1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,880 Tragnet. 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:24,120 You're a detective sergeant. 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,560 You're assigned to burglary detail. 6 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,560 For the past several weeks, a gang has been breaking into neighborhood stores. 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,240 Routine investigation fails to turn up any kind of a lead. 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:40,200 Your job, find one. 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:48,520 Tragnet. 10 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,800 The documentary drama of an actual crime. 11 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,840 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 12 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,480 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 13 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:01,480 police files. 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:07,500 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Tragnet is the story of your police force 15 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,500 in action. 16 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:13,360 It was Tuesday, March 20th. 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:14,880 It was cold in Los Angeles. 18 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,560 We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 19 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,160 My partner is Frank Smith. 20 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,160 The boss is Captain Bernard. 21 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,160 My name is Friday. 22 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,720 We were on our way out from the office and it was 9.47 a.m. when we got to the third 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,080 floor of the Bell Alarms Hotel, room 314. 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,520 It's sure dark. 25 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,000 Want to try it again? 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Yeah. 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,840 Sounds like somebody's moving around. 28 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,320 Who is it? 29 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:42,320 Your Jed Nagel? 30 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:43,320 Yeah, why? 31 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:44,880 Police officers would like to talk to you. 32 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,360 I ain't done nothing wrong. 33 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:47,880 There's no reason to rouse me. 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:48,880 You want to open the door? 35 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,880 All right. 36 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:50,880 Come on in. 37 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,880 I just got up. 38 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,880 Yeah, you alone? 39 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,400 Yeah, there's nobody else. 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,400 Frank? 41 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,400 Yeah. 42 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,400 That's the bathroom. 43 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,320 I told you that there wasn't anybody else here. 44 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:05,880 Well, you don't mind if we look around, do you? 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:06,880 I do too mind. 46 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,640 I don't like you cops coming around. 47 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:10,760 They're going to ruin my reputation. 48 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,240 People in the building are going to think you're friends. 49 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,800 Well, now I'll tell you, we won't tell them if you don't. 50 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:16,800 What do you want anyway? 51 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,800 We got a report that you were down on East Fifth last night. 52 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Is that right? 53 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,680 Well, I don't know. 54 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,120 All last night's kind of foggy. 55 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,800 I don't remember where I was exactly. 56 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,240 Do you remember being downtown? 57 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:27,600 I told you I didn't. 58 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Why? 59 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,840 What are you trying to lay off on me now? 60 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,200 The place is clean, Joe. 61 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,640 I told you it was. 62 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,000 Now you want to fill me in on what this is all about? 63 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,120 All right, we'd like to know what you were doing downtown last night. 64 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,120 Well, how do I know? 65 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,920 I had it rough last night. 66 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,920 Anybody else along with you? 67 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:42,920 No. 68 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:43,920 Not that I remember. 69 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,120 You remember being near the Palace Liquor Store? 70 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,240 No, not right off. 71 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,040 I might have checked in, though. 72 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,000 I threw a lot of business there away. 73 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Why all the questions? 74 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Is there something wrong? 75 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,600 We'd like to have you tell us. 76 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,920 What I'd like to help out, but there ain't nothing I can do. 77 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,680 We got a field interrogation report that you were in the area. 78 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:03,920 Police car stopped and shook you down. 79 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:04,920 Is that right? 80 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:05,920 Ain't nothing new. 81 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:06,920 I'm always getting stumped. 82 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:07,920 Ever been arrested? 83 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:08,920 A couple of times. 84 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:09,920 What charge? 85 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:10,920 Drunk. 86 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:11,920 At all? 87 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:12,920 Yes. 88 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:13,920 Never stood anything heavier than drunk. 89 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:14,920 Ever do any big time? 90 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:15,920 No. 91 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:18,520 A couple of months of cast-egg. 92 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:24,040 Went up to, you know, take the cure. 93 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,040 Didn't hold on, did it? 94 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,040 Well, no. 95 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,040 Never mind. 96 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,160 You, uh, you don't happen to have an aspirin, do you? 97 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,160 No, we don't. 98 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,000 How about your friend here? 99 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 He said we didn't. 100 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Oh, that's too bad. 101 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 You know, I sure could use one. 102 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Mind if I take a look in the bathroom? 103 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 There might be something in there to take care of my head. 104 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Sure, go ahead. 105 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:48,760 We checked your record before we came up here. 106 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,760 That right? 107 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Yeah. 108 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:52,760 Find out anything? 109 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Enough to know there's a warrant on you. 110 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:56,760 For what? 111 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,880 It seems you got two wives back in Texas. 112 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,360 They're both looking for you. 113 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,640 All right, now come on. 114 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:02,640 Get your clothes on. 115 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Yeah. 116 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,120 You want to tell me what this is really about? 117 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 When? 118 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:12,080 They didn't send two plainclothes cops down here to take me in on a big image. 119 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,560 Hodge, what's the real pitch? 120 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,240 There was a burglary last night. 121 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,040 I wondered if you had anything to do with it. 122 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,040 Burglary? 123 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,040 That's right. 124 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,040 Not me. 125 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,040 I haven't got the guts to get into something like that. 126 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,040 That's what caused all the trouble with my women. 127 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,040 What's that? 128 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,480 Oh, I'm all the time telling me I should get off the dime and do something morning, noon, 129 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,680 night, all the time running off at the mouth about how I was lazy. 130 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,840 You can't expect a man to take much of that. 131 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:38,840 Come on, get your clothes on. 132 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:39,840 You going to send me back to Texas? 133 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 We don't know what's going to happen. 134 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:41,840 We just have to take you in. 135 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 Gee, I sure hope I don't go back. 136 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,840 Women's nothing but trouble, Mr. Nothing Else. 137 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:44,840 You remembered. 138 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:45,840 Must not bother you much. 139 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:46,840 Huh? 140 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:47,840 You married two of them. 141 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:48,840 Jed Nagel was taken to the main jail and held for the Texas authorities. 142 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,840 A check of his actions on the previous night showed that he couldn't have committed the 143 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:50,840 burglary. 144 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:51,840 1130 a.m. 145 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:52,840 Frank and I checked the burglary. 146 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:53,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 147 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 148 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 149 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:05,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 150 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:26,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 151 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:45,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 152 00:05:45,840 --> 00:06:04,840 We're going to have to get him out of here. 153 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:29,840 We're going to 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