by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) must put a fellow cop on the spot when young Officer Blanchard (William Vaughn) is accused of demanding protection money from shady boarding house owner Barclay Evans (Gilman Rankin). Evans insists that Blanchard beat him up when he refused to pay, and claims he has the bruises and dislocated shoulder to prove it. Several other witnesses corroborate Evans' story; trouble is, their stories don't entirely match up. It takes the combined testimony of a doctor, an ex-wife and a bookie to find out where the truth lies. This episode is based on the Dragnetradio broadcast of March 6, 1952.
