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

a 211 in progress.

One-Adam-12, handle code 3.

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- What time are you gonna pick her up? - Why?

I thought if you got hung up at the house, we could meet you there.

Okay. Meet us there.

Of course, if you wanna just take one car, it's cool.

Jim, it's just a date. Stop trying to make a three-act play out of it.

Well, you said you were trying to make a good first impression,

but if you wanna meet us there, that's fine.

One-Adam-12 show us code 6 at 5th and Gower.

One-Adam-12, roger.

Officer, we need your help.

It's my boy. We don't know what's wrong. We have to get him to a doctor.

Oh, please help us. Please.

- What happened? - I don't know.

Just all of a sudden, he became faint, and he started breathing like that.

Jay, you're wasting time. Jimmy's sick. Please let us go.

We'll take him in our car. I'll radio the hospital.

Rampart's the closest hospital.

- Can I meet you there? - Yeah. We'll get him there.

You just take it easy.

Notify the hospital we have a six to eight-year-old boy

with respiratory problems.

One-Adam-12, roger. All units, One-Adam-12

- is en route to Rampart Emergency, code 3. - He's unconscious.

- Please hurry. - Go.

- The boy's mother? - Yeah.

Did she say what was wrong?

What we could get on the way in, he started feeling weak,

very sleepy and sick to his stomach.

Well, your dispatcher told us on the phone he was unconscious.

Yeah, well, he keeps floating in and out.

What do you think it is?

Well, I have a pretty good idea.

But that's one advantage of being a nurse.

You don't have to diagnose or break the bad news.

Sally, I want a blood sugar workup right away.

Yes, sir.

It's a good thing you got him here as fast as you did.

Much longer, and he'd have gone into a deep coma.

As it is, we've been able to stabilize him fairly quickly.

The nurse guessed diabetes.

I guess I'd better break the news to his parents.

They're in the waiting room with my partner.

Why don't you keep him company till the nurse gets back?

How you doing, Jimmy?

Okay, I guess.

Why the sad face?

I don't like it here. I'm scared.

There's nothing to be scared of. Besides, you're a big boy.

Your mother told me you were eight years old today.

Yeah. We were at the pet store for my present when I got sick.

I guess I won't get a dog now.

That's no way to talk, Jimmy.

What's that?

I had an idea you might be thirsty. Right?

Yeah.

Well, Mr. Doubting Thomas, I brought you orange juice.

There's no medicine in it.

I don't want any.

I just wanna go home. I don't wanna be here.

You're still here, Roy?

Yeah, I'm waiting, as usual.

I guarantee it.

You know, Doc, there must be

some kind of cure for his condition.

The only one I know is old age.

Yeah. I'm afraid in his case, it won't work.

I'm gonna go play heavy again.

And not only that...

Come on, Johnny. Let's go.

There's a whole world just waiting out there for your healing hands.

Very funny. Oh, listen, uh, at 8:00. Don't forget.

What we'll need is a system of management,

diet and insulin requirements.

We'll need him here at the hospital for a few days.

But once we make all the adjustments of insulin dosage, he'll be able to go home.

- Is he in any danger now, Doctor? - No, not at the moment.

But once you get him home, it'll be up to you

to see that he stays on the system we design.

- Can we see him now? - Yes, just for a few minutes.

It's beyond belief. How could it have happened?

Fellas, thank you for everything.

You're welcome.

How's he doing?

Oh, he's coming along okay. He's scared to death of the hospital.

Yeah, well, I can't blame him much. I never liked hospitals myself.

Too many people poking around with needles.

Hey, you wanna take 7 here?

Yeah. Okay. I'll call us in.

When you get back, there's somebody I want you to meet.

That girl in the Hot Line Room?

Well, you've been bugging me to meet her.

Now's your chance.

What do you think would be a good way to solve it?

Uh-huh.

Well, why don't you give it a try?

Sure. Straight out. Listen, you can't lose by trying.

Okay. Let me know what happens, huh?

Hang tough.

Uh-uh. Let me guess.

He's your partner, and his name is Jim Reed, huh?

- Hi, Jim. Kathy Stephens. - Nice to see you, Kathy.

Like I said, I was gonna introduce you.

Oh, it really isn't necessary. I know all about you already, Jim.

About the police work,

about how One-Adam-12 is just about

the cleanest district in town,

about the sergeants you work for,

along with detailed accounts of just about

every caper you guys have handled in the past three months.

Well, I bet Pete comes off pretty good in the telling.

Oh, well, so do you, Jim.

Pete tells me that you hold his coat

while he solves the crime.

Oh, terrific.

I love it. Of course, there are other things in life.

Yeah, like being a full-time nurse

and spending the rest of your free time in here on the phone.

Mmm.

Well, after tomorrow, I think I'm gonna have a lot more free time.

Tomorrow, Operation Hot Line is out of business.

I'm taking it out on all my friends.

That's kind of sudden, isn't it?

I guess we expected it. We ran out of money.

It's kind of hard to get people to invest in something

that doesn't show measurable results.

I'm sorry, Kathy. I know how much this meant to you.

Well, maybe some rich philanthropist

will bail us out at the very last minute, huh?

Hot Line. Kathy speaking.

Now, wait a minute. Don't hang up again.

Listen, we can help you if you'll just groove on us a little.

Sher... Sheri, wait a minute.

I lost her again.

What is it?

That's the third call I've gotten from her.

15-year-old girl. Her name is Sheri.

Or at least that's what she says.

From what I can get from her in the last two calls,

she has a father who's an addict who she's never seen

and a mother who's kept her around to make sure

that she can collect a welfare check.

Kept her around?

Well, it's pretty hard to track when these kids are upset,

but from what I can put together, she's been in trouble,

escaped from juvenile hall a couple of times,

got messed up on drugs that she stole from her mother,

who apparently uses, and after nine months

in a maximum-security girl's probation school,

she finally got a weekend furlough to come home,

and right now she's talking about suicide.

Come on, kid. Call me back.

Pretty crazy, huh, talking to a telephone?

Now, listen, Sheri...

Sheri, please don't hang up on me again, okay?

I'm your friend, right? You can talk to me.

Oh, that's no answer, Sheri.

Come on. Tell me all about it, okay?

It's all rotten.

I came home after nine months.

You know what I found out?

I found out there was really no place to go.

They're getting ready to put me on probation.

When I leave there, I'll be right back where I was before.

Well, why do you say that, Sheri?

'Cause my mom pushes me down.

I thought my mind was straight at the school.

Judy helped me.

I thought everything was gonna be okay, you know?

Well, who's Judy?

Judy, my P.O.

What happened to change your mind?

I came home.

Nothing was different except some stud my mother picked up.

And you know what really told...

What really made me know I'd go straight back into the sewer...

She had about ten bottles of reds, and I found them.

You know what she said?

She said, "Go ahead and keep them, honey. I can get more."

"Go ahead and keep them," she says.

My own mother!

How am I supposed to stay clean if I have to live with her?

Can you answer that?

Listen, Sheri, maybe we can work something out.

I mean, it doesn't mean you have to give up trying.

I already did, Kathy.

- I already did. - You did what, Sheri?

I kept her lousy pills.

I kept them and I took them.

Pretty soon, I won't have to worry about her

pushing me down anymore.

Get a trace going on the call.

Sheri...

Sheri, listen to me. We want to help you.

Please, please tell me where you are, okay?

We can talk about it.

It's no use, Kathy.

- Don't you see? It's no use. - Juvenile hall.

Yeah, Operator, this is Officer Reed of the Los Angeles Police Department.

- What about Judy, your P.O.? - Badge number 2430. I'd like to trace an incoming call

- to 555-2233. - Yeah, I like Judy,

- but she can't do nothing. - Never mind. Thank you.

- They're gonna parole me, and when I leave there, - Yes, this is an emergency.

- Yeah, I'll wait. Keep trying. - I'll have to go home, and this is better than going home.

Information, the telephone number of Las Palmas School for Girls.

It's in the county.

They're working.

I... I'm feeling... very high.

I'm starting to feel...

To feel... feel...

Sheri... Sheri, stay awake.

Please stay awake and tell me where you are.

Please tell me.

- I'm cutting out, Kathy. - Sheri!

Okay, would you get ahold of her and ask her to contact Kathy Stephens

- at 555-2233? - Sheri?

Don't worry.

It'll be... It'll be okay.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you for trying.

- I don't even know her last name. - It's Baker.

Her story checks out. She lives a couple of miles from here.

They don't have a phone, so we'll go over there and see if she's home.

- Is there anything I can do? - I asked the woman at the school

to have her parole officer call you here.

Now, when she does, pick her brain for anyplace the girl might be.

Think she'll know anything?

You've been talking to her for ten minutes,

and she's been talking to her for nine months.

Listen, if the kid's got pills, I didn't give them to her.

What's she trying to do, hang something on her own mother?

Look, lady, right now we're trying to find her.

She's OD'd, and if we don't find her, she could die. Do you understand that?

Listen, she's OD'd before and nothing happened.

Besides, how should I know where she is?

How long ago did she leave?

She was here last night when I went out.

I got this new boyfriend, see.

So you haven't seen her since last night?

Listen, she's a big kid.

What do you want, I get her a babysitter?

Well, she must've gone out some time this morning.

I got home at 10:00, and she wasn't here.

What makes you think she left this morning?

'Cause her bed's messed up. Now, I ain't no dummy.

Her bed's messed up. That means she slept in it.

- Where do you think she went? - How should I know?

Try guessing. Most people have a favorite hangout or friends.

Sure she does. Everybody's got a place they like.

Okay, what's Sheri's favorite place?

I don't pry into her business, and she don't pry into mine.

I'm her mother, not her keeper.

How long has it been?

30 minutes.

She could be dead by now.

Depending on how many reds she dropped.

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

meet One-L-90 on tack 2.

One-Adam-12, roger.

One-Adam-12 to L-90, go.

Adam-12, the girl's probation officer

has been contacted and recommends

you check a teenage hangout called the Apple Tree.

One-Adam-12, roger.

The Apple Tree. That's Beckford and Lou Dillon.

- How is she? - The doctor's got her on the critical list.

It just depends how much junk got in her system.

Poor kid. Has her mother been notified?

We better stick to her P.O. She'd be a lot better off.

- You guys got here fast. - What are you talking about?

You're here about Jimmy Simmons, aren't you?

No. We just brought in an OD.

Jimmy Simmons got out of his ward and disappeared.

If we don't find him within two hours, he'll go into a coma.

Roger, One-Adam-25.

The northwest section is next.

I've checked every inch of our assigned area.

Nothing. What about the other units?

I'm calling in motors now to expand the search.

Two hours isn't much. I'm fresh out if ideas.

Why don't we talk to the parents? Maybe they can come up with something new.

Yeah, I just had a thought. Let's try it out on them.

You're not gonna find him, are you?

- Are you? - Mary, honey, they're doing all the can.

If only we hadn't left his room, none of this would've happened.

I should've known how frightened he was.

Fellas, is there anything further we can do? Anything?

When I was talking to Jimmy this afternoon in the treatment room,

he mentioned that you were buying him a present just about the time he got sick.

Yeah, that's right. We were.

Jimmy's been wanting a dog for two years.

We were at the pet store looking for one when all this started.

Is it possible he could've gone back to that pet shop?

I don't see how. It's gotta be miles from here,

and besides that, I don't know how he'd find it.

Maybe any pet store would've attracted him.

Well, that's a possibility, but...

We'll give it a try.

Check all the pet stores.

Our guy might be in one of them.

- How many more? - Two.

Went over by the park. We'll catch one or the other coming back.

Nothing. We're running out of time.

There some trouble around here, Officers?

No, sir. No trouble.

That's a load off my mind. I can't afford any break-ins.

Bad enough trying to keep all those animals fed.

You own this pet store, sir?

Yes, sir. That's why I was afraid there was some trouble.

You boys are just animal lovers, huh?

Yes, sir, in a way. We were looking for a small boy.

We thought he might've been attracted to the dogs in the shop.

A small boy about eight years old,

wearing a green and white shirt and brown pants?

Yes, sir. When did you see him?

He hung around here for about an hour this evening.

I had to run him out so I could close up.

Darnedest kid you ever saw.

Kept mulling over every puppy in the place.

How long ago?

Oh, uh, must be a couple of hours ago.

I've been busy working on the books.

Did you happen to see which way he went?

Yes, he went over toward the park.

- Thank you very much. - You bet.

One-Adam-12 to L-90, come in.

Could be anywhere by now.

I thought I heard something.

Pull up, Pete. It's a puppy.

What do you mean, an incentive?

That's something to look forward to for minding your parents and taking your shots.

I'm gonna. What's he mean, Dad?

Well, from what Officer Reed told us,

he's been checking around and found out

that your friend needs a home.

"Friend"?

Pete.

Fritzi! That's Fritzi.

- Is that his name? - That's what I named him. Is he for me?

Well, I don't know who adopted who,

but it looks like it's gonna be a long relationship.

I hope Dr. Brackett doesn't find that. I'd hate to get...

Looks like that rich philanthropist didn't come through.

- Hi. - Hi.

Well, how do you like it?

One whole year's effort gone in ten minutes

because of a few lousy dollars.

We saw the doctor. Sheri's off the critical list.

Mmm. And all because of that telephone.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Well, I'm not gonna let it rob me forever.

How about some pizza tonight, Pete?

Sure. I get off at 11:00.

11:00 it is. Would you like to join us, Jim?

Hot Line. Kathy speaking.

Yeah. Would you like to talk to me about it?

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