Driving home from a party one night, a middle-aged couple runs someone over -- or thinks they did. But when they go back to check on the body, it's gone. Did they imagine the whole thing? Enter Joe Mannix, who learns that the missing (but not dead) body belongs to an exiled mafioso who has entered the country illegally and cannot afford to be found.
The problem: The injured mobster believes it was JOE behind the wheel that night -- and that the collision was no accident. Uh oh!
A few nagging questions:
Would the mob really give a family whose home they're invading the run of the house, and not check on their prisoner (Joe Mannix) occasionally too? Probably not.
And why was the mobster walking on that particular street that night anyway? This question is never really answered.
Despite these flaws, and despite some promiscuous use of the zoom lens (an infectious disease making the rounds of Hollywood in the late 60s - late 70s) this is still a (mostly) well-directed and consistently surprising episode.
7/10
The problem: The injured mobster believes it was JOE behind the wheel that night -- and that the collision was no accident. Uh oh!
A few nagging questions:
Would the mob really give a family whose home they're invading the run of the house, and not check on their prisoner (Joe Mannix) occasionally too? Probably not.
And why was the mobster walking on that particular street that night anyway? This question is never really answered.
Despite these flaws, and despite some promiscuous use of the zoom lens (an infectious disease making the rounds of Hollywood in the late 60s - late 70s) this is still a (mostly) well-directed and consistently surprising episode.
7/10