Johnny is the kind of boy who pulls the wings off flies; and enjoys it. When we meet his parents his father, Bill, is in a wheelchair after he fell down a manhole, an 'accident' caused when Johnny removed its cover. They are having tea with a gamekeeper friend, Jack, to obtain some strychnine so that their gardener can use it to control moles. Johnny overhears Jack explaining the potency of the poison and later steals the small bag of white powder. His first victim is the neighbour's cat. The gardener accuses him of killing the cat so Johnny offers him a sweet contaminated with the poison. Johnny buries the gardener in the bean trench that he was digging and a few months later the the beans are growing well. A policeman call to make enquiries about the disappearance of the gardener so Johnny kills him in the same way. His dad witnesses the murder so he too is killed. At Bill's funeral two women gossip about their belief that he is the murderer and that he also took his own life as a result of the frustration of being confined to a wheelchair.
Written by Syd Pearman
Johnny: Patrick Moore
Mary: Pat Shatlock
Bill: Alan Mitchel
Jack: Barry Starbeck
Gardener: John Kirby
Policeman: Harry Bartlet
Vicar: Harold Morris
Gossiping women: Diane and Connie
Produced by members of the Braunstone Cine Society