Dragnet: The Big Slug

...regnant. ... Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the homicide detail. You've just completed an investigation on an East Los Angeles murder case.

You got a hotshot call. A shooting at a liquor store on Pico Boulevard. Your job? Check it out. The documented drama of an actual crime. crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case prescribed from

official police violence. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Wednesday, February 16th. It was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide division. My partner, Frank Smith, the boss's capital on him. My name is Friday. We're on our way back to the interrogation room and it was 8.46 p.m. when we got to the

42, homicide. You think you'll cop, huh? I don't know. Probably won't meet much difference anyway. Yeah. Mel, keep in the gun. That was his big mistake. Yeah. Wonder why she gave him the chance? What do you mean?

Well, he'd beaten her a couple of times before. Neighbors all said so. Yeah. He thinks she'd have walked out on him. And that's what she was trying to do. I don't know if she should have tried sooner.

You got any plans for dinner? No, not specially why. I guess I'll grab a bite with you. Face that she's not going to want any dinner. She'll fix something for the kids and told me to eat downtown.