A girl is murdered in a village of a mere 16 souls, and the blame is
quickly put upon a drifter, Clarence Redding (John Bleifer), who has been
at the scene of the crime, a barn, when the murder was happening, but
claims he had been sleeping. He is tried, found guilty and sentenced to
death because everything fits just too perfectly. This is when Sam Larsen
(Lyle Bettger) from the Court of Last Resort steps in to conduct
his own investigations ... but he quickly hist a wall when Clarence
Redding, with his execution just weeks away, falls into a state of
catatonia out of shock, and the only thing he keeps repeating is something
about a man with a red shirt - which is enough for Larsen, who figures the
man in red must have been the killer, then he finds a red jacket in a pawn
shop that must have belonged to the man, and links the murder of the girl
to a killing spree, and in no time at all the killer is caught and
Clarence Redding released ... Not really good: The story is far
fetched to the max, whcih wouldn't be too bad wasn't it for that
irony-free matter-of-fact approach to the whole thing. Furthermore,
despite some very dramatic goings-on, this episode has only very little to
offer in terms of tension and suspense and rather limits itself to state
the facts (?) without any regard for buildup and the like. Rather lame.
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