Curly Lambert is an undercover Federal Agent, serving time in jail as the cellmate of Red Doyle, who just so happens to give Curly all the information he needs to snare a crooked war plant supervisor. Now Curly must navigate the criminal underworld, while hiding his true identity. He hasn't been out of the prison for a day before he saves the life of young Scrapper McGuire, the copy boy at the Daily Sentinel - who decides that he'd like to run a story at the Daily Sentinel to let the whole city know that Curly's a hero. He follows him to a hotel, where he finds Mike Axford who goes missing soon after...