Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: gunman claims to be shooting on dark street detective from precinct, Fact2: same man murdered chief investigator, Fact3: Damico given new identity as New Orleans tough-guy Tim Flynn, Fact4: New Orleans tough-guy Tim Flynn insinuates himself onto New York waterfront, Fact5: Gunner frame him for murder
Output (English): Johnny Damico Broderick Crawford, a detective going home in the rain one night, finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct, flashing a real badge—and then slipping away. Damico discovers that the victim of the shooting was a witness who was to have appeared before a grand jury investigating waterfront crime, and that the same man who shot him also murdered the chief investigator on the case just a few hours earlier which is where the badge came from. Damico could lose his job, but instead hes given the chance to redeem himself—hes sent undercover and given a new identity as New Orleans toughguy Tim Flynn, who insinuates himself onto the New York waterfront when he arrives on ship. He manages to hook up with union thug Joe Castro Ernest Borgnine and his strongarm man Gunner Neville Brand, who try to frame him for a murder that also gets a potential stoolie Culio Frank DeKova out of the way and that hooks Damico up with crooked police sergeant Bennion Walter Klavun who arrests him. After following one blind alley involving a federal agent Thomas Clancy Richard Kiley working as a longshoreman, Damico manages to get an intro to Blackie Clegg Matt Crowley.