John Rhodes (
Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (
Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner, who uses the bird as a means of blackmailing Rhodes. Molner has taught the bird to repeat "Don't kill me, Rhodes" in the event he is murdered by a member of a gambling syndicate he has defrauded. Going to Molner's apartment, Trees finds him murdered and his bodyguard, Ray Hickey (
John Harmon), unconscious. Clues lead Trees to Mona Vance (
Faye Emerson, Molner's girlfriend, who is involved with Mark Harper (
Robert Kent, presumably her lawyer.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>