The owner of a hairdressing salon races to his shop hoping to catch thieves in the act, a burglar is spotted climbing into a bathroom window by an eagle-eyed neighbour, and a man makes a schoolboy error trying to steal from a radio station.

There is a Halloween raid on a clothes shop by ghostly men in grotesque masks, a World War II veteran's new home becomes a crime scene, and a thief stealing a cash drawer from a hardware store bites off more than he can chew.