The Edge of Night/Episode 474

Episode 474
Season 3, Episode 17
Airdate	January 23, 1958
Production Number	474
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Directed by
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Episode 474 is the seventeenth episode of the third season of The Edge of Night, and the four hundred seventy-fourth episode overall.

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Plot Overview

Mike and Winston are disturbed by Toni Fescina's kidnapping. Winston is worried that she has been killed. He says that Monticello law enforcement may be controlled by Benson, Fitzsimmons,and Peter Dalton. Mike doubts that Peter is mixed up with this. He is only a stooge who probably doesn't know his election was rigged. Martin recognizes the window washer at work to be Al Wilson from the clink. He advises him to leave the job. He hints that the operation is crooked but doesn't give details. As they speak, a shadowy figure watches them. Sgt. Helen Kilborn reports to Mike that there's nothing new on Toni's APB. She wishes Mike would prosecute McGinnis' case and reasons that someone else had to know about the payoff. Winston calls Mike and says that he has heard from Toni who wants to speak to him. Mike leaves to join them. Wilson continues to refuse to give any details to the true nature of the Mitchell operation. He only says that the only way out of trouble is to keep quiet. He warns Martin to get out while he still can. The shadow still watches them. Afterward, Martin decides to find out if he is mixed up in a racket but wonders if its already too late to get out. Toni Fescina says that she went to spend the night at a girlfriend out of town. When asked for information on the Dalton election she says "I can't tell you anything--- because I know nothing." She explains that she told Benson that she would talk to the crime committee so that he would feel pressured to give her her job back. She didn't get it and will move to New York and get a job. Mike and Winston don't believe her. After she leaves Mike tells Helen to put Toni under surveillance. He explains to Winston that Benson and the others knew that disposing of Toni would stir up a trouble so they sent her to deny ever knowing anything. "Unless we can protect her she'll never get east of the Monticello River. In fact--- her destination may be the bottom of it!"