well, I'm, uh, I'm looking for my brother. Missing? Well, yes, yes and no. I mean, he's been gone since yesterday, and I'm terribly afraid he'll get into trouble. Oh? What kind of trouble? Well, you see, it... but it just isn't easy for me to talk about this, Mr. Spade.  Yes, thank you. It's easier like this. What about you, Laverne? My brother's name is Lawrence. He's a man of 52. He's, uh, he's not well.  He suffered a nervous breakdown some years ago, and he spent most of his life in sanitariums. Where are you from, Miss Laverne? Kansas City. During the past year, Larry was in a rest home in Palo Alto, and I arrived two days ago to take him home. The next day morning, he... Well, I don't know how it happened, but he's gone. These, uh, spells you mentioned, what are they like? Oh, well, he assumes different personalities. His favorite seems to be that of a dentist. He becomes obsessed with the thought that he's done some work, a bridge or something, for someone who refuses to pay him. He'll walk up to a perfect stranger and create a scene. He's been arrested a few times, nothing serious, public nuisance. Mr. Spade, I'm afraid that he'll be... he'll be put away if he's arrested once more. I see, and you want me to look for him. Then he hasn't been here? Why'd you think he'd come here? Oh, that's another one of his tactics. He goes to a private detective, hires him to either follow a man or get back the work he thinks he's done. Dental work, you know. But what made you think he'd come to me? Oh, not you, particularly. Since yesterday, I've tried almost every private detective in San Francisco. No one has seen him. Who'd you talk to? I beg your pardon? These are private detectives. Who'd you see? Well, um... there was a man named Graham and one named Marlowe, Phillip Marlowe. Excuse me. Do you like a drink? No. Marlowe's speaking. That's Spade, Phil. Hi, Sam. Phil, you got a rumble on a missing brother named Larry Laverne? Yeah, yeah. Cal was in early this morning. Brother, some kind of a screwball. You meet him? No, no, hasn't been around yet. Ah, thanks, Phil. See ya. Why did you do that, Mr. Spade? It's doing things like that that have kept me alive and in business all these years. That was Marlowe. Your brother hasn't been to him. I told you that. But your brother has been here. When? A few minutes before you came in. Can't see how you missed him. What did he tell you, Mr. Spade? Pretty much as you outlined it. How about the dental work? And some man owing him money? Yeah, some man named Julius. Uh, Herman Julius, he said, you know him? I never heard of him. He's probably just another figment of Larry's imagination. Mr. Spade, I'm terribly worried about Larry. I got that impression. Will you try to find him for me? Can you give me any idea where I might start looking? Well, I think I know how Larry's mind works when he's in the midst of one of these spells. And if you find this Mr. Julius, you'll probably find Larry close by. So you want me to find Mr. Julius first? Oh, well, I only thought it would be simpler to be checking on this Mr. Julius movements than on Larry's unpredictable whims, you see. I... Don't you think that makes good sense, Mr. Spade? Miss Laverne told me she was staying at the Pickwick Arms, and I said I would call her if I found her brother, and she said, thank you, thank you very much, and I said it's nothing, just part of the day's routine, and then she kissed me and left. After lunch, I, uh, strolled over to the Royal George Hotel. Duke, the housekeeper, gave me a rundown on Mr. Julius, a quiet, nervous little man who'd sealed himself up in his room for two days, eating out a room service. I didn't have any trouble finding the hacky who'd driven him away when he checked out. He gave me the address, and 20 minutes later, I was mounting the front steps of a greasy rooming house on Sacramento Street. I twisted the rusty bell in the door, and a long, sharp nose that could only belong to a landlady stabbed out at me. What you want? I'm looking for a man named Herman Julius. Don't have no Julius here. Well, maybe he gave some other name, a little skinny guy with a foreign accent. You the law. Take me to his room. No, wait a minute, no, no. Well, step inside. Up the stairs. Hey, home. I've never seen him go out. He put one door. Watch that step, second from the top. He's busted. Don't want no lawsuits. That's the third. Said he was a refuge. The Nazis were there for him. Another flight. Never knew he was in a tangle with the Lord, cooking in the rooms. I've got a rule, too. Sneak in electric plates, they do. Run up the bills. Buzzards. There's his room. Then they don't cook in their room. D.T. some of them. Or go on in and get him. I don't want no part of it. I didn't see who it was right away. His face was the color and consistency of crushed strawberries. I helped him up and over to the washbasin in the corner of the room. With his face washed, he looked a little better, but he still looked like Larry Laverne. Oh, am I ever glad to see you. I thought it was them coming back to kill me. Did you find Julius? No, no, got away with the wretch down the fire escape as I came in.  To tell the honest truth, Mr. Spade, I never even got a good look at him. Julius, what's in his bridge work? I'll tell you everything, everything, but please, first, let's get out of this ordered room. Oh, it smells like cavvy. Larry Laverne was tougher than he looked. After the going over he'd gotten, you or I would have been hospital bound, Dundee. But he did a late take. We were on the way back to his hotel walking toward market when he crumpled in the middle like a sack of flour. I grabbed them and held them upright, looked wildly around for somewhere to park him.  I bought two tickets and piloted him inside. We sat down. I undid his clutch in my arm and concentrated on the screen. The subject that followed the football game was some big Oriental celebration somewhere in India or someplace, a very fancy parade with white elephants. Candy, Ceylon, the famed white elephants of the Orient get their annual airing as crowds of devout Buddhists gather to do homage to some of the strangest relics in the modern work. Here in Candy, the mecca of the Buddhist religion, pilgrims gather from near and far. Indian Rajas, Bernie's officials and Chinese dignitaries in ceremonial dress cross straight themselves before the Jewer casket containing the most sacred object of the Buddhist world. Legendary relic of Buddha himself as the Orient goes wild in jubilant celebration. Temple dancers of Candy perform for the crowned heads of the Orient. Take me out of here. I can't stand it. I'll go mad. I tell you sock-raving mad. You brought me in here on purpose. You're trying to drive me crazy, but crazy. Easy, easy. Two men holding up the sacred relics for a high priest. If that man says that one word, Candy, just once more, I won't be responsible. I tell you, I won't be responsible. All right, Larry. Take me out of here. An impressive ceremony indeed. I promise you, Mr. Spade, all I need is just one night's sleep and I'll be a new man. Yeah. Well, I haven't even dared to take 40 winks since I arrived in this town for fear those monsters might murder me in my bed. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's tough. Sit down. So, this is your apartment. That's what I laughing they call it, living room, bedroom, ice box. Here, have a drink. Me too. Oh, thanks. Oh, did I ever need that? Don't be soft of a bottle. I don't touch alcohol as a rule, but after what I've been through.  Oh, thank you. Well, I hardly know where to begin. It's also strange. And there I was in Lisbon, Mr. Spade, the only English-speaking dentist worthy of the name of the entire diplomatic colony. Well, you must have read in the papers about Dom Constantino's tomb being violated. It was a scandal of a season. Oh, it's all so horrible, Mr. Spade. I just can't talk about it. Hey, hey, hey. Try a little more of this. Settles the nerves. Oh, I just don't know how I can ever thank you. Ever since I hit this Berg, I've been feeling like the forgotten... Pardon. Man. Yeah, you were saying something about a tomb being broken into. In Portugal, this was? Yes. Well, you know, the draft board just took one look at me. I know what you mean. So, I just stayed on in Lisbon and, well, you know how people gossip about having patients of all nationalities and all that? Yeah, yeah. I get it.  Oh, wait a minute. Don't get the idea. I was a spy. Oh, no. But sometimes people had things that could be hidden in a hollow tooth and like that to the bridge work, you know? I think I told you I'm not so much a dentist as a dental artist.  Gutman? Yes, yes. Mr. G and that Joe Cairo person that was with him. They brought me this tooth, though. A horrid yellow old thing, practically a fang. They wanted to put it in Mr. Julius' bridge. Paid me a thousand pounds, can you imagine? Then when I learned what they had done, well, it made me positively ill. This practically sacred old tomb in the cathedral, they'd broken in and literally torn out a piece of his job on whose? Why, Dom Constantino's. And who's Dom Constantino? Oh, the Portuguese viceroy.  Oh, dear. I'm as tight as a tick. This liquor is getting to me. And it was. I thought he'd open up some more, but I overplayed the bourbon. Half a bottle later he passed out. I flopped on the sofa and tried to get some sleep for myself. But my dreams kept getting in the way. I had newsreel dreams and technicolor. I dreamed that a white elephant with a face like Casper Gutman was leading a parade down Market Street. The how-da that was strapped to his back looked like a dentist's chair. Herman Julius was sitting in it, but this face seemed to be blanked out. Joel Cairo wearing a surgeon's gown and a turban was drilling Julius' tooth. The crowds were throwing diamonds and rubies when the peanut bags they were carrying and Gutman vacuumed them up with his trunk. The cold started ringing in the Buddhist temple that had been filled on top of the Mark Hopkins. Yeah. Mr. Spade, I need your help. Who's this? I'm terrified. Where are you? I'm in a drugstore at 5th and Mission. Can't you come here? I can't. I don't dare go into the streets. All right. Wait there. I'm on my way. I took a quick gander at Laverne so he was still out cold, slipped into my top coat and left the apartment. I had to hustle over to 5th and Mission, but I never got any further than 50 yards from the front of my building. I sensed him behind me, wheeled suddenly, bumped him into a doorway, held the thumbs of his hands, gripped tightly in my fist. I stand still or I'll tear him off. Look, oh, I'm killing it. Don't move and it won't hurt.  The boy twisted suddenly and violently and I heard the crack of his left thumb breaking. He swallowed his screen, dashed onto the deserted street.  I don't know how long I was out, but I do know I came to at least three hours too soon. I needed much more rest. I opened my eyes, steadied a swaying ceiling, and then I heard his voice. Well, sir, this is indeed a jolly reunion. It couldn't be, but it was. Casper Gutmann, one of the Maltese falcon caper. Looking at the unholy trio there in the room, Joel Cairo, the little leventine, still as oily and smiling as ever and still fragrant. Marvin, a sullen, white-faced, hollow-eyed youth as near Wilmer's double as anyone will ever see.  You'd have thought nothing had happened since then, not even the war. The grayness at Cairo's temples only made his baby face look more babyish. And about Gutmann, nothing was different except his watch chain. The curious, jewel-encrusted ornament dangled from it, shaped like a claw. You seem surprised to see me, sir. No wonder.  A lot of water has gone under the bridge since last we met. The bridge? Yes. Which brings us to the subjected hand, the bridge. My headaches. What about the bridge? Well, first we'll talk a bit. After all, this is quite an occasion, sir. Reunion of old friends, eh, Mr. Spade? Yeah. Tell me, did you ever find the falcon, if you'll excuse the expression? Oh. Your eyes are resting on all that remains of that fabulous bird, sir. Yes. That trinket on his watch chain, all the remains of the Maltese falcon. Well, mark you, sir, what part of it survived, the claw. You believe in omen? Right now, I'm ready to believe almost anything. Indeed, sir. Well, no need for dissembling. We're old and wise, I trust, in the days of the falcon. Suffice it to say, the unsavory and bloated object which the police dredged up from San Francisco Bay and identified as myself were some other poor soul. Wilma, I am happy to say remembered the debt of gratitude he owed me and at the last moment agreed to be a party to the very necessary little deception. That is, since they had him cold, as you detected, say, for the other killings he might as well confess to murdering me. He did so in exchange for my agreement to take care of his family in a financial way. An investment, by the way, which has paid rich dividend. How's that? Oh, indeed. Well, thanks to it, I now have Marvin, Wilma's younger brother. I thought I noticed a family resembling.  Oh, yes, yes, poor Wilma. He was like a son to me, like a son. Well, it didn't stop you from making him a patsy. I detest killing Mr. Spade. I cautioned Wilma time and again. He was so headstrong. Oh, my boy. You'd better caution this punk, or he won't last to take any raps for you. Ah, Marvin, Marvin. Ah, Marvin, Marvin. Dirty shammers lays not a hand on me. I'll kill him. No, no, no, Marvin, Marvin. If you'll take Marvin in the other room, explain to him that Mr. Spade and I are very old friends. Kasper knows best when I've been coming with you. And now, no nonsense you two know.  I'll kill him. Kasper would be angry. Oh, dear. Hot headed. Runs in that family. Well, let's have it, Guttman. What are you after this time? Oh, my dear Verne. He must judge me. It's true I had Marvin check up on you, but only because of your association with Miss Laverne. Oh, no matter now. I'm weary of the chase. All the way from Candy, I... What did the girl tell you? She asked me to find her brother, a dentist named Laverne. You believed her story? No. Most unscrupulous woman. No veracity, no regard for truth whatsoever. Her true motive? Merely to make trouble for me and my friends because of her association with Kimmadoff. Aye, the Russian's hand again, Mr. Spade. Kimmadoff? Did I ever meet Kimmadoff? You'd hardly forget if you had. In short, here is my proposition. Another thousand dollars coin to the realm, sir, for which you'll refund whatever money Miss Laverne gave you and send her packing. The bidding starts at 10,000. You drive a hard bargain, Mr. Spade. Very well. I'll meet your turn. I told you the bidding starts there. And where does it stop? Half of whatever the caper nets you. I deliver Julius, you do the rest. Between you and me, Mr. Spade, I'm not as affluent as I once was. The Falcon pretty well wiped me out financially. Considering the time and money I've already invested in trying to track down the weasel of Julius. What's in Julius' bridge work? And if I don't choose to tell you. Then it's no dice. Think it over, Guttman. Either I'm in all the way for half and I deliver Julius to the other outfit. And that is your final dictum, sir? Take it or leave it. Either you're in or you're out. Good night, Mr. Spade. I trust you will call me on the telephone when you reach your dick-ins and tell me that you've changed your mind. No hard feelings. The fog was clearing and only a few white wisps of it were clinging to twin peaks when I walked home that morning. It was too late to worry about hope. Or did she phone for Guttman to decoy me out so that I started walking faster? As I climbed the stairs to my apartment I heard a door open on the landing and the slot of light that stabbed out from it showed me it was my door. The light came from behind whoever had opened it and I couldn't see who it was at first only that it was not Larry Laverne. I took the last flight four steps at a time. Hello, Sam. Dundee, what's happened? Come in and see for yourself. When I saw for myself I wished somebody else had seen for me. Larry was lying on his back in my bedroom floor. His eyes were wide open and he had a crooked grin on his face. A very crooked grin. Whoever had killed him had wrenched his jaw out of place. I'm not saying you killed him, Sam. I'm only asking you who did.  Why was he killed? No statement. What was he doing here? Who is he? The name he gave was Laverne. I let him flop here because he's afraid to go home. Afraid of who? A man named Casper Guttman. Guttman's dead and you know it. You bury him, Dundee? Well, I believe you mean it. Guttman's concerned he doesn't pay to kid around. What's he after now? The bridge work out of a man's mouth. The man's name is Julius. What's in this Julius bridge work? Maltese falcon? Something like that. I'm sorry, Sam. It's not good enough. I'll have to take you in. So you took me and you booked me. The bail was set at $20,000. You figured there's only one operator who'd put up that kind of money to spring me and that's Casper Guttman. I hope you're right. Period. And the first part, at least, of sob story. But, Sam, what is in Herman Julius' bridge work? Laverne told me it was a toothed Guttman stole out of a skeleton in an old Portuguese catacomb. What's so valuable about that? I don't know. Could be a jewel inside of it? It's not Guttman's kind of game. Besides the thing that made poor Laverne blow his top in that newsreel theater something more like an elephant tusk. And where's that encyclopedia? Did you bring it? Oh, yes, I did, Sam. Yes, I did. Wasn't I smart? Look it up. Look what up. Candy with a K. Oh, um, K, car, can. Oh, here it is. Candy. K, isn't that funny? City, capital of central province of Ceylon located near the center of the island north... Spare me the geography. Well, the railroad from Colombo. And noted for its waterfalls and stuff and stuff and stuff. That is, the city surrounds an artificial lake and is sacred to Buddhists for its temple of Maligaua which enshrines the tooth of Buddha brought according to legend... Why, let me see that. Let me see. It's sacred to the Buddhists for its temple of Maligaua which enshrines it. Effie. What's the matter, Sam? The tooth of the Buddha. Sam, you don't think that's what's in Herman Julius' bridge work? If it was, Guttman would be after him. But how did he get the Portugal? Guttman's the man that could track it down. Sam, you sure that? No, Angel. No. The only thing I am sure of is this. When the Maltese falcon laid an egg, it hatched a flock of vultures and they're all circling right around my head. Well, cheer up, Sam. You won't be in jail long. I'll bring your cake with a file in it. Angel. No, devil's food. In tonight's full hour of suspense, Howard Duff, our star, appears as Sam Spade with Joseph Kearns as Casper Guttman and William Spears' production of The Candy Tooth. Tonight's study in suspense. In just a moment, we will return with the second half of The Candy Tooth. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage and Robert Montgomery. At the point at which we interrupted Sam Spade's narrative just now, things were at a pretty pass. A pretty pass, indeed. A pretty pass. Sam wound up with the body of the dentist, Larry Laverne, in his apartment. The girl, Hope, waiting for him in the bus station. Casper Guttman, the fat man, waiting for him to answer, waiting for an answer to his ultimatum that Spade produced the tooth or else. Me and City Prison under $20,000 bail and the fabulous Candy Tooth still chomping on two-bit hamburgers in the bridge work of a very elusive man named Herman Julius. Yes. And? Well, after I dictated my report to Effie on what had happened until then, she left and I laid down to think. Lieutenant Dundee and I had agreed that I should spend the night in the pokey. He figured that the 20G bail would draw only one man to put up that much mule out of Spring Me, Casper Guttman. Along about nine in the A.M., the turnkey unlocked the door of my cell. I followed him out to the desk. The $20,000 bucks were there, but no sign of benefactor, benefactress, or Samaritan of any type. The bond was in my name. I signed my release and walked out. Across the street was parked a long black limousine with a curtain stroller. I started for it when a voice at my elbow checked me. Your stingers paid. C. I'm Dom Constantino de Braganza. His eye who had put up the $20,000. Is that so? Well, thank you. Now, why? I desire a service. My cards in her. Dom Constantino... Wait a minute. You seem to know the name. Yeah, yeah. For a guy who's been dead 500 years, you don't look too bad. Oh, thank you. You are referring, of course, to my illustrious ancestor, Dom Constantino, the first Portuguese vice-drive India who indeed had been dead since the 16th century. Is on his behalf I speak to you now. What can I do for him? Restore the tooth which was wrenched from his skull by a pack of unspeakable ghouls who violated his tomb in Lisbon. You think they're in San Francisco? They're very naive, senior.  Therefore, you must know the whereabouts of the other ghouls. I know so many ghouls, senior. You'll have to be more specific.  You want them or the tooth? Both. Not one without the other. No, it'll take a little time. They haven't got the tooth. They have a man named Julius. Oh, that then explains the dentist and the diabolical manner which they employed in smuggling the tooth out of Lisbon.  Ah, senior, I respect your judgment. Thank you. You will find me at the Hotel San Rafael and for your retainer you may consider the $20,000 bond as yours. Wow. Adios, senior. Adios. Be careful crossing streets. Adios. Adios. Adios, Tom Constantino. Adios. Yeah, adios. Adios, man. Adios, man. Mr. Spade, Sam, get in. Hey, got a hack license, Mr. Laverne? Oh, please don't, Sam. I know this car's ridiculous, but I don't dare use taxis or be seen on the street. What did that man tell you? What happened last night when you called me from the bus station in such a panic? Why didn't you come? I went to see the fat man. You saw a gutman? Did he mention me? You didn't make that call last night to get me out of the apartment so that somebody could get in and kill Laverne. Oh, Sam. Then why did you call? Because I found Herman Julius, and I'm driving you there now. We didn't do any talking after that. She sat very close to me. There was plenty to talk about, but we didn't do any talking after that. I was vaguely aware that we were driving across to Oakland, and a few minutes later, we pulled up in front of an apartment building. We took the elevator up to the ninth floor. This is it, Sam. 9B. No, he's in there, Sam. I know he is. Mr. Julius. Mr. Julius. Go away. There's no Julius here. Oh, that's his voice. Mr. Julius, I've got to talk to you. It's very important. If you don't open the door, I'll have...   He will, Sam. He will. You've got to stop him. Go away. Julius! Wait a minute! Wait! Don't! No, Sam! It was the ninth floor he started from.  By the time we made it downstairs, the street was cluttered with cops. I grabbed hope by the arm, hustled her around the corner to a rented limousine, and told her I'd call her later. My next stop was the fat man himself. Sir, you've reconsidered. You've found Julius. I know where he is. End your term, sir. What are your terms? 100,000 cash on the line. How did the question, Mr. Spade? No cash, no tooth. You've found another buyer? Yeah. A man named Konstantina de Burganzis says the tooth belongs in the head of his ancestor by a previous marriage. A quenconcy, sir, very true. And what else did he say to you? That he'd double any bid that you made on the tooth. My dear father, have you any inkling and any remote idea of the value of that tooth? No? Well, I'll tell you, sir.  Yeah, yeah. Let's get on with it, Godwin. Yes. Let's sit down, sir. How much do you know the 16th century history of the Orange? Well, I don't have to fill that tooth, will I? Oh, capital joke, sir. I should give you a little more enough, say, to fill an elephant tusk. I'm listening. Well, sir, when the Portuguese invaded India in the 16th century and established the city of Goa, there were three main empires in the audience, namely China, India, and Burma. And the rulers of all three empires sought to rule the world. No. Legend had it that in order to become Lord of the World, a monarch had first to be the possessor of seven gems. That's gems spelled with a J, sir. Yes, gems. This is no fantasy, I'm telling you, Mr. Spade. This is actual history. Seven gems. And what were those seven gems? You tell me. Well, the first six do not concern us, Mr. Spade. A golden wheel of white elephant, all easy to come by, for an oriental monarch. But the seventh. Ah, Mr. Spade, the seventh. What was that? The tooth? The tooth, Mr. Spade, the tooth. The tooth of the great Lord Buddha himself. That remained in the temple of Maligawa, Kandy, on the island of Silan. Many kings and armies to capture it. But all were defeated by the fierce Brahmins who stood guard at the temple gates. And so we come to the year 1552. It's about time. Now, in that year, the Portuguese viceroy Dom Constantino de Braganza landed near Jaffna with a force of 1,220 men and defeated the king's legions in a savage battle. He returned to Goa with his victorious army and the tooth which he retained as his personal pride. It was not long before the Burmese king by now, by name sent an emissary to Dom Constantino offering the modern equivalent of a million pound sterling as ransom for the tooth. I would get the Portugal. Hear me out, sir. Hear me out. Hear me out. All right. Well, before the transaction could be consummated, the Portuguese archbishop, called on Dom Constantino and the name of the inquisition demanded the tooth. After some delay, Dom Constantino under threat of torture delivered a tooth into the archbishop's hand and that tooth was publicly destroyed. The archbishop grinding it into powder with water and pestle and scattering the residue open of fire that the tooth might be utterly consumed. Shortly after this, Dom Constantino's personal physician after drawing the tooth, now mind you, a tooth from the viceroy's head died under very mysterious circumstances. We may safely infer that the substitute tooth, which he drove into the viceroy's jaw bone after the primitive fashions of dentistry in those days, was the candy tooth put there for safekeeping until Dom Constantino could resume negotiations with buying now's emissary. But, but, but, before that could be accomplished, Dom Constantino was stricken with the plague, carried aboard ship and home to Portugal where he died. He was entombed with the candy tooth still in his head. Now the manuscript which fell into the possession of the Russian chemidop and later into mine but I shall not go into unnecessary detail Of course not. was Dom Constantino's deathbed confession proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the real candy tooth had reposed for more than four centuries not in the great temple at Candy in Salon but in a Portuguese tooth. Yeah, well I think I can take it from there. You still haven't told me what my percentage is. Well, my dear boy, if your percentage were one tenth of what can be realized on that tooth you could retire to a life as sloth and luxury for the rest of your days. For the restoration of the true relic there is no limit to what the Buddhist world could and would pay. Gifts and tribute paid to one temple alone exceed eleven million dollars a year. Now my boy, you begin to comprehend something of its value. I'll still settle for cash. Very well then. Ten thousand dollars. It's a bail. Now that you have my secret the affair must be gotten over quickly for good and all. If it is not, believe me, this time I shall not bargain with you for my life. You shall bargain with me for yours. After I left Gutton when I called you Dundee and found out by a clever rose where Herman Julius' body had been sent, you told me. Then I hustled on over to the mortuary. As I walked in a hushed young man and a hushed cutaway and a hushed expression greeted me. Good evening, sir. I'm Converse Atheridge. Can I be of service? Thank you. I've come to pay my last respects to an old friend. Can I be alone with him for a few minutes? His name? Julius. Oh yes, yes, his widow is here, sir. Mrs. Julius. Yes, she's inconsolable. Perhaps as a dear friend of the departed you might give her words of comfort. Please go in. Thank you. A little woman in black was sobbing quietly to herself. She turned around when she heard me come in. Her eyes lit up with hate, and suddenly she grabbed something from her pocketbook and held it at me. There was a 45 and her hand was shaking. Yeah, this time I will do it. Always before I didn't have the heart. Always hating bloodshed. But this time. Yeah, this time.  You! You are not one of them. No, no, I'm a detective. I want to punish the people responsible for your husband's death. Yeah, I believe you. This gun. I was going to follow poor Hermann. There didn't seem to be any reason for going on. Tell me something about yourself and your husband, Mrs. Julius. It's an old story now. Years of separation in different concentration camps. Privary and bribery.  Came to this country. After two years Hermann wrote us from Lisbon. We knew as soon he would be with us. But even though the war was finished, they had lost. Still they went after Hermann Julius. He knew the Nazis were behind him all the time. And even here in this country he did not dare come to me. Mrs. Julius.  They weren't even after him. They were after something he was carrying. In Lisbon, didn't he go to a dentist named Laverne? Yeah. Didn't Laverne put an odd-shaped tooth kind of yellow into his bridge work? Yeah. So he smuggled the candy tooth out of Portugal and he never even knew it. Oh well. It does not matter now. Oh, Hermann is dead. Surely you they will leave his poor broken body in peace. Mrs. Julius. No. No, surely they will. That's why I want to make a request of you.   So stop terror. End it, terror. I will do anything, Mr. Spirit. Anything you say. I told her what I wanted done and she agreed to do it. I called Gutman on the St. Mark and told him 11 at my apartment. Then I called Dom Constantino at the San Rafael. Hope and I got there around 1030. Go on in, Angel. This is where you live, Sam? Where I sleep. Must be lonely for you. Sorry, no vacancy. Sam, listen. There's so much I want to tell you about myself. I'm listening. Just before the war started I was engaged to marry a man named Chemidoff in London. Gutman mentioned him something about an old manuscript. Yeah, Chemidoff had stolen it. In India it was very old and Chemidoff said that the information in it made it worth more than the Maltese Falcon. It was in Latin.  So you double crossed Chemidoff and took the manuscript to Gutman. Sam, before they get here I've got to tell you something. No matter what happens I want you to know this. Sure, sure, I know. Say it, Angel. Don't torture me, Sam. I'd like to hear it, Angel. Sam, I love you so much. It feels like hate. It feels like a...  Hate me, Angel. No, don't answer it, Sam. Relax, Angel. You'll be okay. Sam? Yeah? Only you, Sam. All I want are... only you. One third, Angel. I'll bet you're home safe. You see, sir, I have a punctual man. Come on in, Gutman. Look, the same apartment, the same colors. Everything the same. Yeah, the same rat race, Carol. Hello, Marvin. Killed anybody since lunch? You want me to give it to you, Sam? Please, please, Marvin. No one pleasant talk. Mr. Gutman, please tell Marvin. In here, gentlemen. Mr. Spade, I'm sure regrets the unfortunate. Where and what have we here? You all know the lady? You see, Mr. Gutman? You see, I told you. Now he's dealing with her. Oh, this is so...   Yeah, don't talk just like that. I'm jumpy. I don't feel good.  I'm always fighting violence, unpleasantness. I'm getting too old for this. And now, Mr. Spade, to the business at hand. You have the tooth. I want some answers first. Did you have our dentist friend Laverne killed? No. Did Marvin kill Laverne? No. Cairo? No. Nobody killed Laverne. He died of old age. Have you asked the little lady there? Sam. I gotta ask you, baby. Oh, Sam, how could you... Answer me. No, Sam. You know I didn't. Well, it doesn't matter. I got my pigeon back to take the fall. Oh, I don't feel so good. Now, Marvin, retain yourself. No violence. Well, Sam, I... That's it. Sit still. I'm in the Avalon Mortuary for Mr. Spade. Oh, hello, sir. Yeah, what's happening? Mrs. Julia said to tell you... Yeah, yeah, thanks. Well, Guttman, this is it. This little package. The candy tooth. Oh, Mr. Guttman, it's all over. We've got it. We've got it. We have. Come, sir. No more TV.  I rather thought this wasn't all. What now, sir? Who would advise you not to reach for your gun, Mr. Spade? You're pointing that gun at the wrong belly. The fat man's inside. Mr. Guttman, Mr. Kirov, Dom Konstantino de Baganza of Portugal. Portugal, indeed. It's the Russian. Canada. Do not be so formal, hope, my darling. You may call Mr. Gevanovich. All right, let's get off the co-pack. We're all here. You see? You see, Mr. Guttman? Mr.   Well, what matter? There's enough for all. Fatso, Mr. Spade, you'll please give me that fact. No, Marvin! No! They both had their guns into each other at once, practically. Kamadov fired first, but Marvin didn't fall. He spit out his chewing gum, then he squeezed the trigger of his .45. They both looked more surprised than anything else. But they were both very dead before they fell down. Marvin. Marvin. Dead. As dead as Kamadov. Oh, well, it was worth it.  I told you I had my pigeon-picked for the fall. My good man, you are a winner. Poor Marvin. He looks so dead. You can have the package now. Oh, yes, yes, yes. The troops, the troops, sir.  They were trembling so he could hardly undo the strings. He tore the outer wrappings exposed to small metal jar. He looked at me and wrenched the lid off of me. He dumped the contents onto the table. The tooth, what is it? There's nothing here. Ashes. Ashes are ashes. That's it, Guttman. Ashes. The tooth is there, along with the rest of Herman Julius. It was cremated this afternoon. Cremated. The tooth, it was cremated. No, this cannot be. No. But it is. It is the tooth.   Why do I stay with him? Why? Why? Well, well, well. Well, come, come, come, Joel. Shall we stand here weeping and bemoaning a curious quirk of fate? Or shall we defy all fates? Are we not well underway to finding the Romanovceptor when this charming lady detours us with her romantic notions? Come, come. What say you, Joel? You mean we go to... Yes, yes, Joel, to Samarkand. Mr. Guttman, do not say it. He is listening. Oh, yes. A wise precaution. Then we go. Yes, Mr. Guttman. Yes, we go. At you, Mr. Spade. Oh, sound. It's like the stage of the Old Vic at the final curtain of Hamlet. Alas, poor Marvin. I knew him well. Oh, well, many slip tricks the cup and the tooth. Now let him go, Mr. Montgomery. I knew there was nothing on him that Dundee's boys could make stick. I thought twice before I let Dundee take Hope Laverne, but we both agreed it was the smart thing to do. And what do you suppose Effie said when I said? Period. And a report. Oh, for once you came out of hand. $20,000. Oh, just think of the things we can do. Pay all the bills, the years rent on the office, have that awful old leather chair we upholstered and a new ribbon for my typewriter. Effie, uh, bought that typewriter ribbon. Well, maybe I can get along on this one for a while, but Sam, I do think we should get my mother's earrings out of Moise's pawn shop.  Sam, what did you do with the $20,000? I, uh, put it up for Bale. Bale? Yeah. But that was the $20,000. And you're released, so you get the money. It's very simple, Sam. You just go down and ask him for it. Effie, you see, you don't understand these things. Now, Bale is a very complex legal technicality. You see, you put up a bond and then you... Sam, how much was the Bale for Hope Laverne? Yeah, that's what I mean, Angel.  You'll never see her again. She was just... just using you. I'll take it, Effie. Hello? Angel. Hello, Kitten. Sam, I'm free. Shall I come over? Well, I'll always be waiting for you, Kitten. Kitten, indeed. D-A-T. Kitten. What's that, Angel? Oh, forget it, Sam. I just get... Can't figure me out, eh, Angel? Well, I'll tell you. I live without faith, and I live without charity, but I've just got to have... Not here is what I say. Oh, good night, Sam. Good night, sweetheart. This is Robert Montgomery. I'm sure our suspense audience agrees with me when I say that whenever it is, it can't be too soon to have Sam spade back with us again in a full-hour adventure on Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills. Incidentally, our producer, editor, director on these weekly full-hours of suspense, Bill Speer, joins hands with Dashiell Hammett to bring you the adventures of Sam spade each Sunday night on this network. Thanks for the plug, Bob. I have a basket full of thanks to my friend Howard Sam Duff, the kind of actor a director lights candles for, and the wonderful Lorraine Tuttle who plays Effie each week and the Joseph Kearns, who is the Casper Guttman of them all, and all you other ornaments to your profession, Kathy Lewis, Wally Mayer, J. Novello, Jeanette Nolan, Jack Edwards Jr., Sydney Miller, Hans Conrad, and Bill Johnston. And of course, as always, to our musical director and conductor, Led Gluskin, and to the composer of our original scores, Lucian Morrowick. And our special thanks to Bob Torlman and Jason James, who wrote The Candy Tooth, and who were voted by their fellow mystery writers of America, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Sam Spade, the best detective show on the air. And to the Wild Root Company, a gracious sponsor of Sam for this courtesy and cooperation in making tonight's spaderie available. Now tell about next week, Bob. Next week we will bring you another great American master of suspense. The author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, James M. Cain. It's a full hour of Mr. Cain's very wonderful novel, Love's Lovely Counterfeit. This is Robert Montgomery, who will welcome you once again next week to Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. Suspense. 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Thank you, John. I wish I could say because I already learned from so many people here including John and I'm sure it's much more interesting. Fati be role. I see a whole gang of people. I know I won't start because then I won't stop But as I sometimes tell my mother, I'm the only person here. I don't recognize But I do want to just start by saying one thing that's It's separate from today's events, but it's it's It's actually quite relevant and that is to note as many of us well know that The nation and many of us personally lost a dear friend Recently and that's dr. Jim Schlesinger former secretary of energy great friend to CSS a great American patriot had a atomic energy commission head of the CIA head of the Pentagon and the first secretary of energy so if I could just Ask people to take a moment of silence to honor Jim's memory. I would appreciate it so Thank you somebody said the mark of true fame is when People know you that you don't know so I first met Secretary Schlesinger when he was secretary of defense and I was the note-taker in the science center at Harvard I think what they called the god can lecture and he gave a speech the title of which I think was called the seamless web of deterrence and people remember This is when we were trying to move away from mutual assured destruction and having a much more graduated set options for purposes of assuring that our Nuclear deterrent would be as credible as as possible And just recently within the last couple of months. I would say Jim came in and had lunch with secretary Moniz and me and he He verified Story that I heard many times and I'll just take a minute because it's it's a true story and a good one And it's this He was as many people remember here the senior energy advisor to President Carter Before he became the first secretary of energy and in fact he had that great misfortune that happens to people of appearing on the cover of Time Magazine and Superman costume, which is usually really bad luck and in any event he became the first secretary of energy and He wrote down on a single sheet of paper A Statement that the real property at the location of a thousand independent Southwest Should be made the headquarters of the newly Created Department of Energy right there on Independence Avenue beautiful view facing the Smithsonian Castle at that time occupied as of my recollection served by the US Army Corps of Engineers Takes this thing into the Oval Office Gives it to President Carter. Dr. Brzezinski could tell us if it's either true or credible and It's the one sentence thing as I've just described it and with a box approved this room and President Carter checks the box When the Secretary of Defense Harold Brown found out about this he said Jim What are you doing? Why would you show the president a memo like that taken my building without showing me first? And he said why Harold you know you would have objected So back in those days when I was taking notes for people like Secretary Schlesinger giving lectures There was a big debate This is at the time the first oil shocks and we had all of these Academic discussions is energy merely a commodity and you should just live let the neutral forces of supply and demand Allocate resources accordingly or is it a strategic asset that has to be dealt with from a national security perspective? Somewhat differently we've been through the first oil price shock 73 79 this debate is raging Look, I think everyone is clear now that energy is fundamentally and deeply a strategic asset We need to view it in such terms and and we certainly do and I think history is full of areas where major muscle movements have occurred around the world of people making major decisions That have been deeply informed by acquisitive energy strategies only the most Notorious of which is Saddam Hussein seizure of the oil fields down in Kuwait so I think that debate is is largely over and Certainly the United States has taken the view that we need to be energy secure President Obama has been very articulate about that I invite Many of you have already seen him to look at the speech He gave at Georgetown a couple of years ago where he talked about that and in fact if you look at the president's Overall energy policy It is I think deeply informed by this desire to be energy secure and to be any energy Diverse in a manner that promotes our security So the all of the above strategy, which I think you've all heard of that Characterizes the president's approach to the development of us energy resources I think clearly is one that promotes diversification and therefore security of our fuel supplies now as has been written about and and discussed now at length in Our own case the all of the above strategy with the incredible prodigious outpouring of oil and gas that recent years have witnessed have really quite substantially Transform our own energy security and by the way to the benefit of countries around the world I will merely in this very expert audience cite a couple of very brief factoids having gone from Only on the order of 1% of our gas production Coming from shale gas in 2001 We're now up to 40% and this on an annual gas economy on the order of the order of 23 trillion cubic feet So it's had a tremendous effect and of course that has had the effect We've all seen on gas prices coming down which has meant that all of the Expectations that we had had and the people have written about about LNG imports have now turned turned into a discussion about LNG Exports which has taken a lot of the heat off of natural gas prices in Europe So it's already provided some substantial relief and then of course more recently But also incredibly impressively our oil production is going up on the order of a million barrels per day Year on year so and I don't know if Adam Saminsky is here to give me the third decimal place To the order of magnitude we were at six and a half million barrels per day production last year about seven half million barrels per day This year we're heading towards eight point five next year practically a million barrels per day out of the Bakken alone and This has also had a tremendous And positive effect on our economy on our energy security so we are witnessing in practice the the strength of energy diversification and The president has also been very clear that this is an issue that extends throughout the platforms of power generation certainly the Incredible increase we've seen in the various renewable forms of energy has been quite impressive And we have the first nuclear power plants to be built commercially in the United States in three decades supported in the case of the Vogel reactors by the loan guarantee authority of which six and a half Billion dollars have now been drawn from and Secretary Moniz went down to Vogel to to celebrate that milestone So we have seen that in terms of the United States our security has been very much enhanced By the diversification of our supplies it brings us not only security benefits and the reduced vulnerability that our own Production has permitted but also as I said has provided I think serious security benefits to our allies and trading partners as well This is important because it goes to how we think about energy security we think about energy security in terms of a positive asset something to develop and to share and to trade and to Allow the country of the world to benefit because all of us are ultimately tied in so many dimensions by shared bonds of security interests and interest in protecting the environment of this small planet that I think all of These areas will continue to flourish as we are able to pursue this Diversification strategy that has been so successful in the United States of America it's also very important to note that we view security in a broader sense than just production and Energy security also means security against all forms of threat natural and unnatural So if you look at the president's climate action plan Not only is the first pillar of that climate action plan Dedicated to a mitigation strategy which does talk about the development the responsible and sustainable development of all Elements of our energy equation including and very significantly so energy efficiency and reducing demand for energy where we can be smarter about the way we insulate buildings the greater use of Applying standards to drive efficiency in in that realm the fuel economy standards have all of which have Lower the demand side of the equation which is equally effective and in many cases as we say It's the cheapest megawatt to build is the negawatt that you don't need to build but we have also seen that that the Importance of the second pillar of the president's climate action plan on adaptation is also very much tied to our security and We had this brought home searingly to all of us in the case of hurricane sandy and we found deep vulnerabilities Particularly vulnerabilities that we had not thoroughly processed to be candid Between the fuel sector and the electric sector and here I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge Tremendous leadership thought leadership of John Hess who you will hear from shortly who I call him professor He was ahead of me in school a little bit But I really learned a lot from John in that experience about exactly how those two sectors interact and and Let me say it is a work in progress But we have become incredibly focused and the president is incredibly focused on the importance of resilience And I will I will pivot off that to make one other point here At the time of hurricane sandy President was very very clear He said that after preservation of life and limb That restoration of power we had eight and a half million People out of power was his highest priority and the second thing he said is he would have zero tolerance for a red tape and This mobilized the level of effort between the public sector and the private sector Which we are trying to now build out of an improvisation to something that's more systemic But it led to a series of conversations Not only within the government, but between the government and the private sector and that conversation went beyond just storm response and In fact when President Obama came to the Department of Energy in May 2013 To discuss with the CEOs of the major electrical utilities not just East Coast by the way This is coast-to-coast What lessons need to be learned and how they could be applied in the future the conversation turned to cyber? Because people recognize that the threats that we are facing are not just natural disasters They can be unnatural Disasters they could be visited by a very sophisticated cyber attack and as we learned In Silicon Valley last April it can come in the form of a rifle attack on a transformer So we have a holistic integrated view of energy security Which is something that I think is relevant to countries around the world now John admonished me not to talk either too long, which I perhaps have done already Or too much about Ukraine, but I just will say the following the third pillar of the climate action plan is international cooperation And it turns out that fits very well with the other two pillars it felt if it's very well with the all-of-the-above strategy and What we have seen in the recent weeks Following the episodes that we're all discussing in Ukraine and Crimea is a deepening of that conversation And an important deepening of that conversation last it was just last week I had the opportunity to meet in the US EU Energy Council Secretary Kerry and I Were on the US side and Lady Ashton and Guter ettinger on the EU side And it was a very useful conversation about the development and the responsible development of our resources individually and collectively and This is an issue that the president has has spoken to and I think I could not do better than to Quote the president's words and how he thinks about some of these issues because I think it will usefully inform our Conversations and the president said on his recent trip to Europe. I Think it is useful for Europe to look at its own energy assets as well as how the United States can supply additional energy assets Because the truth of the matter is that just as there's no easy free simple way to defend ourselves There's no perfect free ideal cheap energy sources every possible energy source has some inconveniences or downsides And I think that I'm continuing the quote here I think that Europe collectively is going to need to examine in light of what's happened their energy policies to find Are there additional ways that they can diversify and accelerate energy? Independence the United States as a source of energy is one possibility and we've been blessed by some incredible resources But we're also making choices and taking on some of the difficulties and challenges of energy development and Europe is going to have to go through some of those same conversations as well That's what the president said in the Hague and so what we're talking about for both the United States for Europe and beyond is a diverse set of solutions and That's the conversation that we're having That's why the president asked Secretary Moniz to participate with other G7 energy ministers in a conversation about Energy security. What can we do in that context? It's a global conversation is being pursued through multiple channels as we mentioned through the US EU channels now Soon to happen in the form of a ministerial that will lead to a report to the G7 leaders as well It's a great moment of opportunity. There's the famous cliche but most cliches have something of The truth in them of never let a great crisis go as a missed opportunity I'm sure there's a more eloquent way of saying that and has been by Rahm Emanuel. So But in any event, I think that's how we look at this moment We have tremendous challenges that we face But it is also an opportunity to reset the terms of the discussion and if I may say I can't think of a better place than CSIS and the people who I see Many of whom I've had the pleasure to work with and learn from all these years to have that conversation It has to be an open conversation where we talk about things that are both possible, but things that are difficult and As we go through this conversation I am confident that we will emerge the stronger for it and that we will find just as the United States has found its Strength in security through diversity that others will as well We are very very sharply focused on ensuring that Ukraine Receives the assistance that it needs in this critical moment We're very very focused as well on other portions of Europe that have become quite dependent on imported Gas supplies, but we're also focused globally on how this presents opportunities and challenge for all of us And how by working together we can emerge with a stronger level of security against external threats To our sovereignty to our economic prosperity and how we can do this in a way that actually promotes our own prosperity Creates great jobs creates new industries, which we have already seen in great Measure so far and do so at the same time that we lower carbon in the service of a long-term plan to keep this planet as Stewards for the next generation so that they can enjoy the bounty that providence has provided this small planet But one that is the only one we've got to live in so with that I think there's some time for Q&A and I wanted to say to everybody here again Thank you for all that you're doing not just today, but every day. Thank you We do have a few minutes for some questions before the secretary has to leave So let me ask people that would like to pose it and we've got some microphones around here We'll catch real quickly Let me walk over here to get it to you. Thank you I'm David Bardeen. I served with Jim Schlesinger in President Carter's energy establishment My question has to do with the president's emergency powers And what review the administration has made of them if you conceive of an emergency in which the president concludes That to help one or more allies We need to do something extraordinary such as overriding contractual arrangements Temporarily to make crude oil or refined petroleum products conceivably natural gas directly or indirectly available Does the president have all the powers he needs as the administration reviewed? The powers he has and may not have and Has it informed Congress of what powers the administration believes the president has and any defects And I just give you an analogy if you think back to the Berlin blockade on the various different circumstances because we weren't occupying power then President Harry Truman Sent coal by airplane to Tempelhof to save the Berliners from that blockade Well, I only consider myself a recovering lawyer and I haven't practiced law since I think 2000 and I'm not at the White House anymore But I'll limit myself to some rather general observations What I recall is that the president does have a quite robust emergency authorities on such things as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act IEAP and so forth But I would not it'd be remiss of me to try to parse any of that here what I will say is this that We are focusing in the first instance not in a sort of dry Legalistic analysis of what the powers are but actually Rolling up our sleeves and solving the problem. So just as we've been working very hard to support the IMF in Developing the program that will support Ukraine. We've been working very closely with the Europeans on the package They're putting together. We've passed our own package through the the US Congress So what we're focusing on now is in the first instance and and we have Fortunately the situation of a not overly harsh winter and at high storage of natural gas in the region We are trying to make sure that in the first instance the Ukrainians themselves and second interest Instance countries like the visa ground for that are on the other side of the pipes That they have what they need. We've looked at things like reverse pipeline flows We've looked at other storage measures. Actually, there's some some things It's not easy given the nature of the energy infrastructure in Ukraine to look at some conservation Measures, there's a variety of things that are being looked at. I'm sure that the lawyers who are working with us are looking to see what Powers and authorities can be used if need be but I have not directly been involved in in that conversation Then let me pose a question on behalf of people here and that is you didn't have a chance to see the chart, but our colleagues Sarah Latteslaw and Martin lead showed an interesting chart that showed price differentials for natural gas Our Japanese colleagues pay four and a half times as much as we pay our European colleagues pay three and a half Time or three times as much as we do Wouldn't it be good for everybody if we could start exporting gas? I mean it would help it would help our Japanese colleagues get their prices down and their productivity up It would help our European colleagues with security and we'd get we'd make money It's a great question. So let me just put that in a little context first of all as I said Even before any natural gas gets exported The fact that all those LNG import terminals are not getting used has taken a lot of pressure off of gas demand in in terms of imports of the United States and and provided relief already And by the way also driving down coal prices Coal exports to Europe also bringing a lot of cheaper energy So the United States even before you get to the question which I'm I promise I'm about to get to is doing a lot to Support energy security in Europe point one point two, you know, there will be a limit Below which you you will not see my hunches. I would defer to John Hess Natural gas ever become commoditized to the degree that oil is because the fungibility will never be the same Because of the transportation cost five or six bucks per MBT you so I think you're gonna see some continuing Delta That's the second but the third point is again, I think most people here know Having gone from expecting to be a major import of LNG in May 2011 we issued our first export license for LNG and We have now we're now up to seven including the most recent just a couple of weeks ago that together And these are conditional approvals and the exception of the first one which is gone final that If they go through the final approval will make available 9.3 billion cubic feet of LNG exports available per day and for those Europeans out there that's on the order of like 95 BCM per year and Roughly speaking again Careful to know these are conditional so far But that's on the order of what Europe now Imports in terms of LNG. It's on the order what cutter exports. It's about half of what Russia imports so so I think we're already moving significantly into that space and We're gonna continue under the natural gas act to apply the criteria that that you've I'm sure all seen in terms of Looking at the overall effect as we're required by law including the macroeconomic effects of our LNG exports and we look at trade balance. We look at employment. We look at geostrategic factors as well So I think you're seeing already the benefits of what the US has done and I think in terms of Exports it's already. I think a very significant story I'm probably for one more question before the secretary has to leave if there is one and otherwise we'll give him an early out Sarah Thank you so much for being here You know you weren't able to be at part of the morning discussion but one of the things that we talked a lot about is Sort of us perception of what sort of our new energy posture means for us But then also international perception of what our new energy posture means for us and a lot of times You know I work in the energy space but we've brought in a lot of our foreign policy colleagues to talk about what it means for sort of the foreign policy implications and Quite honestly, there was a lot of anxiety, right? But you talk with a lot of folks from around the world to you know give you their perspective on sort of what this new Resource optimism for the United States is if you could think, you know quickly about whether or not there's a You know there are some points of optimism and some points of anxiety and how you sort of think about those things I think it'd be very enlightening for me Well, let me say this it's a great question For me the principal point of optimism. I think this is leakin Stephens who said I've seen the future and it works I'm not sure it panned out in the specific case that he cited but in any event That is how I feel in other words We've all been in these conversations for years and years and years and I can tell you I for one did not foresee what has happened in this country and in terms of I can't remember who came over the phrase now natural gas is not so much discovered as manufactured and And they're really tremendous upside potential and of course It's many of those same technologies that have led to this also prodigious outpouring of oil But even in that optimistic point there is a note I won't say of anxiety because that would not be the right thing to display But I will say in terms of caution Which is we can't take anything for granted We do what we do Under appropriate widespread public scrutiny What we do we have to do in a manner that Supports and promotes and preserves public confidence And it is no secret that there are Countries around the world that have gotten themselves tied up in moratoria Where they're not able to develop some of these resources? It is obvious that in the post Fukushima era That if you are not a good steward of nuclear safety that the promise of low-carbon electricity in large baseload Units will not be something you can rely on obviously Japan has shut 50 reactors And so I think the note of optimism is that the source of security is present and widespread point one point two that in thinking about energy Not as a weapon Not as something to use coercively not as something to deny, but as something to support As something to support our own independence as something to support our allies as something to support our trading partners and our friends there is great cause for optimism that Not just our individual security, but our collective security will be enhanced the cautionary note is I would say twofold number one and you heard from the president None of us. I think has the luxury to say I'm Some of the above I'm looking at this. I'm not looking at that I think we all of us it would not be the right thing to expect one country to be the sole Provider of one particular energy source and that's not terribly secure way to go anyway Even though we would not use energy in the way that is sometimes contemplated But I think that's why we have to have a frank and candid conversation About natural gas and its use elsewhere in the world about nuclear and its use elsewhere in the world And we have to recognize the decisions that are made in one country will profoundly affect decisions made in other countries and that even Entities that are completely responsible and transparent and Developing energy resource can be adversely effect affected By others who are less so and so that means I think we really have a common interest in deepening the dialogue that we have on many of these energy resources, so I think that The last thing I'll say on that which is the second one is going to make on this point is The way you preserve that public confidence is and this is where I'm proud of the Department of Energy We're a science and technology based agency. We need good science We need good data We need honest conversations about How to make sure that just to take the the shale gas example how that resource can be developed by In ways that are mindful of air quality and water quality issues that are mindful of the concerns that people have about fracking fluids and their chemical Constituents that are mindful of overall water usage issues and clean completions So all of these things I think are legitimate issues that need to be discussed and openly and frankly and that people have to come to terms with Because if we are going to continue to enjoy this this bounteous Outpouring of energy which lowers prices and and brings all these other great economic effects We're gonna have to step up our game frankly and this is not a public thing or a private thing It's a public private thing. So we've had conversations in National Petroleum Council about how to do this and to think intelligently about Governance because the industry can do a lot on its own. So I would say the optimism is in the widespread Availability of resources that can solve problems all around the world the cautionary note is If we are not wise stewards of development of those resources that we may not always achieve the the ultimate payoff that we'd otherwise hope for Colleagues with would you please thank Dan Ponderman with your applause and we're grateful to have him


Imagine if you could physically read history as it unfolds. Imagine if everything we are doing today and now had already happened. There is no way to prove this, of course, but there is also no way to disprove this. All across the world there are megastructures, scripts, text, even proof of advanced machinery from a forgotten time in history. Are we doomed to repeat the process of advancing human knowledge and understanding at intervals in Earth's history only to be blinded by greed every time? If so, then we truly will never really understand anything. Just wait till you hear this. Let us start with Atlantis. In the very distant past, there was a highly advanced, sophisticated global civilization. We can all at least agree with this, right? But just what happened here on Earth that dismantled this civilization? Would it surprise you if we were to tell you that there is evidence that a nuclear war broke out on Earth over 10,000 years ago? There is evidence for this. In both the Indian epics and in the Sumerian texts, they describe god-like weapons that held all the power in the universe. Two great cities in that of Sodom and Gomorrah were obliterated overnight according to the book of Genesis, and there is also descriptions of people being turned into pillars of salt or dust, basically. When America dropped the nukes over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are numerous accounts of people who got vaporized in open spaces, but if you were behind a concrete building, the blast missed. These are similar to the accounts in the Bible. There are in fact numerous pieces of evidence that point to all-out war on Earth in the very remote past, and great changes on the Earth. This brought about the destruction of this worldwide civilization that appeared to have crumbled and fall into ruin. Only now we are beginning to pick through many thousands of years of lost history. It is as if we know the truth, but we are just slightly out of touching range at the moment. Even though the evidence is compelling and staring right at us in the face, it is just beyond our conscious understanding. This has caused great controversy. If you think to yourself, just where was Atlantis? Was it an island, or a great city, or was it a lost continent? The fact is, we just don't know for sure, but the evidence scattered across the globe gives us a great stepping stone that puts this fabled place well beyond that of just speculation. In today's world, most humans believe that we are the apex, and that this is the pinnacle of Earth civilization. Pretty ignorant, but it is not our fault that we think in this way. We have basically been programmed by the education process and religion to believe that we are in a state of never before. But there was a before time that was even greater than that of today, and there could even have been far greater civilizations that existed here millions of years ago. Doesn't that just blow your mind? We are only now coming out of the dark ages that resulted in the conscious mind being sent back into a primitive way of thinking, a survival state that still has trauma and fear, much like the way in which animals fear us humans today. In the remote past, it is said that gods walk the earth with men. And while the instructions from the invisible planes of nature were still laboring with the infant humanity of this planet, they chose from the sons of men, the wisest and the truest. And with these enlightened ones, they left with them the keys of their great wisdom by with which they founded what we now refer to as the ancient mysteries. When we think of advanced civilizations that we know existed, we start with the ancient Sumerians. The Sumerians were the world's first recorded highly advanced civilization where the scriptures survived in the form of the cuneiform text. Strangely, the Sumerians not only depicted our solar system, but they also depicted the planets in the correct scale. We only recently rediscovered Neptune, Uranus and Pluto, yet the Sumerians had this down between five to seven thousand years ago. Did they have access to some lost knowledge you have to wonder? The first writings, the cuneiform, which there are over a half million of by the way, was made to last just like the pyramids at Giza. These ancient texts were made to survive, but the translations are not as simple as any known language. In fact, they were completely undecipherable until recently. To this day, only around 17% of these texts have been loosely translated, predating the Bible by at least four thousand years. They tell us that more than once, and in more than one place, that 432 thousand years before the Great Flood, the Anunnaki came to the earth from Nibiru through the great bracelet, the bracelet being the asteroid belt, and landed in the Persian Gulf where they began to mine the region for gold in order to save their own planets failing atmosphere. It is thought that the gold would reflect solar weather providing a heat shield and in effect repairing the atmosphere of their planet. The Anunnaki began to engineer a slave race on earth by manipulating the DNA. They improved human DNA and go on to explain how it was done. Now this sounds crazy guys, but this is what these texts are telling us. They took the egg of a human and fertilized it with one of the Anunnaki gods that they placed it in the womb of an Anunnaki female who carried this till birth and gave birth to the first atom, the first earthling. Over the next couple of thousand earth years, they kept messing around with our DNA until they finally had an unstoppable race here on the earth, us. This is where the theory of evolution falls flat on its face, the missing link. There is no missing link. We were genetically modified by the Anunnaki and our creators warned us that there would be a flood to cleanse the earth of their creation as detailed by almost every civilization on earth. This is where we went about trying to save the life on earth as foretold in the story of Noah's Ark according to the Bible. But in the cuneiform text, it states that Anki gave the Sumerians the blueprints as to build a massive ark, except consider not two animals of every species, consider a male and female DNA strain on board a massive vault in an effort to preserve life on earth and repopulate the world. This was meant to be the end of civilization and it could answer the question as to how we forgot all the ancient knowledge. It could answer the ancient astronaut argument and also explain what happened to the lost continent of Atlantis. Perhaps the humans that survived the flood had enough knowledge to build wondrous cities in the post-apocalyptic world after the flood and this led to a power struggle after a period of time. What do you guys think? Part two to follow. Thanks for watching.