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

a 211 in progress.

One-Adam-12, handle code 3.

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Okay, that takes care of the crime reports.

You guys know we're a little shorthanded

because of this flu virus,

so I want you to be working the radio real close.

Clear your calls as soon as you can.

That's about it, except I'd like to welcome

Typhoid Mary back on duty.

Reed started this epidemic, so if you guys feel bad,

check your symptoms with him.

Okay, let's hit the streets.

Hey, Jim, how you feeling?

I'm fine, Mac.

You still look kind of peaked.

I checked with my doctor. He said everything's okay.

Well, that's good, because I got a special assignment for you

later on today. It's going to be...

Hey, Mac.

My partner just got the bug.

Okay, Carter, I'll be right with you.

Next year, we all get flu shots.

I got them this year, Mac. What else can I tell you?

I wonder what the assignment was.

He'll call us. Let him solve his problems one at a time.

Come on, Mary. Let's go.

How do you feel?

How do you feel is a better question.

The way guys are dropping around here, you ought to be a pretty good candidate.

I'm pretty much immune to you by now.

Yeah, but not my disease.

Reed's blight... Described in medical journals

as a plague against policemen.

Guaranteed to wipe out whole divisions in less than a week.

I don't usually get ordinary flu bugs.

If you had this, you wouldn't call it ordinary.

Maybe not.

Pete.

This is One-Adam-12 requesting a backup.

6000 block of Fraser.

We have a man with a gun holding a hostage.

Approach from west.

One-Adam-12, roger.

Police officer! Ladies, get out of the way!

Don't shoot.

Put your hands on top of your head and interlace your fingers.

Step around to the front of the car.

Move!

Turn around and face the car.

Let's go.

Wait a minute, mister.

You still need me?

Yes, sir. What's the problem?

No problem. And by the way, thanks, officer.

That guy, he got me confused with somebody else.

What's your name?

Look, why don't we just forget it?

I don't want to get involved.

Can I have some identification?

I don't have to show you anything.

Listen, we can either get the facts here

or down at the station.

I need to see some identification.

You understand each of these rights as I've explained them to you?

Yeah. Look, the guy owed me ten bucks.

I was just trying to collect.

I lost my head when I saw you guys.

I'd advise you to get a lawyer.

I'm sorry I shot at you. I just lost my head.

Get in the car.

Wait right here.

What have you got here?

I don't know. The guy's not coming across with his right name.

He's using an altered driver's license.

I got a feeling we got a lot more going on here.

Turn around, put your hands on top of your head.

What'd you turn?

Paul Fremont.

He and the vice cops are down the hall having a homecoming.

He's a bookmaker.

Got three warrants out on him.

We better check in with Mac and see what the big assignment is.

Well, keep trying. See if you can get a few reserves in.

I've already lost ten guys off the night watch.

If it gets any worse, I'm going to have to have

some of these days guys volunteer for a double tour.

Yeah. Why don't you try some of the guys from a.m. watch.

We can go light there for a day or two.

Right. Thanks.

Ten guys in the night watch.

That's quite a virus you spawned.

Now you.

I'm trying to forget it, Pete. I'm having enough trouble.

Just blow your nose.

May I see your driver's license, sir?

The speed limit on this street is 40.

You guys crawl along and challenge us to pass you.

Well, I'm not afraid to pass a cop car, and I wasn't speeding.

Yeah, well, I'm afraid you were, sir.

The speed limit on this street is 25 miles an hour.

- Hmm. 40. - 25.

It was 40 not even a mile back.

Can I see your driver's license?

Lousy speed traps.

Even in a city as big as L.A.

Mr. Marshall, I'm going to write you for doing 40

in a 25-mile-an-hour zone.

Just wait in the car there.

Officer!

Officer!

Officer, I want you to look at this cantaloupe.

Look at this cantaloupe.

We're a little busy right now.

There's a woman over there that threatened to kill me.

Are you too busy for that?

Hey, arrest her. Arrest her, officer!

- Arrest this woman. - What for?

For stealing my cantaloupe.

Listen, there's a law against threatening bodily harm, isn't there?

Go on, arrest her. She's out of my store, she's got my cantaloupe,

and she hasn't paid for it.

You own the store, right?

She comes in here every day and paws over the fruit.

She punches holes in them with her thumbs, you know?

Then she throws it on the fruit counter, all ruined.

Oh, that's a lie. Just look at that cantaloupe.

Just a minute. You'll get your chance. Right now, be quiet.

She threatened to kill me.

She's a crazy woman.

Am I a crazy woman?

Look, I'm an even-tempered woman, officer.

I can see that.

So she comes in here, and she ruins all the fruit.

Look at that cantaloupe.

I can't sell it now. She's ruined it.

Let me see it.

There ought to be a law against trying to sell rotten fruit.

Let me see it.

That is kind of ripe.

Is this your current address, sir?

What's going on back there?

Just give me your address, huh?

Anything mauled like that cantaloupe

would be lucky to be just pulp.

She was in there yesterday working it over.

Oh, the same one. I suppose you can tell.

You bet your sweet life I can tell. I sell fruit.

When you sell fruit, you got to buy fruit.

When you got to buy fruit, you got to look at it. So I know which is which.

All right, wait a minute.

You don't like her, right?

Right.

Then why do you buy your fruit in that store?

Because I always buy in that store.

Not anymore, honey, because I got me one of those signs

that says I don't have to serve anyone I don't want to.

It's a free country.

Not in my grocery.

Wait a minute. This is really a civil matter.

But if you want my personal opinion,

when fruit gets that ripe, you should throw it out.

What are you, some kind of

great fruit god or something?

I'm just the cop that got caught in the middle of this thing.

From now on, why don't you buy your fruit in another store, okay?

I'll bet you've got friends in the Food Administration

that would like to see this rotten cantaloupe.

I want her arrested.

What for?

She's got my cantaloupe, and she hasn't paid for it.

Oh, all right. I'll buy it.

I need it for evidence. How much is it?

Forty-five cents.

Thirty-eight, 40. You're a nickel short.

That's all I've got on me.

It ain't enough.

You rotten old cheapskate. That's damaged fruit.

And who damaged it?

All right, just a minute.

- Okay? - Okay.

Good-bye.

Why don't you go back into your store, okay?

It's a free country.

That was her line.

Yeah. It was.

There you go, sir.

Chicken.

What do you mean?

I saw you. You bought your way out of that one.

This must be our day. We're catching them two at a time.

Yeah.

Hey, you want seven?

We still haven't heard from Mac. I wonder what he wanted.

Do you want seven?

I think I'm going to skip it tonight.

Pete, do you feed a fever and starve a cold,

or is it the other way around?

I don't have that problem, so I'm going to have seven.

How come you always do that?

What?

You say you're going to eat light, then you order a pepperoni pizza.

How come you always do that?

What?

The toothpick. All you had was a bowl of soup.

Wait a minute, Pete. Slow down.

What do you got?

Flashlight in the window back there.

I didn't see anything.

Well, it was there.

You sure you saw something?

I'm telling you, there's someone in there.

Okay, partner.

I'll check around the back.

What do you got?

Somebody inside maybe.

Check with Reed. He's around back.

So far it looks clean. Why don't you cover the door?

- Anything? - Nothing.

Take a look, Jim.

That's not what I saw, Pete.

- How's the back? - It's clean.

Well, you're the one who saw it.

What do you want to do?

The building looks secure, and the alarm's not ringing.

I don't know. Maybe... I just thought I saw it.

I could've sworn there was a flashlight in there.

We checked it out, right?

Yeah, there's nothing there.

Better cut 45 loose.

Pete, let's go back to that store.

In other words, you're going to trust your instincts.

- Right. - Right.

What does that look like?

Kind of looks like a flashlight beam.

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?

One-Adam-12 requesting backup.

A 459 there now. 3300 Morrison.

Let's go, pal.

Come on, face down on the ground.

Pete!

I didn't see Mac. Did you?

No. Whatever it was must have blown over.

He probably wanted us to take the B wagon

and go bust drunks down on Pico.

I'm glad we missed it.

You know, there's a beauty pageant over in West L.A. tonight.

Maybe he wanted us to work security.

Don't think of it that way, Pete.

Think of it as a B wagon.

It's easier for you to accept.

Better have a talk with him.

What's your name, pal?

Wait a minute.

Suspect is wearing a yellow sweater and blue pants.

My partner's in foot pursuit north of Devonshire.

Who'd you run into, Dick Butkus?

I don't know, but whoever he was,

he ought to be on a track scholarship.

You... you're okay. You didn't skin your knuckles on the radio or anything?

No, I'm fine. You're a mess.

Don't pick on me, all right? I've been sick.

We ought to head in.

Almost end of watch anyway.

One-Adam-12, One-Adam-12, meet One L-90 on tac 2.

One-Adam-12, roger.

It's a little late for that assignment.

One-Adam-12 to L-90. Go.

When you wrap up what you're doing, come on in.

I have something for you.

I'll tell you when you get here.

All right, Mac.

We need another unit to work over into the night watch.

You guys are nominated.

Can you do it?

Roger, Mac.

I had my flu shots. What else can I tell you?

I have a date.

Had, Pete. Had a date.

7,000 guys in the department, I had to draw you.

As long as we're on the night watch,

we might as well start with that one.

I'm late for an appointment, officer. What's wrong?

I'm going to cite you for failing to stop at a red light.

But it's okay to turn right against a red light in California.

You turned right without stopping. May I see your license, please?

I really am late for an appointment, officer.

Would you please hurry?

As a matter of fact, so are we, but we're doing this for your protection.

I hope you understand, Mrs. Dixon.

I understand, officer.

There's a police station near here, isn't there?

Four blocks down the street.

- Thank you, officer. - You're welcome.

I'm going to go change while you get the keys to the B wagon.

Right.

We got a call earlier today from one of the new police commissioners.

Wants to take a ride tonight.

I thought you and Reed could do it for me.

Yeah. Fine. We'll show him around.

- What does she want? - A ride.

Police Commissioner Edna Dixon,

this is Officer Pete Malloy.

Officer Malloy and I are acquainted.

Travel with Officers Reed and Malloy

as they continue their ride with the commissioner.

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