- An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.
- The episode opens with young Donnie Benton (Roddy McDowall) hurrying past East 55th street as the narrator announces "This is an actor...according to Webster;s, the definition of an actor is..." Donnie enters a building and goes to see his agent, without an appointment and without stopping in at the receptionists desk. Instead, he pushes into his agent's private office and demands an immediate advance. He needs the money. The agent is incredulous, "An advance on what?" He hasn't worked in 4 months. "The future, on my future work". After all, he's a great talent and the agent knows it. The agent sneers that what he knows is that Donnie is a rude and spoiled child who should go home to his mother. Donnie "fires" him and walks home, but can't get into his apartment. The landlord is holding the key for non-payment. This landlord is not only unwillig to let him in to that apartment without full payment, he suggests that Donnie "keep away from his wife or after I'm done with you the only thing your face will be able to play is the role of Frankenstein".
Non-plussed, Donny hails a cab to Queens. "Queens? Sure, it's your dough" says the cabbie.
Next scene is Frank, Lt and Detective in Manhattan who find a dead cabbie, strangled. They remark that this is the third murder that day, all cabbies. In the cab, near the drivers seat, they find the script to a play. Frank and Adam then show the script to the cabbie's wife, a decent hardworking sort who clearly loves her husband. Not his, she says. Relunctantly, they tell the cabbies' wife of his death.
Donny pays the landlord a couple hundred dollars in cash, and gets the key.
Libby looks at the script and figures out that its a play now undergoing rehearsal in Greenwhich Village. The director expalins 8 people have played the part "It's a flashy part, they keep going on to Broadway." He also points out that many people have been handed the script who never played the part.
The Lt and Det visit the forensic lab, whose head explains that cabs are filled with fingerprints, all smeared. They look at a hair sample found in one cabbies hand - dark hair, young.
Improv at night, the undercover policewoman suggests Don do the cabby murderer. While he does, she lifts his empty glass into her purse and calls Lt Parker, he catches her on the phone and drags her off. Next scene a body is being brought out while the principal police characters stand grim-faced and watch.
Mrs. Benton in the kitchen.
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