According to David Niven's introduction. This is a quasi religious story. The power of redemption by doing nice things for one another.
Eddie Bracken is Merlin a stage pickpocket and he has done it on the streets as well on his younger days. Hence why he became to be well known to the police.
Now Merlin is an ex pickpocket. He has developed arthritis in his fingers. He cannot work on stage, he is behind on the rent and cannot even afford food.
His agent gives him $100, money that the agent claims was owed to him for some years.
Only Merlin is pickpocketed himself. As he goes through the day, Merlin succumbs to temptation. He picks a few pockets as his fingers are working. Only to give the money back, as others have an even bigger sob story.
One is an unemployed man who got his social security money. The next is a doctor who spots Merlin's condition and asks him to come round and try a new therapy.
When Merlin arrives home, a policeman is waiting for him and it turns out to be good news.
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