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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To Trap a Thief
Prismark109 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
When some money is stolen from a loan company in an armed robbery.
The money is recovered but there is a discrepancy between the amount recovered and the amount the boss of the loan company claims was stolen from his cashbox.
Casey Jones goes undercover because veteran police officer Torrino is in the frame of stealing the money that was recovered.
Either Torrino is a crooked cop or that the boss will make a false insurance claim.
Casey Jones finds out that an unlikely person is willing to protect the boss who has a bad heart condition.
An effective thriller, the boss did succumb to temptation as he has a needy family. It was his secretary who was willing to take the rap as she had feelings for him.
The money is recovered but there is a discrepancy between the amount recovered and the amount the boss of the loan company claims was stolen from his cashbox.
Casey Jones goes undercover because veteran police officer Torrino is in the frame of stealing the money that was recovered.
Either Torrino is a crooked cop or that the boss will make a false insurance claim.
Casey Jones finds out that an unlikely person is willing to protect the boss who has a bad heart condition.
An effective thriller, the boss did succumb to temptation as he has a needy family. It was his secretary who was willing to take the rap as she had feelings for him.
Trapped by emotion
kapelusznik1810 January 2014
***SPOILERTS*** A hard case on the emotional level for undercover police woman Casey Jones, Beverly Garland, to handle in being a rat, informant, in busting an emotionally depressed woman Louise Bamf, Mary James, in unknowingly ratting out her boss Mr. Whittaker, John McGovern, in a robbery/insurance scam that netted him some $10,000.00. You can see that Casey wasn't really into doing her job as an undercover rat for the NYPD but did it she did. It was after Louise broke down and spilled her heart out about her boss Mr. Whittaker in how much pressure he's been going through with his marriage and his good for nothing leach of a son, who at the age of 31 never did a days work in his life, that Casey got second thoughts about what she was doing.
Casey at first wanted to get her good friend police officer Frank Torrino, George Muitchell, off the hook in the missing $10,000.00 that was not recovered by him after Whittaker's office was robbed. Now realizing that it was Whittaker who pocked the money and is using it, the missing $10,000.00, to get an insurance claim she did everything she could to get the troubled man, with severe family problems, to give it back before he's indited by a grand jury.
It was the poor and heart sick Mrs.Bamf that got Casey to be more understanding to her boss Mr. Whittaker's situation and get him to make amends and prevent him for making his already miserable life worse then it already is. In the end Mr. Whittaker did in fact do the right thing and it was his faithful secretary Louise Bamf in having both Casey and him see the light who was the reason for it.
Casey at first wanted to get her good friend police officer Frank Torrino, George Muitchell, off the hook in the missing $10,000.00 that was not recovered by him after Whittaker's office was robbed. Now realizing that it was Whittaker who pocked the money and is using it, the missing $10,000.00, to get an insurance claim she did everything she could to get the troubled man, with severe family problems, to give it back before he's indited by a grand jury.
It was the poor and heart sick Mrs.Bamf that got Casey to be more understanding to her boss Mr. Whittaker's situation and get him to make amends and prevent him for making his already miserable life worse then it already is. In the end Mr. Whittaker did in fact do the right thing and it was his faithful secretary Louise Bamf in having both Casey and him see the light who was the reason for it.
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