This is Your FBI: The Vicious Shakedown

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Tonight's FBI file, The Vicious Shakedown. There is a widespread theory about criminals that they lack intelligence and courage. That theory is wrong, and has been proven wrong so many times that there's no question about it's being incorrect.

Many criminals have IQs which show high intelligence. And if their brainpower had been directed along legitimate lines, there's no telling how far their careers might have gone. But legitimate fields take effort to conquer. And if there is one truism about the average criminal, it is that he'll go to any end to avoid honest work.

The schemes he brings forth from his tortured brain, or sometimes simple, sometimes involved. But always there is the same goal. Getting something for nothing. The Knights FBI file opens in a gymnasium and health club located in the business district of a large eastern city.