Mike Richards gets a job with the railroads through a protection racket that seems to be no larger than boss Sandy (Gene Roth) and enforcer Ray (Leonard Nimoy). When Mike refuses to pay the protection, Sandy has Ray beat him up, in the railroad yard in broad daylight. But Ray apparently gets a little enthusiastic about his work and Mike dies in the hospital a few hours later. Meanwhile, Mike's stepbrother thinks the police will be able to do nothing about this situation, and decides to go "undercover" as someone needing a job at the railroad so that he can expose the actual men involved in the scheme. Complications ensue.
Leonard Nimoy often played gangsters and underworld figures before he got his big break on Star Trek in the 1960s, so I wasn't too surprised to see him here. The only criticism I can really level at this episode is that the actress who played Mrs. Richards, Theona Bryant, was really not very good. Most actors and actresses on this show have an abbreviated style, because that is the straightforward nature of the show. This was something else; it was straight up bad acting.
Both Bryand and Nimoy have small parts in episodes of the TV show "The Untouchables" a few years later.
