Stage actress Christina Bancroft hires Michael for protection for three days, until the play ends in New Orleans. She says someone is trying to kill her, but she does not know who, or why. After the interview, Michael stood in the wings of the theater watching the play. Near the end, two men walked over to Michael and introduced themselves; Hamilton Dunn, the director of the play, and Frank Harper, Christina's business manager. Later, Michael was talking to Christina in her dressing room. He asks her "why do you think someone is trying to kill you? What evidence do you have?" Based upon her reply, Michael says "you are lying to me. You know who is after you, and you know why. So, let's have it."

Mr. George Brophy and his daughter Anita are involved in a fatal car accident. They are unharmed, but the other driver is not so lucky. Witnesses at the scene of the accident identify the other driver as the son of Johnny Michaelis, one of the biggest gangsters in London. The next day, the story of the accident makes the newspaper headlines, but George Brophy's name is left out of the story, because the reporters know that Johnny Michaelis would be looking for him. Brophy pays a visit to Peter Troy to hire him for protection. Peter says that he is definitely not interested. Then, Brophy says that the protection is not for himself, but for his twenty-one year old daughter Anita. He says that all you have to do is get her on the 11 o'clock plane to New York. Brophy then shows Peter a picture of Anita. Of course, that changes his mind about the job.

Matt Cvetic is in a meeting with Comrade Rivchenko, who asks if he knows anything about an "electronic brain", or a man named Duane Fleming. Matt says "the electronic brain is supposed to be a super calculating machine for mathematics, but I do not know anyone named Duane Fleming". Rivchenko says "Duane Fleming knows everything about electronic calculators, and, he is on our side. Comrade Fleming has been engaged to aid the installation of the newest electronic brain at the university, and you will be his assistant. The U.S. Military relies heavily on machines like this. It's calculations can help to put advanced aircraft in production years ahead of schedule. You will assist Comrade Fleming to make sure that the new machine renders the smallest possible service to the U.S. Military".

A con-artist named Joe Crane is trying to sell Mrs. Willoughby a "money making machine". He tells her to put a blank piece of paper into it, turn the crank, and out comes a new one dollar bill. He visited her yesterday, and gave her some one dollar bills to put in the bank. He says "The bank accepted them so they must be real. You give me 10 thousand dollars, and the machine is yours. To test it, she wrote her initials on one piece of paper, and made a new dollar that still had her initials on it, so she buys the machine. The next day, the machine quits working, so she calls the district attorney and reports that she has been swindled. Meanwhile, a guy named Sniffy Edwards shows up to Joe's apartment, looking for his share of the money. Joe decides that he wants to keep it all, so a fight breaks out, and Sniffy ends up dead.

Gregor, having learned that the authorities are closely watching his human smuggling enterprise, radios his pilot named Eagan, who is currently in the air carrying eight illegal passengers into Miami from Cuba. Eagan is ordered to force the passengers out of the plane by gunpoint in midair over the Caribbean Sea, activate the automatic pilot and set it for a descending trajectory, and to parachute from the airplane. The plane would soon crash and there would be no evidence of it or any of its illegal passengers. Eagan, reluctantly, carries out Gregor's instructions and makes his way back to Cuba. As a result of this terrible crime, the Miami Office of Immigration makes a call to David Harding, Chief of Counterspies in Washington.

Inspector Costello at the West End Central Police Station calls Scotland Yard for help in finding a murderer that, not only strangled his victim, but beat her severely after her death. Three days later, it happened again, only this time it was much more terrible. The killer seemed to be copying the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. However, in the second murder, he left a fingerprint in blood on the victim's mirror. Forty eight hours later, there was a third victim. Each crime scene began to get progressively worse. Fingerprints were again found, however there was nothing in the database that led to the murderer. Then, a fourth victim appeared. After that, the West End became quiet for a week, until a fifth attempt was made.

Bob Morgan and June Cordell are sitting in his car, parked at Lookout Point. They have been seeing each other for quite a while, almost a year. June wants to be married, but Bob has been saying that his wife will not give him a divorce. June tells him that she has decided that she will meet with his wife, and try to make her understand about their relationship. Bob then tells June that she cannot meet with his wife, because he has no wife. He has been lying to her all along. June becomes so enraged that she grabs Bob's gun from the glovebox. They struggle for the weapon, then suddenly, a shot rang out.

Inspector Christopher McKee was in his office at the Center Street Police Headquarters, when the telephone rang. A strange man tells him he can find a corpse at 1142 West 16th Street, Gilbert Shannon's apartment, and hangs up the phone. A few seconds later, a young woman named Julie calls and tells the Inspector that she just found her father, Gilbert Shannon, dead on the floor of his apartment at the same address. The Inspector then tells his deputy to call the medical examiner and says that he is going to that apartment himself. When he arrives, he inspects the crime scene, and tells Julie that her father was killed by blunt force trauma, and the murderer was someone known to him.