Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Season 2 Episode 39 Goodbye, Al ( Air Date 1959-09-25 ) Genre Mystery, Drama category. Overview "Mike's slippery friend Al Sparks skips town because of a gambling debt. He turns up in Forge River charged with murdering the female owner of the diner where he worked. Hammer discovers everyone fears Todd Stryker, the man who runs his wife's huge lumber company and wields all the power in town. Stryker's relationship with the dead woman is a secret he wants to keep.".