![]() ![]() She went to Martinelli for advice and gave him the murder weapon to dispose of, but he has been blackmailing her ever since. She claims to be innocent, but finally admits that she shot her husband in self-defense. Now suspicious of Coral, he goes to her apartment to confront her. The flashback ends, and Murdock slips away. However, Murdock is able to escape his captors when taking him back to his hotel, the police arrive. When Murdock awakens, Martinelli has him roughed up by his thug, Krause, to try to find out what is in the coded letter. Just before he is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant, he smells jasmine, the same aroma as Coral's perfume. Suspecting that Martinelli had Ord killed in order to get the letter, Murdock breaks into his office, only to find the safe already open. He manages to hide the corpse before police Lieutenant Kincaid, responding to an anonymous tip, shows up to search his room. When he wakes up the next morning, he finds Ord's dead body planted in his hotel room. When they go to collect the money in Martinelli's private office, Murdock accepts a drink it is drugged. For some reason, however, she is uncomfortable with the situation. Seeing Coral losing heavily at roulette, Murdock not only recoups her losses at craps, he wins her $16,000. ![]() Murdock also meets Coral and Martinelli, the club owner. Ord reveals that Drake had given him a letter for Murdock. Murdock goes to a nightclub to question Louis Ord, a witness in the murder trial. He was accused of killing a rich old man named Chandler because he was in love with his beautiful young wife Coral. ![]() Murdock finds out that Drake joined the Army under an assumed name to avoid a murder charge. Murdock goes AWOL, follows the clues and tracks his friend to Gulf City in the southern United States, where he learns Drake is dead – his burned corpse is recovered from a car crash. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor (and Murdock the Distinguished Service Cross), he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Just after World War II, paratroopers and close friends Captain Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel from Paris to Washington, D.C. Murdock needs to tell someone what has happened to him in the past few days in case his enemies get to him. Leaving a church, Father Logan, a well known ex-paratrooper padre, is approached by Captain "Rip" Murdock. ![]()
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