Originally Aired: March 2, 1956
Johnny Dollar #340, "The Fathom Five Matter Ep 5," Johnny faces a baffling twist when William Markey's body washes ashore, proving the insurance investigator wrong about his fraud theory. Detective Barney Wilson summons Dollar to the county morgue, where the medical examiner's autopsy reveals impossible findings: Markey has only been dead eighteen hours, not five days since the Fathom Five sank, and his lungs contain fresh water, not seawater. The discovery confirms Dollar's original suspicion that Markey survived the sinking, but raises new questions about who killed him and why.
Wilson's team finally locates the car Markey purchased under an assumed name, parked outside an apartment building where he had been hiding as "Mr. Jones." When Dollar and Wilson discover that young Danny Haynes is inside the apartment collecting Markey's belongings, they attempt to question him. Haynes refuses to cooperate and makes a desperate escape attempt down the fire escape, forcing a confrontation that ends with Wilson's gun.