Original Airdate: Aug 01, 1974

Episode 0126 "The Hitman"

Written by Henry Schescher, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A chance encounter with the wife of his next victim, and hearing the heartbreaking story that the couple shares, changes a hired assassin's mindset.

We've been waiting for you. We knew that you'd be back We know that by now you've discovered. There's no fear like the fear you can hear and We'regoing to fill your ears with a story about the most basic fear of all death. We're going to tell you a story about a man who dispenses death the way othermen dispense haircuts a man known in the parlance of the underworld as The Hitman. In case you're unfamiliar with criminal vocabulary, allow me to explain. A hitman is someone hired especially to terminate the life of someone else.

Our story begins in a bus terminal of a large eastern city, a place of arrivals and departures. In the crowd we can see a rather sallow young man searching every face and scowling at his inability to recognize the man he has come to find. But then he doesn't know what Jim Derry looks like. Jim Derry tries not to make himself too visible in person. Mr. Derry has a very good reason. But now the young man spots someone pulling on a pair of light-colored gloves And he recognizes the signal, if not the man.

Starring: Mike Kellen, Lon Clark, Allan Manson, Earl Hammond