Berlin is the next port of call for Johnny Dollar. A client of the insurers, Sam Harvey, went to Berlin a couple of years ago as a consulting agent for a machine tool firm. Six months ago, he upped his policy from ten thousand dollars, to fifty thousand dollars, and changed the beneficiary from his mother to a woman he married over there. Yesterday, they received a call that he is dead - and so Johnny needs to investigate the case to see if anything suspicious has occurred...