A girl (Zohra Lampert) dying from an apparent overdose interestingly
gives the police a lead to Otto Flagler (Albert Dekker), who has been a
mugging operation with her as accomplice. So undercover policewoman Casey
Jones (Beverly Garland) decides to try and replace her in Flagler's
operation - and she's successful, too ... only to find out that Flagler
and his wife Lili (Edith Atwater) are on the outside a nice elderly
couple, and because she, a former trapeze artiste, lost the use of her
legs in an accident, he does everything for her - even if that includes
mugging. Casey soon finds out that Lili is actually hooked on heroin, and
while she's high, Lili actually tells Casey that it was her who killed the
girl, poisoned her, because she knew something about her husband, that he
once killed a man during a mugging - sure, it was an accident, but who
would believe it? When Otto finds out Casey knows everything, he threatens
to kill her - but actually can't because he has something called a
conscience, and he would have never taken to crime in the first place if
it wasn't for his wife. He is quick to figure out that Casey is actually a
policewoman and knows his game is up, but by that time, Lili has made
coffee for everybody. Casey is scared to drink because the girl before her
was killed by poisoned coffee - but it's not her coffee that's poisoned
but those of Otto and Lili, who prefer collective suicide to being
arrested and in the process forced to live without each other ... For
the most part a rather simplistic and a bit far-fetched crime drama, but
the ending at least, if not totally unpredictable, is enjoyably macabre
and horrible in a good way.
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