A Henry Slesar story on Alfred Hitchcock Presents is usually a good one but the huge gaping plothole in this one is so jarring, it's just annoying. It's a pity, as the two crooks played by Matthau and Cannon are pretty good.
There is a witness to the robbery-murder by the pair of a bank messenger who was fatally shot by the young, reckless, hot-tempered and hotheaded Davey. So his partner, veteran ex-con Phil, buys a police uniform complete with genuine badge from a criminal associate and talks his way past the two young and naive cops, and the hapless witness they are guarding (who doesn't even get a character name), and shoots her dead. He talks to the two cops again on his way out and is home free until the final twist, which is also predictable if the viewer has been paying attention.
However, and it is inexplicable how no one in the entire experienced production spotted it, Phil kills the woman who may identify his partner, but he also has to talk at length and up close to the two cops to bluff his way in and out. He doesn't even have on a disguise or don a fake mustache. One was then expecting Phil to waste the cops on his way out since they can definitely finger him, but no, he doesn't.
There is a witness to the robbery-murder by the pair of a bank messenger who was fatally shot by the young, reckless, hot-tempered and hotheaded Davey. So his partner, veteran ex-con Phil, buys a police uniform complete with genuine badge from a criminal associate and talks his way past the two young and naive cops, and the hapless witness they are guarding (who doesn't even get a character name), and shoots her dead. He talks to the two cops again on his way out and is home free until the final twist, which is also predictable if the viewer has been paying attention.
However, and it is inexplicable how no one in the entire experienced production spotted it, Phil kills the woman who may identify his partner, but he also has to talk at length and up close to the two cops to bluff his way in and out. He doesn't even have on a disguise or don a fake mustache. One was then expecting Phil to waste the cops on his way out since they can definitely finger him, but no, he doesn't.