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An episode for parents, not your children.
Homicide Detail. A woman with a 2-year-old child have disappeared, and there’s no reason for it. It’s up to Joe Friday to find them.
Stepping into the halls of the homicide detail, Joe learns that a fellow detective is about to marry off his daughter, Alice, to a nice accountant. As Ben Romero enters, he refreshes the case of the disappearance of just a couple days ago. What is the interesting part he has on Mrs. Gorman? Ralph Kane is also missing from his printshop job. Joe describes mundane procedure in voiceover, as he returns to interview Mr. Pierson who busies himself with feeding his cats.
The checks flow over to neighbor, Thelma White, and the voiceover continues to describe more footwork. The crowd roars at the baseball game where Gorman is playing, but can he offer more insight on why his wife may have disappeared? Stepping into the relative calm of the locker room, the word of a possible scandal emerges. Weeks pass with nothing but blind leads. A break finally reveals a trace of the missing girl, but the blood stains aren’t hopeful. The only good news is that Kane and Mrs. Gorman have been found, and are being staked out.
Detectives converge on the suspects to question them on the missing Nancy. Why did they even take the child? Did the girl really run away? How will mom explain the blood stains? What about Kane’s side of the story? Will it serve to cause mom to crack? A suicide pact is behind the sad tale, but with ever changing stories, the police manage to get to the truth when Nancy is found.
