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One-Adam-12, one-Adam-12,

a 211 in progress.

One-Adam-12, handle code 3.

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It looks like 10702 hasn't been built yet.

One-Adam-12 requesting an address verification

on family dispute call.

One-Adam-12, 10702. Do you wish a recheck?

Adam-12, Roger.

It's probably a mistake.

Why don't we get out and knock on a few doors?

One-Adam-12, officers need help

on Kilmore between Overland and Ranch.

We're being fired on.

All units, officer needs help

on Kilmore between Overland and Ranch.

Shots fired.

Adam-12 to 14,

cut your lights and cover from the alley.

East side, report to L20.

It's been about five minutes.

Got a feeling they split.

Maybe.

L20 to Adam-12. The area is sealed.

Cover from your end. We'll start the move.

Adam-12, Roger.

L22, 14, Z11, and 4.

Start your assigned deployment.

This is where he fired from.

30 aught 6.

Must have been an automatic.

He popped off six shots in three seconds.

Lucky he was a lousy shot.

A decent marksman could have picked us off from here.

Maybe he was in a hurry to get out of here.

Yeah. I figure it took us about four or five minutes to seal off the area.

He was probably long gone by the time we started rolling.

One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12, come in.

Adam-12, go.

One-Adam-12, on your call-back number, it's non-existent.

Adam-12, Roger.

Phony call. It was a setup.

One-Adam-12 p.m. watch clear.

One-Adam-12 p.m. watch clear.

Mac say if detectives turned in anything?

Nothing to go on except those shell casings.

Criminal conspiracy section came in on it earlier this morning.

- Militants? - Maybe.

Maybe not. They're checking all the angles.

Sure would be a relief to know if the guy was looking to kill us

or just any policeman who happened to roll on that call.

One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12,

meet One-L20 on tact 2.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

One-Adam-12 to L20, go.

Adam-12,

Community Hospital has an 8-year-old boy in surgery.

He's in need of a rare blood type.

They're flying it in from Orange County by helicopter.

The closest heliport is at Grand and Cloverdale.

The chopper should be landing in just a few minutes.

Doctors are running out of time.

Code 3 is authorized.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

One-Adam-12 on a station call to the heliport,

Cloverdale and Grand.

Code 3 from Rampart and Broxton.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

All units, One-Adam-12 is en route.

Code 3 from Rampart and Broxton to Grand and Cloverdale.

How far is it to the hospital?

About ten minutes.

Thank God. The doctor gave me an hour when I left.

He's my little brother.

Where's the blood?

They're making a direct transfusion. I'm the donor.

Get in the back seat and strap yourself in.

Get down.

What is it? What's happening?

You see anything?

Must be on the building across the field.

What's happening? Why?

Wish we knew. Just take it easy.

We'll get some help here in a few minutes.

Get the mike.

This is One-Adam-12. Officers need help

at the heliport at Cloverdale and Grand.

Shots being fired from the building west of Cloverdale.

All units, officer needs help.

Grand and Cloverdale at the heliport.

Shots being fired from the office building on the east.

It's One-Adam-12 to L10.

Roger, Adam-12. Go.

We just picked up your passenger.

We're now attracting sniper fire

from the building west of the heliport.

We're pinned down.

Roger, Adam-12.

You better try and get out of there. There isn't much time.

I'll try and distract them.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

We don't have time to wait for our backup.

Now listen... You get inside the car

and lay down flat on the back seat,

and don't move an inch, okay?

Go.

Yeah. Anything to make you think it's the same dude?

That's enough for me.

The only question left is who and why.

Right. Yes, sir.

How are they doing?

The doctor says the little boy will make it.

He fell on a bottle and cut an artery.

His sister is one of the ten people in this state

with a compatible blood type.

Newport PD found her on the beach in Balboa

and got her to the chopper.

Yeah, and LAPD gets her shot at.

She'd rather forget that part.

Yeah, me, too.

What did Mac come up with?

They confirmed where he was...

The roof of that warehouse.

30 aught 6 shell casings?

They also found a transistor radio he left behind.

He had the bands jacked up to receive our frequency.

Oh, great.

There's more.

Mac found a piece of paper underneath the radio.

Our boy keeps track of Adam-12.

His last entry was the station call to Cloverdale and Grand.

How's that grab you?

It narrows the field down, doesn't it?

Yeah.

It's down to you or me.

Anything?

Been through 150 arrests we've made.

I can't put anything together.

Why don't we hang it up, Mac? My eyeballs are falling out.

All right. Will you check your log?

There's a possibility something will click.

I don't want to pass it up.

Neither do I, believe me, but I'm telling you...

Nothing in those reports is going to get us any closer.

I'm going to check with Jean.

Hello, honey? Look, I'm sorry.

We're going to be a little bit longer.

Who was it?

Well, what did he say?

I want you to stay put.

Make sure all the doors are locked

and don't open them until the radio car gets there.

Right. I'll be home right away.

Some guy just called the house, wanting to know if it was

the residence of Jim Reed, the policeman.

- What did Jean tell him? - She told him yeah.

Murphy, send a car to Jim Reed's house.

Roll them code 2.

Tell them to wait inside with his wife till we get there.

Now look, it's probably nothing,

but don't worry. If it's necessary,

I'll put a stake on your house until this is over.

There's no need for a stakeout, Mac.

As soon as I get home, I'm moving Jean and the baby over to her her mother's house.

I just woke up to the fact I'm not too healthy to be around.

- How's Jean doing? - She keeps bugging me.

She wants to move out of her mother's and come home.

And?

Not until I'm sure.

Two days isn't enough.

Something will break pretty soon.

Yeah.

Want to buy some flowers?

I didn't do nothing.

I'm sorry.

You surprised me a little, that's all.

- Okay? - Okay.

What's your name, son?

Jimmy.

Okay, Jimmy, you just made yourself a sale.

2 bucks enough?

Sure is.

Well, here.

Gee, thanks, Officer.

Thanks a lot.

Forget it. This thing's grinding on all of us.

One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12,

an attempt suicide in progress at the service station.

Ludellin and Beach.

One-Adam-12, handle code 3.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

Some people don't know when they got it made.

Stay there.

This man is crazy.

Says he's going to torch himself.

Who is he?

Search me. I never saw the guy before.

Came in here and asked me for a light.

I loaned him my lighter and said,

"Don't go near the pumps."

That's when he grabbed the hose.

Don't come any closer.

Stay away from me.

We only want to talk to you. Why don't you put it down?

I got nothing to say. Leave me alone.

Please stay away from me.

One spark from that thing, he'll go up like a match box.

Keep him talking.

What's your name, Mister?

Would it make any difference?

I'd like to help you.

It's too late for that now.

Come on, you're upset.

We got plenty of time. Why don't you tell me why? There's got to be a reason.

Why should you care?

Because we're talking about a human life.

It's something too valuable not to care.

Come on now, give me a try.

And block off all traffic surrounding the station.

L20, Roger.

We'll keep the fire department out of sight.

Adam-12, Roger.

You got a CO2 extinguisher?

Yeah, sure. Over in the office.

Most people don't have the choice of living or dying.

You do.

You don't understand. Nobody does.

I understand, but I still say it's the wrong way.

Now come on, let us help you. Put it down, huh?

No. You get back.

Listen, we can talk about it.

Don't waste your life for nothing.

I'm warning you.

Don't do it now.

You had no right.

No right.

He was out of work for three months, and his wife left him.

I guess he just couldn't hack it.

One attempted suicide report.

What's the number now?

I thought you might like to know

SID made a comparison on those shell cases.

They match up.

Same gun fired.

- What about prints? - Nothing.

Detectives were able to get a run-down on the radio.

A pawn shop on North Broadway sold it last week.

Any record of who bought it?

Yeah, but it doesn't do much good.

He used a phony name and laid a bad check on the pawn shop.

How do they know it was a phony name?

Because he's a well-known paper hanger

they've been tracking for two months.

Goes by the name of Maury Stover.

Yeah. Maury Stover. We got a flyer on him about a week ago.

He's got about 5,000 out in paper.

That's him.

Now give me a reason why he should be gunning for you.

I can't. Nobody else knows him. Why should I?

Flyer said he was a male Caucasian, about 25 or 30.

6 foot, brown hair, brown eyes.

That description could fit half a million people.

Maybe you picked him up one time under another name.

Yeah, maybe.

The only paper hangers I've busted

are all the friendly types, passing NSFs.

We don't have any more than we started with.

Except a phony name.

Yeah. Maury Stover.

The only thing in my favor so far is he's a bad shot.

I dug up that flyer on our mysterious paper hanger.

We got one more bit of information going for us.

He's been seen on a couple of capers

driving a '64 maroon Ford convertible.

A big help. Half a million people match him.

There's probably 5,000 cars come close to that one.

Yeah, well, just the same...

When it comes to maroon convertibles, I'll play it safe.

All units in the vicinity

and One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12.

A prowler now. 216 Hemett Street.

Code 2.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

Hemett Street. I'll have to look that one up.

Never mind, I know it. It's a dead end off Hillhurst.

Have her check the call back.

This is One-Adam-12 requesting a recheck

on a call-back number for a prowler call.

One-Adam-12, there's no call-back number.

The party hung up.

One-Adam-12, Roger,

I don't like it, Pete.

Like it or not, we got to roll. Get us some back-up.

This is One-Adam-12, requesting a unit

to assist us on our prowler call.

Advised... It's a possible set-up.

One-Adam-12, Roger.

One-Adam-14, One-Adam-14,

assist One-Adam-12 on this prowler call.

216 Hemett Street. A possible set-up.

Roger, 14. Make a drive-by and cover the back.

It's almost too quiet.

Let's go.

Look, Jim... So far, all we've got is a prowler call.

That's the way we have to play it.

Come on out. Police.

Freeze, Mister.

All right, get your hands up.

Now turn around, easy.

- Hold it. - No, Jim.

You almost broke my bottle.

A policeman tells you to freeze, Mister, you freeze.

You almost got yourself killed trying to save

half a buck's worth of Muscatel. Now drop the bottle.

Turn around. Put your hands behind your head.

He's clean.

If I'd been where you were,

I wouldn't have seen the bottle, either.

When he went for his belt.

It was slipping down my pant leg.

I ain't done nothing.

Just looking for a place to sleep.

End of watch, Mac.

Hey, that prowler you picked up on Hemett Street...

- How'd he check out? - He was clean.

Just a wino looking for a quiet place to get drunk and sleep it off.

Anything new on our sniper?

Sorry.

Give it some time. They'll come up with something.

It's just that it's getting to be kind of a drag.

Empty house, no wife, and you playing taxi for me.

I'm not complaining.

Okay. Good night, Sarge.

Hey, Reed.

If it's worth anything,

I know what you're going through.

Okay.

Good night, Pete.

Hey, why don't you pick me up here

and we'll go out for breakfast in the morning?

Somebody's out kind of late.

You know him?

Yeah, I think so.

- You're Jim Reed, right? - Yeah, right. Do I know you?

I'm Mark Donin. We met last week at Jimmy Dukes' anniversary party, remember?

Yeah, right. How you doing?

Fine, fine.

Well, at least till about five minutes ago.

I was on my way home when the wheels broke down.

So I'm just hoofing it over to a pay phone at that gas station on Fremont.

What do you need, a tow truck?

Yeah. I'm afraid the trans went.

Why don't you save yourself the walk? Use my phone.

I don't want to put you to any trouble.

No trouble at all, really.

- Hey, Pete, I'll see you in the morning, okay? - All right.

- Come on. - Okay, thanks.

It really is kind of late.

I hate to disturb your family.

Oh, no sweat. There's nobody home anyway.

Hold it right there.

It's you or me, man,

and I figured it might as well be you.

Wait a minute, what got you turned on to this?

I can't take the chance.

You might remember, I was locked up once.

But no more, man, no more.

Don't you remember?

At the party, you were talking about that forgery suspect

you'd gotten a flyer on that day.

Huh? You're a smart cop, Reed.

You remembered the description and everything.

And I said you fit the description.

Like I said, some day, you'd remember.

We were just talking. I was giving an example.

I didn't say you were the forger.

Well, I am.

You should have kept your mouth shut.

It's been bugging me, and I can't take any chances.

You'll wind up in the joint for life. Give it up, man.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

It's going to look like a suicide, see?

You know, like the sniper business

has been bothering you for days now.

Couldn't take it anymore,

so you shot yourself with your own gun.

They'll go for it. They'll believe it.

That's the way you got it figured, huh?

That's the way I got it figured.

So long, Reed.

How'd you know?

You know those 5,000 maroon convertibles we talked about?

One of them is parked right down the street.

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