Dragnet: The Big Customer

Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet! You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. A special officer has been shot during a routine patrol.

He's a salence of escape into the city. There's no lead to their whereabouts. Your job, find him. The Saturday May 21st was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out a robbery detail.

My partner is Frank Smith, the boss at Chief of Detective's Thad Brown. My name's Friday. We got our way back from the scene and it was 10.56 p.m. when we got to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital.

Treatment room. That's you, doctor. No man, police officers. Doctor said we could ask you some questions. About the robbery? Yes, ma'am. Is my partner Frank Smith? My name's Friday. Hello, Ms. Montgomery. You heard anything about Keith?

Is he all right? Well, the doctor's still with him. Is he gonna be all right? We better talk to the doctor about that, I think. He tried to stop the man from robbing us. Tried to throw him out of the store.

Yes, ma'am. Now, can you tell us what happened? Well, I guess if the doctor said I could. Only time you don't feel like going on, just tell us, please. All right. What time did the man come into the store?

About 9.30 right around in there. He's in the back room playing cribbage. We usually play a couple of games before we close up, especially when the business is kind of slow. These two men came in.

Leaked one out to wait on them. Did you go with him? No, wasn't any reason to. Just two customers, no reason for me to go out. It looked like they came in together. You could see him from where you were.