- A known extortionist claims he is innocent of recent charges. Gannon and Friday interrogate him about different incidents, and then bring out a surprise device which proves his guilt.
- On a rain-soaked November night Friday and Gannon bring George Fox downtown for questioning. Fox is a Mob enforcer who's been questioned numerous times for various criminal acts in the past five years but has been able to beat the rap each time. Friday begins the interrogation by showing Fox a photo of a man named Paul Carter. Fox claims to have never heard of Carter and is completely confident in himself. But when Friday shows another photo of Fox talking to Carter, Fox is noticably shaken but puts on a smooth act by suddenly remembering he had partnered up with Carter over a year earlier for a nightclub, but turned down Carter's proposal since he can't get a liquor license.
Friday then explains how Carter founded his nightclub and drove home a drunken executive named Tom Tracy weeks ago, but then turned up in Tracy's office claiming that Tracy had signed off on handing over two percent of his company to Carter. Carter was scared, claiming he was being set up to be killed by the Mob if Tracy didn't agree to the deal. Tracy, though, stood his ground in not agreeing to the deal, and had asked the police to wiretap his office and bug his phone should Carter turn up again - which he did a few days later, this time phoning his boss (Fox) who talked to Tracy and threatened to blow his head off if he didn't sign off to Carter. Days after that another stranger - who the police suspect is Fox's boss Jack Rock - phoned Tracy to reinforce the threat, saying Fox and Carter had been bypassed and to give up two percent of his company or else.
Fox, amid all this, refuses to back down, until Friday shows him printouts from a voiceprint machine of his voice from a previous interrogation and a printout from the phone call he had with Tom Tracy - printouts that leave no objective doubt to Fox's role in the extortion of Tracy.
In the epilogue we learn that Fox explained what happened to Paul Carter but that he refused to implicate Jack Rock or anyone else in the attempted extortion of Tom Tracy, and was eventually sentenced to death.
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