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THE FATAL CONNECTION
Original Airdate: Jan. 31, 1971
Synopsis. In Dixon Park, Illinois, parole violator Duke Bergan (played by Scott Marlowe) is hired to shoot Frank Conner (played by Andrew Duggan), a nationally syndicated columnist who was conducting an expose of criminal infiltration in Dixon Park. After one of Conner’s neighbors provides a description of Bergan’s vehicle—and the car is discovered abandoned across state lines—Erskine and Colby enter the case. A fragment of a contact lens found at the scene of the crime indicates that Bergan had a special double-truncated tinted prescription to compensate for extreme farsightedness. After Erskine arrests Bergan near an optometrist in Flint, Michigan, Bergan confirms meeting with a man who had hired him to shoot Conner. Though Bergan never saw the face of his employer, he reveals enough information to suggest that the man behind the contract was familiar with the back area of Conner’s house—but not the front.
LEARN MORE about “The Fatal Connection” in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more—about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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