Near the end of the episode when the three leave the house, Kimball takes his suitcase with him. When he's dropped off along the road, he doesn't have his suitcase.
When Michael Pryor talks to the kidnapper on the phone the telephone call is recorded by the police. When the police officer plays back the tape, the conversation on the tape is not the same as on the phone. In particular, Michael Pryor is heard saying "Not yet. The bank is sending it over by messenger." However, during the phone call Pryor never spoke these sentences. They therefore could not have been recorded.
While technically this is correct it ignores an edit in the sequence. At the point that Pryor would have said the bank was sending the money, the camera's POV switches to a man in sunglasses talking to someone else (who is trying to trace the call) and telling them to hurry up, that he can't stall much longer. This means the audience didn't hear Pryor say those words until the other policeman played the recording back.
While technically this is correct it ignores an edit in the sequence. At the point that Pryor would have said the bank was sending the money, the camera's POV switches to a man in sunglasses talking to someone else (who is trying to trace the call) and telling them to hurry up, that he can't stall much longer. This means the audience didn't hear Pryor say those words until the other policeman played the recording back.
Despite the fact that Harold Cheyney is paralyzed from the waist down, late in the episode he is driving a car even though he would have no ability to use his legs to accelerate or apply the brakes.
Harold is shown driving his car throughout the episode. It is possible for people like Harold to drive as they could have installed special equipment to allow him to control the accelerator and brake from the steering wheel. In fact, when he goes to let Kimble out on the side of the road, he is seen pulling a lever downward, which is presumably the break for the car.
Harold is shown driving his car throughout the episode. It is possible for people like Harold to drive as they could have installed special equipment to allow him to control the accelerator and brake from the steering wheel. In fact, when he goes to let Kimble out on the side of the road, he is seen pulling a lever downward, which is presumably the break for the car.
Lt. Hess describes Highway 126 as being in "flat country" with "no trees, no places of concealment", and therefore it can't be staked out. But when Highway 126 is shown, there are visible trees beside parts of the road, the terrain is uneven, and the kidnappers have found an excellent area of concealment by a curve in the road.
This is taking what he said out of context. Hess was taking about the highway as a whole, which would have made keeping police cars out of sight along the highway impossible. Just because there is one location with scrub brush doesn't mean that's what it's like everywhere.
This is taking what he said out of context. Hess was taking about the highway as a whole, which would have made keeping police cars out of sight along the highway impossible. Just because there is one location with scrub brush doesn't mean that's what it's like everywhere.
Highway 126 between Springfield and Walterville, Oregon, is described as having "no trees", and is shown to be primarily desert scrub land (although a few trees are evident). The real 126 looks nothing like what is shown in this episode, as it goes through miles and miles of dense and heavily wooded forest as it winds from Springfield to Walterville.
When Lt. Hess reports detecting the signal, he only states that he is located "a mile east of the bridge," without giving a direction bearing. This would be useless information, as without the bearing, there is no way of knowing from what direction the signal is coming.