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Just out of jail, a gangster by the name of Gruesome (Boris Karloff) goes to the Hangman’s Knot saloon, where his old crime crony ‘Melody’ Fiske is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where Rudolph X-Ray (Skelton Knaggs) and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot.

Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs a nerve gas that paralyses him. He appears to be dead and is taken to the city morgue.

Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is at headquarters speaking with college professor Dr. A. Tomic (Milton Parsons), a scientist who suspects someone has been following him. At the morgue, Tracy’s sidekick, Pat Patton (Lyle Latell), has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. Pat describes him to Tracy as looking a lot like the actor Boris Karloff.

At a bank where Dick Tracy’s girlfriend, Tess Trueheart (Anne Gwynne), happens to be, Gruesome and Melody use the nerve gas to incapacitate the customers and security guard. They rob the place of more than $100,000 and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Tracy and his men arrive. Gruesome demands half of the loot from X-Ray… or else.