User Reviews

In this one, Joe is hired by a singer (played by Nancy Kovack) to find out who's trying to kill her.

One big problem is Joe and Barbara automatically become lovers even though they just met, which doesn't make any sense. Then the guy that's following Joe makes it TOTALLY OBVIOUS he's following him.

Then in a key plot point, Blake, the witness to the accident, tells Joe he didn't know either person in the car, but then right after that, he tells him he doesn't know what either of the two people in the car looked like and couldn't describe them. So how does he know he doesn't know either one of them if he has no idea what they look like? Then, to add even further confusion on this point, a couple of scenes later, Joe is talking to Barbara and Andrew and he specifically states that Blake would have recognized a certain person had that person been in the car that was involved in the accident. What is he talking about??? Blake just told him that he DIDN'T KNOW what either of the two people in the car looked like and couldn't describe them. Then in the same scene, Barbara states that Blake WAS able to identify the two individuals in the car. What?? This is insane! This is totally convoluted, contradictory and confusing and pretty much destroys the episode.

Then there's a huge continuity mistake at the end of the car chase when the white pickup truck that first hits Joe's car disappears from subsequent shots. Very, very sloppy.

Then in the final scene when Joe confronts the killer, there are no police there and no one is holding a gun to the killer, but yet the killer MAKES NO ATTEMPT to escape but simply confesses to everything and gives up, which is totally unrealistic and absurd.

Nancy Kovack is not at her best here and has some awkward dialogue, like when she talks about felt hats and pencil mustaches, which is just silly and doesn't make any sense.

Joe gets shot at but not hit, which is the only cliché.

For the first time, Joe goes out the back door on the first floor of his office.

There's a pretty good car chase and a good fight scene, so I'll give it credit for those, but everything else is a mess. This is a dreadful episode.

As previous reviewers have written, there are a lot of problems with this outing and it could have been much better. Joe getting involved with a client is so unprofessional and he knows it, even if it is Nancy Kovack. This episode is just not engaging and I really didn't care who the bad guy was. The plot is moved along by Joe's wild guesses that turn out to be right. The bad guy is more of a lovesick hanger-on than an evil doer. Joe and Nancy turn out to be ships that pass in the night. Kind of a tired hour.

At least the police didn't show up just after the action and in time to arrest everyone. That's one good point. Oh yeah, Joe got paid! Hallelujah!