***SPOILERS*** Tracking down his army buddy Pete Williams,Dan Keefer, big time gangster Eddie Slovak, Alex Nicol, finds him working as a TV repairman in Queens NY. It was five years ago, in 1953, that it was Sgt. Williams who covered up Let. Slovak's cowardice under fire in the Korean War that almost had his entire infantry company wiped out by the Communist North Korean troops. What Slovak wants to do if pay back Williams for what he did for him in covering up his mistake that could well have had him thrown in the brig or even shot for is cowardly actions. What troubled Slovak more then anything else is that Williams wanted no money from him for what he did. that has Slovak think that he may well use the fact he was a coward to blackmail him in the future.
Were really in for a big surprise in this "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode in that the honest as the day's long Williams isn't really all that honest! We start to realize that when Williams' glamorous old lady or wife Louise, Nita Talbot the former Miss Chicago of 1938, starts to make a play for the handsome Eddie Slovak while her husband is hard at work fixing TV sets to pay the bills in the Williams household. In seeing that Slovak is loaded with cash as him being a major NYC mob bookie Louise is more then ready to dump her poor hard working husband for him.
***SPOILERS*** For his part Slovak want's nothing at all to do with Louise. All he want is to pay back a debt that he owes her husband. It's Louise's non stop aggressiveness that finally flips Slovak out who ends up in a fit of anger strangling her! You would think that after all this with the police and Williams coming on the scene of the murder that Williams would cover up for him like he did back in Korea but he doesn't. Williams knew all long that his wife was cheating on him and in fact set her up to get murdered by the unstable Slovak by acting like he didn't. As for Williams being out all day and night fixing TV sets that turned out to be just a cover for what he was really doing: Which was his good friend Slovak's cheating wife Fay!
P.S I don't know if it was a coincident or on purpose but in having the cowardly under fire hood given the name of Eddie Slovak in this "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode had anything to do with associating him with the real Pvt Eddie Slovik. It was Pvt Slovik who was the only US serviceman executed for cowardice in WWII for deserting his US infantry unit in France in order to save himself form getting killed or wounded in the fighting.
Were really in for a big surprise in this "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode in that the honest as the day's long Williams isn't really all that honest! We start to realize that when Williams' glamorous old lady or wife Louise, Nita Talbot the former Miss Chicago of 1938, starts to make a play for the handsome Eddie Slovak while her husband is hard at work fixing TV sets to pay the bills in the Williams household. In seeing that Slovak is loaded with cash as him being a major NYC mob bookie Louise is more then ready to dump her poor hard working husband for him.
***SPOILERS*** For his part Slovak want's nothing at all to do with Louise. All he want is to pay back a debt that he owes her husband. It's Louise's non stop aggressiveness that finally flips Slovak out who ends up in a fit of anger strangling her! You would think that after all this with the police and Williams coming on the scene of the murder that Williams would cover up for him like he did back in Korea but he doesn't. Williams knew all long that his wife was cheating on him and in fact set her up to get murdered by the unstable Slovak by acting like he didn't. As for Williams being out all day and night fixing TV sets that turned out to be just a cover for what he was really doing: Which was his good friend Slovak's cheating wife Fay!
P.S I don't know if it was a coincident or on purpose but in having the cowardly under fire hood given the name of Eddie Slovak in this "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" episode had anything to do with associating him with the real Pvt Eddie Slovik. It was Pvt Slovik who was the only US serviceman executed for cowardice in WWII for deserting his US infantry unit in France in order to save himself form getting killed or wounded in the fighting.