05x14 - Clear with a Civilian: Part 1

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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 sh*ts.

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.



We have a man with a
g*n holding a hostage.

Approach from west.

One-Adam-12, roger.

Police officer! Ladies,
get out of the way!

Don't sh**t.

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 sh*t 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 k*ll 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 k*ll 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, d*ck 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 sh*ts.
What else can I tell you?

I have a date.

Had, Pete. Had a date.


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.