Papa Johnson and the lawyer Phil Potts are trying to track down a pair of counterfeiting plates left in the care of Phil Potts by Bugsy Burke who has now been released after twenty years behind bars. The scene today opens in the office of the lawyer. Professor Potash and Papa Johnson are on hand, and they are discussing what they consider a very important matter. Fear sometimes gnaws at the moral, and this particular fear is gnawing even deeper...