- The sole survivor of an armored car hold-up sends for Gunn from his death row cell. The convict tells Pete how to find the $700,000 after Pete agrees to turn over the reward to his estranged daughter without telling her where it came from.
- The sole survivor of an armored car hold-up sends for Peter Gunn from his Death Row cell. The convict tells Pete how to find the $700,000 booty after Pete agrees to turn over the reward to his estranged daughter without telling her where it came from.—HortaEgg
- Season 1 Episode 11 Death House Testament Prologue: A man walks into the public library, inserts a piece of paper in the binding of a book, walks out and is gunned down in the street. He survives the gunshot, but not the death sentence. Pete sees the doomed man in his prison cell ten minutes before he is to be executed. The bonding company offers a 10% reward for the return of the stolen $700,000, since the money was never parsed to each man, and they are all dead, except for the man talking to Pete, who doesn't have much time left. The daughter he has works at the main branch of the library, his ex-wife died when the daughter was 16 when he was serving time at Joliet. He wants the reward money to go to that daughter without her knowing where it originated. Pete's mission is recover the stolen loot, turn it over to the bonding company, and deliver the reward to the daughter. The daughter goes under her mother's maiden name, Wallace. Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography is the reference Pete has to go on in order to find the money. The bonding company man is named Don Biddle, introduced to Pete by Jacoby in the warden's office. Pete tells them he doesn't know where the money is located, he doesn't tell them he has a source to find the money. Whitey Collins is the doomed man, per Biddle, and he assumes Pete was told where the money is, Pete says he doesn't know, Jacoby vouches for Pete's honesty, he simply doesn't know. Outside state prison, Pete finds Poochy atop of the backrest of the seat and a brunette asleep in the back, awakening her, Pete offers to drive her, she introduces herself as Sandra Lee. Pete lifts a pistol from her purse while he is kissing her, he removes the clip from the gun, and she asks that they get a cup of coffee. Sandra, Poochy the poodle, and Pete walk into a small trucker café with at least one customer seated with a pistol and the other patrons looking none too respectable. Sandra asks if Pete knows a Romney Kelly, that he would want to know where the money is. An offer is made by Sandra for Kelly with a cut and refused, as Pete says he doesn't know where the money is. The man with the gun comes over says let's go, Pete slugs the man, Pete is cuffed with a pistol from another man sitting at the counter and Sandra says she'll drive his car. Pete is dragged out to the car by the two assailants following Sandra and the poodle. The men carry Pete into Oldford's Rest Home where a sinister man with a hypodermic awaits, he gives Pete the hypo, Pete awakes to Kelly asking where the money is, he denies knowing and is punched out by the thug from the diner. A man guards the outside of the door where Pete is kept and Pete devises a way to get the man's attention via the lamp cord around the lock knob, exposed wire, wetted carpet in front of the door with the cord plugged in. It works, the man is electrocuted when Pete attracts his attention from inside. Once out of the room, the other thug comes in, gives up his weapon at Pete's insistence, Pete hits him with the gun butt as he falls to the floor in the room, and Pete locks the door behind. Pete enters the room where Kelly and the professor are, backing both of them off with his weapon, orders the prof to call the police, namely Jacoby. Enter Sandra and the dog, she sizes the situation, says her repeated line, How gruesome! Pete is seen with daughter, Margaret Wallace, check in hand, she thanks him and Jacoby shows, they exchange pleasantries, as Pete leashes Poochy down the sidewalk.
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