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It was cold in Los Angeles. 22 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. 23 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Warman. My name is Friday. 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I was on my way back to the office and it was 10.32 a.m. when I got to room 42. 25 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Homicide. 26 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Sal? That didn't take too long. 27 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 No, Sal just got the coffee made. Here you are. 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Thanks. 29 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Boy, it sure is hot. 30 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Anything come in? 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 No, it's been pretty quiet. 32 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 I got it. 33 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Homicide Friday. 34 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Yes, ma'am. 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Yes, ma'am. When was that? 36 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 No, ma'am. No, if you'll wait just... 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Yes, I understand, but... 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Yes, ma'am. If you'll wait just a moment, I'll transfer you to robbery. 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Yes, ma'am. Well, I'll explain it to you over there. 40 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Right. Would you hold on, please? 41 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Would you give this call to 2511, please? 42 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Yes, that's right. 43 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Sure does, Malware. 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Yeah. It feels like it's gonna rain, doesn't it? 45 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 The paper says it might hit tonight. 46 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Yeah. Well, I hope it clears up before Sunday. 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 What do you got figured out this time? 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Well, Joe, I don't understand why you say it that way. 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 You don't, huh? No. 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Well, what do you got figured? 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Take a look at this. 52 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I got just the ticket right here. 53 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 The ticket, huh? Yes, sir, look at that. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 The answer to every homeowner's prayer. Take a look. 55 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Neil. Gonna be a beauty, isn't it? 56 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 No, if you say so. 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Now, look, look, here, Joe, look what it says. 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Easy, simple, install in a few hours. 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Just the ticket. 60 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Do you need one of these? 61 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Have you seen our backyard lately? 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 No, not for a couple of weeks. 63 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Looked all right the last time I did see it. 64 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Well, you ought to see it now. It's pretty bad. 65 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 It is, huh? Awful. 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I just stand there, look at Perry's yard, 67 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 and want to throw rocks at mine. 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Perry's a fireman, isn't he? 69 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 No, Joe, that's Neil you're thinking of. 70 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 He lives on the other side. Perry's the insurance salesman. 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Oh, yeah, that's right. 72 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 He's the one who tries all their sales talks out on you, 73 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 is that right? 74 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah, tells me all about him. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 That's pretty good, too. 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Joe, would you believe it up to now, 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I've bought $246,000 worth of insurance. 78 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 What? 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Yeah, me, just a policeman. 80 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Of course, that's all on paper, just on paper. 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Yeah. What's wrong with your yard? 82 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Too dry. 83 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Too dry? 84 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Yeah. Hot weather this summer, you know. 85 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Little plants that Faye put out drop like flies, Joe. 86 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 They died. 87 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Like flies. 88 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 But this is the answer, this right here. 89 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 See? Home sprinkler system. 90 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Install it yourself. 91 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 What's that? 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Look at it. 93 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 What is it? 94 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 It's a home sprinkler system, Joe. 95 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Read what it says here. 96 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Resist corrosion, rust, and rot. 97 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 That's the answer. 98 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 It is. 99 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Right. 100 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 I'm gonna put one of these little gems in my backyard, 101 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 just turn on the faucet, everything's all watered. 102 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Don't have to stand there with a hose, 103 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 just turn it on and it's watered. 104 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 You're gonna put this in yourself, are you? 105 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Well, I could, Joe. Like it says here in the paper, 106 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 shouldn't be any trouble at all. 107 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Who's gonna do it? 108 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Well, I thought I'd get all the stuff together 109 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 and then just start on it Sunday. 110 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 You know, about 10, 10.30 in the morning. 111 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Old Perry and Neil worked out in the yard that time. 112 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 They do, huh? 113 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Yeah. 114 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 They'll see this little gem 115 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 and they're gonna hop over the fence, 116 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 see what it's all about. 117 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And then what happens? 118 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 I got them, Joe. I got them. 119 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You have? 120 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Sure, Joe. 121 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 They see me laying out the sprinkler system right off, 122 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 they're gonna want to help. 123 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Well, if you want them to give you a hand, 124 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 why don't you just ask them? 125 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Well, you just can't do it that way, Joe. 126 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 It wouldn't be right. 127 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It wouldn't be. 128 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 No, you gotta be subtle. 129 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Remember the kid that whitewashed the fence? 130 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Who? 131 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 You know, Huck Finn or whatever his name was. 132 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Whitewashed the fence. 133 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 You're still reading those books? 134 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 No, but I remember that he was pretty subtle. 135 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Mm-hmm. 136 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I gotta figure it out. 137 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 They'll come over and, you know, look around, 138 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 start asking questions, 139 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 and next thing they'll be working. 140 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 After we get the system in, 141 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I'll throw a little barbecue 142 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 and just sit around, 143 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 turn on the new sprinkler, 144 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 and it'll be cool. 145 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Yeah. 146 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Sure, I hope it clears up before Sunday. 147 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Well, it doesn't matter, does it? 148 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well, sure, Joe. 149 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 If it rains Sunday, 150 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 old Perry and Neil won't be out in their yards. 151 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 They won't be able to see me with the hoses 152 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 and the sprinkler heads all day. 153 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Yeah, but if it rains, 154 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 there won't be any need to put in the sprinkler system 155 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 right away, will there? 156 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I got it. 157 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Homicide Friday. 158 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Yeah, Sid. 159 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Uh-huh. 160 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Did you talk to him? 161 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 What'd he say? 162 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Right. 163 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 All right, we'll be right over. 164 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Want to get your coat? 165 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 What is it? 166 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Sid Hughes over at the mirror. 167 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Yeah. 168 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Just got a call from a guy who's gonna kill himself. 169 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Ten thirty-seven a.m., Frank, 170 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 and I notified the complaint board what had happened, 171 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 and then we left the office. 172 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 As we drove out of the City Hall garage, 173 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 it started to rain. 174 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 We turned up First Street and then over to Spring. 175 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Sid Hughes, the reporter who'd called me, 176 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 was waiting in front of the mirror building. 177 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Sid, over here. 178 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Oh. 179 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 You got the address, Sid? 180 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Yeah, here. 181 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 2682 North Hardmore, out by the Ambassador. 182 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Hi, Smith. 183 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Hi, Sid. 184 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 All right, let's go. 185 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 What do you got on him, Sid? 186 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Well, a couple of minutes ago, 187 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 a guy called, I answered the phone, 188 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 told me his name was Jan Padachek, 189 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 said he was gonna kill himself. 190 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Yeah. 191 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I talked to him for a couple of seconds. 192 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 It was easy to see he wasn't just another crank. 193 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 He meant what he said. 194 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 How'd he happen to call you? 195 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I don't know. 196 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 He said something about the paper 197 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 treating him right, said he wanted to thank us. 198 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 You know what he's talking about? 199 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 No, I got Casey Shawhand working on it now. 200 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 He's our city editor. 201 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Yeah, I know. 202 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 He's checking the morgue file, 203 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 see if he can come up with anything. 204 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 You ever heard of him, Frank? 205 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 No, name does nothing to me. 206 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 How come you figure he's on the level, Sid? 207 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Well, the way he talked, I can't put my finger on it. 208 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Just something in the way he sounded. 209 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 You knew he meant what he said. 210 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000 What'd you tell him? 211 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 I tried to bluff it through, 212 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 told him that there wasn't anything so important 213 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 he ought to kill himself over. 214 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Yeah. 215 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000 I asked him to let me talk to him, 216 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 asked him to wait until I could see him. 217 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 What'd he say to that? 218 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Told me it wouldn't do any good. 219 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Nothing could make him change his mind, 220 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 said I'd be wasting my time. 221 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Yeah. 222 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Told him I had a lot of it. 223 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Wouldn't do any harm to let me see him. 224 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 He went along with that, did he? 225 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Yeah, said he'd wait 15 minutes. 226 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Told me to come alone, 227 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 not to figure on trying anything. 228 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Well, Frank, you better kill the siren 229 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 before we get near the place. 230 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Right. 231 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 What time you got? 232 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 1042. 233 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Can we go any faster? 234 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 What's that? 235 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I told you, I believe the guy. 236 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Yeah. 237 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I said to get there before 1105. 238 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 2682 Ardmore was a two-story Spanish-type 239 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 apartment house. 240 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 There was a large courtyard in the center 241 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 of the U-shaped building. 242 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Apartment number eight was at the rear of the yard. 243 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 When we got there, there were several other people 244 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,000 standing by the entrance. 245 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Two police units had arrived, 246 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 and the officers were trying to keep the crowd 247 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 away from the door to the apartment. 248 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 1103 A.M. 249 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 As we walked back toward Padachek's apartment, 250 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Sid Hughes and I tried to figure some way 251 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 to talk the man out of carrying out his threat 252 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 to take his own life. 253 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'm not sure how to handle this thing, Joe. 254 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 I'd feel pretty bad if I went in and botched it up. 255 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 I wish you could do it. 256 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Well, has Padachek ever seen you before? 257 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 I don't think so. 258 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Well, we can try a switch if you want to. 259 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Tell him I'm Sid Hughes. 260 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 That'd be better, Joe. 261 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 You got some idea what to do in there. 262 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 I'm not sure I could swing it. 263 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 All right. 264 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I told him I'd shove one of my cards 265 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 from the newspaper under the door. 266 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 That way he'd know it was me. 267 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 All right. 268 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Now, after you're inside, I'll try and get in touch 269 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 with Casey and see what he's been able to come up with 270 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 on Padachek. 271 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Good. 272 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Oh, you better leave your gun here. 273 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 I told him I'd come unarmed. 274 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 All right. 275 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 You think it's a good idea to go in there 276 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,000 without a gun, Joe? 277 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Well, we haven't got much to say about it. 278 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 The big thing right now is to try to get him out alive. 279 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Yeah, I guess you're right. 280 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Okay, you want to hang on to this for me? 281 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 Right. 282 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:44,000 All right, let's give it a try. 283 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Who is it? 284 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,000 It's Sid Hughes, Padachek. 285 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 I told you I'd be out here. 286 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 You want to let me in? 287 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,000 What about the card? 288 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:56,000 All right, here it is under the door. 289 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 How about it? 290 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Padachek? 291 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 I only took the card, man. 292 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I don't know. 293 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 I hope this thing works out. 294 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 You're going to try to get in touch with your office, aren't you, Sid, 295 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 and see what you can get on him? 296 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Might help. 297 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Come on, Padachek, let me in. 298 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 The police are there. 299 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 I'm not going to let them in. 300 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 They aren't going to bother you? 301 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Tell them to go away. 302 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Tell them to get off the porch. 303 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 All right, Frank, you better get the other officers 304 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 to clear the place out. 305 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Right. 306 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 All right, the police are gone now. 307 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 You want to let me in? 308 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Will you bring my mail in for me? 309 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,000 What's that? 310 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 My mail. 311 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 It's in the box, right on the side of the porch. 312 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 In the box. 313 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 All right, I'll get it. 314 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:41,000 All right, now let me in, huh? 315 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Come on. 316 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 I'll stand right there. 317 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 You don't need that gun. 318 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I'm not going to cause you any trouble. 319 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Turn around. 320 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 I told you I was coming unarmed. 321 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Turn around. 322 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 We'll see. 323 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 All right, let's go upstairs. 324 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 All right. 325 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Just a minute. 326 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Okay, let's go. 327 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Why don't you put the gun down? You're not going to need that. 328 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 I feel better with it. 329 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Mind if I take off my raincoat? 330 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 No, go ahead. Make yourself comfortable. 331 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Here's your mail. 332 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Thanks. 333 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Aren't you going to open it up? 334 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 No reason to. There's nothing important. 335 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 You can't tell? There might be. 336 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 There isn't. I know that. 337 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 You want a cigarette? 338 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,000 No, no. But you go ahead. 339 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Here, have one of these. I want to be able to see your hands. 340 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 What's this all about? 341 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 There's no other way. 342 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 What do you mean? 343 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 All night I've been thinking about it since I got home. 344 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 There's nothing for me anymore. 345 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I'm not going to prison. If they think they're going to take me, then they're wrong. 346 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Well, who says you're going to prison? 347 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 The authorities. They said I have to go to jail for 90 days. 348 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 I know how they plan it. They tell me 90 days and then they'll keep me there for more. 349 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Well, I'm not going back to prison. 350 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 You ever been in jail before? 351 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Yes, five years. 352 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 What for? 353 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 For nothing. Five years because I didn't agree with what they were doing. 354 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,000 I'm not going back. I'm not going. I'll kill myself first. 355 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 All right, take it easy. 356 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 You want to start from the beginning and tell me what happened? 357 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 I said I forged a man's name to a check. 358 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Did you? 359 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Yes, but you've got to understand I didn't have any money. 360 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 They're going to take my car away from me. 361 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 I'm behind on my rent here. I owe money. 362 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 All my creditors were hounding me. 363 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 I thought if I could just get a little money to pay the bills and I could pay it back when I got a job. 364 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,000 I was going to pay it back. All of it. I really was. 365 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 How much was the check? 366 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 $250. 367 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Whose name did you sign to it? 368 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 A man I know. I got a check and signed his name. He has the money. 369 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I was going to pay him back. I have a job coming up. 370 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 As soon as I got paid, I was going to put the money back. 371 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 I didn't mean any harm. I knew what was wrong, but it was the only thing I could think of. 372 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 They were hounding me. 373 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 What about that car? Couldn't you sell it? 374 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I suppose so, but then if I did, I wouldn't be able to get to my job. 375 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 I needed my car for that. I had to keep the machine. 376 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Well, you'll have a trial. If you tell them what happened, they'll probably understand. 377 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 The court will make an allowance. 378 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 I've had a trial. I told them I was guilty, that I did forge a check. 379 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 They told me I had to go to jail. 380 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 You said you'd been in prison before. 381 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Yes. Five years, and I escaped. 382 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Where was that? 383 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 In Czechoslovakia. They put me in prison because I wouldn't do what they told me. 384 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 They killed my father and my mother, and then they put me in prison. 385 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I know what it's like. I'm not going back. 386 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Well, the prisons here aren't concentration camps. You know that. 387 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 That's what you say. I know different. I've lived in them. 388 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 You see here? You see these four teeth in front? 389 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Yes, I see them. 390 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Well, they're false. 391 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Is that right? 392 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 I lost the teeth when I was kicked by a guard. You know why I was kicked? 393 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 You know why he did it? 394 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 No. 395 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Because my clothes were torn. That's the reason he kicked me. 396 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 I tore my clothes so he knocked my four front teeth out. 397 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 That's all over now, isn't it? Things like that don't happen here. 398 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Well, maybe not out in front of people, but they happen in the prisons. 399 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,000 I'm not going to have it happen to me again. There were 800 of us, all arrested at the same time. 400 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 800, Mr. Hughes. 401 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Yeah. 402 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 800 men, people I knew. 403 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 800 human beings with homes and families. 404 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 And I'm the only one alive now. All the rest were killed. 405 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 All taken to Buchenwald and run through the showers. 406 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Now, don't tell me about prisons, Mr. Hughes. I know I've lived in them. 407 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Tell me something. 408 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Yes. 409 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 You remember the name of the judge who sentenced you here on the forgery charge? 410 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Yes. 411 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Well, let me call him. Let me get him over here and talk this thing over. 412 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 We can work something out. There's no reason for you to do a thing like you're planning here. 413 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,000 It's not that important. 414 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Maybe not to you. 415 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 It isn't to anybody. 416 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 We can work something out here. Let me call the judge. 417 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 No, sit down, Mr. Hughes. 418 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Look, I'm not a stupid man. I have degrees from three universities. I speak four languages. 419 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,000 I spent five years jumping every time a guard looked at me. Five years wishing they'd kill me. 420 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Five years wishing I could live in hell because it would be much better than the way things were. 421 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Now they think they're going to send me back. They're not. 422 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 You understand that, don't you, Mr. Hughes? Don't you? 423 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Yeah, I think I understand it. 424 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Look, you said yourself that you thought about it all night. 425 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Now, isn't it possible that you're making this thing more important than it really is? 426 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,000 No. 427 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 I came in here to help you. 428 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 I want you to help yourself. 429 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Get your hands off me, Mr. Hughes. Now, get over there. 430 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Look, I don't know how to tell you, Patek. I don't know how to make you believe me, but none of us want to hurt you. 431 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,000 We want you to be happy here. That's one of the reasons you came to this country, isn't it? 432 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Yes, I read the books about freedom. That's why I came here. 433 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Now they're trying to take that freedom away from me. Before I even have it, they're trying to take it away from me. 434 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 I forged a check. I admitted it. I told them I did it. 435 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,000 But I told them I'd pay the money back. That didn't seem to make any difference. 436 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 They still said I had to go to jail. 437 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Well, you said yourself that you were put in prison for not agreeing with the authorities, isn't that what you said? 438 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Yes, that's what I said. 439 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Well, they don't do that in this country. You know that. 440 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Everybody's entitled to his own opinion and live his own life. 441 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,000 We've got laws, laws that are written by the people to protect the people. You understand that, don't you? 442 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 The people themselves write the law. 443 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Yes, yes, I understand that. 444 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Well, you don't break a law just a little bit. Either you keep it or you don't. Do you understand that? 445 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Yes. 446 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Well, you broke the law, didn't you? Isn't that right? 447 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 I told you I did. I broke the law. 448 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,000 All right, now listen, after you've broken the law, you can't make it right by saying you'll pay the money back. 449 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 But the fact that you do want to rectify your mistake will certainly be taken into consideration by anybody in authority. 450 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 You understand that? 451 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,000 I don't know. I try to think. 452 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I've thought about it over and over. I can't come to any answer. 453 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Where are you going? 454 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I've got to take something for this headache. 455 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 I've got a bad headache. 456 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 What's this here? 457 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 What? 458 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 This note here on the bureau. 459 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 That's what I wrote to tell why I did it so they'd know. 460 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Nobody understands what has happened to me. I cannot accept a jail term. All I want is to find peace and freedom. 461 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I guess this is the only way to do that. I'm sorry to cause anybody any trouble. Please take care of my dogs. 462 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Patecek? 463 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Yes? 464 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,000 You know this is all wrong, don't you? 465 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I don't know. I wish I did, but I don't know. 466 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Well, we're not going to need this. There's going to be no reason for it. 467 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 What are you doing? 468 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Get away from me. Leave my things alone. 469 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Like all the rest, you don't understand either. 470 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 You better get out of here. Get out. 471 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 All right, if that's the way you want it. 472 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Why'd you crumple up this note? Now, why? 473 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I didn't think that you'd need it. I thought we had this thing straightened out. 474 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Oh, we haven't. I told you, get out. 475 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 All right, wait a minute. Wait a minute. 476 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 You said that you'd plead guilty. You admitted you forged that check, isn't that right? 477 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 That's what I said. 478 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Well, how come you're here? How come you happen to be home? 479 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,000 They gave me 24 hours to arrange care for my dogs. I put up a bond, they gave me 24 hours. 480 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Where'd you get the money for the bond? 481 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 One of the companies by the jail. They put it up for me. 482 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Well, how about the dogs? Did you take care of them? 483 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 No, not yet. 484 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Where are they? 485 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Up in the kitchen. 486 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Can I see them? 487 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 You like dogs? 488 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Certainly I like dogs. 489 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 All right, come on. 490 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 There they are. This one's Marta, this little one's Eric. 491 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Yeah, they look like real good dogs. 492 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 They are, thoroughbred shepherds. Only friends I have. 493 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 That's not true. You got friends. 494 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Who? Tell me who. 495 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Well, me for one. I'd like to be your friend if you'll just give me the chance. 496 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 How about it? 497 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 What do you say? 498 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 What's that on your belt? 499 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 What? 500 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 The leather case I'm talking about. 501 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 What's that on your belt? 502 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 The leather case I'm talking about. 503 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 What's that on your belt? What? 504 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 The leather case on your belt. What is it? 505 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 You don't have to answer. I'll tell you. It's a bullet clip. 506 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 You're not Sid Hughes, are you? 507 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Are you? 508 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 No, Jim. 509 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 No, you're a policeman. 510 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 You're here to take me to prison, but you made a mistake, a big mistake. 511 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Yeah. 512 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 I'm gonna kill you. 513 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:47,000 You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. 514 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:52,000 At cigarette dealers, in vending machines... 515 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 At supermarkets and stores coast to coast. 516 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Chesterfields, please. 517 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Smokers, please. 518 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 And you... 519 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 You're not gonna sell a cigarette? 520 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 I'm not gonna sell a cigarette? 521 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 I'm not gonna sell a cigarette. 522 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 I'm not gonna sell a cigarette. 523 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,600 Chesterfield's, please. 524 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,000 Smokers by the thousands. 525 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Yes, smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. 526 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,500 The only cigarette ever to give you... 527 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:25,000 One, proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 528 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Chemical analyses of the country's six leading brands confirm that. 529 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,700 Two, the only cigarette ever to give you this proven record with smokers. 530 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:38,600 Again and again, over a full year and one half, 531 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:43,000 a group of Chesterfield smokers have been given thorough medical examinations. 532 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,200 The doctor's reports are a matter of record. 533 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:52,000 No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. 534 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,400 A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program. 535 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,800 Chesterfield, the only cigarette ever with a record like this. 536 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,600 Chesterfield, best for you. 537 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:11,600 The Chesterfield Smokers 538 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,400 11.18 a.m. I'd been in the apartment with Jan Patichek for 13 minutes. 539 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,200 During that time he dealt a chrome-plated luger pointed at me. 540 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,800 We'd gone into the kitchen to see the dogs and Patichek had noticed the cartridge clip on my belt. 541 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,400 When I'd given my gun and holster to Frank, I'd forgotten to take the clip off. 542 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,800 Patichek had noticed it when I kneeled down to pet the dogs. 543 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,000 He'd looked at it for a minute and then he motioned me to go into the living room. 544 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,200 He followed, keeping the gun pointed at me. 545 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:43,400 When we got into the center of the room, he told me to sit down and he walked over to the other side of the room and sat on a chair. 546 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,200 There's some cigarettes on the table next to you. Please give me one. 547 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,600 Yeah, sure. Here, hon. 548 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,200 Just throw it over here. 549 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,000 All right. Here you are. 550 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,800 Thanks. Take one yourself, if you like. 551 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,200 Hmm. 552 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Who are you? 553 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 My name's Friday. 554 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,200 You're a policeman, aren't you? 555 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,000 That's right. 556 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,200 You know, killing isn't new to me. I've done it before. 557 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:09,800 All right. 558 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,200 Yeah. 559 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,200 See this gun? 560 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:12,600 Yeah. 561 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,600 I killed the man who owned it. He was the one at the prison camp, the one who kicked me. 562 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,000 After I escaped, I went back. Now I have the gun. 563 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,800 Now I don't have to listen to other people who tell me what to do or when or how to do it. 564 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,600 You'll listen to me because you know if you don't, I'll kill you. You know that, don't you? 565 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:28,800 Maybe. 566 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:34,400 I've seen a lot of killing. I know what it is. I won't hesitate to kill you. 567 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,400 What about the people you know here? 568 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:37,600 What about? 569 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,400 How are they going to feel after you've done away with yourself? 570 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,400 It won't matter to them. 571 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:41,600 You sound pretty sure about that. 572 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,800 I'm as sure as I can be. 573 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,400 You mean that in the two years that you've been over here in this country, you haven't made any friends that are going to care about you? 574 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,200 Not at all. 575 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,000 What about the people in that picture? 576 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,600 Mine. 577 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,800 Right here. 578 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,000 This photograph here. Christmas party, all the signatures. Won't they care? 579 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,400 No. 580 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:04,400 About this one here, says to Jan with deepest regards, sign Mary Jane. Is this her? 581 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,800 Yes, that's her. 582 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,000 Looks like a nice girl to me. 583 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,200 She is. 584 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,000 Well, she'll care, won't she? 585 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:10,600 I don't think so. 586 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:11,000 Why? 587 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:16,400 Because all of them, they felt sorry for me all the time. They tried to make it easier because they felt sorry for me. 588 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,400 They thought I didn't know, but I did all the time. I knew. 589 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,000 Well, some of the things that they wrote on the pictures doesn't make it look like that. Some of them are pretty nice. 590 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,800 They didn't mean them. 591 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:26,600 You really believe that? 592 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,800 I don't have any other choice. 593 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,600 How long has it been since you did believe in anything? 594 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,200 Long time. 595 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:32,800 How long? 596 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,800 I guess since my mother died. 597 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,400 When was that? 598 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:39,200 At the beginning of the war. Right after the conference. They came one night. They took her and my father. 599 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,800 Took them both. I never saw them again. 600 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,600 I heard what happened. I guess that's the time I stopped believing in anything. 601 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,000 How'd you happen to come over to this country? 602 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:54,600 After I escaped, I went to England for five years. I worked with the Czech forces there. Then when the war was over, I got permission to come here. 603 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,800 I think you said before that you came over here because you wanted the freedom. Isn't that right? 604 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:58,600 Yes. 605 00:22:58,600 --> 00:22:59,500 You found it, didn't you? 606 00:22:59,500 --> 00:22:59,900 I guess so. 607 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:01,300 Anyone ever try to tell you where you could go? 608 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:01,600 No. 609 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,400 What church to go to? 610 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:02,800 No. 611 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,800 You can say what you think, can't you? 612 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,000 Yes. 613 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,500 Why do you want to do this thing? 614 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:14,300 I try to tell you I know about prisons. I know what goes on behind the doors. I lived there. I lived and died in them. 615 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:15,100 You ever been in one? 616 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:15,500 Yes. 617 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:16,000 As a prisoner? 618 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,100 No, not as a prisoner. 619 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:21,300 Well, that's just it. Maybe they got you fooled too. 620 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:25,700 I remember when the people from the relief organizations would come along. The guard would take us out in the court of the prison. 621 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,400 They'd make us stand there and tell the people how good they were to us. 622 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,400 If we didn't say it that way, then they'd take us back and beat us to death. 623 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,900 I know what goes on behind the doors. I know because I saw it. I lived it. 624 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:39,400 Now don't tell me what happens. 625 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,900 Now you and your law come along and tell me that you're going to send me back. 626 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:49,000 What about them? Who's going to take care of the dogs? Isn't that the reason that you're here? Not the reason you came home? Who's going to take care of them? 627 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,200 I don't know. Somebody will. 628 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,300 They're going to miss you. 629 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:52,700 They'll miss me feeding them, that's all. 630 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:54,500 You know better than me. 631 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,300 Martha, Eric, be quiet. 632 00:23:58,300 --> 00:23:59,500 They only seem to mind, don't they? 633 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:00,700 They're well trained. 634 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:01,600 You ever shown them? 635 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,800 No. 636 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,500 They have a lot of good dog shows around here. You ought to show them. They probably do real good. 637 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:09,000 Do they have dog shows in prison? 638 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 I don't know how to tell you. I don't know how to make you believe me. If you just let me get that judge over here, let him talk to you. 639 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,100 Maybe he can make you believe that it's not going to be like it was in your country. 640 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,400 You'll be well fed. You'll get decent clothes. Nobody's going to beat you. We don't do things like that here. 641 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,600 We're not going to prison. 642 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,900 Just let me get that judge over here. Now let me call him on the phone. He can be here in just a few minutes. He'll tell you. He can do something. 643 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,400 There's no reason why we can't work this thing out. Now let me try to help you, please. 644 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,300 I want to believe you, Mr. Friday. I really do, but it's hard to believe in anything. 645 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:35,000 I'll just ask you one thing. 646 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,200 Trust me. 647 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,300 I've never seen you before. I don't know you outside of this room, but I ask you to believe me. 648 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:42,800 I promise you. I give you my word that I won't let anything happen to you. 649 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,300 I don't know. I don't know. 650 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,500 Let me have that gun. Let me take it. Then we can work things out. 651 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:51,000 Do you think we can do it? I think we can. 652 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,600 John? 653 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,000 John, let me in. I want to see you. 654 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,800 Get here now to take me. 655 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,800 You won't let him do it, will you? Please don't let him take me. 656 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,800 Don't worry. 657 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,600 All right, you down there. Get away from that door. 658 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:03,300 All right, come on, Jan. 659 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:07,800 I'll go crazy if they put me in prison again. I know I will. I don't want to go back. 660 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,100 Jan, come on. Give me the gun, will you? 661 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:12,100 I won't go back. If I go this time, it'll be for good. 662 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,800 Now if they take me this time, they'll kill me for what I did. I know they will. 663 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,000 No, they won't, Jan. Now please give me that gun. 664 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,500 Let me in! 665 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:20,200 Get away from that door and stay away, will you? 666 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,500 They're going to break in. 667 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:23,700 Quick, we've got to hide. If they find us, they'll kill us both. 668 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:25,600 Come on, Jan, believe me. I won't let anybody hurt you. I promise. 669 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:26,600 I'll give you my word. Now give me that gun. 670 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,300 You mean that? 671 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:28,100 I do. 672 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:28,700 You won't let them take me? 673 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:30,100 No, now come on. Give me the gun. 674 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:31,600 I want to believe you. I want to believe you. 675 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,500 Then do it. Trust me, Jan. I won't let you down. Come on. Give me the gun. 676 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:59,500 Get away from that door. I'm doing the best I can. 677 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,700 Well, who is he? 678 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:02,800 Now just stand still, you. 679 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:03,300 All right. 680 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:04,900 We did all we could, Joe. This guy got biased. 681 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:06,100 Says Patecek owed him money. 682 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:07,100 We tried to stop him, Joe. 683 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:07,600 Yeah. 684 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,400 You're the man who was with him? 685 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,100 That's right. 686 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:10,500 Well, you had no business up there. 687 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,500 That's what you get for trying to impede justice. That's just what you get. 688 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,000 You want to tell me something? What were you doing pounding on that door? 689 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,900 Patecek owed me money. I heard he was going to jail. 690 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,400 I wanted to get it before he left. I had a right to be here. 691 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,300 If you'd tipped your nose out of this, I'd have gotten it straight now. 692 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:23,100 Sure you would have. Patecek's dead. 693 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:24,700 I know that. I heard the shot. 694 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:26,700 I'm out a couple hundred dollars he owed me. 695 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:28,000 Think I'll ever get it back? 696 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,200 I hope you're happy. You just took a couple hundred dollars away from me, didn't you? 697 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,500 Come on, Frank. Sit. 698 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:35,100 Yeah. 699 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:37,100 Let's go. 700 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:53,700 The story you have just heard is true. 701 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:56,400 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 702 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,200 On November 19th, an autopsy was performed in the coroner's office in and 703 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,900 Paul the County of Los Angeles, State of California. 704 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,300 In a moment, the results of that autopsy. 705 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:07,600 Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 706 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,900 Thank you, George Fenomen. 707 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:13,100 Friends, we've been getting letters from people all over the country telling us that they've switched to Chesterfield. 708 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,600 Just as I've been telling you, thousands of smokers are changing to Chesterfield 709 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,700 because only Chesterfield gives proof of low nicotine, highest quality. 710 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:22,900 That's why I recommend you try them today. 711 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:26,900 Regular or king-size, you'll find Chesterfield best for you. 712 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:41,400 The coroner's autopsy disclosed that the death of Jan Padachek resulted from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 713 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:53,400 It was officially recorded as a suicide. 714 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:58,200 You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. 715 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,400 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. 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