Naked City: Economy of Death (1961)
Season 2, Episode 25
Ineffectual cops and hokey plot twists
11 May 2024
A truly lousy episode, starring Sam Jaffe, of all people, as a man driven to single-minded vengeance. Supporting cast is uninteresting (for example, Lilia Skala is wasted in a nothing role, a couple of years before her "Lilies of the Field" triumph), and Burke is a day late and a dollar short for a change. The script manages to be both pretentious and stupid, with characters convenently dropping dead at writer Sy Salkowitz's whim.

It's a clunker from start to finish. The endless, "interrupted by a time out for plot exposition" climax of a foot chase is really poor, an idiotic way to wrap things up.
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