WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:13.440 --> 00:17.080 Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:17.080 --> 00:29.840 NBC brings you Dragnet. 00:29.840 --> 00:31.760 You're a detective sergeant. 00:31.760 --> 00:33.920 You've been off duty two hours. 00:33.920 --> 00:37.320 You receive an emergency call from the chief of detectives. 00:37.320 --> 00:42.480 An entire block in the heart of your city is threatened with complete destruction. 00:42.480 --> 00:47.560 Your job, report at once. 00:47.560 --> 00:52.480 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men 00:52.480 --> 00:58.400 who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and your life. 00:58.400 --> 01:02.520 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:02.520 --> 01:06.840 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police 01:06.840 --> 01:08.520 files. 01:08.520 --> 01:14.380 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:14.380 --> 01:20.720 in action. 01:20.720 --> 01:22.440 It was Tuesday, November 15th. 01:22.440 --> 01:24.720 It was raining in Los Angeles. 01:24.720 --> 01:27.720 We were off duty reporting in on an emergency call. 01:27.720 --> 01:29.320 My partner is Ben Romero. 01:29.320 --> 01:31.840 The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. 01:31.840 --> 01:32.840 My name's Friday. 01:32.840 --> 01:38.200 It was 8.32 a.m. when I walked in the Spring Street entrance of the city hall. 01:38.200 --> 01:39.200 You Sergeant Friday? 01:39.200 --> 01:40.200 Yeah, that's right. 01:40.200 --> 01:41.200 Take my elevator, sergeant. 01:41.200 --> 01:42.200 It's the only one in service. 01:42.200 --> 01:43.200 All right. 01:43.200 --> 01:48.200 I'll run you up to 16. 01:48.200 --> 01:51.480 The chief's waiting for you up there. 01:51.480 --> 01:52.600 What's the pitch? 01:52.600 --> 01:54.200 Only one elevator in service out of 10? 01:54.200 --> 01:55.240 The place looks deserted. 01:55.240 --> 01:56.240 What's going on? 01:56.240 --> 01:57.240 Nobody in the building. 01:57.240 --> 01:58.840 Only office people have been sent home. 01:58.840 --> 01:59.840 Lots of trouble. 01:59.840 --> 02:01.480 Did somebody declare a holiday? 02:01.480 --> 02:02.480 No joke, sergeant. 02:02.480 --> 02:03.480 Big trouble. 02:03.480 --> 02:04.480 All right. 02:04.480 --> 02:05.480 You convinced me. 02:05.480 --> 02:06.480 What is it? 02:06.480 --> 02:07.480 Here we are. 02:07.480 --> 02:08.480 16th floor. 02:08.480 --> 02:09.480 Over here, Friday. 02:09.480 --> 02:10.480 Hi, Joe. 02:10.480 --> 02:11.480 Hello, Ben. 02:11.480 --> 02:12.480 You made good time. 02:12.480 --> 02:13.480 I came as soon as I got the call, Ed. 02:13.480 --> 02:14.480 Sorry to have to bring you back in. 02:14.480 --> 02:15.480 You worked last night, didn't you? 02:15.480 --> 02:16.480 Yeah. 02:16.480 --> 02:17.480 Midnight to eight this morning. 02:17.480 --> 02:18.480 Sorry. 02:18.480 --> 02:19.480 Come on. 02:19.480 --> 02:20.480 What is it? 02:20.480 --> 02:21.480 Scared for a while to hush her. 02:21.480 --> 02:22.480 Wait till we get inside. 02:22.480 --> 02:23.480 In here. 02:23.480 --> 02:27.520 Okay. 02:27.520 --> 02:32.120 Number one, let's keep our voices down. 02:32.120 --> 02:33.120 All right. 02:33.120 --> 02:34.400 I'll make it as brief as I can. 02:34.400 --> 02:35.400 Every minute counts. 02:35.400 --> 02:36.400 What time you got, Friday? 02:36.400 --> 02:37.400 Eight thirty-three. 02:37.400 --> 02:38.400 All right. 02:38.400 --> 02:39.400 Here it is. 02:39.400 --> 02:42.400 Fifty-five minutes ago, a man walked into this building with a homemade bomb under his 02:42.400 --> 02:43.400 arm. 02:43.400 --> 02:46.200 If we don't release his brother from the county jail by nine o'clock this morning, he says 02:46.200 --> 02:48.760 he'll pull the trigger on the bomb and blow up the whole building. 02:48.760 --> 02:49.760 He's kidding, Skipper. 02:49.760 --> 02:50.760 Who is the guy? 02:50.760 --> 02:51.760 Name's Vernon Carney. 02:51.760 --> 02:52.760 Here's his package. 02:52.760 --> 02:56.920 He and his brother have been in and out of jail since 1937. 02:56.920 --> 02:57.920 Small-time thieves. 02:57.920 --> 02:58.920 Yeah. 02:58.920 --> 03:00.760 Where's the FBI kickback? 03:00.760 --> 03:02.240 We had him once before, both of them. 03:02.240 --> 03:03.240 Brother's name is Elwood. 03:03.240 --> 03:04.760 Serving a year for car stripping. 03:04.760 --> 03:08.600 And this two-bit thief is sitting here in a city hall with a bomb on his lap? 03:08.600 --> 03:09.600 That's right. 03:09.600 --> 03:10.600 In the next room. 03:10.600 --> 03:11.600 What kind of a bomb is it, Ed? 03:11.600 --> 03:12.600 You think he's bluffing? 03:12.600 --> 03:14.160 Could be bluffing, but the crime lab says no. 03:14.160 --> 03:15.960 Lee Jones from the lab, get a look at? 03:15.960 --> 03:17.640 Been in there twice. 03:17.640 --> 03:19.000 One end of the box is glass. 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 Says you can't see much without a closer look, but you can't get near the guy. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.360 What do you want us to do? 03:24.360 --> 03:25.360 It's a volunteer job. 03:25.360 --> 03:26.360 You can take it or leave it. 03:26.360 --> 03:28.880 I won't order you to do it. 03:28.880 --> 03:29.880 How you want to handle it? 03:29.880 --> 03:32.040 You sure you want a piece of this one, Romero? 03:32.040 --> 03:33.040 No, he doesn't, Ed. 03:33.040 --> 03:34.040 He's got a family. 03:34.040 --> 03:35.040 Get me another single man. 03:35.040 --> 03:36.040 We'll give it a try. 03:36.040 --> 03:37.040 Wait a minute, Joe. 03:37.040 --> 03:38.040 What makes this job so different? 03:38.040 --> 03:40.720 Any time we kick a door in, we never know what's on the other side. 03:40.720 --> 03:41.720 That's what makes it different. 03:41.720 --> 03:42.720 This time we do. 03:42.720 --> 03:43.840 No, you're not going to cut me out. 03:43.840 --> 03:46.160 Not the only time I know what I'm getting into. 03:46.160 --> 03:47.160 All right. 03:47.160 --> 03:48.160 Chandler's tried. 03:48.160 --> 03:51.000 Bannon, Davis, Watson, they've all tried. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.360 This guy, Carney, knows what he's doing. 03:52.360 --> 03:53.360 He's no pushover. 03:53.360 --> 03:56.120 But somebody's got to get that bomb away from him. 03:56.120 --> 03:59.440 Franti, Romero, it's your baby now. 03:59.440 --> 04:00.960 I looked at my watch. 04:00.960 --> 04:03.240 It was 836. 04:03.240 --> 04:05.360 We left back strand and started down the hall. 04:05.360 --> 04:08.880 If Carney was going to make good his threat to blow up the building by nine o'clock, we 04:08.880 --> 04:12.760 had exactly 24 minutes to talk him out of it. 04:12.760 --> 04:17.580 Ben and I figured we'd better look him over first and then work out some kind of a plan. 04:17.580 --> 04:21.960 Maybe just talking to him would do it. 04:21.960 --> 04:26.160 Vernon Carney was sitting in a straight back chair against the firewall facing the door. 04:26.160 --> 04:30.000 He was seated between two windows that looked out over the city. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.520 Along the left wall was a row of six wooden chairs. 04:32.520 --> 04:36.400 In the center of the right wall was a connecting door leading to the office where backstrand 04:36.400 --> 04:37.400 had briefed us. 04:37.400 --> 04:40.360 The door was locked on both sides. 04:40.360 --> 04:44.520 Just off center and favoring the left of the room was a small filing table. 04:44.520 --> 04:47.680 The other furniture in the office was a desk just forward of the connecting door on the 04:47.680 --> 04:48.680 right. 04:48.680 --> 04:50.640 There was a dictaphone on the desk. 04:50.640 --> 04:55.120 In the near left corner, shielded by a white screen, was a small wash basin. 04:55.120 --> 04:57.520 The faucet leaked. 04:57.520 --> 04:58.760 Vernon Carney was middle-aged. 04:58.760 --> 05:02.280 He sat erect holding a black box on his lap. 05:02.280 --> 05:05.680 He held his right hand inside one end of the box. 05:05.680 --> 05:07.760 Ben and I stood there for a minute and looked at him. 05:07.760 --> 05:08.760 Then we walked in the room. 05:08.760 --> 05:15.240 What do you say to a man with a bomb? 05:15.240 --> 05:16.240 That's close enough. 05:16.240 --> 05:17.240 Cigarette, Carney? 05:17.240 --> 05:20.720 I'm not smoking right now. 05:20.720 --> 05:22.040 What are you trying to prove? 05:22.040 --> 05:23.680 You know what I want. 05:23.680 --> 05:25.720 We're not gonna let your brother out of jail. 05:25.720 --> 05:28.280 You got until nine o'clock to change your mind. 05:28.280 --> 05:32.080 According to that clock on the wall, you got 24 minutes. 05:32.080 --> 05:33.840 If we go, you're going with us, Carney. 05:33.840 --> 05:36.380 Don't take much of a brain to figure that, copper. 05:36.380 --> 05:38.600 What made you think you could get away with this? 05:38.600 --> 05:39.600 Haven't yet. 05:39.600 --> 05:41.400 It ain't nine o'clock. 05:41.400 --> 05:43.600 Unless that clock's slow. 05:43.600 --> 05:46.400 Haven't checked it against my pocket watch lately. 05:46.400 --> 05:48.240 That's the one that's running this show. 05:48.240 --> 05:51.000 Have you given any thought to all the innocent people that are gonna go up with that thing 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 of yours there? 05:52.000 --> 05:53.760 My brother's innocent. 05:53.760 --> 05:55.540 I want him out of jail. 05:55.540 --> 05:56.540 The court says he's guilty. 05:56.540 --> 05:58.280 He'll get out when he serves his time. 05:58.280 --> 05:59.660 That's where you're wrong, copper. 05:59.660 --> 06:02.080 He gets out at nine o'clock this morning. 06:02.080 --> 06:04.800 All right, come on, Carney. 06:04.800 --> 06:07.520 Get your hand out of that box. 06:07.520 --> 06:09.120 Get the box on the table. 06:09.120 --> 06:12.360 You think I'm bluffing, don't you? 06:12.360 --> 06:17.120 I'm gonna let you get within five feet before I make a liar out of you. 06:17.120 --> 06:18.120 Okay, Carney. 06:18.120 --> 06:20.920 I guess you mean business. 06:20.920 --> 06:23.880 You can take three more steps and find out for sure. 06:23.880 --> 06:25.760 Suppose we did let your brother out. 06:25.760 --> 06:28.520 We'd just come out and pick him up again, you along with him. 06:28.520 --> 06:30.080 If you could find us. 06:30.080 --> 06:31.440 Let's get this straight. 06:31.440 --> 06:35.240 If we let your brother Elwood out, how do we know you're gonna keep your promise? 06:35.240 --> 06:36.240 What promise? 06:36.240 --> 06:37.920 You don't need any promises. 06:37.920 --> 06:41.120 You just get Elwood down here first and then we'll talk about it. 06:41.120 --> 06:43.280 There's only one thing I can't figure, Carney. 06:43.280 --> 06:44.280 Yeah, what's that? 06:44.280 --> 06:47.920 If we don't let your brother out, you say you'll pull the trigger on that bomb. 06:47.920 --> 06:49.160 You're gonna kill a lot of innocent people. 06:49.160 --> 06:52.160 What are you gonna prove by that? 06:52.160 --> 06:53.160 It's 837. 06:53.160 --> 06:56.160 You've got 23 minutes left. 06:56.160 --> 06:58.560 No, I wish you'd answer that one for me. 06:58.560 --> 07:00.440 Why do you want to kill a lot of innocent people? 07:00.440 --> 07:02.040 Don't cry to con me, copper. 07:02.040 --> 07:05.280 I know they cleared everybody out of this building 45 minutes ago. 07:05.280 --> 07:06.880 I know they cleaned out the whole block. 07:06.880 --> 07:07.880 They got it roped off. 07:07.880 --> 07:09.560 Where'd you get your information? 07:09.560 --> 07:14.200 I got a couple of windows here to look out of. 07:14.200 --> 07:18.080 Don't you think it's about time to send somebody over to get Elwood? 07:18.080 --> 07:20.120 You know, Carney, we've got a way out of this. 07:20.120 --> 07:22.000 We don't have to let your brother out, neither. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.640 I've heard that before. 07:23.640 --> 07:26.840 What's to stop us from leaving the building along with the other few officers and let 07:26.840 --> 07:29.560 you sit here and touch off that bomb? 07:29.560 --> 07:31.160 Go ahead. 07:31.160 --> 07:33.440 It won't be a long wait without you. 07:33.440 --> 07:35.720 Who are you trying to kid? 07:35.720 --> 07:39.160 You'd let me blow up $10 million worth of taxpayers' money? 07:39.160 --> 07:41.040 Oh, no. 07:41.040 --> 07:42.480 You're going to let Elwood out. 07:42.480 --> 07:50.040 You'll wait till the last minute to do it, but you'll let him out. 07:50.040 --> 07:58.200 Ed, I'm still not convinced Carney can back up what he says. 07:58.200 --> 08:00.240 Then why didn't you take the box away from him? 08:00.240 --> 08:01.240 Yeah. 08:01.240 --> 08:03.120 We're in a spot, let's face it. 08:03.120 --> 08:04.760 How about an eye for an eye, Skipper? 08:04.760 --> 08:05.760 What do you mean? 08:05.760 --> 08:07.920 If he pulls the trigger on that machine, he kills us. 08:07.920 --> 08:09.200 How about us getting him first? 08:09.200 --> 08:11.360 All right, Romero, how are you going to handle it? 08:11.360 --> 08:14.280 I'm not the top man on the pistol range, but I could wing him. 08:14.280 --> 08:15.640 And then he hands the box to you? 08:15.640 --> 08:18.280 Or maybe he falls and his reflex action pulls the trigger. 08:18.280 --> 08:19.440 Okay, I don't wing him. 08:19.440 --> 08:20.640 I stop him for keeps. 08:20.640 --> 08:22.520 You just can't walk in there and shoot him down. 08:22.520 --> 08:23.520 Why not? 08:23.520 --> 08:24.520 You do the same thing with armed criminals. 08:24.520 --> 08:25.520 Yeah, but you warn him first. 08:25.520 --> 08:26.520 I warn him. 08:26.520 --> 08:28.520 Yeah, and after you shoot him, you find out it's a harmless gadget. 08:28.520 --> 08:29.520 Couldn't have gone off in a million years. 08:29.520 --> 08:31.280 No, no, a gun's not the answer. 08:31.280 --> 08:33.280 We can't shoot him until we're positive. 08:33.280 --> 08:35.840 We'll be positive by nine o'clock and there might not be anybody around to shoot him. 08:35.840 --> 08:36.840 We've located Carney's apartment. 08:36.840 --> 08:38.680 There's a detail out there checking it now. 08:38.680 --> 08:39.680 Pacelli and Morris. 08:39.680 --> 08:41.920 Ed, have you got any ideas at all? 08:41.920 --> 08:43.040 Anything we could try? 08:43.040 --> 08:44.040 That's why I called you in. 08:44.040 --> 08:47.360 None of us have gotten any further than you did just now. 08:47.360 --> 08:49.320 There's just one thing I want to know for sure. 08:49.320 --> 08:50.320 Yeah, Friday. 08:50.320 --> 08:51.440 Is it or isn't it? 08:51.440 --> 08:52.440 We all want to know. 08:52.440 --> 08:54.760 Either way, we've got to get that box away from him. 08:54.760 --> 08:55.760 Backstrand. 08:55.760 --> 08:56.760 Yeah. 08:56.760 --> 08:57.760 You did? 08:57.760 --> 08:58.760 Yeah? 08:58.760 --> 09:03.080 No, stay out there till I call you. 09:03.080 --> 09:05.000 All right, here's half the answer. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 That was Pacelli. 09:06.000 --> 09:11.880 They found 28 sticks of dynamite in Carney's apartment. 09:11.880 --> 09:13.900 We knew Carney wasn't kidding now. 09:13.900 --> 09:16.760 We could see into the bomb through that glass window on one end. 09:16.760 --> 09:21.120 It looked like dynamite inside and there was dynamite in Carney's room. 09:21.120 --> 09:23.160 We didn't know if he had the nerve to pull the trigger. 09:23.160 --> 09:25.760 We didn't know if it would go off when he did. 09:25.760 --> 09:29.240 But with only minutes remaining, nobody wanted to take the chance. 09:29.240 --> 09:33.080 From here on in, all of us agreed that Vernon Carney sat in the next room holding in his 09:33.080 --> 09:37.220 two hands a force powerful enough to destroy us all. 09:37.220 --> 09:41.960 We had to get that box away from him and to get that box, we had to have a plan. 09:41.960 --> 09:42.960 I looked at my watch. 09:42.960 --> 09:43.960 It was 840. 09:43.960 --> 09:45.920 20 minutes till nine o'clock. 09:45.920 --> 09:47.280 How do we get it away from him? 09:47.280 --> 09:48.280 I got an idea. 09:48.280 --> 09:49.280 It might work. 09:49.280 --> 09:50.280 Let's have it. 09:50.280 --> 09:51.960 Carney's sitting against the firewall between two windows. 09:51.960 --> 09:52.960 They're both open. 09:52.960 --> 09:53.960 That's right. 09:53.960 --> 09:54.960 All right. 09:54.960 --> 09:55.960 We might get Carney from behind. 09:55.960 --> 09:56.960 How are you going to get him? 09:56.960 --> 09:58.280 Whoever gets through the window could slug him. 09:58.280 --> 09:59.360 What do you do then? 09:59.360 --> 10:00.360 Somebody grabs the box. 10:00.360 --> 10:01.840 The crime lab can tell us what to do with it. 10:01.840 --> 10:04.280 How do we get a man through one of those windows around the 16th floor? 10:04.280 --> 10:07.000 Well, there's some kind of a ledge that runs around the building on each story. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 Wide enough for a man to walk on? 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 Let's take a look. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 All right. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 Looks pretty narrow, Joe. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 That's a good 18 inches. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Could be done. 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 Too risky. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 It's raining out. 10:17.000 --> 10:18.000 That ledge is slippery. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 Strong wind out there, Joe. 10:19.000 --> 10:20.000 Tear a man right off the building. 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 Yeah, I guess you're right. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 They're still away. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 How about a ladder? 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 16th floor, Skipper. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 There might be a way. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.640 The fire department would know that. 10:26.640 --> 10:28.280 I'll get Battalion Chief Erickson. 10:28.280 --> 10:29.280 Is Lee Jones in the building? 10:29.280 --> 10:30.720 No, he's over in the crime lab. 10:30.720 --> 10:31.720 I'll get him up here, too. 10:31.720 --> 10:33.680 I don't know, Friday. 10:33.680 --> 10:34.680 Maybe it'll work. 10:34.680 --> 10:35.680 It's got to end. 10:35.680 --> 10:36.680 All right, now look. 10:36.680 --> 10:38.400 It's going to take a couple of minutes to set this up. 10:38.400 --> 10:40.400 We've got to know what Carney's doing every second of that time. 10:40.400 --> 10:42.800 Well, how about the dictaphone in there on desk? 10:42.800 --> 10:43.800 Good. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 Get it on without him seeing you. 10:44.800 --> 10:45.800 We'll try. 10:45.800 --> 10:48.120 The dictaphone in there is connected to this one in here. 10:48.120 --> 10:49.120 This room is 16-14. 10:49.120 --> 10:50.120 You got that? 10:50.120 --> 10:51.120 Yeah. 10:51.120 --> 10:53.560 All right, push down key 16-14 on that machine in there and leave it down. 10:53.560 --> 10:55.200 Get the receiver off the hook and leave it off. 10:55.200 --> 10:56.200 Leave the receiver off. 10:56.200 --> 10:57.200 That's right. 10:57.200 --> 11:00.000 You know, if it isn't off the hook, we won't be able to hear a thing in here. 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 All right. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 Come on, Ben. 11:02.000 --> 11:03.000 It is back, friend. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Give me Chief Erickson. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Where's my brother? 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Still in his cell. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 You coppers are long on talk but short on time. 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 Yeah, we know. 11:08.000 --> 11:11.000 I'm telling you, for your own good, you'd better get Elwood over here. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 Carney, I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 11:14.000 --> 11:25.920 I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone, he'll be here in a minute. 11:25.920 --> 11:27.720 You mean Elwood don't want out? 11:27.720 --> 11:28.720 Since when? 11:28.720 --> 11:30.800 Sure, he wants out, but not your way. 11:30.800 --> 11:32.000 He's only got a year to serve. 11:32.000 --> 11:33.280 Why don't you leave him alone? 11:33.280 --> 11:36.720 I told him I'd get him out. 11:36.720 --> 11:38.920 He didn't think I could do it. 11:38.920 --> 11:39.920 But I'm doing it. 11:39.920 --> 11:41.400 I'll make you a bet, Carney. 11:41.400 --> 11:43.080 Let us get your brother on the phone. 11:43.080 --> 11:44.360 He won't walk out of here with you. 11:44.360 --> 11:45.880 All right, get him on the pipe. 11:45.880 --> 11:47.520 Where are you going? 11:47.520 --> 11:48.520 The phone's over here. 11:48.520 --> 11:49.520 I have to use the dictaphone. 11:49.520 --> 11:51.520 I've got to get an okay from the chief. 11:51.520 --> 11:52.520 Elwood's still a prisoner. 11:52.520 --> 11:53.800 What's the matter with the phone? 11:53.800 --> 11:54.800 No operators. 11:54.800 --> 11:56.120 You know the building's been cleared. 11:56.120 --> 11:57.120 Oh, yeah. 11:57.120 --> 11:58.120 That's right. 11:58.120 --> 12:00.320 I almost forgot. 12:00.320 --> 12:05.680 Okay, you can use the dictaphone. 12:05.680 --> 12:08.680 This Friday, Ed, Carney wants to talk to his brother. 12:08.680 --> 12:12.000 Yeah, I know you'll have to send somebody over. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.920 Have them put the call on the extension... 12:13.920 --> 12:14.920 Wait a minute. 12:14.920 --> 12:16.280 What's that extension number, Ben? 12:16.280 --> 12:17.280 2351. 12:17.280 --> 12:18.280 2351, Ed. 12:18.280 --> 12:19.280 Right. 12:19.280 --> 12:21.280 It'll take a minute. 12:21.280 --> 12:22.280 Yeah. 12:22.280 --> 12:25.880 I'd kind of like to talk to El. 12:25.880 --> 12:28.760 It's been a couple of months since I've seen him. 12:28.760 --> 12:31.720 We've always been together, me and El, most of the time. 12:31.720 --> 12:34.360 Joe, let's go in and see if we can hurry that call. 12:34.360 --> 12:35.760 Good idea, boy. 12:35.760 --> 12:37.960 16 minutes to 9. 12:37.960 --> 12:39.960 Hey, cop. 12:39.960 --> 12:41.960 Yeah? 12:41.960 --> 12:46.400 You got to hang up the dictaphone, didn't you? 12:46.400 --> 12:51.600 I put the receiver back on the dictaphone. 12:51.600 --> 12:55.760 Ben and I had failed to make good on the first step of the plan. 12:55.760 --> 12:58.640 When we got outside the door, we briefed Davis and Watson. 12:58.640 --> 13:00.280 They went in to sit with Carney. 13:00.280 --> 13:03.520 It would be their job to keep us posted on Carney's movements. 13:03.520 --> 13:05.800 The dictaphone was out. 13:05.800 --> 13:07.280 We went back into the office next door. 13:07.280 --> 13:10.600 Chief Sam Erickson of the fire department and Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab 13:10.600 --> 13:11.600 were already there. 13:11.600 --> 13:12.600 Tell Backstrand what happened. 13:12.600 --> 13:13.600 It would have been a help. 13:13.600 --> 13:14.880 We haven't got time to cry over it. 13:14.880 --> 13:16.200 Carney's wide awake, Skipper. 13:16.200 --> 13:17.920 He doesn't miss a thing. 13:17.920 --> 13:19.080 Backstrand told us the plan Friday. 13:19.080 --> 13:20.840 We camp on a ladder up from the street. 13:20.840 --> 13:21.840 Too high, Chief? 13:21.840 --> 13:23.280 Best we got is a hundred foot aerial. 13:23.280 --> 13:28.480 You figure 12 foot to the story, that'll take you up 96 feet, eight floors. 13:28.480 --> 13:29.480 And we've got the latest equipment. 13:29.480 --> 13:31.000 What's the idea you had, Jones? 13:31.000 --> 13:33.120 Sam, can you get a hold of a pompier in a hurry? 13:33.120 --> 13:35.960 Sure, we got a lot of scaling ladders, but you got nothing up there to hook them on. 13:35.960 --> 13:37.880 You figure on dropping down from the floor above? 13:37.880 --> 13:39.640 That's right, and I figure a pompier would do it. 13:39.640 --> 13:40.640 Sure it would. 13:40.640 --> 13:43.440 You could make it fast to the windowsill up there, but you got a foot and a half ledge 13:43.440 --> 13:44.440 in the way. 13:44.440 --> 13:45.800 Know what you want as a lifeline. 13:45.800 --> 13:47.640 You mean lower a man on a rope, Chief? 13:47.640 --> 13:48.640 Yeah, Romero. 13:48.640 --> 13:50.280 That's the quickest and the quietest. 13:50.280 --> 13:52.040 Could you rig it so one of my boys could do it? 13:52.040 --> 13:53.040 Sure, Ed. 13:53.040 --> 13:54.040 What's the risk? 13:54.040 --> 13:55.040 None if you work it right. 13:55.040 --> 13:57.960 We'll strap on a life belt, give the man heavy leather gloves. 13:57.960 --> 13:59.920 Two of my men lower him down. 13:59.920 --> 14:01.720 Pick your lightest man. 14:01.720 --> 14:02.720 What do you think, Lee? 14:02.720 --> 14:03.720 That's it. 14:03.720 --> 14:04.720 What do we do with the bomb when we get it? 14:04.720 --> 14:07.160 I figure that box Carney's holding is about a foot square. 14:07.160 --> 14:08.400 Here's what we all do. 14:08.400 --> 14:10.280 I'll get you a bucket with a foot and a half mouth. 14:10.280 --> 14:11.280 It'll be full of water. 14:11.280 --> 14:12.280 Yeah. 14:12.280 --> 14:13.880 I'll have it right outside the door of that office. 14:13.880 --> 14:15.880 When you get that box, place it in the water. 14:15.880 --> 14:18.000 We'll get the bucket out of the building as fast as we can. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.880 Once we get the bomb under water, we're in a clear. 14:19.880 --> 14:23.160 I can't promise you that, but it's the safest way to handle it under the circumstances. 14:23.160 --> 14:24.520 All right, that's the procedure. 14:24.520 --> 14:26.080 Sam, you take care of your end. 14:26.080 --> 14:27.080 Right away. 14:27.080 --> 14:28.080 I'll get a detail. 14:28.080 --> 14:29.080 You give me a hand down on the street. 14:29.080 --> 14:32.440 We'll have a car ready to take the bomb to a safe area to decommission it. 14:32.440 --> 14:33.440 Work as fast as you can. 14:33.440 --> 14:34.440 Come on, Sam. 14:34.440 --> 14:36.600 It's our baby, Jill. 14:36.600 --> 14:37.600 That's right. 14:37.600 --> 14:39.080 Which part of it you want, the rope or the bomb? 14:39.080 --> 14:40.080 You call it. 14:40.080 --> 14:41.080 The guy on the rope. 14:41.080 --> 14:42.080 That's me, Joe. 14:42.080 --> 14:43.760 All right, I'll get the bomb out of the building. 14:43.760 --> 14:45.240 Okay, that's the routine. 14:45.240 --> 14:46.840 But carry this with you. 14:46.840 --> 14:49.960 The man that comes down on that rope has one chance to make good. 14:49.960 --> 14:52.320 You slug him and make it count because there's no second try. 14:52.320 --> 14:53.320 Yeah. 14:53.320 --> 14:55.840 And Joe, when you grab that box, you got to get it away from Carney before he can squeeze 14:55.840 --> 14:56.840 the trigger. 14:56.840 --> 14:58.240 Then you got to get it down into the street. 14:58.240 --> 14:59.240 The elevator. 14:59.240 --> 15:00.240 You know how to operate it? 15:00.240 --> 15:01.920 It's pretty simple, but I'll double check with the operator. 15:01.920 --> 15:02.920 Better do it right now. 15:02.920 --> 15:03.920 Okay. 15:03.920 --> 15:05.240 Ed, we better get Carney's brother on the phone for him. 15:05.240 --> 15:06.240 He seemed anxious. 15:06.240 --> 15:07.240 Might be a pretty good stall. 15:07.240 --> 15:08.600 All right, Romero, that's the outside phone. 15:08.600 --> 15:09.600 Get the city jail. 15:09.600 --> 15:10.600 Thanks, Capra. 15:10.600 --> 15:11.600 Get going, Fratty. 15:11.600 --> 15:12.600 Okay. 15:12.600 --> 15:13.600 Hey, you. 15:13.600 --> 15:14.600 Elevator man. 15:14.600 --> 15:15.600 Yeah, Sergeant. 15:15.600 --> 15:22.120 Let me see if I know how to work that thing. 15:22.120 --> 15:23.120 You taking over the elevator? 15:23.120 --> 15:24.640 Well, in a couple of minutes. 15:24.640 --> 15:25.640 You want to check me out? 15:25.640 --> 15:26.640 Nothing to it, Sergeant. 15:26.640 --> 15:27.640 All right. 15:27.640 --> 15:29.520 Now, here's the control, see? 15:29.520 --> 15:32.880 You push this lever right to go up, left to go down. 15:32.880 --> 15:35.080 You see this little trigger on the underside of the handle? 15:35.080 --> 15:36.080 Yeah. 15:36.080 --> 15:37.080 That's the safety lock. 15:37.080 --> 15:38.880 Be sure you squeeze it or you can't move the lever. 15:38.880 --> 15:40.960 Let me try it, huh? 15:40.960 --> 15:41.960 That's it. 15:41.960 --> 15:43.640 Right to go up, left to go down. 15:43.640 --> 15:45.840 Right to go up, left to go down. 15:45.840 --> 15:47.520 How do you operate the doors? 15:47.520 --> 15:48.520 Automatic. 15:48.520 --> 15:49.760 They work off the control lever. 15:49.760 --> 15:52.840 When the control lever is locked in the up or down position, the doors will close. 15:52.840 --> 15:53.840 I get it. 15:53.840 --> 15:57.360 Now, in case they jam, this red emergency button up here? 15:57.360 --> 15:58.360 Yeah. 15:58.360 --> 15:59.360 Push it. 15:59.360 --> 16:01.160 If that doesn't close them, we call the repairman. 16:01.160 --> 16:02.160 Okay. 16:02.160 --> 16:03.160 I think I got it. 16:03.160 --> 16:04.160 You sure now? 16:04.160 --> 16:05.700 I've had my orders to get out of the building. 16:05.700 --> 16:08.040 I'll just leave the elevator right here and take the stairs down. 16:08.040 --> 16:09.040 All right. 16:09.040 --> 16:10.040 Thanks a lot. 16:10.040 --> 16:11.040 Sergeant, just curious. 16:11.040 --> 16:14.200 You gonna take the bomb down in this car? 16:14.200 --> 16:15.200 We're gonna try. 16:15.200 --> 16:16.200 You won't have any trouble. 16:16.200 --> 16:21.720 We haven't had an elevator failure in 18 months. 16:21.720 --> 16:25.120 The elevator man turned and went down the stairs. 16:25.120 --> 16:31.120 Outside of a handful of volunteers and a man with a bomb, the city hall was now cleared. 16:31.120 --> 16:34.600 I started down the corridor and met Ben outside the office. 16:34.600 --> 16:38.040 He told me that Lee Jones and Chief Erickson were on their way up in the freight elevator 16:38.040 --> 16:41.560 at the rear of the building with the necessary equipment. 16:41.560 --> 16:44.600 The two fire department volunteers were with them. 16:44.600 --> 16:47.800 The phone call had been put through to the city jail and in a moment, Elwood Carney would 16:47.800 --> 16:51.240 be ready at the other end of the line. 16:51.240 --> 16:52.240 We went in to tell Carney. 16:52.240 --> 16:56.760 I told him over at the jail to put the call through on extension 2351. 16:56.760 --> 16:57.760 Yeah. 16:57.760 --> 16:59.040 When's it coming through? 16:59.040 --> 17:00.040 Right now. 17:00.040 --> 17:03.040 You got Elwood with you? 17:03.040 --> 17:04.040 No. 17:04.040 --> 17:07.360 Look, Carney, we told you we'd get him on the phone for you. 17:07.360 --> 17:08.920 The call will be through in a minute. 17:08.920 --> 17:11.120 Minutes a long time, cop. 17:11.120 --> 17:14.000 You only got 12 of them left. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Elwood's gonna talk you out of this. 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 Sure. 17:17.000 --> 17:20.000 Sure everybody's gonna talk me out of this. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.480 First it was them other two cops, the little porky guy and that other monkey. 17:23.480 --> 17:27.680 Then you and this dixie dough head here and now it's Elwood. 17:27.680 --> 17:30.120 Come off it, will you, and get my brother over here. 17:30.120 --> 17:31.120 That's him. 17:31.120 --> 17:32.120 It's your brother, Carney. 17:32.120 --> 17:33.120 I'll get him. 17:33.120 --> 17:34.120 Stay put, you. 17:34.120 --> 17:35.640 Just gonna get the phone. 17:35.640 --> 17:37.000 You wanna talk to your brother, don't you? 17:37.000 --> 17:38.560 I'll take care of the phone. 17:38.560 --> 17:41.560 We'll disconnect it for a while. 17:41.560 --> 17:43.520 Now get it straight, copper. 17:43.520 --> 17:45.840 I'm through with your stinkin' rotten lying. 17:45.840 --> 17:49.160 I want Elwood here and I want him now. 17:49.160 --> 17:51.160 Bring him here before I blow you all the pieces. 17:51.160 --> 17:52.160 What's going on? 17:52.160 --> 17:53.880 Who threw that phone out in the hole? 17:53.880 --> 17:54.880 I did. 17:54.880 --> 17:55.880 You want me to go out and pick it up? 17:55.880 --> 17:57.440 Carney, that's not gonna get you any place. 17:57.440 --> 17:58.960 You the big boss around here? 17:58.960 --> 17:59.960 Maybe. 17:59.960 --> 18:00.960 Are you or aren't you? 18:00.960 --> 18:01.960 I answered you. 18:01.960 --> 18:02.960 All right, big boy. 18:02.960 --> 18:04.640 I've got a piece of advice for you. 18:04.640 --> 18:06.760 Take your rookie cops here and get it through their heads. 18:06.760 --> 18:08.440 I mean what I say. 18:08.440 --> 18:12.040 I want my brother over here in this room. 18:12.040 --> 18:15.480 And you've got just 11 minutes to get it done. 18:15.480 --> 18:17.560 Tell them that, will you, boy? 18:17.560 --> 18:18.560 All right, Carney. 18:18.560 --> 18:19.560 It's your show. 18:19.560 --> 18:28.920 All right, we gotta work fast now. 18:28.920 --> 18:30.120 Jones, everything set for you? 18:30.120 --> 18:31.560 I've got the bucket with the water right here. 18:31.560 --> 18:32.560 Car's waiting down the street. 18:32.560 --> 18:33.560 Right. 18:33.560 --> 18:34.560 Erickson, your boys ready? 18:34.560 --> 18:35.560 Upstairs, waiting. 18:35.560 --> 18:36.560 And we all know what to do. 18:36.560 --> 18:38.680 Ed, I gotta have somebody to give me a hand with Carney when he falls. 18:38.680 --> 18:39.680 I'll be in there with you Friday. 18:39.680 --> 18:41.040 Ready to go upstairs, Chief? 18:41.040 --> 18:42.040 Anytime. 18:42.040 --> 18:43.040 Oh, one thing you ought to know. 18:43.040 --> 18:44.040 What's that? 18:44.040 --> 18:45.040 Strong wind coming up. 18:45.040 --> 18:46.040 About 20 mile an hour out there right now. 18:46.040 --> 18:47.040 That gonna louse us up? 18:47.040 --> 18:48.520 No, but it's going to increase the sway. 18:48.520 --> 18:49.520 Gotta allow for it. 18:49.520 --> 18:50.520 How you mean? 18:50.520 --> 18:51.520 Wind's coming from the south. 18:51.520 --> 18:53.640 We'll lower you just to the right of the window. 18:53.640 --> 18:56.640 If I figure it correctly, wind will do the rest. 18:56.640 --> 18:58.880 Bigger risk, but we don't control the weather. 18:58.880 --> 19:00.480 How you gonna do it, Ben? 19:00.480 --> 19:03.360 As soon as I get in position, I'll reach in through the window on his right. 19:03.360 --> 19:04.360 I'll use the belly. 19:04.360 --> 19:06.520 Try to catch him on the right side of his head. 19:06.520 --> 19:08.560 One good hit should put him away. 19:08.560 --> 19:10.080 Let's make it two and be sure, huh? 19:10.080 --> 19:11.080 Right. 19:11.080 --> 19:12.080 You ready, Chief? 19:12.080 --> 19:13.080 Let's go. 19:13.080 --> 19:14.080 Ben. 19:14.080 --> 19:15.080 Yeah? 19:15.080 --> 19:16.080 Nothing. 19:16.080 --> 19:17.080 I'll be careful. 19:17.080 --> 19:18.080 You too, huh? 19:18.080 --> 19:19.080 What's the time, Friday? 19:19.080 --> 19:20.080 Eight-fifty. 19:20.080 --> 19:28.080 Shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes for Romero to get down to that window, lest 19:28.080 --> 19:29.080 the wind gives him trouble. 19:29.080 --> 19:30.080 Jones, I'm sorry. 19:30.080 --> 19:31.680 Jones, no use you sticking around. 19:31.680 --> 19:33.440 I'll give Friday a hand. 19:33.440 --> 19:34.440 That's my job. 19:34.440 --> 19:37.040 We gotta keep you alive to decommission the bomb. 19:37.040 --> 19:38.040 Bomb joke. 19:38.040 --> 19:41.040 See you downstairs. 19:41.040 --> 19:46.080 You ready, Ed? 19:46.080 --> 19:47.960 Yeah. 19:47.960 --> 19:49.680 Scared Friday? 19:49.680 --> 19:51.320 Yeah. 19:51.320 --> 19:52.440 That makes us even. 19:52.440 --> 19:53.440 Come on. 19:53.440 --> 20:01.280 Ed Backstrand and I went into the next room with Vernon Carney. 20:01.280 --> 20:05.040 Our job was to keep him occupied until Ben was lowered to the windowsill from the floor 20:05.040 --> 20:06.040 above. 20:06.040 --> 20:10.280 Ben was gonna make a try from the window on Carney's right. 20:10.280 --> 20:14.080 Somehow we had to keep Carney's attention on us and away from that window. 20:14.080 --> 20:20.200 If anything went wrong and Carney got out of position, the plan would fail. 20:20.200 --> 20:23.760 If Ben was spotted, the plan would fail. 20:23.760 --> 20:28.880 If Chief Erickson didn't estimate the force of the wind correctly, the plan would fail. 20:28.880 --> 20:31.120 After Ben slugged Carney, my timing had to be perfect. 20:31.120 --> 20:36.080 If it wasn't, the plan would fail. 20:36.080 --> 20:37.480 I looked at my watch. 20:37.480 --> 20:39.720 It was eight minutes to nine. 20:39.720 --> 20:42.440 Carney, anything we can say that'll make you change your mind? 20:42.440 --> 20:44.580 I've asked you a hundred times. 20:44.580 --> 20:46.920 Now I'm ordering you. 20:46.920 --> 20:51.320 You're gonna get to a phone and have somebody send Elwood over here right now. 20:51.320 --> 20:52.680 I'm through waiting. 20:52.680 --> 20:54.000 Now move. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.240 You ripped out the phone, Carney. 20:55.240 --> 20:56.960 Well, find another one. 20:56.960 --> 20:59.240 I told you I'm sick of your two-bit stalling. 20:59.240 --> 21:01.640 We've got until nine o'clock to make up our mind about this. 21:01.640 --> 21:03.720 You had until nine. 21:03.720 --> 21:06.400 But you wouldn't do what I told you. 21:06.400 --> 21:08.200 Now I'm cutting you short. 21:08.200 --> 21:12.160 You guys have got exactly one minute to get a phone in this room where I can hear you 21:12.160 --> 21:14.840 call the jail and have them send Elwood over here. 21:14.840 --> 21:15.840 You said nine, Carney. 21:15.840 --> 21:16.840 All right, Joe. 21:16.840 --> 21:19.240 We'll give him what he wants. 21:19.240 --> 21:25.760 Davis, unlock the connecting door to this office. 21:25.760 --> 21:26.760 I'll get the phone, Ed. 21:26.760 --> 21:28.760 Will it call, Rich? 21:28.760 --> 21:29.760 Yeah. 21:29.760 --> 21:32.280 Your brother's a prisoner. 21:32.280 --> 21:34.840 He's in our custody and he's under our protection. 21:34.840 --> 21:36.360 We can't place his life in jeopardy. 21:36.360 --> 21:37.640 Why not leave it up to El? 21:37.640 --> 21:40.640 Here's the phone, Ed. 21:40.640 --> 21:41.640 Yeah. 21:41.640 --> 21:45.400 Ken Withey, this is Backstrand. 21:45.400 --> 21:48.200 They want Elwood Carney over here at City Hall. 21:48.200 --> 21:49.640 His brother wants to see him. 21:49.640 --> 21:50.640 Explain the situation. 21:50.640 --> 21:51.800 If he wants to come, get him over here. 21:51.800 --> 21:52.800 Leave it up to him. 21:52.800 --> 21:53.800 Room 1614. 21:53.800 --> 21:55.840 You'll have to use the freight elevator. 21:55.840 --> 21:57.840 And tell him to hurry. 21:57.840 --> 21:58.840 Yeah. 21:58.840 --> 22:01.440 Tell him to hurry. 22:01.440 --> 22:04.960 That's the only smart thing you've done today. 22:04.960 --> 22:09.240 Now why don't you go next door and figure out another angle? 22:09.240 --> 22:10.860 We'll wait for Elwood, too. 22:10.860 --> 22:14.240 You don't think I'd let you get out now, do you? 22:14.240 --> 22:18.040 We're all gonna wait right here for my brother. 22:18.040 --> 22:22.880 In case he don't show up, you're gonna see me pull the plug. 22:22.880 --> 22:23.880 Just sit down. 22:23.880 --> 22:25.800 Not so close. 22:25.800 --> 22:33.480 Right where you are, sit down. 22:33.480 --> 22:38.680 Loud clock, ain't it? 22:38.680 --> 22:41.680 Windy? 22:41.680 --> 22:51.280 Getting cold in here. 22:51.280 --> 22:55.480 Sure a loud clock. 22:55.480 --> 22:57.480 Real windy. 22:57.480 --> 22:58.480 Maybe I ought to close the windows. 22:58.480 --> 22:59.880 They don't want to catch me a cold. 22:59.880 --> 23:00.880 I can turn on the heat. 23:00.880 --> 23:01.880 Stay put, cop. 23:01.880 --> 23:02.880 Hey, what's that? 23:02.880 --> 23:03.880 What's going on? 23:03.880 --> 23:04.880 Just the wind, Carney. 23:04.880 --> 23:05.880 Shut up! 23:05.880 --> 23:06.880 There's somebody out there. 23:06.880 --> 23:07.880 I can see his feet. 23:07.880 --> 23:08.880 You stupid cops. 23:08.880 --> 23:09.880 Pull him up! 23:09.880 --> 23:10.880 Get back there! 23:10.880 --> 23:11.880 You pull him up! 23:11.880 --> 23:12.880 Friday, tell him to pull him up. 23:12.880 --> 23:13.880 All right, Carney, you win. 23:13.880 --> 23:14.880 You bet I win, you dumb coppers. 23:14.880 --> 23:15.880 You didn't think I'd miss a trick like that. 23:15.880 --> 23:16.880 We'll just close these windows, boys. 23:16.880 --> 23:17.880 There's one, and lock it. 23:17.880 --> 23:18.880 And here's... 23:18.880 --> 23:19.880 Yeah, your brother, Carney. 23:19.880 --> 23:20.880 Yeah. 23:20.880 --> 23:41.880 Hi, Al. 23:41.880 --> 23:45.120 Hi, Vern. 23:45.120 --> 23:46.120 You did it. 23:46.120 --> 23:47.120 I told you. 23:47.120 --> 23:49.600 I told you I'd do it, didn't I? 23:49.600 --> 23:51.560 That's far enough for the rest of you. 23:51.560 --> 23:54.320 Al, come on over here. 23:54.320 --> 23:55.960 You're crazy, Vern. 23:55.960 --> 23:56.960 You're crazy. 23:56.960 --> 23:59.440 That's what they've been trying to tell me. 23:59.440 --> 24:00.440 We're going home, Al. 24:00.440 --> 24:01.760 How are you gonna do it? 24:01.760 --> 24:03.880 There's a million cops outside. 24:03.880 --> 24:05.240 People all over town heard about this. 24:05.240 --> 24:06.680 They're holding the crowd back. 24:06.680 --> 24:08.640 They ain't gonna stop us now, Al. 24:08.640 --> 24:10.200 You'll never make it, either one of you. 24:10.200 --> 24:13.560 I got him this far, didn't I? 24:13.560 --> 24:14.560 We'll make it. 24:14.560 --> 24:16.040 Vern, you think we could do it? 24:16.040 --> 24:17.040 Hey, you. 24:17.040 --> 24:18.040 Yeah? 24:18.040 --> 24:19.040 You're gonna get a car ready for us, 24:19.040 --> 24:20.040 a fast one. 24:20.040 --> 24:21.040 Have it in front of the building. 24:21.040 --> 24:22.040 Move! 24:22.040 --> 24:24.240 All right, Franti, do what he tells you. 24:24.240 --> 24:25.240 Right. 24:25.240 --> 24:26.240 Hold it. 24:26.240 --> 24:27.240 Yeah. 24:27.240 --> 24:29.080 If you ain't back by nine o'clock, 24:29.080 --> 24:31.320 the deal still holds. 24:31.320 --> 24:33.120 I told them I'd pull the pin at nine, Al, 24:33.120 --> 24:34.760 if they didn't let you out. 24:34.760 --> 24:36.400 You ain't fooling, are you, Vern? 24:36.400 --> 24:38.200 Will that gadget really blow? 24:38.200 --> 24:41.160 Four miles high. 24:41.160 --> 24:43.160 You know what that means, Al? 24:43.160 --> 24:44.240 Yeah. 24:44.240 --> 24:46.720 But they won't let you pull it. 24:46.720 --> 24:47.720 We're getting out. 24:47.720 --> 24:52.160 All right, Copper, get the car. 24:52.160 --> 24:55.160 You got four minutes. 24:55.160 --> 24:57.760 Hey, Ben. 24:57.760 --> 24:58.760 Ben. 24:58.760 --> 24:59.760 What happened? 24:59.760 --> 25:00.760 Did he spot me? 25:00.760 --> 25:02.360 Yeah, there's no time to explain that. 25:02.360 --> 25:03.360 Listen, we gotta work fast. 25:03.360 --> 25:04.360 Yeah? 25:04.360 --> 25:06.640 We had to bring Carney's brother over from the jail. 25:06.640 --> 25:08.560 I don't think he cares if they get out or not. 25:08.560 --> 25:09.960 He just wants to use that bomb, 25:09.960 --> 25:11.880 and for some crazy reason, he's waiting until nine. 25:11.880 --> 25:12.880 How much time we got? 25:12.880 --> 25:14.880 I mean, look, less than four minutes. 25:14.880 --> 25:15.880 How about the ledge? 25:15.880 --> 25:17.600 You think you can do it? 25:17.600 --> 25:18.600 You got a long wind. 25:18.600 --> 25:19.600 You'll have to hang on like a fly. 25:19.600 --> 25:20.600 I don't know. 25:20.600 --> 25:21.600 I can give it a try. 25:21.600 --> 25:22.600 Okay. 25:22.600 --> 25:23.600 Same plan. 25:23.600 --> 25:24.600 Every second counts. 25:24.600 --> 25:26.440 Now, I can't brief Ed. 25:26.440 --> 25:27.440 He's in the room with the guy. 25:27.440 --> 25:28.440 It's up to you and me. 25:28.440 --> 25:30.440 I'll get on the ledge from one of these offices. 25:30.440 --> 25:32.080 I hope I make it. 25:32.080 --> 25:34.080 If you don't, we'll know you tried. 25:34.080 --> 25:35.080 Hurry. 25:35.080 --> 25:36.080 Hey, Ben, wait a minute. 25:36.080 --> 25:37.080 Yeah? 25:37.080 --> 25:38.080 I forgot. 25:38.080 --> 25:39.080 The windows. 25:39.080 --> 25:40.080 The one on his right. 25:40.080 --> 25:41.080 He locked it. 25:41.080 --> 25:43.080 You'll have to crawl around to the one on the left. 25:43.080 --> 25:44.080 You got it? 25:44.080 --> 25:45.080 Right. 25:45.080 --> 25:46.080 Okay. 25:46.080 --> 25:51.720 The car will be ready in two minutes. 25:51.720 --> 25:52.720 Out front. 25:52.720 --> 25:53.720 Fine. 25:53.720 --> 25:57.160 El and I'll just sit here and wait. 25:57.160 --> 25:59.520 Gonna be good being back together, huh, El? 25:59.520 --> 26:01.720 We always were real good together, Vern. 26:01.720 --> 26:03.960 Yeah, that's the way brothers ought to be together. 26:03.960 --> 26:04.960 All the time. 26:04.960 --> 26:05.960 Together. 26:05.960 --> 26:09.300 Uh, Vern, I'd feel better with a gun. 26:09.300 --> 26:12.600 We don't need no gun, El. 26:12.600 --> 26:13.600 We got the bomb. 26:13.600 --> 26:17.880 We'll need a gun when we get out, when we get on the road. 26:17.880 --> 26:18.880 Okay. 26:18.880 --> 26:21.040 Take your pick. 26:21.040 --> 26:22.520 They all got them. 26:22.520 --> 26:25.280 Hey, you, give him yours. 26:25.280 --> 26:26.280 I'm not carrying a gun. 26:26.280 --> 26:27.840 I left it in the other room. 26:27.840 --> 26:29.320 A cop without a gun? 26:29.320 --> 26:30.760 Who's kidding who? 26:30.760 --> 26:32.080 I left it in the other room. 26:32.080 --> 26:34.680 Frist the big boy, El. 26:34.680 --> 26:36.880 He's got one. 26:36.880 --> 26:39.040 About time for the car, ain't it? 26:39.040 --> 26:40.640 Two minutes to nine. 26:40.640 --> 26:43.160 Yeah, this feels like it. 26:43.160 --> 26:44.160 Get on his hip. 26:44.160 --> 26:45.160 Hey, Vern, look out! 26:45.160 --> 26:46.160 Grab him, Joe, I got him. 26:46.160 --> 26:47.160 Get the box. 26:47.160 --> 26:48.160 Leave that gun alone. 26:48.160 --> 26:49.160 I got him, Ben. 26:49.160 --> 26:50.160 I gotta get his hand out of it. 26:50.160 --> 26:51.160 Run, Joe, get it in the water. 26:51.160 --> 26:52.160 Run! 26:52.160 --> 27:07.160 In a fast elevator, 16 floors isn't very much, but I've never shared an elevator with a 27:07.160 --> 27:14.160 live bomb. 27:14.160 --> 27:16.800 It seemed like minutes between floors. 27:16.800 --> 27:18.760 I kept watching the bucket. 27:18.760 --> 27:20.760 The bomb was completely underwater. 27:20.760 --> 27:24.320 A small stream of bubbles was kissing to the surface. 27:24.320 --> 27:25.320 I waited. 27:25.320 --> 27:26.320 Main floor. 27:26.320 --> 27:34.040 I picked up the bucket and ran for the street. 27:34.040 --> 27:37.720 I missed the first step. 27:37.720 --> 27:38.720 I fell forward. 27:38.720 --> 27:39.720 The bucket spun out of my hand. 27:39.720 --> 27:43.840 I sprawled flat on the sidewalk. 27:43.840 --> 27:54.280 I waited for the explosion. 27:54.280 --> 27:56.000 It didn't go off Friday. 27:56.000 --> 28:00.040 Yeah, I gave it a good chance, Lee. 28:00.040 --> 28:02.160 It was all there. 28:02.160 --> 28:06.160 And look, at least a dozen sticks of dynamite. 28:06.160 --> 28:09.160 Snyder, bring that over here. 28:09.160 --> 28:12.560 Here you are, Lieutenant. 28:12.560 --> 28:13.560 Thanks. 28:13.560 --> 28:17.080 Here's why it didn't go off. 28:17.080 --> 28:19.360 Had it rigged for a hard trigger pull. 28:19.360 --> 28:22.800 Would have taken a good yank to set this one off. 28:22.800 --> 28:23.800 Yeah. 28:23.800 --> 28:24.800 Hi, Joe. 28:24.800 --> 28:25.800 Hi, Ben. 28:25.800 --> 28:26.800 Clumsy. 28:26.800 --> 28:42.880 The story you have just heard is true. 28:42.880 --> 28:46.600 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 28:46.600 --> 28:51.320 Vernon Carney was examined by five different psychiatrists appointed by the Superior Court 28:51.320 --> 28:54.000 and was found to be incompetent. 28:54.000 --> 28:58.560 He is now confined in the state mental institution for the criminally insane. 28:58.560 --> 29:03.960 Elwood Carney is now serving the balance of his sentence with no time off for good behavior. 29:03.960 --> 29:14.680 You have just heard the seventh in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 29:14.680 --> 29:21.280 Technical advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. 29:21.280 --> 29:27.320 Its program is dedicated to Town Marshal Lon T. Larson of the Mount Pleasant, Utah Force, 29:27.320 --> 29:41.480 who on the night of October 15, 1945, gave his life so that yours might be more secure. 29:41.480 --> 29:44.840 Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. 29:44.840 --> 29:55.960 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.