***SPOILERS*** Disposing of his wife, Louise Larabee, with a fire place poker that he ends up cracking her skull with after a bitter argument over something or another, were never told what it was all about, Sam Jacoby,David Wayne, stuffs her body into his car trunk and plans to dump it somewhere off the Pacific coast. Observing all the speed limits in order not to attract attention Sam is still stopped by motorcycle cop Steve Brodie who noticed that Sam's left tail light is out.
Brodie is concerned that if Sam doesn't get his tail light fixed it may cause him to be in an accident where he can get slammed from being and possibly killed. Sam for his part knows that if the trunk is ever opened, to fix the tail light, he's cooked with his wife's dead and murdered body found by traffic cop Brodie! Playing it by ear Sam tries to talk his way out of the situation he now finds himself in but to no avail. Officer Brodie is so concerned that he'll end up in a traffic accident that he goes out of his way to make sure that he gets his tail light fixed even if he has to get Sam to drive to the local police station garage to get it done!
Terrifically tense and nerve wracking Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, one of the very best, has wife murderer Sam Jacoby find himself in a pickle in that he ran into a very helpful traffic cop who was far more concerned for his health and safety, and the health and safety of those on the road,then he was in his wife's whom he just brutally murdered.
***SPOILERS**** In the end Sam was regained to the fact that he'll soon be found out and meekly drives to the local police station garage with Officer Brodie escorting him there. And it of all things was a broken tail light that Sam, who thought he covered all the bases in his wife's murder, overlooked and which ended up doing him in.
Brodie is concerned that if Sam doesn't get his tail light fixed it may cause him to be in an accident where he can get slammed from being and possibly killed. Sam for his part knows that if the trunk is ever opened, to fix the tail light, he's cooked with his wife's dead and murdered body found by traffic cop Brodie! Playing it by ear Sam tries to talk his way out of the situation he now finds himself in but to no avail. Officer Brodie is so concerned that he'll end up in a traffic accident that he goes out of his way to make sure that he gets his tail light fixed even if he has to get Sam to drive to the local police station garage to get it done!
Terrifically tense and nerve wracking Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, one of the very best, has wife murderer Sam Jacoby find himself in a pickle in that he ran into a very helpful traffic cop who was far more concerned for his health and safety, and the health and safety of those on the road,then he was in his wife's whom he just brutally murdered.
***SPOILERS**** In the end Sam was regained to the fact that he'll soon be found out and meekly drives to the local police station garage with Officer Brodie escorting him there. And it of all things was a broken tail light that Sam, who thought he covered all the bases in his wife's murder, overlooked and which ended up doing him in.