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Here's an atypical Hitchcock episode where you can't really guess what the surprise twist will be at the end. It involves a despicable, scheming man (Robert Loggia) who gains the confidence and love of a lonely woman (Barbara Baxley) and abuses her position as a secretary to a psychiatrist for the purpose of getting some of the doctor's files. His goal is to blackmail the psychiatrist's patients, who he should have considered would already be under some emotional strain to begin with. The guilt ridden secretary certainly knew better, and her employer probably did her a favor when he told her about patient M. J. Harrison (Richard Gaines), a delusional man who was confronted by the slimy Jimmy French (Loggia) for a payoff of ten thousand dollars. One thing MJH wasn't delusional about was being blackmailed, and he took out his revenge on French in a most unaccustomed manner. Maude Sheridan (Baxley) may have been distraught at the news, though her creepy ex-boyfriend's murder would only add to the guilt of betraying the doctor.

Excellent episode, awesome story of a ruthless man taking advantage of a shy secretary who works for a shrink. The man asks the girl to take secret files about the psychiatrist's clients, so that he can blackmails them.; So our man takes a file in which one of the shrink's client has an affair with an underage girl. The secretary's boy friend goes to see the unfaithful man and threatens him to tell everything to his wife. The poor man accepts the deal, but the blackmailer makes the mistake to give his own adress, to get the dol. A little later the secretary learns that her boy friend was killed by gun shot. The murder is no one else than the blackmailed shrink's client. Who also confessed that he never had an affait with any girl at all !!!!

Excellent episode, awesome story of a ruthless man taking advantage from a shy secretary to get files from a shrink, where she works, and then organizing a blakmail job on the psyciatrist's clients. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER. So our man - the blackmailer - gets a case on which he proceeds. He goes to visit the shrink's client, who said to the doctor that he had an affair with a 18 years old girl, threatening him to tell everything to his wife. The client's wife. The most incredible thing is that the blackmailer - Bob Loggia - gives his own adress to his victim. What happens next? The poor secretary learns a little later from her boss, the shrink, that his client - her boy friend - killed a guy who tried to blackmail him on something that never occured. The poor client had never an affair with a 18 years old chick. But why giving one's own adress to your victim?