***SPOILERS*** It's when this mysterious and out of the blue engineer Bert Johnson, Wayne Morris, is hired by big boss-man Mr. Roderiguez, Frank Silvera,to help Joe Philips, Joe Maross, finish a tunnel project that he's been stuck on in Mexico that red flags stars to rise in Philips direction. Hearing on the radio that an American engineer has murdered his boss in Texas and skipped out of the country Philips as well as us watching suspect that Johnson is the guy that the US and Mexican law enforcement agents are looking for.
Tensions rise when Philips finds that Johnson has a gun on him and suspecting that he's on the lamb for murder back in Texas feels that he, if he doesn't watch himself, may become Johnson's next victim! Wanting to check out as soon as possible Philips is stymied by Big Boss-Man Roderiguez when the only plane out of the tunnel dig takes off unexpectedly leaving Philips on his own at at the mercy of suspected murderer Bert Johnson. It's later that Philip's realizes that Johnson isn't as bad as he thought he was by him saving his life, at the risk of his own, during a mine cave-in that Philips was in a way responsible for. It's then when the plane, after about a week, finally lands at the tunnel site that we finally know what exactly in going on between the two, Johnson & Philips, engineers!
***SPOILERS*** The truth about what's happening comes out so casually that for a moment you don't realize that you've been hit with surprise ending. And it's that surprise in what's going on between Johnson & Philips that really pulls all the loose ends in this "Alfred Hithcock Presents" episode together and finally makes sense of it!
Tensions rise when Philips finds that Johnson has a gun on him and suspecting that he's on the lamb for murder back in Texas feels that he, if he doesn't watch himself, may become Johnson's next victim! Wanting to check out as soon as possible Philips is stymied by Big Boss-Man Roderiguez when the only plane out of the tunnel dig takes off unexpectedly leaving Philips on his own at at the mercy of suspected murderer Bert Johnson. It's later that Philip's realizes that Johnson isn't as bad as he thought he was by him saving his life, at the risk of his own, during a mine cave-in that Philips was in a way responsible for. It's then when the plane, after about a week, finally lands at the tunnel site that we finally know what exactly in going on between the two, Johnson & Philips, engineers!
***SPOILERS*** The truth about what's happening comes out so casually that for a moment you don't realize that you've been hit with surprise ending. And it's that surprise in what's going on between Johnson & Philips that really pulls all the loose ends in this "Alfred Hithcock Presents" episode together and finally makes sense of it!