The Bullet is a Hitchcock style episode. Starts out like a movie mystery, a professor is being blackmailed by a professional blackmailer. While in the kitchen a hitman come in and the professor is hit by a bullet which went threw the door. A great starts. There is a panicking, slowly dying prof, which does not help Keller and Stone, a killer, blackmailed suspects all stewing into a murder mystery. The director has the story build and build as the tension builds. Regrettably the formulated climax were the story ties up all lose ends nicely creates a stale conclusion. Not bad six stars.
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As long as I stay just what I am nobody cares what I've been
kapelusznik184 February 2014
****SPOILERS**** Carl Betz who played Doctor Stone on the "Donna Reed" TV series desperately needs a doctor here as Collage literature professor Jeff Williams who got winged in his shoulder by a professional hit man Pat Conway, Victor A. Coyle,who's now out to finish the job that he started. It was professional blackmailer and part time gardener Barnie Phillips, Robert Cleaves, who was blackmailing the man Dr. Marvin Borrman, Peter Hobbs, who hired Conway to snuff him out. Williams another of Phillips' blackmail victims just happened to be at his office when Conway blasted him. Hiding in an adjoining room Williams got shot but survived and it's the bullet lodged in his arm that can convict Conway in Phillips' murder. It, the bullet, if operated on can bring up Williams's shady past as a convicted murderer and drug addict that can get him fired from his job as a collage professor!
Caring more about his job then his life, in dying from blood poison or gangrene, Williams refuses to be operated on putting not only his life but that of his wife Alice, Geraldine Brooks, in danger of being rubbed out by hit-man Conway. It's much later when things start to really get out of hand for Williams that he agrees to get operated on as well as have SFPD. Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, impersonate him in order to smoke out Conway who had since taken his wife Alice hostage.
In the end it takes a both land and air, with a helicopter, search & destroy operation by the SFPD and air national guard to finally put hit-man Conway's reign of terror to an end . The guy really could have just left the state and no one would have bothered looking for him since no one knew who he was. But being the perfectionist that he is Conway wanted no witnesses to be left alive who could identify him he tried to make sure that Williams, who didn't know the guy from a hole in the wall, never lived to turn him over, in a police lineup, to the police which of course he couldn't and wouldn't anyway.
Caring more about his job then his life, in dying from blood poison or gangrene, Williams refuses to be operated on putting not only his life but that of his wife Alice, Geraldine Brooks, in danger of being rubbed out by hit-man Conway. It's much later when things start to really get out of hand for Williams that he agrees to get operated on as well as have SFPD. Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, impersonate him in order to smoke out Conway who had since taken his wife Alice hostage.
In the end it takes a both land and air, with a helicopter, search & destroy operation by the SFPD and air national guard to finally put hit-man Conway's reign of terror to an end . The guy really could have just left the state and no one would have bothered looking for him since no one knew who he was. But being the perfectionist that he is Conway wanted no witnesses to be left alive who could identify him he tried to make sure that Williams, who didn't know the guy from a hole in the wall, never lived to turn him over, in a police lineup, to the police which of course he couldn't and wouldn't anyway.
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