by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Why would James Fader (Than Wyenn) walk up to a pawnbroker and offer to sell a ring worth thousands of dollars for only twenty bucks? That's the question that Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) would like to answer--immediately. But that answer won't come until the two detectives unearth considerable evidence of a recent jewel robbery, with a bus-depot rental locker providing a vital clue. Based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of November 2, 1954, this episode was later adapted by Richard Deming as a short story in a 1957 paperback anthology inspired by the Dragnet TV series.
