05x04 - Lost and Found

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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.


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 dr*gs
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 su1c1de.

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?



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 sh*ts.

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.


you like to join us, Jim?

Hot Line. Kathy speaking.

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