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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

Mr. Felker, please, come on. Be reasonable.

Yeah, come on, Mr. Felker,

this is not going to solve anything.

Believe me. Now, don't go any closer.

If he says he's gonna swallow the car key,

he's gonna swallow the car key.

Well, I don't think it's possible to

swallow a car key.

After 12 years of her cooking, I can swallow anything.

All right, what've you got? Lieutenant, hold it.

What is it? He's got his car

key in his mouth,

says he's gonna swallow it.

He's gonna do what?

Why does he wanna swallow the car key?

So I can't visit my mother, that's why.

The dearest woman that ever walked

the face of this Earth.

Ugh.

Uh, Mr. Felker, if you

swallow that car key, you'll choke.

And if you choke, one of these officers

is gonna be obliged

to give you mouth-to-mouth

resuscitation.

Now, if you would like a man to give you

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,

then by all means, swallow that car key.

If you would not like it, then please spit it out.

And if you do swallow that car key

knowing what'll happen as a result,

then we'll have some insight as to the trouble between you

and your wife, now, won't we?

That's the most filthy, disgusting thing I've

ever heard in my life!

Now you happy, dummy?

Where'd you get him?

You guys really know how to pick the winners.

Hey, they pick us.

We haven't even been out in the street yet.

How do they pick you?

Well, we settled an argument for them about a year ago,

I guess they just came back for an encore.

Mmm, they sure did.

Hey, listen, I don't know about you,

but I have had enough excitement for one day.

Gillis, I'm glad to hear you say that

'cause I think I got just the spot for you two.

TERRY: Man, I can't take this killing pace.

WILLIE: Don't forget Ryker's theory.

Our being here shows, uh, reckless drivers

the canyons are as well patrolled as the coast.

That preventing accidents is more important than

handing out tickets.

He's right.

I haven't seen an accident since

we got here.

Of course, I haven't seen a car since

we got here, either.

Hey, come on. Don't be so picky.

MALE DISPATCHER: [OVER RADIO] Ludlow Nine, this is dispatch.

Do you read? Over. Is that for us?

I couldn't tell.

Reception up here is bad.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow Niner.

Were you just trying to get us?

Roger, Ludlow Nine.

See the woman at 1559, Coast Highway.

Possible prowler. Over.

Uh, Mrs. Darrin again, huh?

Since her husband died and she started hitting the bottle

and started hearing things...

Hey, Terry, it's a call.

We've gotta answer it. Tell him we're rolling.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow Niner, we're rolling.

[TIRES SQUEALING]

Let's get him. Hey, what about

that prowler call?

Willie, it's the lady or the tiger.

And the tiger that just went by just might kill somebody.

Call dispatch. Tell 'em we're checking out.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow Niner.

Request another unit to handle a possible prowler.

[SIREN WAILING]

Okay.

[RADIO CHATTER]

Looks like you've had some experience at this,

Mister, uh, Winkler.

Yes, I'm pretty familiar with, uh, police procedure.

Well, sir, I'm gonna have to write you up.

You were going a good 20 miles

over the speed limit.

Doesn't that name mean anything to you?

No, sir, it doesn't. I'm a writer, Officer.

I write the Policeman Bob books.

For children, you know.

Oh.

Has a great deal to do for the public image

of law enforcement.

I'm sure you understand that.

Uh, yes, sir. Is this your

current address?

Yes, I... I live there.

I mean, you never know how many kids

have been kept on the straight and narrow

because of the work that I've done with

the Policeman Bob books.

I mean, it makes your job easier.

Ever think of that?

Yes, sir, uh, sometimes I ask myself,

"What would Policeman Bob do in a situation like this?"

and, uh,

I just do what he'd do.

Your driver's license, sir.

And, uh, we both know what he'd do in a situation

like this, don't we?

Sign the ticket, please.

Policeman Bob is fiction.

Yeah, but Policeman Terry ain't.

Hey, Michael, what's happening?

Hey.

I don't know what's happening,

but I don't think you guys are gonna

like it.

Like what?

Ryker's waiting for ya.

Where you guys been anyway?

What do you mean, he's mad about something?

Yeah, he's mad.

He's been in his office for over an hour.

Hasn't spoken except to see if you guys were back yet.

Uh, he's steamed.

What could we have done?

We were up in the canyon and nothing happened except...

RYKER: Webster. Gillis.

In my office.

Come in, close the door

and tell me how your tour went.

Do you want me to get the log?

No, don't get the log book.

I don't have time to read the log book.

I wanna hear it straight from you two.

Well, nothing spectacular happened.

We waited around after you sent us up in the canyon and,

uh, didn't do much.

Nailed one Barney Oldfield.

You didn't mention anything about rolling

on a possible prowler call

from a Mrs. Louise Darrin.

We didn't mention it, Lieutenant, because

we didn't roll on it.

That's when our Barney Oldfield

came by.

Uh, we called the dispatcher

and checked off.

And did you receive a confirmation from

the dispatcher

that he read your transmission?

'Cause he didn't read your transmission.

No unit was sent

and this morning was not just another one

of her false alarms.

Mrs. Darrin awoke to find four young men

breaking into her house.

Probably the same young men who have been rousting

that neighborhood

for the past three months.

She screamed, they tried to stop her from screaming

and they robbed her.

Mrs. Darrin is presently in Memorial Hospital

with a possible concussion, extensive cuts and bruises

plus a broken left arm.

We, uh,

thought we made the right decision,

Lieutenant.

There was no decision to make, Webster.

You don't have the right to decide

what calls to answer,

what citizen is really in trouble.

When a citizen calls for help, you go and you help, period!

The two of you better take a couple of days off.

Why?

'Cause a rookie has a two year probation

period, Gillis.

A thing like this can get you booted off the force.

You'll increase your chances of staying

on the force if you, uh...

By laying low? That's right, Webster.

By laying low and please spare me the moral outrage.

It so happens you were wrong.

Both of you!

There's a very good chance I'm not gonna be able

to keep you around.

You're that sure that there's gonna

be some trouble?

You can count on it.

I can count on it!

[EXHALING]

I don't know, Lieutenant, I...

I guess sorry

is a pretty dumb thing to say, huh?

Yes, it is,

because you're saying it to the wrong person.

I appreciate your apologies, but it... It's not your fault.

I have no one to blame but myself.

After all, I know what I'm like on weekends.

Lonely by 8:00,

drunk by 10:00

and hearing things at midnight.

I can't blame you for that.

You fellows aren't in trouble on account of this, are ya?

Well,

they, uh, didn't exactly pin a gold star on our

bulletin boards. No.

So, the next time you say you're going up the coast

to visit a friend,

go up the coast and do it, okay?

Oh, that.

Up the coast to visit a friend.

Well, that message was just for my daughter

and son-in-law.

They live in San Diego and,

and if they think I'm alone on weekends,

they start feeling guilty and I start feeling

like an old lady

and, uh,

well, I just don't want anyone to feel sorry for me.

You understand?

Yes, ma'am. I think we do.

Is there anything we can get for you?

No. Nothing. But thanks

for stopping by.

I know young men have better things to do

than visit old gals in hospitals.

Well, that, uh, depends on the old gal.

We'll be around again, okay?

You take care.

Bye. Bye.

NURSE: [ON PA] Dr. Richfield,

call extension 6.

She don't fit the image, does she?

What image?

Oh, the, uh, rich dowager.

Stuck up.

Very proper. Yeah.

Very easy to dislike.

In a way, I wish she did.

Yeah, me, too.

That'd sure let us off the hook.

Like you said, she doesn't fit the image.

How'd it go? Fine.

That's a nice woman.

Will she be in long? Mmm-mmm.

Three days, I guess. Three days?

For a busted arm and all those bruises?

Well, wait a minute. She's not gonna be

sent home.

Her daughter and her son-in-law

have arranged to have her placed in a custodial home.

Oh.

Does she wanna go? Mmm-mmm. No.

But they make the payments on the house...

Uh-huh.

...and this was the last straw for 'em.

They heard about all those phony phone calls

she put into the police.

They figured she can't take care of herself anymore.

Jill, those phony phone calls were made because

she had too much to drink

and she had too much to drink because

she was lonely.

Now, that's no reason to shuffle anyone off.

Okay. But don't tell me.

Tell the daughter and the son-in-law.

We will. Where are they?

[SIGHING] I'm afraid they left,

but they said they'd be back Friday to help move her.

Stop them.

Huh? Stop 'em.

Tell them that she can't be released

just yet.

Yeah, tell them that she's not up

for traveling.

Now, wait a minute. She is. I can't...

Then tell 'em that you lost a record

or something,

but please find some way of

keeping her here.

Oh, Terry, you can't ask me to...

Jill, that woman would not be in this hospital

if it wasn't for us.

Our mistake.

Now please just give us a little time to get it

straightened out, okay?

No!

Now look, look. Now, a nurse

has got ethics.

I can't...

Willie, there's a moral obligation

here. I can't...

Look, hospitals have... Hospitals have rules.

You're right. You're right.

[EXASPERATED] And records do get lost from

time to time, of course.

Well, uh, it's human error.

It happens every day. It can't be helped.

Yeah, every large organization has an occasional foul-up.

Look, if I get caught, you two...

We will be character witnesses.

Thank you. Thank you.

Bye. Thank you.

Ugh.

Good morning. Hi.

How are ya? Fine.

How's it going?

How's what going?

You know, um, just things.

Tryin' to make a little conversation, that's all.

You go right ahead.

I'm making a door.

That's how they got in, huh?

Yeah.

How they got in and how they left.

Hey, uh,

you live in the neighborhood?

I do.

Then maybe you can help me out.

I was wondering about the bottom out there.

Yeah, what about it?

Wondering how deep it is.

Thinking of, uh, bringing my boat in here.

How big a boat you got?

How big a boat can I get in?

Well, if you got anything bigger than a dory,

you'll never get her over the reef.

Couldn't get a big boat into the beach, huh?

Isn't that what I just said?

Yeah, I guess it's what you just said.

Looks like you accomplished as much as I accomplished.

Yeah.

I don't know.

The only thing that's consistent about these guys

is that they're good.

They'll hit two, three nights in a row

then lay off for a week or two.

Their MO seems to be having no MO.

Possible to trace any of the stuff they took?

Nope.

No way.

With the exception of one time when they took

some camera equipment

that had ID numbers on it.

The stuff's all fenceable.

They hit nothing but beach houses

and only when the people were out. Hmm?

Except once. Mrs. Darrin.

And why that once?

I don't know.

But, uh, if we don't do something,

it's not gonna make much difference.

Jill called from the hospital.

It seems that Mrs. Darrin's daughter and son-in-law

have made definite arrangements

to have her transferred to some home Saturday morning.

Well, not if I have anything to say about it.

[SCOFFS] That's just it, isn't it?

We don't have anything to say about it.

MRS. DARRIN: Gin.

Did I give you that seven?

You did and I love it.

Talk about dumb luck.

How much is luck and how much is dumb

is hard to say, isn't it?

Hello. MRS. DARRIN: Hi.

How you feeling today?

Good. Good.

Who's winning?

Well, I haven't finished totaling up the score yet.

It looks like Mrs. Darrin might have a little edge.

Yeah, well, I'd say that, uh, 118 to 20 is a

little edge all right.

Reading upside down can be a very valuable

tool to a police officer.

Who told you that?

You did.

Even the best of us make an occasional mistake.

Forgive me, Mrs. Darrin,

I have to get back to the precinct.

I'm gonna take you next time.

I wanna talk to you two.

Outside.

Secrets, Lieutenant?

No, Mrs. Darrin, but, uh,

sometimes my language becomes excessively colorful

when I talk to Webster and Gillis.

Outside. [CLEARS THROAT]

Well, excuse us.

Over here.

All right, what are you doing here?

The same thing you are, Lieutenant.

We came to visit someone who isn't feeling well.

Now, uh, do we have to justify that, too?

Yes. Why?

Because it could look as if you're

trying to pressure her

into changing her story about the robbery.

Well, all anyone has to do is to ask her what we are...

People do not always ask, Webster.

They assume.

They wonder. They conjure.

They conjecture where policemen are involved,

and believe me, you two are involved.

Stay away from that woman. It could be misunderstood.

Her family is tryin' to have her put away in some

kind of home, Lieutenant.

Now come on. What are we

supposed to do?

Just turn our backs on her? Is that what you're saying?

What I'm saying, Gillis, is that people feel bad

about that woman

and they are looking for someone to punish.

What I am trying to do to the best of my ability

is to make sure that someone is

not you.

Now don't fight me on this. I'm tryin' to help you.

All right.

Stay away from the precinct.

Yeah.

Stay away from Mrs. Darrin.

Mmm-hmm.

You get the feeling we're not too

popular around here?

Looks like we can start to phone it in.

Yeah.

Just like...

Just like Mrs. Darrin did.

What are you talking about?

The night she was robbed.

The only people she told she was going out

was her daughter and son-in-law

and they live out of town.

So she had to call them.

I lay you ten to one her phone was tapped.

[WHISTLING]

Hey, Terry?

Did you find anything?

No. Dead end.

There's no tap here.

Well, I found something!

Come on down!

WILLIE: Okay.

Now, we know that they only hit houses

on the beach side of the highway, right?

Uh-huh.

Now, we also know that the roadblocks

have come up with absolutely nothing.

Right. Okay.

You ready for it?

There it is.

Right there.

TERRY: There what is?

WILLIE: The way to predict when those guys

are gonna hit next.

The tide.

Okay.

September 10th, 5:15 a.m.

Low tide.

15th. 3:00 a.m.

Low tide.

17th. 4:39 a.m.

Low tide.

24th. 2:12 a.m.

24th at...

Uh, that was high tide.

Maybe you got something because there was

no burglary that night.

So, tell me.

Here it is.

ATV,

all-terrain vehicle.

Now, suppose that they came down the

beach in one of those.

Or something like that.

They go in from the beach side,

take what they want then back down

the beach again.

No road blocks and the incoming tide

wipes out their tracks.

Yeah, but how do these guys know who's in and who's out?

Well, maybe they, uh,

they tap the phones from inside the house.

Okay.

Fine.

But, uh, we're under instructions

to keep away from Mrs.

Darrin... Mmm-hmm.

...so that we can't ask permission to

check out her house.

That means the department will have to set it up.

That means talkin' to Ryker

and that don't sound like fun to me.

Hey, who said anything about us doing the talking?

After all, what are friends for?

RYKER: All right, tell me the rest of it.

Well, I thought maybe we could take a look

at the phones in the house

and see if that's possibly how they're

getting their information.

All right, it's worth a shot.

Don't call Mrs. Darrin though.

Find out if there's a housekeeper first.

Uh, permission from her should get us

on the premises,

then we won't have to bother Mrs. Darrin.

Won't that look as if we're going

behind her back?

No, Officer Danko, it will not.

In two days, that woman is gonna be moved

into a custodial home.

The one thing she does not need

is any more hassle from us.

Well, Lieutenant, I don't think that's...

Now, look, I've already had to put

Webster and Gillis on a shelf because

of this thing.

I don't like that.

An old lady is being taken out of a place

she wants to stay in

and I don't like that either.

And the one thing I like the least is

every time I say something, I get arguments in return.

Uh, but... Now look here,

you're gonna do this thing my way or it's

not gonna be done.

You understand that?

Yes, sir. Do you understand

that's pencil shavings you're putting on your hamburger?

Just...

Just leave me, Danko.

Quietly.

[WHISTLING]

He bought it. All the way.

All right. I'm to call Mrs.

Darrin's housekeeper

and set up the appointment.

Good.

All right. RYKER: Danko!

You don't suppose I spoke too soon,

do you?

Danko, I have a...

I have a report here from someone who maintains

that one of our officers have been moonlighting

as a telephone lineman.

Any of you know anything about this?

Uh, no, no, no.

No. Mmm-mmm. WILLIE: No.

Uh, it's hard to blame whoever it is though,

Lieutenant.

Uh, the pay ain't too great around here,

you know.

No, Webster, it's not at all hard to blame

whoever it is.

It's so easy to blame whoever it is,

I hope I never find out who it is.

Me, too, Lieutenant.

I better make that call before, uh,

Ryker changes his mind or loses it altogether.

[LINE RINGING]

Yeah, is this the, uh, Darrin residence?

Oh. It's on an answering service.

Yeah, I'd like to, uh, leave a message for

Mrs. Darrin's housekeeper.

My name's Danko. Mike Danko.

Oh, just a second please.

Ask her if you can leave a message for

these people, too.

Gotcha. Uh, Miss.

Yeah, uh, I was wondering,

would it be possible to leave a message

for George Detweiler?

Uh, Mr. and Mrs. Leeds?

Uh, uh, a General and Mrs. Ryan?

I see. Uh-huh.

Uh, no, no, that's okay.

Um, I... I tell you what,

I'll, uh, I'll call back later.

See if I can catch 'em at home.

Uh-huh. No.

No message. Thank you.

I think we just got the message.

All the people who were involved in the burglaries

have the same answering service.

Look, you are not gonna keep my mother-in-law here against

her will and that is final.

Mr. Kendall, hospitals have rules.

We can't dismiss your mother-in-law until

all the tests...

What tests? The woman has a broken arm.

What kind of a test do you have to run when someone has

a broken arm, for Pete's sake? Well, there might

be side effects.

I never heard of side effects to

a broken arm.

Well, that's because we run tests to prevent them.

All right. How long will the tests take?

A day. Maybe two.

I bet this is something the cops cooked up.

Just so they could keep her from talking to the press

about those two yo-yos who didn't

respond to her call.

Mr. Kendall, I...

I think you oughta know that my husband

is a police officer.

Really?

Well, let me tell you something, lady.

As far as I'm concerned, the only reason any guy'd

wanna be a cop

is because he's not very sure of

his own masculinity.

Mr. Kendall, I disagree with what you say.

But I'll defend to the death your right

to say it.

However, I will also box your ears

if you persist in saying it to me.

Do you know what I mean?

What's all this?

Um, pawn shop records, Lieutenant.

Hoping that some of the stuff might

turn up here.

Television sets, home appliances.

That stuff is tough to trace and easy

to fence, you know.

We're looking for camera equipment.

The rest of the stuff's shown up.

The camera equipment hasn't.

You guys got a notion?

Sort of.

Well, are you gonna tell me about it?

Um, too soon.

All right. Don't go into business on your own.

You figure out what you wanna figure out.

When it comes to doin' something,

you check with me first. You follow?

We're hip, Lieutenant.

Don't talk like that, Danko.

Policemen don't talk like that.

But isn't that a little bit outdated,

Lieutenant?

Danko, you can be as "hip" and as "groovy"

and as "right on" as you wanna be on your own time.

When you're here,

you're an "aware square," my friend,

and don't ever forget it.

Where's Gillis? I thought he was

helpin' you with this.

Uh, well, he's, uh,

doing his thing and we're doing

ours, Lieutenant.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Hi.

Excuse me, Miss. Uh, do you work here?

Yeah, I do. Why?

Well, my name is Gillis.

I'm a police officer and if you don't mind,

I'd like to ask you a few questions.

You're putting me on.

No, I'm not. I really am

a police officer.

I mean, I've heard a lot of 'em,

but that's really the loser of all times.

I mean, can't you use a little imagination?

I'm not sure that I understand

what you mean.

I mean, in the first place, that cop thing

is gonna put anybody off.

I mean, who wants to go out and have a cup of coffee

with a cop?

Well, I really hadn't planned on asking you

for a cup of coffee.

Well, I mean, like, if you were a photographer

and you thought that I'd make a dynamite centerfold,

then we got something going.

Or like, um, um, if you were a...

A director and you were making a flick and you

wanted some real people.

I mean, not just actors, then we got something

going too.

I mean, that's how you sort of get

some action going.

But that cop thing, man, that's really a downer.

I mean, you just gotta do better than that.

Okay.

How 'bout this? How's this sound?

You are a very beautiful woman

and I would really like to spend some time with you.

Now, that's using some imagination.

Hi.

Hey, here he is right now.

Terry, this is Jeri Spencer.

Hello, Jeri Spencer. Hi, Terry.

Jeri works at that answering service

down at the point.

Answering service, huh?

Uh, that's gotta be very interesting work.

Aw, come on.

I mean, all I do is take messages and, um,

answer the telephone.

I mean, Willie here, he makes it all

sound so glamorous,

but it's, um, really just nothing.

Jeri, when you do it, it is.

You're a very fascinating person.

Well, listen, you're both making me blush.

I think, um, I'll go to the ladies' room.

How do you do it?

Believe me, Terry, she did most of the doing.

Yeah. Well, um, find out anything that means anything?

Well, half and half.

How so?

It looks like all the robbery victims

are subscribers to that answering service,

so that is how they're getting their information.

But I cannot figure out who is leaking it.

How many employees?

Technically, none.

Her mom and dad own the place. They have for fifteen years.

They run it with Jeri and Jeri's brother.

How 'bout the brother? Is he into drugs or anything?

Now, that is gonna come as a big shock to the monsignor.

What?

Her brother starts next semester at

Holy Cross Seminary.

Oh. Oh.

Yeah.

Well, let's, uh, start from the top

and see what we have.

Okay.

What's the procedure when someone's gonna

be away all night?

There is a big bulletin board in the back room.

If somebody calls in saying they're not

gonna be home,

they put a red tag on the name

along with a number where the person

can be reached.

Who sees the bulletin board?

I told you. It's in the back room.

How 'bout a window?

Yeah, but...

But you would need very powerful binoculars

to be able to read that printing.

Terry, it is 30 feet to the window and

that printing is tiny.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, Willie.

Not, not binoculars,

a camera

with a telephoto lens.

Well, we figure that's why, uh, they hit the

photography shop first

and why none of the equipment's turned up.

With that lens and the enlarger,

all they have to do is wait out back for

about ten seconds

and by the end of the day, they've got

a blowup of the board

and they know when and where to hit.

What do you want me to do?

There are at least three houses

that we can assume will be vacant on Saturday night.

Saturday's special?

It's the first low tide between now and then.

Now low tide is the MO.

All we want you to do is to stake out

the empty houses.

Stakeouts. MOs.

You two guys have been watching those alphabet

movies again, haven't ya?

APB's, ten-four, Roger-wilco.

Maybe we can fly in a PBY and I can get

them with my G-U-N.

No stakeouts. Okay, Lieutenant.

Now listen, you two. I don't have enough

manpower

to tie up a number of cars all night long on a possible.

You two don't like that and I don't like it.

That's it. That's the word.

You would have one more car if you put

us back on the street.

All right.

You can start in on the mid-watch.

12:00 to 8:00.

I give you that much.

Why? Is it deductible?

RYKER: No, because this may be our last

shot at this, Webster,

so I hope you two know what you're talking about.

Because these birds aren't gonna keep this up forever.

We don't nail them now, we may very well

never nail them.

[SHUTTER CLICKING]

Miss Darrin.

Oh, hello.

Whatcha doing in here?

I, uh, I'm enjoying my last night of freedom.

I bet you think I'm overly dramatic,

don't you?

Well, no, but,

well, you're not exactly being sent to the

penitentiary, you know.

But I am being sent.

You know, like a package or a letter.

That's what people think of you when

you get older. They...

They think of you as kind of a package

that can be transferred from place to place

without even asking you.

You know, I'm not one of your son-in-law's biggest fans,

but I guess it's true that since the robbery

there's really not all that much for you

to go back to at your house.

There are 30 years of yesterdays in that house.

That's a lot.

That's everything

when you get older.

You know, you... You oughta get

back to your room.

Oh, please don't make me go.

I bet you don't know why I'm here.

Well, it occurred to me

that this just might be the last night of my life

that I can get up in the middle of the night

without asking anyone's permission.

Please don't make me ask your permission.

Please.

You know, I have a break coming up.

How 'bout I get us both a cup of coffee?

Hi.

Something I can do for you?

No calls in from the beach yet?

Nothing worth talking about.

You hear anything from Webster and Gillis?

No.

You want me to call?

No. I was just curious, that's all.

Place is full of curious people tonight.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow Nine.

MALE DISPATCHER: [OVER RADIO] Go ahead, Ludlow Nine.

Nothing. Just thought maybe our radio had gone out.

Only an hour and a half left. Hadn't heard from you.

Well, it's nice to be missed, Gillis,

but I don't have a thing to tell you.

Ludlow Nine out.

Well, the later it gets, the less likely they are

to do anything.

Hey, look.

Oh, hold on there a minute.

Let me help you, sir.

Mr. Winkler.

Officer, when do you sleep?

Uh, how are you this morning,

Mr. Winkler?

You know the officer, Arnold?

[STAMMERING] Yes, we met at the Police Academy.

Uh, this is my wife.

How do you do?

And my two children, Officer.

We're, um, we're gonna go fishing.

Oh. Good.

Terry, forget it. We gotta go.

Why?

Coast Guard helicopter spotted oversized tire tracks

headed up the beach.

Ryker says to roll on it.

Sure, but where are they when you really need 'em?

You're right. They've been

by here once.

Twice. Yeah.

[SIREN WAILING]

They've gotta come out somewhere.

There.

They're in that dry wash.

Is there any way we could take this thing

in there after them?

No, it gets worse the further in you go.

If the car bogs down, we're dead.

If we go fast enough, it won't bog down.

But it's a car, not a tank.

Chances are ten to one we'd have to hike on

outta there.

One chance in ten is one chance more

than we got now.

Come on. Let's go.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow nine.

We're half a mile east of Torrance Canyon,

heading north of Coast Highway.

We're in pursuit of the ATV. Ten-four.

That doesn't make sense!

Why would you pursue on foot a vehicle that can do 40 miles

an hour off the highway?

Well, they didn't say anything about foot

pursuit, Lieutenant.

Danko, there are no roads north of the Coast Highway.

Look here for yourself. Look.

Yeah, well, uh, you're right about that, Lieutenant.

There aren't any roads.

They would do that, wouldn't they?

They really would.

Police! Not a move!

Freeze!

All right, back it up.

Let's go.

All right, back up. Come on. Back up. Back up.

Move on outta that truck.

Keep your hands where I can see them.

Come on! Move!

Hands on the truck. Feet back and spread 'em.

Spread.

Dispatch, this is Ludlow Nine.

Go ahead, Ludlow nine.

Request units meet us at Mountain Road

and Miller Creek.

Gillis, what units?

Well, we'll need, uh, a paddy wagon and a tow truck.

A big tow truck, Lieutenant.

A what?

Ludlow nine, out.

Well, you certainly got a beautiful day to head

back to the beach.

I can't tell you how I'm looking forward to that,

especially with all my belongings back in the house.

Um, there was one thing that we failed to recover.

What's that?

The liquor cabinet.

I won't be needing that anymore.

That's part of the deal I made with my son-in-law.

Oh, bottom line.

I know it's hard with that cast.

Rules are rules.

And, uh, Jill,

you never break any rules, do you?

Oh, absolutely not. No. Mmm-mmm.

You know, there's one thing that's really bothering me.

What's that?

What if I slip back?

What if one of those Saturday nights roll around

and I start feeling lonely?

How can I prevent that?

Well, if you really feel the need,

may I suggest that you,

uh, call this number?

What is it? A helpline or a clinic or something?

No, it's, uh,

the unlisted number for a certain Lieutenant we know.

Really great gin player.

Really great. Oh, yes.

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