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Three merchant sailors and their enigmatic leader hide out at a British inn as they're being pursued from India after stealing a priceless ruby eye from a sacred statue. Unaware of how badly the statue wants its eye back, the thieves pay for their offense.

S01E07 A Night at an Inn

Ernest Bowers suffers an attack of catalepsy while crossing the street, slipping into a coma that resembles death. Believing he was killed by a passing car, his body is sent to the city morgue. His coat, with a note in the pocket describing his medical condition, is taken by the owner of a secondhand clothing store and quickly sold to a couple, who find the note and race to save Ernest from a premature embalming.

S01E08 Dead Ernest

An elderly man who's barely getting by looks for employment to continue giving his daughter the institutional help she requires. He receives an offer from "Mr. X" that turns things around for him. That is, until he finds out "Mr. X" wants him to do something deadly.

S01E14 Help Wanted

Season 1

Julia, the model for a character in her husband's comic strip, informs a police detective that her spouse is going to murder her. He bumped off her "twin" in that morning's strip, and she's sure he's going to get rid of her in the same grizzly way.

S02E04 The Comic Murder

A college student studying abnormal psychology thinks the owner of a wax museum dedicated to murderers can teach her a few things. Police lock down Dr. Violet's exhibit after an actual corpse is found in the museum.

S02E05 Dr. Violet

Detained by the side of the road where his wife Mollie was found murdered, John explains to a deputy the events leading up to that moment. Their busybody neighbor Lillybelle had made accusations about Mollie's infidelity, as had a mysterious stranger who traveled the road near their home.


S02E08 The Murderer

An American lover of architecture is escorted to a crumbling Mexican castle by the local padre. He warns the visitor to keep his room door locked and avoid the family that lives there. Eventually, the curious American learns the horrible truth about the family's history of blood lust.

S02E09 Black Passage

Season 2

Elaine Court recently had a heart attack and needs relaxation, but she's stressed over a strange man she claims has been lurking about. With her husband at work, she walks into the apartment one afternoon to find that stranger waiting for her.

S03E18 The Tip

Rookie cop Eddie Stone takes out his anger on suspects after Ruth, his fiance, tells him she's fallen for another man. For two years he seethes, just hoping for the day the 'other man' is brought into the police station and he gets his wish when he finally comes face to face with the scoundrel who stole his girl.

S03E20 Tough Cop

The Haskells are throwing a drunken New Year's Eve party in their New York apartment. Next door, Everett Kelsey has had enough of tending to the bitter supposedly invalid wife who treats him like dirt. He's just poisoned the shrew when he gets an unnerving phone call stating they she saw what he did to his wife through the window.

S03E30 Telephone Call

Racketeer Frank Cadwallder isn't allowed to play cards at the speakeasy because of the huge debt he currently owes so he recruits a nobody off the street to play poker on his behalf, win their 'sucker money,' and split the take with him.

S03E31 The Three of Silence

Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. His bosses are smugglers and they plot his 'accidental' death but when their attempt to murder him on a train fails, they plan an explosion with the help of the woman he believes is in love with him.

S03E32 Go Home Dead Man

A committee investigating racketeering and political corruption in Chinatown fails to get Chan Sou, a local leader, to cooperate. The district attorney convinces a detective and a newspaper reporter to probe further, and the two men convince the old man to testify. Before Chan Zu can meet with the investigators, he's murdered, and his daughter becomes the target of the criminals.

S03E34 The Juiceman

The thief who just robbed and murdered a jeweler is trying to escape the office building when the police arrive. Sneaking down the hallways, he stumbles across a meeting of the International Association of Assassins, a group of mystery writers, and they mistake him for famous author Bothwell Anderson, who has come to speak to the group about his newest novel.

S03E35 MurdererMeeting

Season 3

Postal inspector Winters has infiltrated a criminal gang, and their big plan is about to go down. Winters is waiting in an alley when a postal employee throws $120,000 in bonds out a back window. He fabricates a story about being robbed and knocked unconscious to buy time to switch real bonds with phonies. The boss, Cruze, is not amused and gives Winters two hours to find the bonds and bring them back or be rubbed out.

S04E10 FriPayoff

Mrs. Collins arrives at the train station in town after a long stay with her mother. Despite the storm that's raging, her husband being away, and, as she learns, a killer on the loose, she's determined to get back to her isolated house. Once home, the phone goes dead, and the lights go out.

S04E12 The Far-Off House

The dock workers who load nitroglycerin onto freighters at Pier 17 are on edge. A recent explosion at the harbor killed four men, and the FBI believes it was sabotage by an insider. Dave Delaney and his foreman have decided the new guy is the one working on the case, but the true saboteur initially goes unnoticed.

S04E14 Pier 17

The mayor of a French town reveals the identities of underground members in order to save the country from the invading Nazis, he claims. Having been moved to a neutral country, he's quickly kidnapped by allies and carried to the home of an English gentleman to be executed as a traitor.

S04E20 Death Drum

As the Communists advance on the city, Dr. Paul Morgan and his wife, an American medical missionary, are told to leave. When he refuses, a Communist general kills his own wife, who's under the doctor's care, then charges Morgan with murder and sentences him to death.

S04E22 North of Shanghai

Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along.

S04E24 Night Drive

Season 4

A clerk at the Russian embassy is being called back to the Soviet Union for becoming too close to the free people of Mexico City.

S05E33 The Man Who Cried Wolf

Joan Hale first sees the Charleston performed at a society party on a visit to the South. During her stay, she and Charlie fall in love despite his engagement to the scheming Marie. Gunshots interrupt the dance, and Marie is found upstairs, murdered.

S05E40 The Dance

The Nevada Proving Ground is set for another nuclear bomb blast at 4 a.m. A harried artist is rushing to finish the mannequins he's been hired to construct that will populate a house at Ground Zero. His nagging wife, who does nothing but complain about his work, finally pushes him over the edge.

S05E43 Nightmare at Ground Zero

Season 5

An unethical hunter is caught red-handed after shooting a tame animal on a protected wildlife preserve. In a surprising twist, the game warden delivers an unexpected form of punishment: three bullets and a ten-minute head start for the hunter.

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