- After robbing diamond merchant Charles Pollen, two armed men are pursued by security guards, one of whom is shot and wounded. The Homicide team work on this case with Sgt. Bannister of the local CIB, who is an old adversary of Sgt. Mackay.
- Two armed men, Tom Garfield (Kevin Leslie) and Jim Dixon (Max MacAlister), invade the home of diamond wholesaler Charles Pollen (Kenrick Hudson), tie up his wife (Mary Marshall) and nanny, Janet Kirby (Lynn James) and rough Charles up. He is forced to hand them the keys to his safe. Garfield and Dixon loot the safe, tie Charles up and calmly walk out of the house. As they reach the street, a car from Charles's security firm arrives, responding to an alert from a silent alarm that they had triggered. Garfield and Dixon quickly head for the woods nearby with the security guards in pursuit.
Garfield pulls out a revolver and shoots one guard as the other one tackles Dixon, then he continues to flee to another nearby street, where a getaway car driven by Frank Ryder (Max Cullen) is waiting. Garfield gets into the car and tells Ryder to floor it.
Soon after, Detective Sergeant David Mackay (Leonard Teale) and Detectives Peter Barnes (George Mallaby) and Alberto "Bert" Costello (Lionel Long) respond to a call to the police and arrive on the scene. They send the captured Dixon off to a holding cell to cool his heels while they investigate the scene of the crime. They are unable to get a description of the shooter because he was wearing a mask at the time, and the threat of a lengthy prison term isn't enough for Dixon to give up the name of his partner in crime.
Inside their hideout, Garfield and Ryder are waiting for their boss, Mark Watson (Peter Aanensen) to turn up. Garfield suggests that because the police will be doubly alert, he should get a bigger share of the loot, but this only leads to a falling out among the thieves and their employer.
Meanwhile, Mackay, Barnes and Costello come to the conclusion that the robbers must have had some help from the inside. They quickly focus their attention on Pollen's Welsh nanny, and Kirby is given the third degree face to face. Under the pressure, she admits that she helped Garfield and Dixon after she was homesick and needed some money to get back to Wales. She knew Watson and had expressed her feelings to him, and Watson had then hatched the plans and hired a couple of men to pull the job off. Kirby gives the detectives the address of the small cabin where she was to meet the robbers for her cut of the loot.
The police soon mount a raid on the small cabin, but all that they find there is Garfield's body. He had been shot by Watson after being too forceful with his demand for more cash. The police are able to follow the trail back to Watson, and soon round him and the rest of the crew up for some lengthy jail time.
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