1960 - M-SQUAD: Badge For A Coward

By chance a police car stops directly in front of a small shop where a robbery is taking place. The policemen do not know about what happens inside and one goes for a packet of cigarettes. As he comes into the shop the robber is trapped and shoots the policeman. His partner, George, hears the shots, sees his fellow policeman staggering out and shoots at the runaway robber. When his gun blocks, he wonders why his partner has stopped shooting. Looking at him, he finds him dying on the pavement. 

He hurries to his side to help him. Meanwhile the elderly woman, the owner of the shop, comes out and sees that the robber's car has problems to start. She shouts at George, who is trying to help his partner, to maintain pursue of the robber to get her money back, but he tries to save his friend's life. His friend dies and the robber's car starts and he gets away. The woman accuses George to be a coward. 

Ballinger meets Bob Nash at his friend's, George's, place. They have been buddies since childhood. He wonders where he knows him from ... Bob Nash says he was in prison for stealing cars. But George stands with his friend. None of them knows that it was him who's shot the policeman. When Nash intends to take revenge for his years in prison because George had taken him in at the time, he intends to kidnap the baby and to shoot George's wife. All is overheard by Ballinger who has seen Bob pointing his gun at George. He approaches from the roof and overhears Bob's accusations. The moment Bob wants to shoot George's wife, George jumps forward, is shot in the arm and Lt. Ballinger shoots at Bob. Bob Nash is shot dead.