***SPOILERS*** It's when good Sumerian insurance salesman Victor Smith gave both Joannie & Midge a free a ride while stranded on the road outside of Scranton Pa that he had s big surprise coming. Taking advantage of the kind and helpful motorist the girls first rolled him at gunpoint stole his car and then when he protested shot him dead like a stray dog with rabies! The girls in them making their way back to NYC they try to lay low until the heat,or police, is off but the insurance company that the late Victor Smith worked for has hired private investigator Mike Barnett to find him only to find his car in a parking lot with enough evidence to end up hanging his two murderesses.
Seeing that both Joannie & Midge have checked in this mid-town hotel forging his signature as Victoria not Victor Smith it didn't take long for Barnett to get a bead on the two fugitives from justice. That by tracking them down as they planned to make their escape hitch hiking on a NYS highway back home to Pittsburgh and to, in what they thought, freedom!
***SPOILERS*** Like the late Victor Smith Barnett played the role of the good Sumerian picking the two up and acting as if he didn't known what their up to. With a gun, by Joannie, pointed at him Barnett stepped on the gas and then going 80 to 100 MPH in an effort not only to attract the highway patrol but make it very improbable for Joannie to plug or shoot him without getting herself killed along with her accomplice Midge in a fatal car crash. Branett took his life in his hands by pulling this off but his gamble paid off by putting the two gun molls behind bars in him doing it. And also preventing any more Victor Smiths to fall victim to them by just trying to help them out.