When a bank robber is about to be caught by a detective, a woman who appears in the alley is taken hostage. The robber's wife is in a hospital due to a hit and run accident and has to leave the hospital because she has no money, and the detective also needs money because her wife is in the hospital. The hostage tells him to release himself and split the money between the two of them, but the detective who cannot keep the hostage alive, the only witness, has the robber kill her hostage, and the detective kills the robber. The money disappears and the case is closed.