Decoy: To Trap a Thief (1957)
Season 1, Episode 4
6/10
One Of The Better Episodes
12 February 2021
To Trap A Thief was only the fourth episode of the Decoy Tv series to be broadcast but it is the best I have seen. The quandary over a discrepancy between the amount of money an insurance boss shows he had in his cash box and the amount retrieved in thieves who are caught at the start of the show comes down to three possibilities.Did the veteran cop who our heroine Beverly Garland is chummy with,pocket $10,000 when he was by himself? Did the businessman set it aside for himself ? Or (a possibility introduced quite dramatically in a late night scene at the hotel Garland is staying in under a false identity) did the businessman's long time secretary steal the money herself? The suspense is sustained in the tight 26 minute segment and developed through three understated performances by the not so well known actors who play these parts.
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