- An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000. When his business partner refuses to help, the scrapper flies into a rage and murders him at a construction site. He then turns to an unscrupulous loan shark, but can only get some of the money and the deal runs out as his conscience bears down on him.—WesternOne
- The show begins with George Paraskis ( John Larch), a scrap dealer, spending his 40th birthday, at the Hudson River. An old ship, "the American Dream", has come up for sale that very day, and George is clearly in love with the ship. Beaming, he climbs its decks and dreams of how it might be made into something wonderful. He pitches this grand scheme to his partner, Apples, while Apples works in the dirt prying bricks off a wall for resale at a nickel apiece. George's eyes alight he describes the interior, and while he eagerly pitches his scheme, the partner sneers - calls him a fool whose hands are so dirty that they'll never wash out, reminds him that he's only a junkman and..a miserable one at that, a failed junkman. If it weren't for him, Apple sneers, the business would have failed long ago. George raises the sledehammer the partner has been working with on his junk heap, and murders him.
The narrator begins an intonation of what happens to a man who murders and is not punished, paraphrasing Thomas D'Quincy.
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