21. Robot Archie was built by Professor C . R . Ritchie to be the world's most powerful mechanical man . 22. The scientist's brother however is successful in creating a second mechanical man which he uses to combat the original. 23. Impressed, Mrs . Weston agrees to a tour of the corporate facilities of U . S . Robots and Mechanical Men . 24. The two mechanical men fight each other in an opera house and end up destroying each other as well as the opera house. 25. He played a deaf-mute who, as a " mechanical man " in a department store window, witnessed a gangland murder. 26. Flint eavesdrops on their conversation and it is mentioned that Mephisto can create " mechanical men " through a technology that only he understands. 27. During the final battle, Mado frantically attempts to control the mechanical man and is electrocuted at the control panel by a short circuit. 28. Soon after, the two killers show up to report to their boss, the Mechanical Man , forcing Blackie to flee once again. 29. Blackie eventually discovers that an espionage ring led by the Mechanical Man is trying to take a stolen navy bombsight out of the country. 30. Science-fiction writers have fueled our robot fantasies for decades, building up hopes for a mechanical man capable of yelling " Danger!
