The Broderick Matter Ep 3

The Broderick Matter Ep 3

Originally Aired: November 16, 1955 Johnny Dollar #263, "The Broderick Matter Ep 3," Johnny continues his search for Lorraine Broderick, tracking her movements from New York to the California coast. What began as a simple claim payment for a sweet old man's bequest to a nice young girl transforms into something far more troubling. Through interviews with Edward Quinlan at a gas station, Mrs. Gaines the talkative landlady, and various hotel managers, Johnny pieces together a disturbing pattern. The Lorraine who walked away from William Dameron on Christmas Eve 1953 has become someone entirely different, leaving a trail of bad checks and aliases across the country under names like Jane Brown and Lorraine Bradley. The investigation takes Johnny from crowded New York streets to sunny Santa Barbara, where he meets hotel operator Harrington, the latest victim of Lorraine's con artistry. With police departments in multiple cities now looking for her and mounting evidence of her criminal activities, Johnny finds himself increasingly disillusioned about the woman he's been hired to locate. The question is no longer just where Lorraine Broderick has gone, but what she's become.

The Broderick Matter Ep 2

Originally Aired: November 15, 1955 Johnny Dollar #262, "The Broderick Matter Ep 2," Johnny continues his search for the elusive Lorraine Broderick, tracking down leads that only deepen the mystery. Apartment manager Carl Walden reveals that Lorraine vanished in the middle of the night in December 1953, leaving behind only a fifty-dollar bill and no forwarding address. Walden describes seeing her with a mysterious, well-dressed older man driving a Cadillac with New York plates, someone who never returned after her disappearance. Meanwhile, Dr. Pollard's obvious infatuation with his former employee adds another layer to Lorraine's complicated past. After placing ads in New York newspapers, Johnny receives a strange phone call from someone claiming to be Lorraine, which turns out to be a ruse by William Dameron, a wealthy brokerage company president. Dameron admits he met Lorraine in Hartford and brought her to New York intending to marry her after knowing her only a week. However, on Christmas Eve 1952, she mysteriously disappeared from his car at a gas station and was never seen again. As Johnny interviews Dameron in his office, the pattern becomes clear: Lorraine Broderick has a habit of vanishing without explanation, leaving bewildered men in her wake.

The Broderick Matter Ep 1

Originally Aired: November 14, 1955 Johnny Dollar #261, "The Broderick Matter Ep 1," Robert Steele from Eastern Trust Insurance Company hires Johnny Dollar to locate Lorraine Broderick, beneficiary of a $1,500 policy left by John Adams Smith, a 67-year-old newspaper vendor who died alone in a charity ward. The case touches Steele deeply because Smith religiously paid his premiums for years after meeting 11-year-old Lorraine just once in 1943 when she helped him sell papers. Now 23, Lorraine has seemingly vanished, and Steele hopes she grew up to be worthy of the old man's faith in her. Johnny traces Lorraine's tragic history: her parents killed in a 1948 car accident, followed by the death of her guardian uncle in 1950. At St. Charles High School, Sister Mary Regina remembers Lorraine as having a face "like an angel's, gentle and fresh and wonderful." Johnny discovers that Lorraine worked in a dentist's office after her uncle's death and may still be there. As he closes in on her location, Johnny contacts Steele for backup, sensing he might need help with what comes next.

The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 5

Originally Aired: November 11, 1955 Johnny Dollar #260, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar races to a waterfront cafe where Maria has called him in panic, claiming she's being followed. After a tense standoff with a gunman firing from across the dark street, Johnny pursues the fleeing car in a high-speed chase along the dangerous coastal road. The pursuit ends in a fiery crash that kills the driver, whom Johnny identifies as Andre Jourdin, the customs property agent. As the car burns, Johnny reveals to Maria what he's pieced together about the diamond heist scheme. Johnny confronts Maria with his theory: she and Andre orchestrated the entire diamond robbery, planning for the courier to die so the diamonds would pass through Andre's office. Their partner Bobo complicated matters by double-crossing them, but Andre tracked him down to the Casbah and killed him. Now, with both Andre and Bobo dead in the wreckage and violence of their scheme, Johnny tells Maria she's "safe" because her co-conspirators can no longer talk. Maria protests her innocence as Johnny lays out the damning evidence against her.

The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 4

Originally Aired: November 10, 1955 Johnny Dollar #259, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 4," Johnny Dollar bribes an employment agent named Abdul for the address of Chada, the servant girl who worked for Countess D'Atalia. Hours earlier, someone turned on the gas in the Countess's apartment in an apparent murder attempt, and Dollar suspects Chada. Before he can leave his hotel, he receives an unwelcome visit from Charlie Barrett, a Chicago meat packer who has been pursuing the Countess romantically. Barrett warns Dollar to stay away from her, claiming he has already invested substantial money in their relationship and even promised her twenty thousand dollars in diamonds before they had a falling out. When Barrett tries to assert his influence and intimidate Dollar, another brief fight ensues, leaving Barrett unconscious. Dollar then ventures into the dangerous Casbah district after midnight to find Chada at a dimly-lit coffee house. After waiting twenty minutes, he is joined by a man named Bobo, who identifies himself as Chada's man and admits to poisoning the diamond courier. Bobo reveals that Chada did turn on the gas but insists it wasn't personal since he didn't know Dollar would be there. As their tense conversation shifts to the missing diamonds and possible rewards, the episode ends mid-discussion.