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Learn more- The story tells of the comedy company of the Foolish Film Company which starts out to make some scenes near the Nitro Munition Factory. The comedian is made up as a villain, and as he strolls about the grounds of the munition factory Mr. Fidgit, the owner of the factory, sees him from the window. Fidgit thinks him a bomb thrower, as he is carrying an imitation bomb. He phones to the Dubb Detective Agency. Susie Speed, the fearless girl detective, is put on the case She meets Fidgit with his insurance papers and other valuables. He directs her to the place where he last saw the supposed bomb-thrower. Fidgit goes back to his office while Sue starts around the building. Having found the location satisfactory, the comedy director has a dummy of the comedian made and set up with the bomb in its hand, planning to have the hero shoot off its head in the next scene. Sue rounds the corner, thinks the villain is about. to hurl the bomb into the factory, and dives into him. After a battle, she tears its head off and realizes it is only a dummy. Thinking herself the victim of a joke, she returns to Fidgit's office and "bawls him out." When the director finds the dummy wrecked he orders it repaired and goes on with the next scene. The villain and his aide bind the heroine and carry her to a stake, where they are to burn her. From the window Fidgit and Sue see them tying her to the stake, and thinking it real, they rush to the rescue. Sue empties her revolver at them and the whole picture company makes a dash for safety. The actors and the director start back and a blowout on a passing auto scatters them again. The director says, "Some lunatic is shooting at us. Let's find another location." And they start for their auto. Sue looks around as they are helping the heroine into the car and says to Fidgit, "They're kidnapping her. I'll get them." The company arrives at another location. They tie the heroine to a stake, pile wood around her and prepare to "burn her." Sue sees this and summons the police and the fire department. Sue seizes the hose from the first fire engine to arrive and turns it on the fire. The fire is extinguished all right, the villain put to flight, and the heroine nearly drowned. The director charges on Sue with all his men, and she puts them to route with the hose. The police arrive and are about to arrest everyone, when the director demands of Sue the reason why she broke up his scene. Sue then realizes her mistake. Fidgit dashes through the crowd and asks Sue, "Did you get them?" This is the last straw. Sue turns the hose on him and rushes away. She comes to a streetcar track and sees a car coming swiftly toward her. Disgusted with her career as a detective she decides to end it all and lays down on the streetcar track, the car rushes right up to her, and instead of running over her, turns a corner swiftly and goes down a side street. She sees another car coming and moves over into the track running down that side street, while the next car passes her and runs straight up the track upon which she was lying previously. In desperation she gives up the attempt to end her life, tears off the badge and throws it after the car.
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