Dragnet: The Big Limp

Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get a call from an officer in another division.

You come across some information about a robbery. Your job? Check it out. The documented drama of an act will 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 act will case Transcribe from official police files from beginning to end from crime to punishment

Dragnet is the story of your police force in action It was Wednesday May 18th was hot in Los Angeles. We were working today watch out a robbery detail My partners Frank Smith the boss of chief of detectives that Brown's my name is Friday We're on our way down from the opposite was 10 47 a.m. And we got the R&I counter

Coke machine I don't see him no Quite a gadget huh Joe? What machine here? We're looking for work. There you are. Thank you. It's not a figure Joe. All the wires in there levers must be a couple hundred wheels. Yeah, Johnny say why I want to see us. Mm-hmm Yes, where must be four or five miles of wire in that thing. Yeah, at least. Why do you think he did it Joe?

What? Invent the machine. I don't know maybe just like inventing. No, I don't think that's it. What's your idea? Well, guy, that's spent a lot of time to build something like this. Maybe a couple of years.

Yeah. Figure now, a person, just have to step up, put a coin in, cup drops down, syrup whores in, seltzer, way it's all measured out. Yeah, a guy has spent a lot of time on that.