Highway Patrol S03E18 The Seventh Green

February 3, 1958
Season 3 Episode 18

Country club grounds superintendent Bruno Keeley, who shelters notorious criminals for a price, is forced to shoot and kill fugitive murderer Leonard Gage (a/k/a "Hepner") after he attacks Keeley during a dispute over payment. Keeley hides the body in some brush on the golf course, and plans to remove it under cover of night. However, the corpse is discovered by golfers Dan Mathews and Judge Francis. Investigation reveals that Keeley is allowed to hire his own men, that there is very frequent turnover among them, and that many of his employees have fraudulent Social Security numbers. Keeley feigns ignorance of his employees' backgrounds, but Dan is relentless and eventually questions Keeley's wife while Keeley and armed fugitive George Carroll hide in the next room and monitor the conversation. Dan's persistent questioning eventually compels Mrs. Keeley to acknowledge her husband's involvement in the shooting, so Keeley and Carroll attempt to flee. Dan chases them in the direction of Officer Hoffman's roadblock, where a pitched gun battle takes place. Written by Sam Spear