User Reviews

This is one of the best episodes. Veteran actor William Bendix puts in an outstanding performance as vicious gangster Wally Legenza, head of the Tri-State Gang. The gang makes most of its money by hijacking trucks. Just to be safe, Wally routinely murders the helpless victims. The other gang members are afraid of him, and rightly so.

Wally explodes when he learns that gang member Big Bill Phillips (actor Alan Hale, Jr., later the Skipper on Gilligan's Island) is seeing a woman, the delightfully French-accented Lizzie Dauphine (actress Roxane Berard) from Montreal. While the audience is charmed by this likable, attractive couple, Wally's attitude is different: women are trouble. His orders are that you see them one night, then send them on their way. When Big Bill misses a meeting and Wally tracks him down at Lizzie's apartment, Big Bill urges Wally to have a drink and be friends with him and his girl. Wally coldly advises them that he doesn't need any friends.

Crime surely doesn't pay for this sorry group, including actors Gavin McLeod as Artie and Jay Adler as Georgie, who live cooped up in small rooms eating carry-out and playing chess and cards, pushed around by Wally Legenza, can't even go out on a date, yet are in constant danger of an early death.

After Big Bill is killed by Ness in a shootout, Wally decides that Lizzie must be killed, since she knows who he is. When the hit is botched, Wally decides that the gang must get out of town, but they are short on money. Wally orders a high stakes plan for the gang to make some real money with a kidnapping for ransom, which ultimately leads to their downfall.