Decoy
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Season 1
7/7/58Casey is suspicious when a teenager confesses to her own father's murder.
6/30/58Casey recalls her first case -- looking for stolen gems at Coney Island's amusement park.
6/23/58Casey figures out which cashier is always on duty when thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit tickets are cashed in at the racetrack. To nail her suspect, she pretends to be a crooked cop who demands a percentage of his business or she'll tell her bosses what she's figured out.
6/16/58Millie Baker, a young woman visiting from Indiana with her aunt, is injured in a cab accident. Police discover she was carrying $125,000 stolen in a bank heist. Aunt Gladys, clueless about the money, agrees to help the police by checking into their hotel as planned with Casey pretending to be her niece.
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6/9/58A demo record is the clue in the murder of a successful songwriter. Casey discovers a lot of people were happy to see him go, including the ex-girlfriend who sang the song, and the ghost writer who penned the song.
6/2/58A Van Gogh purchased by a wealthy art patron for $60,000 is actually an impressive forgery. To get to the man financing the phony artworks, Casey first must find the artist. The painter, however, is dangerous; he's able to inhabit Van Gogh's mind so completely that he has a split personality.moreless
5/26/58An Army officer is driven to violence by his ex-wife.
5/19/58A young Puerto Rican man who just arrived in New York is charged with robbing a store and shooting its owner. Juan says he was at a dance the night of the holdup with a woman who was soon to be married. Casey goes to the neighborhood in search of his dance partner, but gets the runaround from people who clearly know her identity.
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5/12/58Casey gets a lead on where a movie star's chauffeur might be fencing the actress' ruby necklace he swiped. While undercover trying to buy the jewels, she comes into contact with an ex-con who's setting a horrible example for the 13-year-old son he's raising.
5/5/58The estranged wife of late gangster Danny Moran helps the police round up his criminal buddies. Since she never met his cohorts, they have no idea what she looks like. Casey masquerades as the widow, moves into Danny's old seedy apartment, and acts like a bigger criminal that her husband ever was.
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4/28/58After being held up by a pair of robbers, a woman begins getting threatening phone calls at home and at work. Fearing the crooks aren't just talk, Casey moves into the victim's home to offer 24 hours a day protection.
4/21/58Posing as an insurance agent, Mike Bergen enlists a naive woman to take a hidden camera photo of a suspect. The camera turns out to be a gun and the shooting victim is his wife. Casey goes undercover to a hunting lodge in the Catskills to smoke Bergen out into the open.
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4/14/58Ken Morgan is murdered by a woman who clearly had strong feelings for or against him. She unloaded the contents of a revolver into him. Casey goes to work investigating the women in his life: his domineering mother who wouldn't let another female have him; the young woman who's practically a member of their family; and the ex-fiance who Ken's mother made him give up.
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4/7/58Sonny Van Brock, part of high society, commits suicide after getting in way over his head at a elite gambling salon. Casey goes undercover as a visiting member of Seattle society who loves the roulette wheel, hoping to nail George Courtney, the man running the gaming operation.
3/31/58Casey goes undercover as a "come on girl" who picks the pockets of the men she cozies up to. She 's hired by a couple of an old circus performers, Otto and his wheelchair-bound wife. Otto employs Casey as bait and then knocks the men out and takes their cash. His need for the cash is the key to the case.
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3/24/58A young girl is found in a state of shock, and Casey wants to find out why.
3/17/58Risco Industries suffers an an arson fire at its warehouse. The owner of the company wants to make sure one of his employees, a former patient at the state mental hospital, is not responsible. Casey goes undercover as an office temp to work with the woman.
3/10/58A man is falsely accused of robbery.
3/3/58Casey poses as a nightclub entertainer.
2/24/58Eva Harris, the owner of an import/export business, is deliberately killed by an unknown driver. She leaves the company to her niece who's due to arrive in town to take over. Casey poses as the niece to get to the bottom of the murder case.
2/17/58Lenny Capper is an up-and-coming boxer with the skills to become the champ. Standing in his way is a thug named Ball who runs the business with force and intimidation. He beats up Lenny's manager and drugs the young man before his big fight, insuring a loss. Casey wants to put Ball behind bars, but no one will testify out of fear.
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2/10/58Casey is living in a fleabag hotel posing as an addict when she finds the junkie next door with a knife in her back and a $6000 bank account. Learning the dead girl's brother has a history with mobsters, Casey puts pressure on him to also supply her with heroin or she'll start blabbing to police.
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2/3/58A model is murdered in New York's garment district.
1/27/58Casey goes undercover at the racetrack after a gambler is murdered.
1/20/58A shoplifting investigation uncovers a "murder for hire" outfit.
1/13/58A teenage girl is accused of murder.
1/6/58Casey goes after an escaped convict responsible for a string of murders and holdups.
12/30/57Casey goes undercover as a nightclub photographer.
12/23/57Casey must protect a teenage girl -- the only witness to a murder committed by her ex-boyfriend.
12/16/57A woman, who's in jail for embezzling money to care for her mentally disabled son, escapes.
12/9/57Casey goes undercover as a wealthy socialite to investigate a series of jewel robberies.
12/2/57Casey searches for a woman who thinks she has killed her husband.
11/25/57A woman dies while in custody.
11/18/57The bankbook of a dead college basketball player indicates a possible involvement with racketeers.
11/11/57A teenage drug addict is the key to busting a narcotics ring.
11/4/57Ten thousand dollars is missing from the seventeen thousand Mr. Whittaker says was taken during the hold-up of his loan office. While the police investigate the officer who confiscated the cash from the thieves, Casey goes undercover to see if Whittaker is trying to rip-off the insurance company.
10/28/57Casey investigates a series of threatening phone calls made to a woman.
10/21/57Casey searches for a Greenwich Village artist who has abandoned his family.NEXT EPISODE AIRS 10/14/1957 AT 12AM ON Other
10/14/57After a sailor is strangled to death in his apartment, the woman living across the hall is picked up trying to pawn his watch. The police believe she's covering for boyfriend and that he's responsible for the murder. Casey moves into the boarding house to get chummy with the woman and learn some details about their mystery man.
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