Highway Patrol

Ralph Neal is a hardened criminal. He's smart, ruthless, and brutal. His outward personality belies his vicious character. He escapes from a state penitentiary. During the escape, he kills a guard. The convict who escapes with him is wounded during the escape. When this man's wounded leg slows the pair down, Neal immediately appraises this as an obstacle to his getaway...

Charlie Gray and Ross, two criminals, ingeniously "kidnap" an expensive machine owned by the Ferris Electronic Co. The machine, one of the 20th century wonders, is a Giant Computer that does a tremendous amount of administrative work in a matter of hours.

Dan Mathews places a stretch of highway under severe Selective Enforcement in order to reduce the high accident rate. Systematic traffic checks and increased patrolling are instigated. Mathews interviews drivers who receive too many citations on the highway to determine causes and cures. One of these drivers, Harry Brent, is a salesman who refuses to accept Mathew's philosophy of safety.

Though innocent of involvement, Joe Bradshaw happens to be in the company of the Fowler Brothers when they hold up a diner and murder its proprietor. He flees in fright. Fear of the police, compounded with an even greater terror of the vengeance he may expect from the Fowlers, drives Joe to attempt to get out of town.

The Club Bahamas, an illegal gambling house, has defied all efforts to close it by the local sheriff, so he makes an appeal to Dan for help. Dan brings down his own raiding party and although the surprise is complete, the club is so smooth an operation that the raiders get no evidence. It's a matter of two doors that stall the raid long enough to let the gambling equipment be hidden.

An unidentified man picks up a hitchhiker, a migrant worker, kills him with a tire iron, plants false identification on his body, and then wrecks the car to make the hitchhiker's death appear to be accidental. Doctor's report to Highway patrol indicates murder. Mathews, in checking, finds five similar "accidents". Dan suspects an insurance pay-off racket.