Would you trade your freedom for twelve years for a hundred fifty thousand dollar payoff? That's what this episode suggests, as mild mannered investment clerk, Milton Potter (Paul Hartman), embezzles two hundred grand from his employer, and promptly turns himself in to the police! All kinds of things wrong with this episode. Actor Hartman was in his mid-Fifties when he appeared in this story, and he looked it, but it was mentioned that he had worked at Metro Investments for thirteen years straight out of college. So unless he graduated when he was about forty years old, that idea wasn't very credible. With three years taken off for good behavior, Potter's release from his fifteen year sentence found him returning to the scene of the crime, so to speak, to return the original amount of money he stole. Seems to me if he had the intelligence to swindle a couple hundred grand unnoticed, he should have been smart enough to move up in his organization to make more money, and afford to put some cash aside each week. I mean, he worked for an investment company, he could have put the money to work earning compound interest and been a free man the whole time. Probably not a hundred fifty thousand, but still a nice chunk to go along with Social Security in his old age. One thing for sure though, the episode wouldn't hold water today, with bank interest rates much less than one per cent. But then again, a hundred fifty grand wouldn't go far either!
Review of Not the Running Type
