We see some crooks knock off a guy in some state who our narrator tells us is "hundreds of miles away" -meaning away from Dan and the gang. We learn that a gambling syndicate is moving most of its operations from Ohio to ...wherever it is that Dan operates from-clearly California, but never stated.
The man was killed because he was an undercover policeman. The gang of two men and a woman are heard discussing the notion that there may be a spy in their group, and they automatically suspect their newest employee, a young woman, who is seen listening in on this conversation.
Next they are speaking with this woman, Martha, asking how she likes her new place of employment, and all. She plays it cool, declines a ride to wherever she is now living, saying the weather is so nice, she'd rather walk.
Even though she knows they suspect her, she stops a few minutes later to make a call from a pay phone. Just seeing her make the call makes the men jumpy enough to grab her as she hangs up and drag her back to their place of operation. This is where I had to question why she didn't just go back to her new apartment and phone from there. Someone walking home from work would not normally jump onto a pay phone-especially to call her mother-as she claimed-way back in Ohio.
It was also odd the way her phone call was worded. She asked to talk to the head man right away-and got Dan. She told him she was a policewoman from Ohio, and gave her name and badge number, then told him about her current situation. She didn't say "I'm with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, just that she was a "policewoman from Ohio." Quite a few cities he'd have to check to contact someone who knows her.
Anyhow, Dan goes into action to find her. In the building, with two men with guns, one pointing one at her, she grabs the female of the gang and holds her in front so they wouldn't shoot her. She edges toward the door, shoves the woman at the men and runs out-in her high heels and skirt, into the woods.
Somehow she hides from them for some time, even though one of them shot her in the arm before she got into the woods. Just to make it more dramatic, there's a scene where Martha is seen hiding behind some brush and overhears the two men seeking her, as one says that they'll have to kill her-it's the only way.
Having heard the first gunshot, Dan and his partner are combing the woods nearby trying to find anyone. They spot a man who had driven by their car a while ago, who was a bit inquisitive about their presence, carrying a gun. They apprehend him, don't believe he was hunting rabbits with his revolver-good thinking there, and take him as they continue their search. They don't state any real reason to have handcuffed him-at that point they had nothing to arrest him for.
Meanwhile, Martha has come back to the same house in the woods that the gang is using for their new headquarters and believes it is now empty. She slips inside and tries to use the phone, but the female crook emerges from another room with a long knife telling her she cut the phone line. I know, if she's going to stop her right away, cutting the line for a gambling operation seems like a bad decision.
To quickly wrap it up, Dan and Co. find that building, hear a couple more gunshots, Dan gets into a fist fight with the other bad guy, while Martha apprehends the woman and Dan tells her to go back to Ohio, that he has enough crime out here.
The fight was awkwardly staged-I'm going to say Broderick Crawford was just not good at that sort of physical activity-if I was fooled and it was a stunt man for more than one brief bit, then it was a really poor stunt man.
The policewoman's unnecessary phone call at a time when it would make her employers more suspicious than they already were was a bad move. The men's inability to catch her when they could obviously run faster and had even wounded her was also weak. The fight scene was just not too realistic in more ways than one. And we never really saw the gang in operation. We just heard what they were up to-in general. Put all of this together and the episode is below average-a five. But because it was different in a couple of ways-Dan in a fight and featuring a policewoman, it gains a point to become a 6.
The man was killed because he was an undercover policeman. The gang of two men and a woman are heard discussing the notion that there may be a spy in their group, and they automatically suspect their newest employee, a young woman, who is seen listening in on this conversation.
Next they are speaking with this woman, Martha, asking how she likes her new place of employment, and all. She plays it cool, declines a ride to wherever she is now living, saying the weather is so nice, she'd rather walk.
Even though she knows they suspect her, she stops a few minutes later to make a call from a pay phone. Just seeing her make the call makes the men jumpy enough to grab her as she hangs up and drag her back to their place of operation. This is where I had to question why she didn't just go back to her new apartment and phone from there. Someone walking home from work would not normally jump onto a pay phone-especially to call her mother-as she claimed-way back in Ohio.
It was also odd the way her phone call was worded. She asked to talk to the head man right away-and got Dan. She told him she was a policewoman from Ohio, and gave her name and badge number, then told him about her current situation. She didn't say "I'm with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, just that she was a "policewoman from Ohio." Quite a few cities he'd have to check to contact someone who knows her.
Anyhow, Dan goes into action to find her. In the building, with two men with guns, one pointing one at her, she grabs the female of the gang and holds her in front so they wouldn't shoot her. She edges toward the door, shoves the woman at the men and runs out-in her high heels and skirt, into the woods.
Somehow she hides from them for some time, even though one of them shot her in the arm before she got into the woods. Just to make it more dramatic, there's a scene where Martha is seen hiding behind some brush and overhears the two men seeking her, as one says that they'll have to kill her-it's the only way.
Having heard the first gunshot, Dan and his partner are combing the woods nearby trying to find anyone. They spot a man who had driven by their car a while ago, who was a bit inquisitive about their presence, carrying a gun. They apprehend him, don't believe he was hunting rabbits with his revolver-good thinking there, and take him as they continue their search. They don't state any real reason to have handcuffed him-at that point they had nothing to arrest him for.
Meanwhile, Martha has come back to the same house in the woods that the gang is using for their new headquarters and believes it is now empty. She slips inside and tries to use the phone, but the female crook emerges from another room with a long knife telling her she cut the phone line. I know, if she's going to stop her right away, cutting the line for a gambling operation seems like a bad decision.
To quickly wrap it up, Dan and Co. find that building, hear a couple more gunshots, Dan gets into a fist fight with the other bad guy, while Martha apprehends the woman and Dan tells her to go back to Ohio, that he has enough crime out here.
The fight was awkwardly staged-I'm going to say Broderick Crawford was just not good at that sort of physical activity-if I was fooled and it was a stunt man for more than one brief bit, then it was a really poor stunt man.
The policewoman's unnecessary phone call at a time when it would make her employers more suspicious than they already were was a bad move. The men's inability to catch her when they could obviously run faster and had even wounded her was also weak. The fight scene was just not too realistic in more ways than one. And we never really saw the gang in operation. We just heard what they were up to-in general. Put all of this together and the episode is below average-a five. But because it was different in a couple of ways-Dan in a fight and featuring a policewoman, it gains a point to become a 6.