Dick and the small boy cuddle together for warmth as their plane bursts into flames.

They jump for safety using Dick’s parachute. I literally didn’t see that one coming.

The Lame Plane flies low over the wreckage. The sinister Gordon says there is no way they can land – they’ll have to send a car out to search the wreckage for the necklace. Yes, I’d forgotten about the necklace too.

Dick and the small boy land safely, both pumped from the jolly exciting adventure. Meanwhile, their colleague is having engine trouble.

They sprint off in the direction of his falling plane. "He’ll be lucky if he doesn’t crack up" says Dick. Oh no – this would be a tragedy if Dick’s loyal sidekick bit the dust.

He lands safely in the next shot.

Phew.

Back at the spider ring’s headquarters, the Lame One is praising the intelligence of Molloch’s cat.

Molloch explains that he’d like to transplant the brain of a cat into the body of a human.

A lot of men are sent to look for the necklace. Molloch and the Lame One have just cast their necklace aside as worthless but – oh! – if only they knew. It serves them right for being evil. I doubt they will ever appreciate the irony.

The idiot is mourning the loss of his little friend.

I’ve just realised he has a name – Mike McGuirk. Mike McGuirk is also her name. I've not photoshopped the image - her head-hair ratio really is that distorted.

Dick surveys the wreckage when the Lame One’s boys arrive en masse.

None of them think to try and put the fire out before searching through the debris.

One of them finds the necklace – the copy planted there by Dick – and hides it in his boot. He then calls the others over and shows them the empty box.

Dick shakes his head. "Oooh those naughty boys" he says to himself.

Dick wants to follow the spider men as they drive off but apparently has no car of his own. Instead he jumps aboard the first passing motor – in this case it is carrying two inbred hillbillies who make Morton Dill look like President Bartlett.

The inbreds take Dick as far as an abandoned hotel. He gives them a dollar for their trouble and they don’t know what it is. Meanwhile, Dick has found some more grass to creep through.

The crims present their empty box to the sinister Gordon.

They claim the necklace must’ve "burned up" in the fire. Because diamonds are noted for their fragility. Captain Clever – who stashed the necklace in his boot – starts shifting awkwardly. The sinister Gordon asks what’s wrong. CC has twisted his ankle. TSG orders him to take his boot off. He refuses so the heavy mob give him a hand.

They find the necklace, the mark of the spider is beamed onto his face and he is shot to death.

Dick breaks into the hotel, finds the real necklace and pockets it.

Here we have Gordon Tracy unaware that Dick is behind the door and Dick Tracy unaware that Gordon is in front of him.

Dick sits down at the radio, presumably to call for help.

Help is already on its way – the idiot and the woman are in a plane. That should solve everything. I wonder which will happen first – him falling over or her fainting.

Dick is found at the radio’s controls by a squad of heavies lead by his brother. This dramatic first meeting between the Tracys is so underwhelming I had to double check that the gun was actually being wielded by Dick’s rogue sibling.

Gordon finds the necklace in Dick’s pocket. He asks if Dick was trying to be very clever and fool them. Surely it is one or the other – one is either very clever or one manages to fool the spider ring. There is absolutely no reason to suppose that Dick needs to be both at once.

Dick springs into action – he pulls something tiny from his trousers and threatens them with it. He claims it is nitro glycerine and everyone panics. Gordon throws his gun down, Mike McGuirk climbs in through a widow in a now pointless rescue bid and Dick gets the necklace back.

But Gordon is too clever for the idiot – he gains control of the situation and challenges Dick to use the nitro glycerine.

Dick tosses the capsule and it breaks harmlessly. The distraction is time enough for him and the cretin to dive out through the window.

Molloch uses his trained scientific hands to pick up the capsule and read "Castor Oil".

Dick sends the woman and the fool to start the plane while he holds of the bad guys. Instead of holding a position and firing, Dick’s idea of holding them off is to run back into the house….

…and put himself in even more danger.

"Sitting" and "duck" spring to mind.

Oh no – Dick is hit in the chest.

He falls from the roof.

And dies for this week.