It’s time for two more episodes of the Invisible Man.  This time the invisible man gets in trouble for passing a school bus stopped for children and he has to help a little old lady who’s got a gambling problem, an embezzlement problem, she’s being blackmailed, and the there two bank robberies on the same day at her bank.  John and Eugene discuss Stop When Red Lights Flash & Pin Money.

Stop When Red Lights Flash Synopsis

Dan and Kate, on their way to an important meeting drive through the aptly named Docker Junction, because they’ll soon be in the dock for passing a school bus with its flashing light on. But it’s all just a small town traffic trap scam run by the local sheriff, justice of the peace, town counsellor/town treasurer and court recording.

Dan sense of justice is offended and her refuses to pay the outrageous fine and is sentenced to jail. He calls his only lawyer friend, Walter Carlson for help. IN the meantime he uses his powers as The Invisible Man to investigate and learns that the judge has $2,000,000 in ill-gotten gains which is splitting 50/50 with his accomplices…. They just don’t know they’re all his accomplices and they’ll being setup for a fall by the judge should things go south.

Walter arrives and is caught in the same traffic trap, and, when he gets indignant, is also sentences to jail pending trial. At their trial the next day, Dan has managed to collect enough evidence and Walter has been able to bring in two friends from the Justice Department and the IRS and things hit the fan when he produces their books of illegal takings.

Pin Money Synopsis

Walter Carlson’s aunt Maggie has got a problem. She’s a down-trodden cog in an unthinking and unfeeling capitalistic system that values profits over people. Having given her life working for the First Bank of Harperville, she has no pension, and no hope for the future. To try to survive her golden years with dignity, she turned to gambling.

So now, she’s got a gambling problem, too.

Actually, she’s got several other problems. She has a gullibility problem because the people she’s been playing power with have been systematically cheating her. She’s also going to be out of job soon because she’s being replaced as the bank’s bookkeeper by a newly-installed computer. Also, the less-than-scrupulous computer installer has discovered that she’s embezzled $30,000 from the bank before the system goes live and he’s blackmailing her for $15,000 to “fix” it before the system comes online Monday morning. That would be $15,000 which she doesn’t have because she’s got a gambling problem.

She turns to her only relative, Walter, for help, but he doesn’t have time for her as he’s on his way to make money for Klae Corporation. The harsh injustices of capitalism again kicking in the face in her moment of desperate need.

Dan and Kate get involved and discover her secret and Dan surreptitiously uses his powers as The Invisible Man to cheat the cheaters at the poker game allowing Maggie to win enough money to pay back what she took.

Instead of paying the blackmailer, Dan concocts a plan to return all $30,000, by robbing the bank first thing on Monday morning and, instead of taking money, sneak the money back in and replace it, then removing his disguise and disappearing, making his escape.

It all goes to plan except Maggie has two more problems: Walter returns and decides he needs to see her, and is in the bank when the robbery occurs and, it must be bank season because two more bank robbers show up in identical costumes to Dan to rob the same bank and the same time.

Comedy ensues, but in the end, the money is returned, the Westins escape, the blackmailer is framed by Dan as the bank robber and Maggie is the hero of the day for capturing the bank robbers.

Out of gratitude, the bank promises to work her until the day she dies because she still doesn’t have a pension plan but at least she’s got a job