***SPOILERS*** Just released from prison these con-men plan to resume their work in conning innocent people out of their hard earned money. It's the brains of the outfit Charlie who concocts this "Master plan" to make a big score at the expense of innocent stooge the well to do Ford Huntington. Talking Ford into going out on a raccoon hunt Charlie and his two cohorts Olville & Ted plan to get Ford to end up shooting one of them and then blackmail him into paying them off to prevent him from going to prison. The plan works for a while with Ted faking to be shot to death by Ford when his shotgun went off blasting him but with fake not real pellets. It's when Ford reviles to his mom what he did and how he's to get out of the mess, with a $25,000.00 payoff, he finds himself in she smells a rat and tells him to check with the local bunko squad investigator Fred Brady for help.
As it soon turns out Brady like Momma Huntington smells a rat in all this and advises Ford to go along with the scam so that the police can catch the trio, including the so-called "Dead" Ted, red handed. With the planned pay off to be taken place at Orville, the one's doing the blackmailing, place things get a bit hairy when the two, the "Dead Ted" is hiding in a closet, start losing their composer in eagerly trying to get their hands on the the payoff cash. With everything starting to come apart at the seems for the blackmailers "Dead Ted" comes out of hiding and bops the enraged Ford, in seeing how he was taken for a fool, over the head knocking him out. That's when Brady & Co, the police, raid the place and put the cuffs on the three blackmailers or better yet con men.
We see in this "Racket Squad" episode that even the most in-tuned of us, like Ford Huntington, can be taken by a bunch of con artist if we let our guard down. The fact that Ford listened to his mom and went to the police who set , in a sting, the con men up not only prevented him was being conned out of his money but in making a total fool of himself as well. Something that he would have had to live down and with for the rest of his life.