While Jack (Robert Rockwell) is away serving his country in Korea, his
wife Mildred (Helen Parrish) and friend and partner Gus (William Challee)
sell his gas station to Calhoun (William Haade) and Johnson (Tim Graham)
for about twice its price, and think they have made a great deal - but
when Mildred and Gus want to collect the money, they find out the bank
account the money was supposed on has been emptied and Calhoun and Johnson
are long gone. The gas statio of course is gone too, legally sold to
someone else already ... When Jack returns from the war, he wants to
take the law into his own hands, but his wife calls Captain Braddock (Reed
Hadley) of the Racket Squad, and together, Jack and Braddock set a trap
for the two gas station buyers, a trap that eventually springs, but not
without a(n unmotivated) shoot-out. A very basic story that,
like most episodes of Racket Squad, spends most of its time
with the set-up to then culminate in an all-too-brief pay-off - and in
this instant, the pay-off, a shootout, doesn't even sit well with the rest
of the story. Add to this a cast of sub-average actors (especially lead
Reed Hadley), and you are left with pretty little.
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