One of the more interesting--though implausible--episodes, if only because it breaks with the more realistic low-key template of most other segments. (As usual, viewers are still left in the dark as to how Kimball, who always works at minimum wage jobs apparently without supplying any ID or social security info, maintains a snazzy wardrobe replete with well-pressed slacks and sports coats.)
In this far-fetched (though intriguing) episode, Kimball is working as a deliveryman at a large department store who witnesses his boss accidentally kill a man when he (Kimball) goes to pick up a stag movie the department store head has shown to friends--at a public nightclub! (Since when did heads of department stores arrange porn movie screenings for their buddies--particularly in 1963? Isn't that what underlings were for?)
Later, when an elderly vagrant is arrested for the crime because he rolled the corpse, Kimball alerts police that the department store head is the real killer--but his tip is ignored because, we're told, police don't investigate leads from anonymous sources. Huh? Since when?
And, of course, the newspaper headlines ridiculously overstate the case: Instead of naming the well-known victim in the front page headline, the banner includes the name of the unknown vagrant instead of the famous deceased.
Truly ridiculous. But a welcome relief from the by-the-numbers plots of too many other episodes.
In this far-fetched (though intriguing) episode, Kimball is working as a deliveryman at a large department store who witnesses his boss accidentally kill a man when he (Kimball) goes to pick up a stag movie the department store head has shown to friends--at a public nightclub! (Since when did heads of department stores arrange porn movie screenings for their buddies--particularly in 1963? Isn't that what underlings were for?)
Later, when an elderly vagrant is arrested for the crime because he rolled the corpse, Kimball alerts police that the department store head is the real killer--but his tip is ignored because, we're told, police don't investigate leads from anonymous sources. Huh? Since when?
And, of course, the newspaper headlines ridiculously overstate the case: Instead of naming the well-known victim in the front page headline, the banner includes the name of the unknown vagrant instead of the famous deceased.
Truly ridiculous. But a welcome relief from the by-the-numbers plots of too many other episodes.