In the episode, when a man claiming to hail from the planet Saturn named Albert "Al" Slotkin (Kenneth Tigar) is brought into court for steal transistor parts from an eletronics store to repair his "transmitter" to communicate with his people on the planet, he winds up holding Dan and the stenographer at bay when he steals a firearm which belonged to one of a group of subway commuters who were also in court for threatening a French tourist who asked them for change for a dollar, that was lying on the evidence table.