As Hartrampf attempts to exit the police station, a female vice squad detective bumps into him and has him arrested for lewd behavior. Later, Bob meets off-duty detective Dave at Hartrampf's mortuary, where Dave poses as a telephone repairman and surreptitiously retrieves Hartrampf's address book, which includes Vicki's address on a street next to the car lot. Forman, meanwhile, arranges for Hartrampf to be released, but Barney orders desk sergeant Fred to delay their departure. When Dutch finally arrives at the warehouse and learns that Barkis shot the policeman, who has since died, Marty becomes afraid and wants to quit, but is pressured to stay. Ed, meanwhile, arranges with Federal Savings Bank president Schaefer to set a trap for the potential robbers. Barney orders Bob to dismiss all suspects except Hartrampf, and find out who the undertaker had been visiting. When Hartrampf's well-connected lawyer, Dwight Forman, arrives at the police station, Hartrampf admits it was too dark for him to see the killer's face, and when he is questioned again, he unintentionally reveals that he had been leaving a nearby apartment house. In another part of town in a condemned warehouse, Barkis and his colleagues, Pete and Lou, await the arrival of Marty Kusalich, and their fifth partner, Dutch, who unknown to them, is being held for a line-up as a suspect in Kellogg's murder. Barney assigns Ed Chisholm to investigate Frankie's claims. Barney refuses to make a deal but gets Frankie to reveal that Barkis, with whom he was in jail, is planning to rob the Federal Savings Bank. Atkinson to look into it under the aegis of marriage bunko, then meets with Frankie Pierce, a convicted felon who wants to trade information in exchange for dropping attempted burglary charges against him. Barney first meets with Miss Easton, who believes her mother is being victimized by a fake foreign count.

When 'Barney' Barnaby, captain of the detectives, arrives at work, his secretary Ginny informs him that Kellogg is still unconscious, Bob has not yet filed his report, and several people are waiting to see him. Hartrampf fears his wife, who is currently out of town, will find out about his affair, and refuses to cooperate with Lt. Hartrampf reluctantly tries to help Kellogg and is later brought to police headquarters for questioning. Barkis shoots the policeman when he attempts to arrest Pete and the thieves escape in the car. The thieves are interrupted by patrolman Kellogg, and Hartrampf hides under the stairwell when he sees Barkis retreating behind a nearby wall. In Los Angeles, as Alan Barkis and his accomplice, Pete Monte, attempt to hot-wire a car in a sales lot, Vicki Webb bids farewell to her lover, married undertaker Jack Hartrampf, in a neighboring apartment building.

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