specs and another of the gang, stanley gusciora, go on the road to meet his "sugar doughnut" in pittsburgh. they are picked up by pennsylvania state police on a burglary charge en route at bradford, pennsylvania and are each handed a long jail sentence, gusciora at the western penitentiary-pittsburgh. specs grows more and more disturbed behind bars, demanding that money from his cut be sent to his ill sister. in interrogation, specs and stanley are pressured more each day to reveal whatever they might know about the brink's job. specs ultimately confesses.