Kimble witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland, punching out a man in a club parking lot. After Mr. Rowland leaves, the man collapses and dies. Kimble phones the police to report the accident and when the police get there, they arrest an old transient who was hiding nearby with a stolen watch and wallet. Rowland and Kimble have a mutual respect, but Kimble keeps trying to anonymously push Rowland to confess to the fight and clear the old transient of the murder charge. Rowland actually does want to "do the right thing" but Rowland's wife doesn't care that the innocent old man might go to prison for murder because she knows that the fight was over her and she doesn't want any negative publicity.