- Mr. Bowers booby-traps his basement, electrocuting his wife when she turns on an overhead bulb. Next, the widower ties the knot with a mousy heiress, Maggie, whom he has seduced. While Edie warbles "when the lights start lighting the town", Maggie's quibbling older sisters, one controlling and their other daffy, along with their pince-nezed attorney James Bond, drive to Mother's in their antique Baker Electric car (c1913) to employ Gunn to investigate Bowers, whom they accurately suspect is only interested in Maggie's money. Gunn detects he's an ex-con blackmailer, but the new bride doesn't fret, although Bond warns her she'll be the next victim.—David Stevens
- The episode opens, as all of them do, showing a crime being committed. A man booby traps the basement of his house, so that when his wife comes down to investigate water spilling from a washer/dryer, she is electrocuted. (A rare episode with a passel of female corpses, past and present, given that most Peter Gunn episodes feature male victims.)
Turns out this same man is dating a lonely and rich woman, Maggie, who is around 50 and who lives with her two elder sisters. The eldest sister in particular very much opposes the relationship and tells her sister that she will cut her out of her inheritance. Maggie tells her sister that she is in love with the man, and does not believe he is trying to con her. Gunn is suspicious because of the ways the man's previous wives have died. The man's background is very sketchy, which is why Maggie's sisters have hired the detective to investigate.
Not long after another argument between the two women, the eldest sister meets her death in a car accident. It appears the breaks were tampered with, but Gunn is unable to tie the accident to the woman's boyfriend. The boyfriend is offended at the insinuation as he rushes to comfort his girlfriend. However, he disappears soon afterwards. Then, Maggie's other sister is found dead in her bed. The woman continues to refuse to believe that her boyfriend may have committed a murder.
Gunn suspects the woman knows where he is hiding, and he tails her to a shack outside of town. Gunn's suspicions are proved right when he catches up to both of them there. The boyfriend maintains his innocence regarding the murder of the two older sisters, and he is telling the truth. Maggie admits she got rid of her sisters, because she was fearful that they would end the only love she had ever known.
There is a scuffle between Gunn and the boyfriend, who stumbles into an electrified booby trap -- one that was meant for his girlfriend. Gunn points this out as proof that the woman's life was always in danger. Maggie admits she figured he would murder her eventually just as he had done to his wives, but she wanted love so badly that it didn't matter.
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