The lives of a waitress and a drifter are shaken up when a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) takes refuge in an Arizona roadside diner. Broadcast January 7, 1940. Gabriele works in a diner in the Arizona desert where she meets and connects with a failed British writer and intellectual named Alan Squire who is in search of something worth living for. She dreams of a life in France and wants that Squire will take her there. Meanwhile her pump attendant boyfriend shows signs of jealousy and the tension really rises when Duke Mantee, a notorious killer and his gang arrive at the diner and hold everyone hostage.