When the story begins, as a man is puttering about on a dock, a gang of car thieves quickly steal his Rolls-Royce. But the thieves are in for a surprise...there's a body in the trunk. It seems that the man at the dock (Darren McGavin) was actually figuring out how to sink his wife's body in the lake...as he'd killed her. But the murderer isn't panicked....he decides to use the car theft to his advantage. He actually tells the police information that will lead to the thieves...and then he plans to blame the thieves for the murder. The trail leads to a car thief who is, according to the police, a professional...a man with a conscience. The police cannot believe that Philadelphia Harry (Telly Savalas) would ever physically harm anyone. The rest of the episode essentially is the husband working hard to pin the thieves and the thieves working hard to give the body back....pinning it on the husband.
This is a nice, darkly comic change of pace for the series. Not a brilliant episode but a clever and enjoyable one. My wife, by the way, thought the ending was too vague....though I didn't think so.