- [last lines]
- [Mathews and Patrolman Ellsworth enter Ferrest's bicycly shop]
- Virgil Ferrest: Yes? Can I help you?
- Dan Mathews: [Matthews sees Higgins' cowboy hat on a table and picks it up] Looks like this is home plate.
- Virgil Ferrest: Jerk! He forgot his hat again.
- Dan Mathews: [Hands the hat to Ellsworth] Book this as evidence. I call and say we wrapped it up. Stay with him.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The United States has more automobiles per capita than any other nation in the world. It also has more automobile thefts. To combat this situation, our law enforcement agencies are ever busy, applying new and improved methods of crime detection. But the criminal, too, has also applied himself to devising new and improved methods. On the surface, there was nothing suspicious in the visit of Le Roy Edwards to a wrecking yard, nor in the fact that he wished to purchase a car.