by Hal Erickson
synopsis
A young man (Bob Crosson) identifying himself as Bruce Hamilton drags himself into an LA police station, battered and bruised. Questioned by Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander), the boy claims that he was prospecting in Mexico with his best friend Kevin Bradley when both of them were attacked by bandits on horseback--and further insists that Kevin was killed in melee. So far as the skeptical detectives are concerned, however, the whole story sounds too "bad" to be true, like something out of the movies. The truth is finally revealed just before Kevin Bradley's mother shows up at headquarters. This episode was adapted from the Dragnet radio broadcast of August 28, 1952.
