by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Several holdups have been pulled off by a tall, well-dressed and very nervous thief. When store clerk Bert Matthews is killed during one of these robberies, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) swing into action. The two detectives know that Matthews was shot with a .38, and that the thief made his getaway in a taxi. Working almost exclusively with these clues, Friday and Smith conclude that the thief and the cabbie are in cahoots--and that a previous cabbie accomplice has met the same grisly fate as the unfortunate Matthews. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of October 5, 1950.
