Dragnet: The Big Key

Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. For Detective Sergeant, you're assigned to robbery detail. In the past five weeks, an unidentified hold-up man has robbed 12 drugstores.

He's taken money in narcotics. There's no lead to who he is or where he is. Your job? It was Tuesday, March 16th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of robbery detail.

My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Stat Brown. My name's Friday. We run our way out from the office and it was 9.36 a.m. when we got the corner of Bull I'm right with it. Let's go back and sit down.

Get to tell the story and time just melts away. Yes, sir. I'll be comfortable while we all fall out. That's all right here. Yeah. Like a phosphate or something? No, sir. No, thank you. Okay. And let's go to all this food round and get out of business.

Want me to tell you about the holdup? Yes, sir. We'd like that. Good. Good. That's what I'm going to do. Aren't you going to take anything down right? Well, yes, sir, as soon as you tell us the story, now, if you'd like to start him.

Well, it came in about eight. That was this morning? Yes. It walked right in the door, came back to the prescription card, and stood there. Mm-hmm. Had this little piece of paper in his hand.

I figured it was from a doctor, you know, prescribed medicine. Yes, sir. Wasn't. Well, go ahead, well, was it? No. Written on there like this. This is a stick-up. Don't make any noise. was a note.