S2 E1 • A Death of Princes

A crooked detective masterminds a box office robbery during a charity boxing event by forcing a prizefighter, a playboy, and the cashier to cooperate with him under threat of arresting them for previous crimes.

Première diffusion : 12 octobre 1960

S2 E2 • The Pedigree Sheet

The only survivor survivor of a car wreck, Nora Condon, is brought in by the police. The driver was shot just before the crash and the other passenger was known as a gunman.

Première diffusion : 19 octobre 1960

S2 E3 • A Succession of Heartbeats

When a wealthy playboy and his girlfriend are found murdered in his apartment, police suspect the woman's husband of the crime. But he proves he was out of town at the time, and a discarded girlfriend of the playboy comes forward to confess.

Première diffusion : 26 octobre 1960

S2 E4 • Down the Long Night

The owner of a printing plant that burned down, killing his neighbor's wife and daughter, begs police for protection from the man, who, certain that he set the fire himself, is threatening to kill him.

Première diffusion : 2 novembre 1960

S2 E5 • To Walk In Silence

A Wall Street financial expert who plays the horses is accidentally shot in the bookie joint. Afraid of jeopardizing his position, he refuses to allow police to extract the bullet and testify against the culprit. Then his daughter is kidnapped by thugs who want him to testify.

Première diffusion : 9 novembre 1960

S2 E6 • Killer with A Kiss

Trying to track down a psychopathic killer who's been stabbing patrolmen, police get a lead when they find a surgical knife along with a toy colonel figure with its head twisted off.

Première diffusion : 16 novembre 1960

S2 E7 • Debt of Honor

A gambler, indebted to a man in Italy who saved his life, marries the man's daughter so that se can enter America. Upon her arrival she finds him in big trouble with the underworld and she runs away.

Première diffusion : 23 novembre 1960

S2 E8 • The Human Trap

After accidentally killing her playboy lover after finding he's dating her daughter, a divorcee persuades the girl to go along with her story that she was protecting her daughter from the drunken man's advances.

Première diffusion : 30 novembre 1960

S2 E9 • The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half

Police are baffled when jewel thieves kill a night watchman and steal a plastic replica of a diamond. The gang's using it so that their diamond cutter can practice to be ready when they steal the real thing.

Première diffusion : 14 décembre 1960

S2 E10 • Bullets Cost Too Much

Three hoods hold up a bar where Flint is making a routine check. Keeping his gun hidden to avoid injuries, he's branded a coward by newspapers after a protesting customer is killed by one of the thugs.

Première diffusion : 4 janvier 1961

S2 E11 • Murder Is a Face I Know

A loving, law-abiding family man is arrested one day after he massacres the crew of a cabin cruiser on the Hudson River. His wife and son must face the fact that he's secretly been a hitman for a gang lord.

Première diffusion : 11 janvier 1961

S2 E12 • Landscape with Dead Figures

A half-crazed artist, institutionalized by his cousin who arranged for a false death certificate, escapes during a period of lucidity and finds his uncompleted paintings have been finished by another artist and are about to make a fortune for his cousin in an art gallery.

Première diffusion : 18 janvier 1961

S2 E13 • A Hole in the City

Three men hold up an armored car and escape into the Bronx, followed by police. They take refuge with the aunt of the gangleader, whose personality starts to disintegrate as he relives his unfortunate past.

Première diffusion : 1 février 1961

S2 E14 • The Well-Dressed Termite

When a man electrocutes his partner as they're wiretapping the phone of a member of a financial combine, his bail is arranged by a senior partner in the firm, whose actions lead to death for his partners.

Première diffusion : 8 février 1961

S2 E15 • The Day It Rained Mink

After meeting a model, a man decides he needs some quick money to divorce his wife. Learning of a fur coat exhibit in a local hotel, he maps out a robbery plan which should net him $250,000.

Première diffusion : 15 février 1961

S2 E16 • Button in the Haystack

When a parolee discovers a corpse in a parked car in his service station, he panics and throws the gun he bought for protection into a passing truck. When he's later suspected of the crime, that gun is the only evidence that can prove his innocence.

Première diffusion : 22 février 1961

S2 E17 • Shoes for Vinnie Winford

When a hostess at the Tango Dance Palace reports a co-worker has been missing for three days, the owner tells police he’s never heard of the girl. After investigating the man’s past, Flint finds that the girl is in a private hospital after being beaten up by the psychotic man.

Première diffusion : 1 mars 1961

S2 E18 • The Deadly Guinea Pig

After a gun battle leaves the corpses of a policeman and an unidentified man, police find that the policeman was actually a woman in disguise, and the man an ex-Nazi SS officer.

Première diffusion : 8 mars 1961

S2 E19 • Vengeance Is a Wheel

When an old night watchman, patriarch of an Italian family, is killed during a waterfront robbery, his family swears vengeance on the killers, refusing to cooperate with police.

Première diffusion : 15 mars 1961

S2 E20 • The Fault in Our Stars

An unemployed actor, behind in his rent and locked out of his room, robs and strangles three cab drivers, leaving behind a script which Flint’s girlfriend recognizes is from an off-Broadway play.

Première diffusion : 22 mars 1961

S2 E21 • Tombstone for a Derelict

Four young men are stabbing vagrants to death and leaving swastikas nearby, a clue to their identities which goes unnoticed by police until the men, dressed as Nazis, stage a parade behind a tenement house.

Première diffusion : 5 avril 1961

S2 E22 • A Memory of Crying

After four bad marriages, a machine-like man finally weds a woman for whom he feels real affection. When she dies in childbirth, his mind snaps and he uses a gun to get the $3,000 he feels he owes the doctor.

Première diffusion : 12 avril 1961

S2 E23 • New York to L.A.

Flint and another detective are sent to L.A. to extradite two brothers wanted for murder in New York. The psychiatrist from the orphanage where they were raised vainly tries to fight the extradition. Upon leaving the court, one of the men kills a guard and escapes.

Première diffusion : 19 avril 1961

S2 E24 • A Very Cautious Boy

A gangland syndicate headed by a lawyer has been collecting protection money from a couple who own a restaurant. They decide to fight back by hiring a strongarm man to free them from the extortion ring.

Première diffusion : 26 avril 1961

S2 E25 • An Economy of Death

Separated from their granddaughter during the Revolution, a Hungarian couple hire a man to find her, and they learn that an honored member of the community gave information to the enemy that led to the massacre in which their son was killed.

Première diffusion : 3 mai 1961

S2 E26 • C3H5(NO3)3

After quarrelling with his wife, a chemistry professor goes out and gets drunk. He fills an empty whisky bottle with nitroglycerin, planning to blow up his wife and his home, then loses the bottle. When he sobers up, he goes to the police, who begin a frantic search for the bottle.

Première diffusion : 10 mai 1961

S2 E27 • Make-Believe Man

A South American revolutionary, seeing that a Bowery bum is a dead ringer for his country’s legendary hero, whisks the derelict away to sober him up and use him to get backing for his planned coup.

Première diffusion : 17 mai 1961

S2 E28 • To Dream Without Sleep

A lonely young woman joins an escort service and meets a man who leads her to believe he wants to marry her. Horror-stricken when she learns he’s already married, she stabs him and then wanders around the city.

Première diffusion : 24 mai 1961

S2 E29 • A Kettle of Precious Fish

Seven business executives, holding a conference aboard a fishing ship, are overtaken by a gangster and his mob, who demand their wives pay a ransom for their safe return.

Première diffusion : 31 mai 1961

S2 E30 • Sweet Prince of Delancey Street

When a plant guard is killed, a recently fired man and his son each claim they accidentally killed him. Police don’t know who’s covering for whom, but the guilt shifts when they find some industrial diamonds have been missing since the murder took place.

Première diffusion : 7 juin 1961

S2 E31 • The Day the Island Almost Sank

With several conventions in the city, all the hotels are occupied, and a visitor who’s had too much to drink collapses on the train steps, where he was told he could sleep. A private policeman hired by the city beats him to death and steals his money.

Première diffusion : 14 juin 1961

S2 E32 • Take and Put

When a wealthy couple uses up their money, they make a plan with their maid: she “borrows” jewelry from their party guests, they pawn it and invest the money in quick-profit stocks, then return the jewelry before police are called in.

Première diffusion : 21 juin 1961