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- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. Raymond Halder, owner of a chain of clinics, is also the head of the largest drug counterfeiting ring in the U.S. He is behind the sale of millions of dollars' worth of drugs that not only are useless, but often kill. A new drug, Dilatrin, developed by Gant Pharmaceuticals, which could have saved thousands of victims of primary vascular disease, has been ineffective because Halder has flooded the market with worthless fakes. Gant is about to reissue the drug in a different form in an attempt to beat the counterfeit problem. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to stop Halder before the new Dilatrin is put on the market. As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
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- Raymond Halder: You went to a lot of trouble to make a misdemeanor stick. What is it? Five hundred dollars fine and six months in jail?
- Rollin Hand: That's just for making the drugs.
- James Phelps: You confessed to selling them. But your tax returns didn't show any income from those sales.
- Cinnamon Carter: Which means, Mr. Halder, you're gonna spend the next 20 years in a federal prison for tax fraud.
- Charles Gant: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Charles Gant, President of Gant Pharmaceuticals. As you all know, Our drug, Dilatrin, has been so widely counterfeited. We have no choice but to withdraw it from the market. However, I think we have devised a plan that will enable us to reissue the drug, and at the same time, greatly reduce the possibility of counterfeiting. Miss Katherine Borden, of our drug security section has worked out the details. I shall ask her to explain them to you.
- Cinnamon Carter: This is the current Dilatrin tablet with which we're all familiar. This is a drawing of what the new tablet Is going to look like. You will notice, we have not colored in the tablet. We intend to change the color, As well as the identifying Trademark, every 30 days. These changes will be announced to you by our representatives only. Try to make your initial purchase just enough to cover that 30-day period. This should allow us to stay one step ahead of any drug counterfeiters Who might attempt to duplicate the tablet.
- Cinnamon Carter: Therefore we suggest you return all the Dilatrin you have in stock to us. As a point of information, we've discovered that the counterfeits tend to crumble very easily. Are there any questions?
- Raymond Halder: I'm Raymond Halder, Halder Clinics. We have millions of your Dilatrin tablets on hand. Will we be reimbursed when we turn them in?
- Charles Gant: Well, obviously, Mr. Halder, we can't do that. It's costing us a great deal already just to redesign the tablet and change the color every month.
- Cinnamon Carter: And now, ladies and gentlemen, if there are any further questions, I'll be very glad to answer them.
- Raymond Halder: Just out of curiosity, how high do you figure on living?
- James Phelps: I make $142.50 a week working for the FDC. If I could... Let's say, double that, that would be living enough.
- Raymond Halder: How do I know I can trust you?
- James Phelps: Well, it's not going to cost you much to find out.
- Raymond Halder: All right. You're on the payroll.
- Dr. McConnell: By the way, I was wondering, since the government knows all about Halder's counterfeiting the drugs, why don't they just arrest him?
- James Phelps: Under the present laws, the most they can get him on is a misdemeanor. They've investigated him thoroughly, been over his tax returns. Halder clinics reports every dime of income.
- Cinnamon Carter: Wow. The room suddenly started spinning around.
- Barney Collier: The Ultrasonic Waves penetrate to the inner ear. This causes temporary vertigo.
- Rollin Hand: One of the symptoms of primary vascular disease, right, doctor?
- Dr. McConnell: That"s right, vertigo, headaches, high blood pressure. Usually the headaches come first.
- James Phelps: These frames are identical to the ones Halder wears. Only the lenses have been altered slightly.
- Dr. McConnell: That will take care of his headaches. What about his blood pressure reading?
- James Phelps: Well, even though he's lost his license, he was a trained physician. Still keeps a medical bag In the trunk of his car. All we have to do is get to that bag and make some slight, uh, adjustments.
- Raymond Halder: All right. He wants in. Who says I need him?
- James Phelps: He does. If I were you, I'd take his opinion pretty seriously.
- Raymond Halder: What do you mean by that?
- James Phelps: He's a hard cop, Mr. Halder. He's tough. You can't tell what he might do. You people in the drug business are vulnerable. He might just take it into his head one day to pick you up for carrying the wrong kind of drugs -- the illegal kind. He can do it, believe me.
- Raymond Halder: Ohh. Get him up here.
- Cinnamon Carter: Well, the compression, texture, and shape are fine. I don't taste any medication at all. What's in these tablets?
- Raymond Halder: The same thing we use in Penicillin, Digitalis, Insulin, whatever we make -- milk powder.
- Cinnamon Carter: Let's see how the coating looks.
- James Phelps: Mr. Halder, as I see it, there are two ways to go.I can keep on hounding you,I can keep on hitting you with misdemeanors, I can $500-fine you to death, maybe I can even put you away in the county farm for 60 or 90 days. Or... I can let you operate. Sort of, live and let live, you know?
- Raymond Halder: Just out of curiosity, how high do you figure on living?
- James Phelps: I make $142.50 a week working for the FDC. If I could... Let's say, double that, that would be living enough.
- Raymond Halder: How do I know I can trust you?
- James Phelps: Well, it's not going to cost you much to find out.
- Raymond Halder: All right. You're on the payroll.
- James Phelps: One more thing that has to be settled before we close this negotiation -- you know that cop that was with me this morning? He has to be Taken care of, too.
- Raymond Halder: You're going to shake me down for an extra buck, huh? How do I know he's in this?
- James Phelps: Take a look out your window.
- James Phelps: Doctor... What about the laser?
- Dr. McConnell: When I direct the laser beam into the two balloons, it will pass harmlessly through the clear balloon and break the red, inner balloon.In a human being, it will pass through the skin iand rupture the subdermal blood vessel.
- Cinnamon Carter: Will there be any permanent damage?
- Dr. McConnell: No more than a simple bruise or nosebleed.
- Rollin Hand: I figured you were trying to square a pinch for this lady,but this is something else.
- Raymond Halder: If you're trying to up the ante,why don't you just say so?
- Rollin Hand: Now, take it easy, Halder. Look, if he gets what he wants from this miss borden, he stands to make a fortune, Right?
- James Phelps: That's right.
- Rollin Hand: So, let him pay what it's worth.
- Raymond Halder: [sighs] Tell me one thing, can you do it?
- Rollin Hand: Yeah. I can do it, and it'll work. People -- well, they get kind of tight and clammy when you put the cuffs on them and it starts pinching their wrists.
- Raymond Halder: And how much?
- Rollin Hand: Ten big ones.
- Raymond Halder: All right, you've got a deal.
- Rollin Hand: Thanks a lot. Just see to it that she's in your apartment by midnight, hmm? I'll take it from there.