1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,080 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:29,840 NBC brings you Dragnet. 4 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,760 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,920 You've been off duty two hours. 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,320 You receive an emergency call from the chief of detectives. 7 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,480 An entire block in the heart of your city is threatened with complete destruction. 8 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:47,560 Your job, report at once. 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,480 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men 10 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:58,400 who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 11 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,520 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 12 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 13 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,520 files. 14 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:14,380 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 15 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:20,720 in action. 16 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,440 It was Tuesday, November 15th. 17 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,720 It was raining in Los Angeles. 18 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,720 We were off duty reporting in on an emergency call. 19 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,320 My partner is Ben Romero. 20 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,840 The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. 21 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:32,840 My name's Friday. 22 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:38,200 It was 8.32 a.m. when I walked in the Spring Street entrance of the city hall. 23 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:39,200 You Sergeant Friday? 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,200 Yeah, that's right. 25 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:41,200 Take my elevator, sergeant. 26 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:42,200 It's the only one in service. 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:43,200 All right. 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,200 I'll run you up to 16. 29 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,480 The chief's waiting for you up there. 30 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:52,600 What's the pitch? 31 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,200 Only one elevator in service out of 10? 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,240 The place looks deserted. 33 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,240 What's going on? 34 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,240 Nobody in the building. 35 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,840 Only office people have been sent home. 36 00:01:58,840 --> 00:01:59,840 Lots of trouble. 37 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,480 Did somebody declare a holiday? 38 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:02,480 No joke, sergeant. 39 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:03,480 Big trouble. 40 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,480 All right. 41 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:05,480 You convinced me. 42 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:06,480 What is it? 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,480 Here we are. 44 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,480 16th floor. 45 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:09,480 Over here, Friday. 46 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:10,480 Hi, Joe. 47 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:11,480 Hello, Ben. 48 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,480 You made good time. 49 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,480 I came as soon as I got the call, Ed. 50 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:14,480 Sorry to have to bring you back in. 51 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,480 You worked last night, didn't you? 52 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,480 Yeah. 53 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:17,480 Midnight to eight this morning. 54 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:18,480 Sorry. 55 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:19,480 Come on. 56 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:20,480 What is it? 57 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,480 Scared for a while to hush her. 58 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:22,480 Wait till we get inside. 59 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:23,480 In here. 60 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,520 Okay. 61 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,120 Number one, let's keep our voices down. 62 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,120 All right. 63 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,400 I'll make it as brief as I can. 64 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:35,400 Every minute counts. 65 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,400 What time you got, Friday? 66 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,400 Eight thirty-three. 67 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,400 All right. 68 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,400 Here it is. 69 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 Fifty-five minutes ago, a man walked into this building with a homemade bomb under his 70 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,400 arm. 71 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,200 If we don't release his brother from the county jail by nine o'clock this morning, he says 72 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,760 he'll pull the trigger on the bomb and blow up the whole building. 73 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:49,760 He's kidding, Skipper. 74 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:50,760 Who is the guy? 75 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,760 Name's Vernon Carney. 76 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,760 Here's his package. 77 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,920 He and his brother have been in and out of jail since 1937. 78 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:57,920 Small-time thieves. 79 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:58,920 Yeah. 80 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:00,760 Where's the FBI kickback? 81 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,240 We had him once before, both of them. 82 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,240 Brother's name is Elwood. 83 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,760 Serving a year for car stripping. 84 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,600 And this two-bit thief is sitting here in a city hall with a bomb on his lap? 85 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:09,600 That's right. 86 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:10,600 In the next room. 87 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,600 What kind of a bomb is it, Ed? 88 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,600 You think he's bluffing? 89 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,160 Could be bluffing, but the crime lab says no. 90 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,960 Lee Jones from the lab, get a look at? 91 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,640 Been in there twice. 92 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,000 One end of the box is glass. 93 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Says you can't see much without a closer look, but you can't get near the guy. 94 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,360 What do you want us to do? 95 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,360 It's a volunteer job. 96 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:26,360 You can take it or leave it. 97 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,880 I won't order you to do it. 98 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:29,880 How you want to handle it? 99 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,040 You sure you want a piece of this one, Romero? 100 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,040 No, he doesn't, Ed. 101 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:34,040 He's got a family. 102 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,040 Get me another single man. 103 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,040 We'll give it a try. 104 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,040 Wait a minute, Joe. 105 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,040 What makes this job so different? 106 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,720 Any time we kick a door in, we never know what's on the other side. 107 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:41,720 That's what makes it different. 108 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:42,720 This time we do. 109 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,840 No, you're not going to cut me out. 110 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,160 Not the only time I know what I'm getting into. 111 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,160 All right. 112 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,160 Chandler's tried. 113 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,000 Bannon, Davis, Watson, they've all tried. 114 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,360 This guy, Carney, knows what he's doing. 115 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:53,360 He's no pushover. 116 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,120 But somebody's got to get that bomb away from him. 117 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,440 Franti, Romero, it's your baby now. 118 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:00,960 I looked at my watch. 119 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,240 It was 836. 120 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,360 We left back strand and started down the hall. 121 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,880 If Carney was going to make good his threat to blow up the building by nine o'clock, we 122 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,760 had exactly 24 minutes to talk him out of it. 123 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,580 Ben and I figured we'd better look him over first and then work out some kind of a plan. 124 00:04:17,580 --> 00:04:21,960 Maybe just talking to him would do it. 125 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,160 Vernon Carney was sitting in a straight back chair against the firewall facing the door. 126 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,000 He was seated between two windows that looked out over the city. 127 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,520 Along the left wall was a row of six wooden chairs. 128 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,400 In the center of the right wall was a connecting door leading to the office where backstrand 129 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,400 had briefed us. 130 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,360 The door was locked on both sides. 131 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,520 Just off center and favoring the left of the room was a small filing table. 132 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,680 The other furniture in the office was a desk just forward of the connecting door on the 133 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,680 right. 134 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,640 There was a dictaphone on the desk. 135 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,120 In the near left corner, shielded by a white screen, was a small wash basin. 136 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,520 The faucet leaked. 137 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:58,760 Vernon Carney was middle-aged. 138 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,280 He sat erect holding a black box on his lap. 139 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,680 He held his right hand inside one end of the box. 140 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,760 Ben and I stood there for a minute and looked at him. 141 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:08,760 Then we walked in the room. 142 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:15,240 What do you say to a man with a bomb? 143 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:16,240 That's close enough. 144 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:17,240 Cigarette, Carney? 145 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,720 I'm not smoking right now. 146 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,040 What are you trying to prove? 147 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,680 You know what I want. 148 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,720 We're not gonna let your brother out of jail. 149 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,280 You got until nine o'clock to change your mind. 150 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,080 According to that clock on the wall, you got 24 minutes. 151 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,840 If we go, you're going with us, Carney. 152 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:36,380 Don't take much of a brain to figure that, copper. 153 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:38,600 What made you think you could get away with this? 154 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:39,600 Haven't yet. 155 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,400 It ain't nine o'clock. 156 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,600 Unless that clock's slow. 157 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,400 Haven't checked it against my pocket watch lately. 158 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,240 That's the one that's running this show. 159 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,000 Have you given any thought to all the innocent people that are gonna go up with that thing 160 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,000 of yours there? 161 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,760 My brother's innocent. 162 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,540 I want him out of jail. 163 00:05:55,540 --> 00:05:56,540 The court says he's guilty. 164 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:58,280 He'll get out when he serves his time. 165 00:05:58,280 --> 00:05:59,660 That's where you're wrong, copper. 166 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:02,080 He gets out at nine o'clock this morning. 167 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,800 All right, come on, Carney. 168 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,520 Get your hand out of that box. 169 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,120 Get the box on the table. 170 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,360 You think I'm bluffing, don't you? 171 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:17,120 I'm gonna let you get within five feet before I make a liar out of you. 172 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Okay, Carney. 173 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,920 I guess you mean business. 174 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,880 You can take three more steps and find out for sure. 175 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,760 Suppose we did let your brother out. 176 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,520 We'd just come out and pick him up again, you along with him. 177 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,080 If you could find us. 178 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,440 Let's get this straight. 179 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,240 If we let your brother Elwood out, how do we know you're gonna keep your promise? 180 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,240 What promise? 181 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,920 You don't need any promises. 182 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,120 You just get Elwood down here first and then we'll talk about it. 183 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,280 There's only one thing I can't figure, Carney. 184 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:44,280 Yeah, what's that? 185 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,920 If we don't let your brother out, you say you'll pull the trigger on that bomb. 186 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,160 You're gonna kill a lot of innocent people. 187 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,160 What are you gonna prove by that? 188 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,160 It's 837. 189 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,160 You've got 23 minutes left. 190 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,560 No, I wish you'd answer that one for me. 191 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,440 Why do you want to kill a lot of innocent people? 192 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,040 Don't cry to con me, copper. 193 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,280 I know they cleared everybody out of this building 45 minutes ago. 194 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:06,880 I know they cleaned out the whole block. 195 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,880 They got it roped off. 196 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,560 Where'd you get your information? 197 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,200 I got a couple of windows here to look out of. 198 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Don't you think it's about time to send somebody over to get Elwood? 199 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,120 You know, Carney, we've got a way out of this. 200 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,000 We don't have to let your brother out, neither. 201 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,640 I've heard that before. 202 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,840 What's to stop us from leaving the building along with the other few officers and let 203 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,560 you sit here and touch off that bomb? 204 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,160 Go ahead. 205 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,440 It won't be a long wait without you. 206 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,720 Who are you trying to kid? 207 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,160 You'd let me blow up $10 million worth of taxpayers' money? 208 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,040 Oh, no. 209 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,480 You're going to let Elwood out. 210 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:50,040 You'll wait till the last minute to do it, but you'll let him out. 211 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:58,200 Ed, I'm still not convinced Carney can back up what he says. 212 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,240 Then why didn't you take the box away from him? 213 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:01,240 Yeah. 214 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,120 We're in a spot, let's face it. 215 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,760 How about an eye for an eye, Skipper? 216 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:05,760 What do you mean? 217 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,920 If he pulls the trigger on that machine, he kills us. 218 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,200 How about us getting him first? 219 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,360 All right, Romero, how are you going to handle it? 220 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,280 I'm not the top man on the pistol range, but I could wing him. 221 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,640 And then he hands the box to you? 222 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,280 Or maybe he falls and his reflex action pulls the trigger. 223 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,440 Okay, I don't wing him. 224 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,640 I stop him for keeps. 225 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,520 You just can't walk in there and shoot him down. 226 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:23,520 Why not? 227 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,520 You do the same thing with armed criminals. 228 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:25,520 Yeah, but you warn him first. 229 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:26,520 I warn him. 230 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,520 Yeah, and after you shoot him, you find out it's a harmless gadget. 231 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,520 Couldn't have gone off in a million years. 232 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,280 No, no, a gun's not the answer. 233 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,280 We can't shoot him until we're positive. 234 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,840 We'll be positive by nine o'clock and there might not be anybody around to shoot him. 235 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:36,840 We've located Carney's apartment. 236 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,680 There's a detail out there checking it now. 237 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:39,680 Pacelli and Morris. 238 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:41,920 Ed, have you got any ideas at all? 239 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,040 Anything we could try? 240 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:44,040 That's why I called you in. 241 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,360 None of us have gotten any further than you did just now. 242 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,320 There's just one thing I want to know for sure. 243 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,320 Yeah, Friday. 244 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:51,440 Is it or isn't it? 245 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:52,440 We all want to know. 246 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,760 Either way, we've got to get that box away from him. 247 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 Backstrand. 248 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:56,760 Yeah. 249 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:57,760 You did? 250 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:58,760 Yeah? 251 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,080 No, stay out there till I call you. 252 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,000 All right, here's half the answer. 253 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 That was Pacelli. 254 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,880 They found 28 sticks of dynamite in Carney's apartment. 255 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:13,900 We knew Carney wasn't kidding now. 256 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:16,760 We could see into the bomb through that glass window on one end. 257 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,120 It looked like dynamite inside and there was dynamite in Carney's room. 258 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,160 We didn't know if he had the nerve to pull the trigger. 259 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,760 We didn't know if it would go off when he did. 260 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,240 But with only minutes remaining, nobody wanted to take the chance. 261 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,080 From here on in, all of us agreed that Vernon Carney sat in the next room holding in his 262 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,220 two hands a force powerful enough to destroy us all. 263 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:41,960 We had to get that box away from him and to get that box, we had to have a plan. 264 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:42,960 I looked at my watch. 265 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:43,960 It was 840. 266 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,920 20 minutes till nine o'clock. 267 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,280 How do we get it away from him? 268 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 I got an idea. 269 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:49,280 It might work. 270 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,280 Let's have it. 271 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,960 Carney's sitting against the firewall between two windows. 272 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:52,960 They're both open. 273 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,960 That's right. 274 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:54,960 All right. 275 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:55,960 We might get Carney from behind. 276 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:56,960 How are you going to get him? 277 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,280 Whoever gets through the window could slug him. 278 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,360 What do you do then? 279 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Somebody grabs the box. 280 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:01,840 The crime lab can tell us what to do with it. 281 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,280 How do we get a man through one of those windows around the 16th floor? 282 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,000 Well, there's some kind of a ledge that runs around the building on each story. 283 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Wide enough for a man to walk on? 284 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Let's take a look. 285 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 All right. 286 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Looks pretty narrow, Joe. 287 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 That's a good 18 inches. 288 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Could be done. 289 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Too risky. 290 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 It's raining out. 291 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 That ledge is slippery. 292 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Strong wind out there, Joe. 293 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Tear a man right off the building. 294 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Yeah, I guess you're right. 295 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 They're still away. 296 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 How about a ladder? 297 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,000 16th floor, Skipper. 298 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 There might be a way. 299 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,640 The fire department would know that. 300 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,280 I'll get Battalion Chief Erickson. 301 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Is Lee Jones in the building? 302 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:30,720 No, he's over in the crime lab. 303 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:31,720 I'll get him up here, too. 304 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,680 I don't know, Friday. 305 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:34,680 Maybe it'll work. 306 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:35,680 It's got to end. 307 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:36,680 All right, now look. 308 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,400 It's going to take a couple of minutes to set this up. 309 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,400 We've got to know what Carney's doing every second of that time. 310 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,800 Well, how about the dictaphone in there on desk? 311 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Good. 312 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:44,800 Get it on without him seeing you. 313 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:45,800 We'll try. 314 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,120 The dictaphone in there is connected to this one in here. 315 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,120 This room is 16-14. 316 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,120 You got that? 317 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,120 Yeah. 318 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,560 All right, push down key 16-14 on that machine in there and leave it down. 319 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:55,200 Get the receiver off the hook and leave it off. 320 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,200 Leave the receiver off. 321 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,200 That's right. 322 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,000 You know, if it isn't off the hook, we won't be able to hear a thing in here. 323 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,000 All right. 324 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Come on, Ben. 325 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 It is back, friend. 326 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Give me Chief Erickson. 327 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Where's my brother? 328 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Still in his cell. 329 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000 You coppers are long on talk but short on time. 330 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Yeah, we know. 331 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,000 I'm telling you, for your own good, you'd better get Elwood over here. 332 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Carney, I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 333 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 334 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 335 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:25,920 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 336 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,720 You mean Elwood don't want out? 337 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:28,720 Since when? 338 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,800 Sure, he wants out, but not your way. 339 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,000 He's only got a year to serve. 340 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,280 Why don't you leave him alone? 341 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,720 I told him I'd get him out. 342 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,920 He didn't think I could do it. 343 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:39,920 But I'm doing it. 344 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,400 I'll make you a bet, Carney. 345 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,080 Let us get your brother on the phone. 346 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,360 He won't walk out of here with you. 347 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,880 All right, get him on the pipe. 348 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,520 Where are you going? 349 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:48,520 The phone's over here. 350 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:49,520 I have to use the dictaphone. 351 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,520 I've got to get an okay from the chief. 352 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:52,520 Elwood's still a prisoner. 353 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,800 What's the matter with the phone? 354 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:54,800 No operators. 355 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,120 You know the building's been cleared. 356 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,120 Oh, yeah. 357 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,120 That's right. 358 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,320 I almost forgot. 359 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,680 Okay, you can use the dictaphone. 360 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,680 This Friday, Ed, Carney wants to talk to his brother. 361 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,000 Yeah, I know you'll have to send somebody over. 362 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,920 Have them put the call on the extension... 363 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:14,920 Wait a minute. 364 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,280 What's that extension number, Ben? 365 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,280 2351. 366 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:18,280 2351, Ed. 367 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,280 Right. 368 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,280 It'll take a minute. 369 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:22,280 Yeah. 370 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,880 I'd kind of like to talk to El. 371 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,760 It's been a couple of months since I've seen him. 372 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,720 We've always been together, me and El, most of the time. 373 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,360 Joe, let's go in and see if we can hurry that call. 374 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,760 Good idea, boy. 375 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,960 16 minutes to 9. 376 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Hey, cop. 377 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,960 Yeah? 378 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,400 You got to hang up the dictaphone, didn't you? 379 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:51,600 I put the receiver back on the dictaphone. 380 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,760 Ben and I had failed to make good on the first step of the plan. 381 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,640 When we got outside the door, we briefed Davis and Watson. 382 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,280 They went in to sit with Carney. 383 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,520 It would be their job to keep us posted on Carney's movements. 384 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,800 The dictaphone was out. 385 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:07,280 We went back into the office next door. 386 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,600 Chief Sam Erickson of the fire department and Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab 387 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:11,600 were already there. 388 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:12,600 Tell Backstrand what happened. 389 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,600 It would have been a help. 390 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:14,880 We haven't got time to cry over it. 391 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,200 Carney's wide awake, Skipper. 392 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,920 He doesn't miss a thing. 393 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,080 Backstrand told us the plan Friday. 394 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,840 We camp on a ladder up from the street. 395 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:21,840 Too high, Chief? 396 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,280 Best we got is a hundred foot aerial. 397 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:28,480 You figure 12 foot to the story, that'll take you up 96 feet, eight floors. 398 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:29,480 And we've got the latest equipment. 399 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,000 What's the idea you had, Jones? 400 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,120 Sam, can you get a hold of a pompier in a hurry? 401 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,960 Sure, we got a lot of scaling ladders, but you got nothing up there to hook them on. 402 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,880 You figure on dropping down from the floor above? 403 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,640 That's right, and I figure a pompier would do it. 404 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:40,640 Sure it would. 405 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,440 You could make it fast to the windowsill up there, but you got a foot and a half ledge 406 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:44,440 in the way. 407 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:45,800 Know what you want as a lifeline. 408 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,640 You mean lower a man on a rope, Chief? 409 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:48,640 Yeah, Romero. 410 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,280 That's the quickest and the quietest. 411 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,040 Could you rig it so one of my boys could do it? 412 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,040 Sure, Ed. 413 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,040 What's the risk? 414 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,040 None if you work it right. 415 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,960 We'll strap on a life belt, give the man heavy leather gloves. 416 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:59,920 Two of my men lower him down. 417 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:01,720 Pick your lightest man. 418 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:02,720 What do you think, Lee? 419 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,720 That's it. 420 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:04,720 What do we do with the bomb when we get it? 421 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,160 I figure that box Carney's holding is about a foot square. 422 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:08,400 Here's what we all do. 423 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,280 I'll get you a bucket with a foot and a half mouth. 424 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:11,280 It'll be full of water. 425 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:12,280 Yeah. 426 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:13,880 I'll have it right outside the door of that office. 427 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,880 When you get that box, place it in the water. 428 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,000 We'll get the bucket out of the building as fast as we can. 429 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,880 Once we get the bomb under water, we're in a clear. 430 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,160 I can't promise you that, but it's the safest way to handle it under the circumstances. 431 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,520 All right, that's the procedure. 432 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,080 Sam, you take care of your end. 433 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,080 Right away. 434 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,080 I'll get a detail. 435 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,080 You give me a hand down on the street. 436 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,440 We'll have a car ready to take the bomb to a safe area to decommission it. 437 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,440 Work as fast as you can. 438 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,440 Come on, Sam. 439 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,600 It's our baby, Jill. 440 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,600 That's right. 441 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,080 Which part of it you want, the rope or the bomb? 442 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,080 You call it. 443 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,080 The guy on the rope. 444 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,080 That's me, Joe. 445 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:43,760 All right, I'll get the bomb out of the building. 446 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,240 Okay, that's the routine. 447 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:46,840 But carry this with you. 448 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,960 The man that comes down on that rope has one chance to make good. 449 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,320 You slug him and make it count because there's no second try. 450 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 Yeah. 451 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,840 And Joe, when you grab that box, you got to get it away from Carney before he can squeeze 452 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:56,840 the trigger. 453 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,240 Then you got to get it down into the street. 454 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240 The elevator. 455 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,240 You know how to operate it? 456 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,920 It's pretty simple, but I'll double check with the operator. 457 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,920 Better do it right now. 458 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:03,920 Okay. 459 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,240 Ed, we better get Carney's brother on the phone for him. 460 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:06,240 He seemed anxious. 461 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:07,240 Might be a pretty good stall. 462 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,600 All right, Romero, that's the outside phone. 463 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:09,600 Get the city jail. 464 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:10,600 Thanks, Capra. 465 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:11,600 Get going, Fratty. 466 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:12,600 Okay. 467 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,600 Hey, you. 468 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:14,600 Elevator man. 469 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:15,600 Yeah, Sergeant. 470 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:22,120 Let me see if I know how to work that thing. 471 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:23,120 You taking over the elevator? 472 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:24,640 Well, in a couple of minutes. 473 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:25,640 You want to check me out? 474 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:26,640 Nothing to it, Sergeant. 475 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,640 All right. 476 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,520 Now, here's the control, see? 477 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,880 You push this lever right to go up, left to go down. 478 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,080 You see this little trigger on the underside of the handle? 479 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Yeah. 480 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,080 That's the safety lock. 481 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,880 Be sure you squeeze it or you can't move the lever. 482 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:40,960 Let me try it, huh? 483 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:41,960 That's it. 484 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,640 Right to go up, left to go down. 485 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,840 Right to go up, left to go down. 486 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,520 How do you operate the doors? 487 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:48,520 Automatic. 488 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:49,760 They work off the control lever. 489 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,840 When the control lever is locked in the up or down position, the doors will close. 490 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:53,840 I get it. 491 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,360 Now, in case they jam, this red emergency button up here? 492 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:58,360 Yeah. 493 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,360 Push it. 494 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,160 If that doesn't close them, we call the repairman. 495 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,160 Okay. 496 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,160 I think I got it. 497 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,160 You sure now? 498 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,700 I've had my orders to get out of the building. 499 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:08,040 I'll just leave the elevator right here and take the stairs down. 500 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,040 All right. 501 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:10,040 Thanks a lot. 502 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,040 Sergeant, just curious. 503 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:14,200 You gonna take the bomb down in this car? 504 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,200 We're gonna try. 505 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:16,200 You won't have any trouble. 506 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,720 We haven't had an elevator failure in 18 months. 507 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,120 The elevator man turned and went down the stairs. 508 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:31,120 Outside of a handful of volunteers and a man with a bomb, the city hall was now cleared. 509 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,600 I started down the corridor and met Ben outside the office. 510 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,040 He told me that Lee Jones and Chief Erickson were on their way up in the freight elevator 511 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,560 at the rear of the building with the necessary equipment. 512 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,600 The two fire department volunteers were with them. 513 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,800 The phone call had been put through to the city jail and in a moment, Elwood Carney would 514 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,240 be ready at the other end of the line. 515 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:52,240 We went in to tell Carney. 516 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,760 I told him over at the jail to put the call through on extension 2351. 517 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:57,760 Yeah. 518 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,040 When's it coming through? 519 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,040 Right now. 520 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,040 You got Elwood with you? 521 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:04,040 No. 522 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,360 Look, Carney, we told you we'd get him on the phone for you. 523 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:08,920 The call will be through in a minute. 524 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,120 Minutes a long time, cop. 525 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:14,000 You only got 12 of them left. 526 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Elwood's gonna talk you out of this. 527 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Sure. 528 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Sure everybody's gonna talk me out of this. 529 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,480 First it was them other two cops, the little porky guy and that other monkey. 530 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,680 Then you and this dixie dough head here and now it's Elwood. 531 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,120 Come off it, will you, and get my brother over here. 532 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:31,120 That's him. 533 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:32,120 It's your brother, Carney. 534 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,120 I'll get him. 535 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:34,120 Stay put, you. 536 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,640 Just gonna get the phone. 537 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,000 You wanna talk to your brother, don't you? 538 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,560 I'll take care of the phone. 539 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,560 We'll disconnect it for a while. 540 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,520 Now get it straight, copper. 541 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,840 I'm through with your stinkin' rotten lying. 542 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,160 I want Elwood here and I want him now. 543 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,160 Bring him here before I blow you all the pieces. 544 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,160 What's going on? 545 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,880 Who threw that phone out in the hole? 546 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:54,880 I did. 547 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:55,880 You want me to go out and pick it up? 548 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:57,440 Carney, that's not gonna get you any place. 549 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,960 You the big boss around here? 550 00:17:58,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Maybe. 551 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:00,960 Are you or aren't you? 552 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,960 I answered you. 553 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:02,960 All right, big boy. 554 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,640 I've got a piece of advice for you. 555 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,760 Take your rookie cops here and get it through their heads. 556 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,440 I mean what I say. 557 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,040 I want my brother over here in this room. 558 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,480 And you've got just 11 minutes to get it done. 559 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,560 Tell them that, will you, boy? 560 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,560 All right, Carney. 561 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:19,560 It's your show. 562 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:28,920 All right, we gotta work fast now. 563 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:30,120 Jones, everything set for you? 564 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,560 I've got the bucket with the water right here. 565 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:32,560 Car's waiting down the street. 566 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:33,560 Right. 567 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:34,560 Erickson, your boys ready? 568 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:35,560 Upstairs, waiting. 569 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,560 And we all know what to do. 570 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,680 Ed, I gotta have somebody to give me a hand with Carney when he falls. 571 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:39,680 I'll be in there with you Friday. 572 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,040 Ready to go upstairs, Chief? 573 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,040 Anytime. 574 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,040 Oh, one thing you ought to know. 575 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,040 What's that? 576 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,040 Strong wind coming up. 577 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,040 About 20 mile an hour out there right now. 578 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,040 That gonna louse us up? 579 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,520 No, but it's going to increase the sway. 580 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,520 Gotta allow for it. 581 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:50,520 How you mean? 582 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,520 Wind's coming from the south. 583 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,640 We'll lower you just to the right of the window. 584 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,640 If I figure it correctly, wind will do the rest. 585 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,880 Bigger risk, but we don't control the weather. 586 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,480 How you gonna do it, Ben? 587 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,360 As soon as I get in position, I'll reach in through the window on his right. 588 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:04,360 I'll use the belly. 589 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:06,520 Try to catch him on the right side of his head. 590 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,560 One good hit should put him away. 591 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,080 Let's make it two and be sure, huh? 592 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,080 Right. 593 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,080 You ready, Chief? 594 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,080 Let's go. 595 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,080 Ben. 596 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,080 Yeah? 597 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,080 Nothing. 598 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,080 I'll be careful. 599 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:18,080 You too, huh? 600 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,080 What's the time, Friday? 601 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,080 Eight-fifty. 602 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:28,080 Shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes for Romero to get down to that window, lest 603 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:29,080 the wind gives him trouble. 604 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:30,080 Jones, I'm sorry. 605 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,680 Jones, no use you sticking around. 606 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,440 I'll give Friday a hand. 607 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,440 That's my job. 608 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,040 We gotta keep you alive to decommission the bomb. 609 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,040 Bomb joke. 610 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,040 See you downstairs. 611 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:46,080 You ready, Ed? 612 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,960 Yeah. 613 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,680 Scared Friday? 614 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,320 Yeah. 615 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,440 That makes us even. 616 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:53,440 Come on. 617 00:19:53,440 --> 00:20:01,280 Ed Backstrand and I went into the next room with Vernon Carney. 618 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,040 Our job was to keep him occupied until Ben was lowered to the windowsill from the floor 619 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:06,040 above. 620 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,280 Ben was gonna make a try from the window on Carney's right. 621 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,080 Somehow we had to keep Carney's attention on us and away from that window. 622 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:20,200 If anything went wrong and Carney got out of position, the plan would fail. 623 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,760 If Ben was spotted, the plan would fail. 624 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:28,880 If Chief Erickson didn't estimate the force of the wind correctly, the plan would fail. 625 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,120 After Ben slugged Carney, my timing had to be perfect. 626 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:36,080 If it wasn't, the plan would fail. 627 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,480 I looked at my watch. 628 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,720 It was eight minutes to nine. 629 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,440 Carney, anything we can say that'll make you change your mind? 630 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,580 I've asked you a hundred times. 631 00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:46,920 Now I'm ordering you. 632 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,320 You're gonna get to a phone and have somebody send Elwood over here right now. 633 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,680 I'm through waiting. 634 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,000 Now move. 635 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,240 You ripped out the phone, Carney. 636 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,960 Well, find another one. 637 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,240 I told you I'm sick of your two-bit stalling. 638 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,640 We've got until nine o'clock to make up our mind about this. 639 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,720 You had until nine. 640 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,400 But you wouldn't do what I told you. 641 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,200 Now I'm cutting you short. 642 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,160 You guys have got exactly one minute to get a phone in this room where I can hear you 643 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,840 call the jail and have them send Elwood over here. 644 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:15,840 You said nine, Carney. 645 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:16,840 All right, Joe. 646 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,240 We'll give him what he wants. 647 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:25,760 Davis, unlock the connecting door to this office. 648 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 I'll get the phone, Ed. 649 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,760 Will it call, Rich? 650 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Yeah. 651 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,280 Your brother's a prisoner. 652 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,840 He's in our custody and he's under our protection. 653 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,360 We can't place his life in jeopardy. 654 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:37,640 Why not leave it up to El? 655 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,640 Here's the phone, Ed. 656 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,640 Yeah. 657 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,400 Ken Withey, this is Backstrand. 658 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200 They want Elwood Carney over here at City Hall. 659 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,640 His brother wants to see him. 660 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,640 Explain the situation. 661 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:51,800 If he wants to come, get him over here. 662 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:52,800 Leave it up to him. 663 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:53,800 Room 1614. 664 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,840 You'll have to use the freight elevator. 665 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,840 And tell him to hurry. 666 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,840 Yeah. 667 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,440 Tell him to hurry. 668 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,960 That's the only smart thing you've done today. 669 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,240 Now why don't you go next door and figure out another angle? 670 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,860 We'll wait for Elwood, too. 671 00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:14,240 You don't think I'd let you get out now, do you? 672 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,040 We're all gonna wait right here for my brother. 673 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,880 In case he don't show up, you're gonna see me pull the plug. 674 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,880 Just sit down. 675 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,800 Not so close. 676 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:33,480 Right where you are, sit down. 677 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:38,680 Loud clock, ain't it? 678 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,680 Windy? 679 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:51,280 Getting cold in here. 680 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,480 Sure a loud clock. 681 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,480 Real windy. 682 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,480 Maybe I ought to close the windows. 683 00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,880 They don't want to catch me a cold. 684 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:00,880 I can turn on the heat. 685 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:01,880 Stay put, cop. 686 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,880 Hey, what's that? 687 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,880 What's going on? 688 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:04,880 Just the wind, Carney. 689 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:05,880 Shut up! 690 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,880 There's somebody out there. 691 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:07,880 I can see his feet. 692 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:08,880 You stupid cops. 693 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:09,880 Pull him up! 694 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:10,880 Get back there! 695 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,880 You pull him up! 696 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:12,880 Friday, tell him to pull him up. 697 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:13,880 All right, Carney, you win. 698 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:14,880 You bet I win, you dumb coppers. 699 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:15,880 You didn't think I'd miss a trick like that. 700 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,880 We'll just close these windows, boys. 701 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:17,880 There's one, and lock it. 702 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:18,880 And here's... 703 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,880 Yeah, your brother, Carney. 704 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:20,880 Yeah. 705 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:41,880 Hi, Al. 706 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,120 Hi, Vern. 707 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:46,120 You did it. 708 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:47,120 I told you. 709 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:49,600 I told you I'd do it, didn't I? 710 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,560 That's far enough for the rest of you. 711 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,320 Al, come on over here. 712 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,960 You're crazy, Vern. 713 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:56,960 You're crazy. 714 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,440 That's what they've been trying to tell me. 715 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,440 We're going home, Al. 716 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,760 How are you gonna do it? 717 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,880 There's a million cops outside. 718 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,240 People all over town heard about this. 719 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,680 They're holding the crowd back. 720 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,640 They ain't gonna stop us now, Al. 721 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,200 You'll never make it, either one of you. 722 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,560 I got him this far, didn't I? 723 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,560 We'll make it. 724 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,040 Vern, you think we could do it? 725 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,040 Hey, you. 726 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,040 Yeah? 727 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,040 You're gonna get a car ready for us, 728 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,040 a fast one. 729 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,040 Have it in front of the building. 730 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,040 Move! 731 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,240 All right, Franti, do what he tells you. 732 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,240 Right. 733 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,240 Hold it. 734 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:27,240 Yeah. 735 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,080 If you ain't back by nine o'clock, 736 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,320 the deal still holds. 737 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,120 I told them I'd pull the pin at nine, Al, 738 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:34,760 if they didn't let you out. 739 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,400 You ain't fooling, are you, Vern? 740 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,200 Will that gadget really blow? 741 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,160 Four miles high. 742 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,160 You know what that means, Al? 743 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,240 Yeah. 744 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,720 But they won't let you pull it. 745 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:47,720 We're getting out. 746 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,160 All right, Copper, get the car. 747 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,160 You got four minutes. 748 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Hey, Ben. 749 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:58,760 Ben. 750 00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,760 What happened? 751 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:00,760 Did he spot me? 752 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,360 Yeah, there's no time to explain that. 753 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:03,360 Listen, we gotta work fast. 754 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:04,360 Yeah? 755 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,640 We had to bring Carney's brother over from the jail. 756 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,560 I don't think he cares if they get out or not. 757 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,960 He just wants to use that bomb, 758 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,880 and for some crazy reason, he's waiting until nine. 759 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,880 How much time we got? 760 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,880 I mean, look, less than four minutes. 761 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,880 How about the ledge? 762 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,600 You think you can do it? 763 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:18,600 You got a long wind. 764 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,600 You'll have to hang on like a fly. 765 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,600 I don't know. 766 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:21,600 I can give it a try. 767 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,600 Okay. 768 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,600 Same plan. 769 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,600 Every second counts. 770 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,440 Now, I can't brief Ed. 771 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,440 He's in the room with the guy. 772 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,440 It's up to you and me. 773 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,440 I'll get on the ledge from one of these offices. 774 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,080 I hope I make it. 775 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,080 If you don't, we'll know you tried. 776 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,080 Hurry. 777 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,080 Hey, Ben, wait a minute. 778 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:37,080 Yeah? 779 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,080 I forgot. 780 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,080 The windows. 781 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,080 The one on his right. 782 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,080 He locked it. 783 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,080 You'll have to crawl around to the one on the left. 784 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,080 You got it? 785 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,080 Right. 786 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,080 Okay. 787 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,720 The car will be ready in two minutes. 788 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:52,720 Out front. 789 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:53,720 Fine. 790 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,160 El and I'll just sit here and wait. 791 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,520 Gonna be good being back together, huh, El? 792 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,720 We always were real good together, Vern. 793 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,960 Yeah, that's the way brothers ought to be together. 794 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,960 All the time. 795 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:05,960 Together. 796 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,300 Uh, Vern, I'd feel better with a gun. 797 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,600 We don't need no gun, El. 798 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,600 We got the bomb. 799 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,880 We'll need a gun when we get out, when we get on the road. 800 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:18,880 Okay. 801 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,040 Take your pick. 802 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,520 They all got them. 803 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,280 Hey, you, give him yours. 804 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,280 I'm not carrying a gun. 805 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,840 I left it in the other room. 806 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,320 A cop without a gun? 807 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,760 Who's kidding who? 808 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,080 I left it in the other room. 809 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,680 Frist the big boy, El. 810 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,880 He's got one. 811 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,040 About time for the car, ain't it? 812 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,640 Two minutes to nine. 813 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,160 Yeah, this feels like it. 814 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,160 Get on his hip. 815 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,160 Hey, Vern, look out! 816 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:46,160 Grab him, Joe, I got him. 817 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,160 Get the box. 818 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,160 Leave that gun alone. 819 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,160 I got him, Ben. 820 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,160 I gotta get his hand out of it. 821 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,160 Run, Joe, get it in the water. 822 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:52,160 Run! 823 00:26:52,160 --> 00:27:07,160 In a fast elevator, 16 floors isn't very much, but I've never shared an elevator with a 824 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:14,160 live bomb. 825 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,800 It seemed like minutes between floors. 826 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,760 I kept watching the bucket. 827 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,760 The bomb was completely underwater. 828 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,320 A small stream of bubbles was kissing to the surface. 829 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,320 I waited. 830 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,320 Main floor. 831 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:34,040 I picked up the bucket and ran for the street. 832 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,720 I missed the first step. 833 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,720 I fell forward. 834 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:39,720 The bucket spun out of my hand. 835 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,840 I sprawled flat on the sidewalk. 836 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:54,280 I waited for the explosion. 837 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,000 It didn't go off Friday. 838 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,040 Yeah, I gave it a good chance, Lee. 839 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,160 It was all there. 840 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,160 And look, at least a dozen sticks of dynamite. 841 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,160 Snyder, bring that over here. 842 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,560 Here you are, Lieutenant. 843 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,560 Thanks. 844 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 Here's why it didn't go off. 845 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,360 Had it rigged for a hard trigger pull. 846 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,800 Would have taken a good yank to set this one off. 847 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,800 Yeah. 848 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,800 Hi, Joe. 849 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,800 Hi, Ben. 850 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:26,800 Clumsy. 851 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:42,880 The story you have just heard is true. 852 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,600 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 853 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,320 Vernon Carney was examined by five different psychiatrists appointed by the Superior Court 854 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,000 and was found to be incompetent. 855 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,560 He is now confined in the state mental institution for the criminally insane. 856 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,960 Elwood Carney is now serving the balance of his sentence with no time off for good behavior. 857 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:14,680 You have just heard the seventh in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 858 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:21,280 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. 859 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:27,320 Its program is dedicated to Town Marshal Lon T. Larson of the Mount Pleasant, Utah Force, 860 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:41,480 who on the night of October 15, 1945, gave his life so that yours might be more secure. 861 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 862 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:55,960 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.