The prologue to this episode of "The FBI" is very frightening. Stephen Fitzgerald very calmy and dispassionately budgeons his wife to death* and then buries her behind a false wall in their bedroom! Obviously, this man has issues!
In the next scene, you learn that the FBI has determined that many bonds used as security at a chain of banks are forgeries. And, you soon learn that they were accepted by Fitzgerald at the banks! Soon, he's confronted by a co-worker...and Fitzgerald slaps him and soon makes his getaway. Obviously the dopey coworker should have waited to confront Fitzgerald with the FBI or police present!
Soon you begin to realize that Fitzgerald (or whatever his name really is) is a chameleon of sorts....a guy who uses and destroys people and then leaves...creating a new identity! He's essentially an actor and a sociopath! But how can you track down such a clever and evil man? Can they stop him before he marries and murders again or commits some other fraud? And, how can the FBI predict where this man could be??
I enjoyed this episode a lot. It was chilling and exciting at the same time. I also appreciate how this scum-bag's latest wife is no passive victim! Overall, one of the most memorable of episodes....see this one!
*In this scene, Fitzgerald whacks his wife over the head with a hammer. Yet, inexplicably, the blow was powerful enough to kill her but there was no blood whatsover. In reality, a blow would have been VERY messy but because it was on TV they made it clean, sanitized AND completely unrealistic. I don't like explicit gore...but sanitizing it this much also seems wrong to me. However, you can't really blame the show...these were the television standards of the day.
In the next scene, you learn that the FBI has determined that many bonds used as security at a chain of banks are forgeries. And, you soon learn that they were accepted by Fitzgerald at the banks! Soon, he's confronted by a co-worker...and Fitzgerald slaps him and soon makes his getaway. Obviously the dopey coworker should have waited to confront Fitzgerald with the FBI or police present!
Soon you begin to realize that Fitzgerald (or whatever his name really is) is a chameleon of sorts....a guy who uses and destroys people and then leaves...creating a new identity! He's essentially an actor and a sociopath! But how can you track down such a clever and evil man? Can they stop him before he marries and murders again or commits some other fraud? And, how can the FBI predict where this man could be??
I enjoyed this episode a lot. It was chilling and exciting at the same time. I also appreciate how this scum-bag's latest wife is no passive victim! Overall, one of the most memorable of episodes....see this one!
*In this scene, Fitzgerald whacks his wife over the head with a hammer. Yet, inexplicably, the blow was powerful enough to kill her but there was no blood whatsover. In reality, a blow would have been VERY messy but because it was on TV they made it clean, sanitized AND completely unrealistic. I don't like explicit gore...but sanitizing it this much also seems wrong to me. However, you can't really blame the show...these were the television standards of the day.
