This episode had a really neat premise. It begins with a man visiting with three different people who seemingly have little in common and are ordinary citizens. However, somehow this man convinces each of them to participate in a contract killing--and it's obvious he has SOMETHING on them to force them to do this. What makes it more interesting is all the trouble the man goes to do cover their tracks--with guns with plastic covers to catch the ejected shells, silencers and bored out muzzles to hide the type of gun. It all seems very fool-proof and very clever. Unfortunately, the episode only lasted about 50 minutes so this seemingly perfect crime unraveled a bit too quickly for my taste--it should have been tougher to solve this. I guess you can't blame the writers too much and finding out why these rather ordinary people resorted to murder is pretty interesting--particularly the businessman! Overall, well written even if rushed and pretty original--it's among the better episodes of season 4.
2 Reviews
Quite entertaining.
fbm727516 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Season 4 (1971-72) had an abundant number of good episodes and this one is too. However there was an early surprise and that being that Simon Oakland who was a very prominent actor in the 1970s was bumped off very early which never happens to someone that well known or with such status as normally a lesser known would be cast who's part ends at the end of act 1. This show touched on matters that were still taboo on television back then and one of the killers being gay which was a big source for blackmail. All & all a good story but they could have left out the scene with Clem Brown & his wife talking in bed as I'd rather have seen more focus on the investigation instead.
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