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Synopsis
In this gripping episode of Suspense, titled See How He Runs, we meet Poppy, a blind man who runs a newsstand and has a history of petty crime. When he inadvertently becomes involved in the murder of a gang leader, Big Ed Barker, Poppy finds himself at the center of a deadly game between the police and the criminal underworld.
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