In this high-stakes drama, a police captain takes down con men in stories drawn from real-life cases.
Episode 1
A young couple buys a used car from a slick salesman, but soon afterward the car's brakes fail. The resulting accident nearly causes their death. Capt. Braddock begins to suspect that this "accident" was more the result of criminal negligence than happenstance and sets out to prove it.
Episode 2
When Longshot, a likable panhandler and compulsive gambler, informs Captain Braddock of a bunco game, the racketeers take their revenge.
Episode 3
A pleasant man moves to a small town. He gives himself out as being a famous geologist, an expert in locating oil-deposits by signs in the surface of the landscape. Soon he is introduced into the community of the local businessmen. He reveals to them that he has found signs of an oil-deposit just outside the town. He offers them shares in the oil-field on very good conditions, but as soon as the money is paid and the contracts are signed, he prepares to leave the town immediately.