Dragnet: The Big Dog

Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. An elderly man is threatening an entire neighborhood with a shotgun.

He says he's going to use it to kill a man. Your job? Take it away from him. It was Tuesday June 15th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail.

My partners Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Lorna, my name is Friday. We're on our way out from the office, it was 11.46 a.m. when we got to unit one F-14. The police car standing by.

Hi Joe. Lloyd, what do you got? Take a look at the sign. Yeah. I will not live in the same neighborhood with the dog poisoner. Looks like you painted himself. And there's a week in figure he did.

How'd you get from the plane? Came in to see the man. We got here, the guy was sitting up there with his shotgun. Told us to leave him alone. Well you figured maybe you'd be a little better equipped to handle it.

I know work out that way, but we'll give it a try. Anything we can do to help out? Just be here, right? Make a move for a gun and I'll have to kill you. Want to tell us why you're doing this?

My goodness. Well, that gun makes it ours. You think that if you want it, it doesn't make any difference to me. I didn't ask you out here. Yeah, well, now that we made the trip, don't you figure out how to tell us?