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Robbery Detail. A man has been beaten, presumably a crime to get money to buy drugs.
Joe Friday’s mother makes an appearance, as he pops in for lunch. A telegram from his old high school, Belmont, invites him to give a speech. As she makes a clean sweep with a vacuum, Joe gets the call to run down a gun wielding teenager, robbing for his drug money.
A doctor’s office was cleaned out, and a car offers the first clue. At the unkemptt residence, the report of the stolen car that Mrs Adams made seems full of holes. Its clear that drug use is at the center of the happenings in the Adams house.
In voiceover, Joe describes the progression in the case. Danger looms as gunplay and a foot race pins down their suspect. Rex Burley tells the sad tale of a young man who got hooked, and his robberies to feed his habit. Joe continues in Voiceover with details of the arrests, then returns home.
The doting Mrs Friday frets over Joe’s ripped coat, and listens to the parts of his speech that he prepared. His words are designed to warn teens off of throwing away a promising life, and what to be alert to in barely covered up malt shops that are fronts to a worse world. He recounts how Rex ruined more than his own life, and dragged his girlfriend with him.
