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Dick Tracy Returns; Blogged By Stony
Topic Started: Apr 12 2009, 10:23 AM (1,979 Views)
Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Jul 4 2009, 02:48 AM Post #61
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Chapter 11: The Missing Witness In this chapter Lockwood does a Floyd Patterson imitation, and you'll be invited to a swimmin' party. I love the beginning of these serials, ya know, where I'm given the synopsis of past events. Chapter 11 states that Champ Stark stole the super welder. I thought it was the 2 gents, B & J, where one of them had a tattoo of an anchor on the back of their hand. But then again, maybe not, I may have missed something. One thing I didn't miss, and that's the end of chapter 10, the ending where Dick Tracy (DT) will surely meet his maker ... and I ain't talkin' about Chester Gould either! Spoiler: click to toggle Pa Stark has the super welder, and with his gang, they're cuttin' their way into a vault. Some of Pa's men have taken over a power house at gunpoint, and they're ... they're ... they're waiting for DT and Lockwood, that's what they're doing. DT and Lockwood don't disappoint, and a big fight breaks out between the G-Men and Pa's 4 henchers. Lockwood is wrasslin' on the floor with one of the men as DT dispatches the other 3 into la-la land. Unfortunately for DT, the first guy he dispatched gets up and tosses a wrench at DT and renders him unconscious, and the main hencher lowers a big metal, piston lookin' thing on top of the square-jawed hero. Once again a main part has been edited out, and this time it's kinda cool, not so much as I knew DT would survive and Lockwood would save him. Wait a dang minute. Lockwood would! Lockwood would buy some wood if the wood would be on sale. Hold on, my train of thought has been derailed.... During Lockwood's wrasslin' match, he and the gangster get to their feet, and the gangster throws a mean roundhouse punch, and Lockwood squats down and the punch sails over his head. Without missing a beat, Lockwood brings an uppercut from the floor into the jaw of the bad guy, and he's out cold. Really well done/choreographed. The newly crowned King O' The Pugilists runs over to the guy who's lowering the boom on DT, and he spins him around and puts his lights out with a single punch. Needless to say that Lockwood stops the descent of the metal piece of death. DT and Lockwood release the actual power-plant workers and determine that the power is getting sucked from a block surrounded by Main, Severance, 4th and 5th streets. DT calls Gwen and she in turn calls are available units to surround the block, or as it's known in the FBI circle: Block 19. Seems like DT is gonna get some Pa Stark this time! Yeah, I made a funny. DT and Lockwood arrive on the scene and they're met by an agent, who tells DT the gang isn't visible through the store fronts. This agent will be a foot soldier for his FBI tenure, window shoppin' for overcoats no doubt. DT determines that the gang is burning through a vault in a jewelry store, and he tells Lockwood to check the basement, while he goes and checks upstairs in the store. How the guys get into the store is serial magic, or maybe the G-Men have the latest in the Acme open-all-doors key. Pa and his gang have broken into the vault, and they lower a rope ladder down, and shortly one of the gang raises a load of gems through the hole and the ice is wrapped up in a cloth and put on a table. Unbeknownst to the gang, DT is just outside the door, and he hears a bit of a commotion in the room. The door into the room is one of those jobs that the upper half is that milky glass ya can't see through, plus the gang props a chair under the handle so nobody can enter. Did I say DT heard a commotion? Sure I did, and he doesn't have his Acme key, 'cause he doesn't even check to see if the door is locked. Oh no, he takes a small fire extinguisher from the wall and tosses it through the milky glass, pops his head in ala Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and tells the gang to cease and desist, or freeze, or maybe it was "Simon says you'll get shot if'n ya move." Anyway, DT has the drop on the gang, and he removes the useless chair that was securing the door, enters the room and has the gang at gunpoint ... till .... till ...till the guy who descended into the vault comes out and grabs DT by the ankles, and yanks them causing DT fire his pistol wildly into the ceiling (a shot which Lockwood hears, and he comes a-runnin' from the basement) and all hell breaks loose. DT fights with the 5 gangsters, and he holds his own for a while, until he's knocked into the hole in the floor/vault. Pa and the gang hightail it out of the room and through a window, onto a fire escape, and that's where one of the baddies is shot by Lockwood, and the gangster flips over the railing and down to the street. Pa and the gang climb to the roof and extend a plank from their rooftop to the one across the alley, or road, or somewhere on the studio set, because the gap between the buildings looks like it's, oh I'd say about 6 feet. Other than giving the studio flak, I'll give some to the writers too. Seems like Pa never gets his loot, engines, extortion money, and this time it's his jewels. The jewels were placed on a table, and during the scuffle DT knocked the table over on it's top, and on top of the jewels. Pa nor any of the boys grabbed the loot because I was checking it out. Seems like the writers just give Pa something bad to do each week so DT'll chase him. It's like watching a Road Runner cartoon every week. Meep Meep. The guy who was shot and fell to the street lives, and he's taken to the City Hospital, or so the newspaper reports. Pa wants the wounded thug, because he'll squeal. One of Pa's boys says the hospital is crawlin' with cops, reporters and photographers. "Photographers!", Pa says, "Get Jake and Blackie, and dress them in intern outfits!" Plannin' Pa has a plan, of course. What could go wrong? Jake and Blackie show up at the hospital in their uniforms and in an ambulance to boot, and it's driven by one of their co-gangsters. Outside the wounded guys room, the "interns" meet 2 photographers ... "Photographers!" ... Jake or Blackie, I can't tell 'em apart in their spiffy uniforms, changes the flash bulb in the camera. Inside the hospital room, DT, along with McGurk, Lockwood, and a nurse, tries to question the wounded guy, but it's no use, as the gangster passes out. The photographers ... "Photographers!" ... plead with DT to get a picture, and the square-jawed, kind-hearted agent lets them in the room. When the picture is taken, the flash bulb explodes with tear gas. As the entire room is having a coughing fit, the "interns" don gas masks and enter the room, taking the would-be squealer with them down to the ambulance, and the trio of no-gooders drive away. Not far behind is DT, Lockwood, and McGurk. DT sends McGurk to "report this" as he and Lockwood jump into a convertible, yep it's a convertible, and it's gonna come in handy real soon. I said DT tells McGurk to report this. To whom? The FBI possibly? To bad there weren't cells phone in 1938, or McGurk would probably call DT and "report this!" DT drives the car in hot pursuit of the ambulance, and I need to point out that the ambulance has one of those rear doors, the ones with the hinges on the left side. I should also point out that the convertible has no hood, so Lockwood can easily shoot at the ambulance. One of the "interns" shoots a hole in the convertible's radiator, but that's okey, because Lockwood shoots a hole in the "intern", and the hoodlum falls to the road. DT is in dire straits because his car starts to overheat and he needs a plan, and it's too bad Pa isn't riding shotgun with DT, 'cause he's full of ideas. DT's plan is to pull beside the ambulance and jump in through the rear door. About the same time the other "intern" has a plan to go to the back of the ambulance and shoot at the coppers. Spoiler: click to toggle DT and the "intern" fight in the back of the ambulance, and unfortunately for the ambulance's driver, the "intern's" gun goes off in the struggle, and the driver is shot in the back. The ambulance races wildly down the road, with it's tires squealing. Finally the vehicle crashes through a fence and down a 15 foot embankment, and comes to rest on it's roof. Who's dead? Who knows? Maybe DT, because the 11th time is a charm, or so I heard at a Blackjack Table once! Next Week CHAPTER TWELVE THE RUNAWAY TORPEDO Bring your swimmin' trunks kids! Attached to this post: Escape_plank.jpg (103.71 KB) Jake_and_Blackie.jpg (118.66 KB)
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Jul 11 2009, 04:54 AM Post #62
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Chapter 12: The Runaway Torpedo In this chapter, Pa Stark has his boys try to steal something. For the first time, I think! Spoiler: click to toggle DT and Lockwood are in a convertible giving chase after an ambulance drivin' by Dude Stark. The ambulance contains a wounded Stark henchman who was shot by Lockwood, and fell from a fire escape. It's never told how many stories he fell, but regardless, he survived and was captured and taken to the hospital. From there he was kidnapped by some of Pa's boys, and now he's safely on his way back to Stark Central. DT pulls up beside the ambulance and jumps in through the rear door, where he's met by a gun-totin' thug. After a struggle for the gun, the firearm discharges and hits Dude in the back. The car roars wildly down the road, crashes through a fence, goes down an embankment, lands on it's roof and bursts into flames. Guess who ain't dead? Yep, DT jumps out the rear door just before the crash, and rolls down a hill and lands yards from the flaming vehicle. Lockwood drives up and DT tells him that all the occupants are dead. He didn't even go up to the vehicle, but they're all dead. I wonder if DT knows how Dude died? From the bullet, the crash or the fire? It doesn't matter, I'm sure there will be a nice funeral. I gotta tell ya, this chapter moves quickly. Back at HQ, DT is wondering how he can get evidence to capture Pa, when he's interrupted by Gwen. She tells the not-yet-transistor-watch-wearing G-Man that he has an appointment with one Commander Mason, to see the new torpedo-shootin' speedboat demonstrated. Hell, it ain't even called a "super torpedo" nor "super speedboat"! The writers must've had a session of drinkin' to get to, or maybe they were writin' the dialog at a bar and forgot to use the word super. The latter is probably true, but probably not as close to the truth as me having a 101 proof Old Charter on the rocks while I type this. THAT is truly super! I get lost when I go off on these tangents ... let's see, oh yeah ... DT takes McGurk, Lockwood and Junior with him to the waterfront to see the demonstration. Meanwhile, Pa Stark and some cat named Kruger (at first I thought he said Kroner, as in Baron Kroner, but I think the good Baron was arrested) are checkin' out the super speedboat (Hah) with binoculars. Kruger is wantin' the super speedboat, and Pa is gonna deliver on that request. Kruger wonders aloud how Pa is gonna pull off such a fete, and Pa, exuding the confidence of the coyote with an ACME rocket strapped to his back, says, "My sons and I have handled bigger jobs than this!" Yeah, I laughed too! Kruger would stand a better chance of havin' Pa get him a matchin' set of hubcaps for his '35 Ford pickup. At the dock, someone fires a starting pistol, and the speedboat is off. I can't determine why a pistol was fired, because nobody seems to be timing the thing. The G-Men, the Admiral, some extras and the Dayton Television Co. are all present and they're checkin' out the proceedings. There's a television on the side of the company's truck, and it's described as being part television and part telescope. With this device, the speedboat/torpedo demonstration can be viewed with popcorn and sodas, but before the corn is popped, all the folks go to the railing at the edge of the dock to get a personal view. DT notices the "target" boat way off in the distance, and he's told it's 4 miles away. The entire group can see the speedboat, the target boat, but not the 3rd boat, a boat that contains 2 of Pa's gang, and they pretend to be fishin'. I hope the guys in the speedboat torpedo the right boat! The group moves back to the TV set from the dock's railing. On the TV set the event goes off swimmingly. The target boat is torpedoed and the speedboat heads back to shore, as do all the former TV viewers. Pa's men intercept the boat and fire tear gas in it. Nobody seems to be paying attention to the water except that pesky lil' Junior, who notices the smoke on the water, and everyone races to the TV set again, just in time to see the speedboat boarded by Pa's guys, but unfortunately, the TV set blows a tube, a magnatube is what I believe Mr. Dayton said. Pa's boys toss the speedboat guys in the drink, and they speed off. DT, Lockwood and McGurk run down the dock and steal a boat, and they drive off, in hot pursuit. The boat carrying the G-Men seems faster to me than the Super Speedboat, and the footage of the SSB was sped up, I'm sure of it. At the boat jacking site, DT boards the boat that was used in the jacking, and he does what he seems to do best in this serial, and that's collect evidence. It also appears that McGurk pulls something or someone outta the water and I assume it's one of the speedboat drivers, but it's hard to tell. BTW, there's too much at stake here than to worry about some extras floatin' in the water ... whether alive or dead, it doesn't seem to matter. Back to the lab with the evidence. The evidence happens to be the gas gun and the case it was in, and someone has filed off "Acme Gas Gun c/o Warner Bros." from the case. DT takes some white powder, probably flour, and the manufacturer's name appears. Raper Gas Company 640 F Street. I ain't kiddin', it's Raper alright. DT doesn't have time to show Junior how to make a volcano for a science project, 'cause he's headed for F Street. I'd just tell Junior to head for F street, if ya know what I mean. Before departing, Lockwood reminds DT that Mr. Dayton said the guys could use his telescope-vision thing anytime, and the time is just a couple of seconds later, as Dayton, DT and Lockwood use the thing to spy through the window of Raper Gas Co. On the company wall is a map, and at the map is Kruger and Raper. There's a close-up of someone's finger pointing to "M Street Dock". I guess all the good street name were taken in the first 11 chapters, so it's now reduced to letters of the alphabet. DT and Lockwood head to the gas factory, then the scene shifts to Kruger telling Raper (man, it's weird typin' that over and over) to bring the gas to the M Street dock. DT and Lockwood question Raper but he claims to know nothing. He knows nothing about a man named Kruger, but he confesses when DT throws out the "M Street Dock" on him. Back at the dock, Kruger tells one of the Stark boys that he'll have more poisonous gas soon, and the boy is to let his Pa know. So that's what happened to the speedboat drivers. WOW, poisonous gas. They didn't use poisonous gas last chapter, when the guy who fell from the fire escape was kidnapped from the hospital, and DT and a bunch of others breathed the gas. DT and Lockwood drive to the dock and immediately find 3 hooligans. Both of the G-Men pull their guns and hold the trio at bay, and DT tells Lockwood to "Get their guns." As Lockwood is doing his mentor's bidding, a guys crawls out of a hole on the dock. I don't know, but it's a hole in the dock. It's part of the serial credo: Don't ask, and you won't receive a silly answer. The hole dweller goes behind a tall stack of lumber, and on top of the lumber looks like a file cabinet, or something very similar. Why is a file cabinet on top of a 12 foot high stack of lumber? I said "Don't Ask! Maybe it held the file that was used to scratch of the manufacturer's name from the gas case! Spoiler: click to toggle Anyway, the cabinet goes boom on DT's head, and the dweller jumps down to engage DT in some fisticuffs. The fight scene is just okey to me, but Lockwood is captivated by it. So much so, that he is overtaken by the trio of thugs, and we have another tag team match in process. One of the trio leaves the Lockwood fight, so there's 2 on DT, and 2 on Lockwood. Lockwood is knocked out by the punches (what happened to the champion pugilist he became last chapter?), but DT hangs in there, although he's now surrounded by a quartet of thugs. DT grapples with 1 thug in particular, and they both fall from the dock into the water. The 3 thugs left on the dock grab a net and toss it onto DT, and he sinks like a golf ball. For you non-golfers out there- if ya hit your golf ball in the water, ya ain't gettin' it back! A side note to Cliff Claven- Sorry, there's no runaway torpedo at the end of the chapter. Weird eh? As for DT, he's deader than Davy Jones. Oh, maybe that was a locker on top of the wood pile. Next Week CHAPTER THIRTEEN PASSENGERS TO DOOM (Don't ask!) Attached to this post: Gas_Company.jpg (76.68 KB) File_Cabinet.jpg (125 KB) Pa_and_Kruger.jpg (103.9 KB) Dock_Hole.jpg (105.46 KB)
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


mort bakaprevski	Jul 29 2009, 11:48 AM Post #63
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,429 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	Stony, where you be????
	�You�ve got to take the bitter with the sour.�


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Jul 29 2009, 12:50 PM Post #64
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	mort bakaprevski Jul 29 2009, 11:48 AM Stony, where you be???? Here I is!! With my laptop on the fritz, I can't post this particular shiiii ... blog.
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


CliffClaven	Jul 29 2009, 03:34 PM Post #65
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 229 Group: Members Member #712 Joined: March 30, 2009	All I know is that they began to run low on Starks by the final episodes.



KanSmiley	Jul 29 2009, 04:05 PM Post #66
Charter Member Posts: 1,223 Group: Members Member #10 Joined: September 3, 2005	CliffClaven Jul 29 2009, 03:34 PM All I know is that they began to run low on Starks by the final episodes. How can that be? Pa Stark claims he has thousands of offspring all over the world.
	http://www.saturday-matinee-memories.com/ Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.


Black Tiger	Jul 29 2009, 09:09 PM Post #67
Charter Member Posts: 1,813 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	And Tracy got 'em all



toddgault	Jul 30 2009, 06:59 AM Post #68
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 154 Group: Members Member #339 Joined: January 21, 2008	I just assumed Tracy died at the end of that last episode and the serial was over.
	Todd Gault..........Serial Buff


mort bakaprevski	Aug 30 2009, 11:35 AM Post #69
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,429 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	For heaven's sake, let's start a collection to get Stony a new laptop. This place is getting downright boring without his daily mots (or, perhaps they are shemps?)
	�You�ve got to take the bitter with the sour.�


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 1 2009, 03:20 AM Post #70
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Hey, if you get a collection for me for a new car, I'll drive out to LA.
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer	Sep 23 2009, 09:10 AM Post #71
Balconeer Creeper Posts: 14,166 Group: Members Member #244 Joined: July 6, 2007	Hey, where was I? 12 chapters down, and 3 to go. My laptop is still fritzin', but maybe I can write it down on paper, and then post it at work. I hate to be an incompletist! (Is that a word?)
	"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire"


Pa Stark	Sep 23 2009, 09:48 AM Post #72
Charter Member Posts: 479 Group: Members Member #30 Joined: September 5, 2005	KanSmiley Jul 29 2009, 04:05 PM CliffClaven Jul 29 2009, 03:34 PM All I know is that they began to run low on Starks by the final episodes. How can that be? Pa Stark claims he has thousands of offspring all over the world. Dang straight. Ol' lover boy, stud muffin Pa has thousands of sons all over the world,and hundreds more on the way.
	Honest and Lovable Pa Stark


JazzGuyy	Sep 24 2009, 11:04 AM Post #73
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 2,173 Group: Members Member #110 Joined: June 1, 2006	Pa Stark Sep 23 2009, 09:48 AM KanSmiley Jul 29 2009, 04:05 PM CliffClaven Jul 29 2009, 03:34 PM All I know is that they began to run low on Starks by the final episodes. How can that be? Pa Stark claims he has thousands of offspring all over the world. Dang straight. Ol' lover boy, stud muffin Pa has thousands of sons all over the world,and hundreds more on the way. Keep that up and you'll catch up with B.B. King.



Pa Stark	Sep 24 2009, 04:24 PM Post #74
Charter Member Posts: 479 Group: Members Member #30 Joined: September 5, 2005	Nobody had more women than Chico Marx. They called him Chico (pronounced chick-o) because he chased after the chicks. In a playboy interview with Groucho, they asked him how Chico lost his virginity, and Groucho answered, "To the first woman he met."
	Honest and Lovable Pa Stark


panzer the great & terrible	Oct 4 2009, 08:15 PM Post #75
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,326 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Actually Richard the Lion Heart may have had more. Legend is, he had more than 1000 illegitimate children, and everybody with British blood is descended from him. At least that was what my Dad said, and of course Dads never lie. I've believed that all my life and never realized how silly it is until today.
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