User Reviews

Solid episode with good NYC locations-- snowy roadsides along a river, a city skyline from atop a high rise, and a big-finned car emblematic of the upscale time.

Casey goes undercover as an addict to bust a drug ring after a young woman addict is murdered. Drug themes were novel for TV of the time, only breaking through in the movies in 1955 with Man with the Golden Arm. For fans of Davalos, who unfortunately sort of disappeared after his big East of Eden role (1954), there's a ton of close-ups along with a central role. Also look for the perennial Ed Asner in an early role, as a plain-clothes cop-- oh my, he's almost handsome.

Unusual for the time, Garland breaks the so-called 3rd wall at the end by talking to the audience while still in costume. I'm not sure this was a good idea when the emphasis with locales is on realism. Nonetheless, the entry's a solid dramatic half-hour from a series that needs rediscovery.

Casey Jones goes undercover as a junkie in a sleazy part of New York.

When Marie Dombrowsky a heroin addict that she befriended is found dead.

Casey finds her family in order to get close to them. Marie had a $40 a day drug habit and $6,000.00 in her bank account.

A fortune in those days. Marie's brother hates drug addicts and is suspicious of Casey.

Maybe he knows more about her sister's death. Marie's mother runs a little restaurant and threw Marie out of their home because of her drug habit.

I guess with the censorship laws of the time. A drug addict was always going to have a sad ending. Going to rehab was out of the question, everyone will wash their hands off you.

****SPOILERS**** Working undercover in the sleazy Times Square district in Manhattan police woman Casey Jones, Beverly Garland, pretending to be a junkie gets very friendly with heroin addict Marie Dumbrowsky in trying to uncover her pusher and put him or her behind bars. Before she knows it Marie is found stabbed to death in her Times Square hotel room. What's even more puzzling is that a bank book of hers is found there also with a balance of $6,000.00! It's obvious that Marie was not only using drugs but selling them to pay for her, in 1959, $40.00 a day habit. What Officer Jones now whats to find out is who's been supplying Marie with the junk.

Posing as the late Marie's good friend Officer Jones looks up her mom Moma Dombrowsky, Lilia Skala, in the Polish section of Brooklyn, Greenpoint,who runs a Polish/American restaurant. Not only does Moma have no feelings about her late daughter Marie but almost welcomes the news of her death. It's Marie's brother Danny played by Richard Davalos, the guy who played James Dean's crazy big brother in "East of Eaden",who seems to know a lot more about his sister Maries drug taking and dealing who later tries to shut up Officer Jones up about what happened to her.

***SPOILERS*** It turns that family friend and local drug dealer Rico, Norman Rose, was the one behind Marie's murder. Being blackmailed by her he finally knocked her off to shut her up from reporting her to the police. It's when Marie's big brother Danny found this out, from Officer Jones, that he turned on Rico that ended up with Rico dead, he was pushed off from the roof of a forth floor building, with the befuddled Danny facing a second degree murder charge. As for the tragic Moma Dumbrowsky she washed her hands from all this by going back to work in her Polish/American restaurant and trying to forget that this whole thing involving Marie and Danny happened!