There's no real twist to this episode, even when it's teased that Karl Gault (Barry Morse) might have been responsible for the death of the mortuary caretaker during David Chesterman's (Robert Redford) robbery of a dead woman's jewels! Gault almost admitted as much to the lovely Marie (Zohra Lampert) when he tried to force his affections on her after David's arrest. You have to wonder why David would have worn a clumsy scarf to one of his jobs, and wonder even more how he could have lost it to implicate his presence on the scene, since it was an easily identifiable piece of evidence linking him to the crime. There's a lot of padding to this story to have it meet its nearly one hour run time, like the amusement park scene and the one where Marie decides to sell her hair to fashion a wig for one of Gault's wealthy clients. The finale is meant to be tension filled with Marie's threat to jump from an upper story court building, but it ends with a whimper when David confesses to the murder of the mortuary guy, which was telegraphed early in the story when he almost beat a guy senseless for insulting Marie.
Review of A Tangled Web
