by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Working out of the Bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) make it their personal mission to capture two con artists posing a police officers. In an elaborate scam targetting out-of-town businessmen, the phony cops, working with an accomplice who pretends to be a drug addict, extort enormous bribes from their hapless victims, who've been convinced that they'll be arrested on a narcotics charge unless they pay up. Acting on information provided by the most recent victim, Friday goes undercover to catch the crooks in the act. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of October 27, 1953.
