Julie Westcott (Jennifer Raine) walks into the Bosworth Apothecary shop and shoots the proprietor, Hart Bosworth, to death. Miles away on a ship bound for Paris his brother, George Bosworth (Robert Hardy), has a partial vision of the murder. He sees the murder but not the murderer. George leaves the ship as soon as possible and returns to England. When he arrives home, he finds that his vision was true. His brother is dead.
The police, Sergeant Willmore (Boris Karloff) and Constable Hawton (Patrick Macnee) are investigating the murder. Sergeant Willmore is a stupid and inept policeman. Constable Hawton, on the other hand, is smarter and better at analyzing the facts. An eyewitness, Mrs. Clink (Betty Fairfax), identifies Albert Ketch (Terence de Marney) as the killer. The police arrest Ketch.
Bosworth is sure that Ketch is not the murderer but is unable to either prove it or even identify the real killer.
“Vision of Crime” is the second episode created for the anthology series “The Veil”. At least ten of the episodes were combined together to make three films. The movie “The Veil” was a compilation of “Vision of Crime”, "The Crystal Ball," "The Doctor," and "Summer Heat". For years it was believed that only ten of the episodes were ever made and that the episodes “The Vestris” and “Whatever Happened to Peggy?” were alternate titles.
This episode is very weak. Karloff and Macnee are great together and have good chemistry, but they are the highlight of the episode. The story itself is bland and uneventful. There are other stories in the series that are more interesting.