:08:01
It's a new infantry weapon...
:08:04
tested at Fort Benning
in the United States.
:08:09
But here's something strange:
:08:12
Before the weapon could go
into full-scale production...
:08:16
the blueprints disappeared.
:08:18
They were stolen.
:08:20
U.S. military intelligence
found the thief--
:08:25
a U.S. soldier in Germany--
:08:27
in a deserted bunker
with his throat cut.
:08:30
He had been gruesomely mutilated
and apparently tortured.
:08:32
The blueprints were, of course,
nowhere to be found.
:08:34
- When did this happen?
- About a year ago.
:08:38
There's no doubt that it was this steel
needle gun that caused Barter's death.
:08:42
I don't know.
:08:44
This Barter murder case reminds me
of something that happened long ago.
:08:47
Gentlemen...
:08:49
does the name Dr. Mabuse
mean anything to you?
:08:52
- Never heard of him.
- No.
:08:54
A criminal genius.
:08:56
He wanted to shock the world
with terrorist acts...
:08:59
undermining governments...
:09:02
and establishing
a fantastic reign of crime.
:09:06
He ended up in an insane asylum,
where he wrote a kind of last will...
:09:10
instructions for the crimes
he was planning.
:09:13
In 1 932 he died, insane.
:09:16
But if you talk
to old-time criminals...
:09:20
they all say
that Dr. Mabuse isn't dead.
:09:23
He can't die.
:09:24
Cock-and-bull stories!
:09:26
How could you even think of this--
What was the name again?
:09:30
Dr. Mabuse.
:09:32
In those days, I was a young assistant
on the homicide squad...
:09:35
and we had a similar case there.
:09:38
A man was shot behind the wheel
of his car from another vehicle.
:09:42
The Barter case strikes me as
an exact copy of Dr. Mabuse's methods.
:09:46
You said he was
no longer alive.
:09:48
Well...
:09:49
I have seen his dead body
with my own eyes, but--
:09:53
Why haven't we heard anything
about this case?
:09:55
The case never made
criminal history...
:09:57
because Hitler appeared on the scene,
and the whole Nazi nightmare.
:09:59
But there must be files
on the Mabuse case.