At one point, Mike mentions having lost money at Aqueduct, a racetrack in New York City, but when Dora and Gino are stopped by a cop after they have murdered Mike and Arne, she says that they are on their way to New York to "start a new Jelke Ring." It is hard to pinpoint where the story takes place and it seems to be set in an imaginary city somewhere in the northeastern part of the U.S. Merwin's story takes a long time to get to the point, which is that Gino really is nothing more than a punk who is too stupid to realize that the man he robbed was an important member of the city's criminal organization. They are stopped by Ozzie and three mobsters, who tell them that Fellowes was the payoff man for the syndicate and that their future looks bleak. Dora and Gino take the money and leave, avoiding trouble with the police on the way out and walking toward the highway. An argument ensues and Dora kills Arne with a knife Gino kills Mike by bashing him over the head repeatedly with the portable radio. Later that night, Dora comes home from another babysitting job to announce that the cops are checking each home in the neighborhood. Ozzie mentions that Mike had been there earlier that day to try to sell him a gold table lighter Gino realizes that Mike stole the lighter from the Fellowes home and that his careless act has put them all in danger.īack at the tenement, Gino confronts Mike. He goes to a bar to find Ozzie, a fence, and buys a portable radio and a lantern because Mike's failure to pay the electric bill the month before has left the foursome in the dark and without the latest news bulletins. Now, hearing that big-time crooks are gathering in the city, Gino thinks that the $32,000 he and his friends stole from the Fellowes home is his ticket to the big time. The robbery at the Fellowes home was planned for when the owner was supposed to be out of town, but when he came home unexpectedly Gino shot and killed him. He wanted to make connections with successful criminals but failed and now wants to move on. without connections ranging in age from 17 to 21, they were "treading water way over their heads." Living in a city that is known as a safe haven for important crime figures, Gino is a punk who arrived two years before, riding a freight car with barely a cent to his name. Dora was a babysitter working for Fellowes, and this was just the latest in a series of robberies she had set up for her friends. His safe was rifled and the police have set up a five-state dragnet, suspicious that the crime was a "carefully planned, professional job." In truth, the criminals are four young people: Gino, Dora, Mike and Arne, who have spent the past three days cooped up in a tenement, afraid to venture outside. Hubert Fellowes has been murdered in his home. "Prominent businessman and philanthropist" F. The source for this episode was a story, also called "The Big Score," by Sam Merwin, Jr., that had been published in the July 1955 issue of Manhunt. Bryce Walton's second teleplay for Alfred Hitchcock Presents was "The Big Score," which was broadcast over the NBC network on Tuesday, March 6, 1962.
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