This one opens with noir photography as Nigel Green drills out a safe and makes a jewel haul; but he kills a policeman making his getaway. Green has left no clues except his modus operandi. The frustrated Detective Superintendent (Allan Cuthbertson) calls in a retired cop (Lee Montague) who stays at the Carleton Tower because he too sought Green a year or so ago before leaving the force. Montague's character is rather high pressure at times or perhaps he was overacting. I didn't quite connect with all of his performance. At any rate, he takes up the reins of the investigation. He encounters Alfred Burke, who once was either a friend or enemy of Green, perhaps both. Then he encounters Green's wife, Maxine Audley, who knows who he is and says she hates her husband and wants to cooperate. Is this true, or is she some sort of femme fatale?
And so it goes with ambiguity pursuing Montague and he attempting to find Green. In fact, he starts getting more clues than Green has ever dropped before, leading him to wonder if he should invert all his logic.
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