***SPOILERS*** Strange and confusing SOSF episode involving this not so wrapped tight, in the head, old man Wade Tillman, Paul Fix, who tries to fix things by committing crimes like armed robbery and bombings in and around the San Francisco financial district in doing his "Good Deed" for the day. It's not that Tillman is a bad guy it's just that in the 70's his mind in dealing with what's right and wrong isn't working like it used to.
With his friend Frank Casey, John Qualen, in the welfare hotel not able to pay his rent Tillman takes it upon himself to pay the rent for him. That's by him robbing and wounding, when he tried to resist, a gas station attendant,Doug Chapin, whom after shooting him called the police and hospital for help. It's when Tillman found out that his friend Casey, who had since fallen down a flight of stairs,needed an eye operation or else he'll go blind that he got in touch with his millionaire friend Carl Armstrong, Denver Pyle, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tillman asked Armstrong to lend him the 10 G's to pay for the operation that he, in seeing that he isn't all there, refused to do! With the SFPD now involved with Tillman threatening to blow up all of Armstrongs buildings in Downtown San Francisco Tillman now meaning business plants a number of bombs that are set to go off at one hours intervals. The first at the Armstrong Building when Carl Armstrong works out of!
***SPOILERS*** Working against the clock both police detective and inspector Mike Stone & Steve Keller, Karl Malden & Michael Douglas, try to find and disarm to bombs before they go off while Tiller after suffering a heart attack, while chased by the police, is unable to tell the police where he planted the bombs, or the latest one that's to go off at 4:00 PM, even if he wanted to. That's until he came out of his coma just moments the bomb was set to go off! In the end Tillman got off Scot-free in what he did with none of his victims, the gas station attendant and Mr. Armstrong, willing to press charges against him. A strange ending to a very very strange episode when for once crime did pay and justice was not served!
With his friend Frank Casey, John Qualen, in the welfare hotel not able to pay his rent Tillman takes it upon himself to pay the rent for him. That's by him robbing and wounding, when he tried to resist, a gas station attendant,Doug Chapin, whom after shooting him called the police and hospital for help. It's when Tillman found out that his friend Casey, who had since fallen down a flight of stairs,needed an eye operation or else he'll go blind that he got in touch with his millionaire friend Carl Armstrong, Denver Pyle, whom he hasn't seen in years. Tillman asked Armstrong to lend him the 10 G's to pay for the operation that he, in seeing that he isn't all there, refused to do! With the SFPD now involved with Tillman threatening to blow up all of Armstrongs buildings in Downtown San Francisco Tillman now meaning business plants a number of bombs that are set to go off at one hours intervals. The first at the Armstrong Building when Carl Armstrong works out of!
***SPOILERS*** Working against the clock both police detective and inspector Mike Stone & Steve Keller, Karl Malden & Michael Douglas, try to find and disarm to bombs before they go off while Tiller after suffering a heart attack, while chased by the police, is unable to tell the police where he planted the bombs, or the latest one that's to go off at 4:00 PM, even if he wanted to. That's until he came out of his coma just moments the bomb was set to go off! In the end Tillman got off Scot-free in what he did with none of his victims, the gas station attendant and Mr. Armstrong, willing to press charges against him. A strange ending to a very very strange episode when for once crime did pay and justice was not served!