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I usually just read the reviews here, but I watch HP and enjoy it for the 1950s LA scenery. I wanted to review this one to point out the obvious. If an escaped inmate had killed a guard and was on the run in 2021, every law enforcement person in the state would be on the case. In this episode, I have to shake my head because they treat it like a man who failed to check in with his parole officer - very casually. So, two policeman are running down this dangerous killer, and opportunities abound to apprehend him: at the café, he's visibly running around the front lawn with a handgun while Dan sits and drinks a cup of coffee inside while Stuart stands there and watches him; at the house, instead of dozens of law enforcement protecting the wife and waiting for him, there is one policeman pretending to trim hedges, and gets shot in the process as he looks totally surprised when the bad guy shows up. Where is the SWAT team? Oh, I forgot, this is the late 1950s. At this point I was thinking that I felt sorry for the wife of the prison guard that was killed, as no one seemed to care about nailing this con. I also counted 10 shots out of Dan's revolver at the end of the show.

**SPOILERS** Good episode, but as usual, Dan (Broderick Crawford), not only guns down the dirtbag in a battle (Stuart Whitman also as a patrolman), but then gets to comfort dirtbag's widow. Yeah, THAT must be why they let Stu drive this time. Anyway, it's a good show, with sexy actress Anna Lee Carrol as the estranged, and soon to be ungrieving widow. I like her even when she plays a bad girl. You know, I think I like her BETTER when she's a bad girl. Well, at least Stu got to drive, even if he didn't get the girl. Of course, there might have been time later when he took her statement. I just think it's kinda rude for Dan to make Stu mind the dead guy; it looked like Dan was the one who plugged him. Gripe over, and out.