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Chapter 3 The All Seeing Eye
Picking up from where chapter 2 left off Jack Forster and Vera Strang are trapped in a small room where the walls are closing in on them and just when it looks like certain death Prof Strang comes too and turns off the switch to stop the collapsing room. The Shadows men rush the room to take out Forster and steal the jewels they thing Vera has taken from the warehouse but the Shadow warns them the police and on their way and they split but little do they know Jack has hitched a ride on the back of their car and discovered their hideout and more importantly a step closer to discovering the true identity of The Whispering Shadow.
After Jack phones in his discovery to Detective Robert Raymond he wastes no time in ringing in back up and heading to the location but when they get inside the Shadow and his men are no where to be found leading them to the conclusion that they were tipped off about the arrival of the police. When Detective Robert Raymond informs Jack that the only other person that knew about his discover was J.D. Bradley Company President he becomes a prime suspect but when he is confronted he tries to pin the blame on one of his employees. Jack spots some of The Shadows men leaving the car park and decides to follow hoping to track down their new hideout.
Meanwhile J.D. Bradley has made his way to Jasper Slades house to try and get back the jewels that seem to be eluding everyone at this point. Held at gunpoint Slade tells Bradley he has the jewels hidden inside the wall of his house but its not going to be as easy as just walking out the front door with them when Prof Strang and Vera show up and create a distraction to take the jewels back for themselves. After a brief encounter with Bradley Strang makes off with the jewels only to have them snatched by Slade once again but trusty Vera is on hand an she hangs on to the side of Slades speeding car trying to wrestle the jewels away from him but in the struggle the car drives straight over a cliff.
Did Vera and Slade get out of harms way before the car plunged over the cliff ? Who will possess the jewels next ? Can anyone be trusted ? Tune in next time to see if any of these question will be answered in.............
Chapter 4 The Shadow Strikes
In this chapter there are no shoot outs or punch ups apart from in the recap of chapter 2 but we do manage to get two great looking stunts with people hanging off speeding cars the one with Vera being the more impressive as she is hanging on for dear life and fighting at the same time. Just like chapter 2 Lugosi has very little screen time but that goes for every cast member there is just too much going on to focus too much on one character.
The first four minutes of this chapter like chapter 2 are spent recapping the goings on of the previous chapter which is a lot of time when the episodes are only 18 minutes each which mean they have to pack in so much in the next 14 minutes its just non stop. This can be both a good and a bad thing. Good in the way that there is little time for filler but bad that the pacing can be too fast as you can tell from how many times the jewels change hands in such a short episode. Watching it its not confusing but writing it i may sound all over the place but it does happen as fast and as often as i have typed it above.