When an episode begins with a murder through the top of an elevator car, gun with silencer, used on passenger, murderer escapes, the program gets the viewer's attention. Pete is called in to console a club singer friend of Edie's as the elevator passenger was the singer's friend. Murdered was Roger Dwyer, boyfriend of singer Lynn Martel, and Pete learns through Jacobi hoodlums Babe Santano and Nat Krueger are mixed in with the crime, the club, the singer and likely the dead boyfriend. Both criminals, club owner Santano and mob boss Krueger threaten Pete, telling him to stay out of the club, essentially away from Lynn, too. Pete honors Edie's request by going to Lynn's apartment to learn what has got her so frightened and withdrawn. Reviving her suicide attempt, learning Krueger wants her to himself, escorts her to Edie's via the infamous elevator. Sure enough, Krueger has sent Santano to kill Pete the same way he killed Roger. The climax is worth seeing as gunfire is involved in the settlement of differences, Pete taking care of things as well as Jacobi handling the police action with assistance. Lynn sings her final song as a goodbye to the club, and the fear she once had.
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