The Clay Pigeon (1949)

Frank Fenton: Lt. Cmdr. Prentice

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• Lt. Cmdr. Prentice : [after the bad guys have been captured]  ... fortunately you've been of considerable service to the Treasury Department.

  Jim Fletcher : I don't understand.

  Lt. Cmdr. Prentice : Well, after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese expected to invade the West Coast. They printed one hundred million dollars worth of American money. Somehow, Tokoyama stumbled into a cache of part of this. Some ten million dollars. And, when he and Niles ran into each other in Japan after our forces came in, they went into business together.

  Jim Fletcher : [astounded]  Ten million dollars?

  Lt. Cmdr. Prentice : They needed help to get rid of it. So they got Wheeler to front for them and handle the circulation of the bills. Oh, he had other rackets, too, which are finished now, thanks to you... Well, I guess that about winds up the case. Goodbye, Fletcher, and good luck.