Jessica Walter convincingly played the part of a mad, assertive, and unpredictable female who insistently insinuated herself - with passionate jealousy, violence and rage - into the life of a womanizing man who was finally making plans to settle down domestically with his old girlfriend.Now scram, will ya?Lorraine: Oh, darling.You're just too sweet the way you keep spoiling me.As they part, Andy bumps into another blonde hopeful carrying a Pekingese (named Fifi) - a monocled and shrewd Ann Lowell (Ginger Rogers).To Ann, he reveals his secret, other self in his sordid past in a long flashback.Jeff begins at the point in the story about three years earlier when his name was Jeff Markham (not Bailey) - a private detective in crime-ridden New York City, working with a partner, a "stupid, oily gent" named Jack Fisher (Steve Brodie).It says here, you, uh, killed a man with your bare hands.We don't use hands here, we use guns.Oh, and I'll tell ya another thing we use for cons who don't toe the mark.The whip! Understand?"He was paired with long-timer cellmate Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy), a grumpy, washed-up ex-country western singer who had been in jail for 8 years.