Two men break in to kill a blackmailer. Plot twist: he's already dead. Awkward.
A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been murdered before they got there. The police soon arrive, tipped off in advance.
Acting
John Le Mesurier's exhausted authority figure energy.
Writing
Tight 60-minute puzzle box plotting, no fat.
Director
Alan Cooke
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