WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.440 Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. 00:11.440 --> 00:13.880 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:13.880 --> 00:14.880 Tragnet. 00:14.880 --> 00:24.120 You're a detective sergeant. 00:24.120 --> 00:26.560 You're assigned to burglary detail. 00:26.560 --> 00:30.560 For the past several weeks, a gang has been breaking into neighborhood stores. 00:30.560 --> 00:34.240 Routine investigation fails to turn up any kind of a lead. 00:34.240 --> 00:40.200 Your job, find one. 00:40.200 --> 00:48.520 Tragnet. 00:48.520 --> 00:50.800 The documentary drama of an actual crime. 00:50.800 --> 00:55.840 For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 00:55.840 --> 01:00.480 travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:00.480 --> 01:01.480 police files. 01:01.480 --> 01:07.500 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Tragnet is the story of your police force 01:07.500 --> 01:09.500 in action. 01:09.500 --> 01:13.360 It was Tuesday, March 20th. 01:13.360 --> 01:14.880 It was cold in Los Angeles. 01:14.880 --> 01:16.560 We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. 01:16.560 --> 01:18.160 My partner is Frank Smith. 01:18.160 --> 01:19.160 The boss is Captain Bernard. 01:19.160 --> 01:20.160 My name is Friday. 01:20.160 --> 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 01:23.720 --> 01:27.080 floor of the Bell Alarms Hotel, room 314. 01:27.080 --> 01:29.520 It's sure dark. 01:29.520 --> 01:33.000 Want to try it again? 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 Yeah. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.840 Sounds like somebody's moving around. 01:37.840 --> 01:41.320 Who is it? 01:41.320 --> 01:42.320 Your Jed Nagel? 01:42.320 --> 01:43.320 Yeah, why? 01:43.320 --> 01:44.880 Police officers would like to talk to you. 01:44.880 --> 01:46.360 I ain't done nothing wrong. 01:46.360 --> 01:47.880 There's no reason to rouse me. 01:47.880 --> 01:48.880 You want to open the door? 01:48.880 --> 01:49.880 All right. 01:49.880 --> 01:50.880 Come on in. 01:50.880 --> 01:53.880 I just got up. 01:53.880 --> 01:55.880 Yeah, you alone? 01:55.880 --> 01:58.400 Yeah, there's nobody else. 01:58.400 --> 01:59.400 Frank? 01:59.400 --> 02:00.400 Yeah. 02:00.400 --> 02:01.400 That's the bathroom. 02:01.400 --> 02:04.320 I told you that there wasn't anybody else here. 02:04.320 --> 02:05.880 Well, you don't mind if we look around, do you? 02:05.880 --> 02:06.880 I do too mind. 02:06.880 --> 02:08.640 I don't like you cops coming around. 02:08.640 --> 02:10.760 They're going to ruin my reputation. 02:10.760 --> 02:12.240 People in the building are going to think you're friends. 02:12.240 --> 02:15.800 Well, now I'll tell you, we won't tell them if you don't. 02:15.800 --> 02:16.800 What do you want anyway? 02:16.800 --> 02:18.800 We got a report that you were down on East Fifth last night. 02:18.800 --> 02:19.800 Is that right? 02:19.800 --> 02:21.680 Well, I don't know. 02:21.680 --> 02:23.120 All last night's kind of foggy. 02:23.120 --> 02:24.800 I don't remember where I was exactly. 02:24.800 --> 02:26.240 Do you remember being downtown? 02:26.240 --> 02:27.600 I told you I didn't. 02:27.600 --> 02:28.600 Why? 02:28.600 --> 02:30.840 What are you trying to lay off on me now? 02:30.840 --> 02:32.200 The place is clean, Joe. 02:32.200 --> 02:33.640 I told you it was. 02:33.640 --> 02:36.000 Now you want to fill me in on what this is all about? 02:36.000 --> 02:38.120 All right, we'd like to know what you were doing downtown last night. 02:38.120 --> 02:39.120 Well, how do I know? 02:39.120 --> 02:40.920 I had it rough last night. 02:40.920 --> 02:41.920 Anybody else along with you? 02:41.920 --> 02:42.920 No. 02:42.920 --> 02:43.920 Not that I remember. 02:43.920 --> 02:46.120 You remember being near the Palace Liquor Store? 02:46.120 --> 02:48.240 No, not right off. 02:48.240 --> 02:50.040 I might have checked in, though. 02:50.040 --> 02:53.000 I threw a lot of business there away. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Why all the questions? 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Is there something wrong? 02:55.000 --> 02:56.600 We'd like to have you tell us. 02:56.600 --> 02:59.920 What I'd like to help out, but there ain't nothing I can do. 02:59.920 --> 03:02.680 We got a field interrogation report that you were in the area. 03:02.680 --> 03:03.920 Police car stopped and shook you down. 03:03.920 --> 03:04.920 Is that right? 03:04.920 --> 03:05.920 Ain't nothing new. 03:05.920 --> 03:06.920 I'm always getting stumped. 03:06.920 --> 03:07.920 Ever been arrested? 03:07.920 --> 03:08.920 A couple of times. 03:08.920 --> 03:09.920 What charge? 03:09.920 --> 03:10.920 Drunk. 03:10.920 --> 03:11.920 At all? 03:11.920 --> 03:12.920 Yes. 03:12.920 --> 03:13.920 Never stood anything heavier than drunk. 03:13.920 --> 03:14.920 Ever do any big time? 03:14.920 --> 03:15.920 No. 03:15.920 --> 03:18.520 A couple of months of cast-egg. 03:18.520 --> 03:24.040 Went up to, you know, take the cure. 03:24.040 --> 03:26.040 Didn't hold on, did it? 03:26.040 --> 03:27.040 Well, no. 03:27.040 --> 03:28.040 Never mind. 03:28.040 --> 03:31.160 You, uh, you don't happen to have an aspirin, do you? 03:31.160 --> 03:32.160 No, we don't. 03:32.160 --> 03:34.000 How about your friend here? 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 He said we didn't. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 Oh, that's too bad. 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 You know, I sure could use one. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Mind if I take a look in the bathroom? 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 There might be something in there to take care of my head. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 Sure, go ahead. 03:40.000 --> 03:48.760 We checked your record before we came up here. 03:48.760 --> 03:50.760 That right? 03:50.760 --> 03:51.760 Yeah. 03:51.760 --> 03:52.760 Find out anything? 03:52.760 --> 03:55.760 Enough to know there's a warrant on you. 03:55.760 --> 03:56.760 For what? 03:56.760 --> 03:58.880 It seems you got two wives back in Texas. 03:58.880 --> 04:00.360 They're both looking for you. 04:00.360 --> 04:01.640 All right, now come on. 04:01.640 --> 04:02.640 Get your clothes on. 04:02.640 --> 04:03.640 Yeah. 04:03.640 --> 04:06.120 You want to tell me what this is really about? 04:06.120 --> 04:07.120 When? 04:07.120 --> 04:12.080 They didn't send two plainclothes cops down here to take me in on a big image. 04:12.080 --> 04:13.560 Hodge, what's the real pitch? 04:13.560 --> 04:15.240 There was a burglary last night. 04:15.240 --> 04:17.040 I wondered if you had anything to do with it. 04:17.040 --> 04:18.040 Burglary? 04:18.040 --> 04:19.040 That's right. 04:19.040 --> 04:20.040 Not me. 04:20.040 --> 04:23.040 I haven't got the guts to get into something like that. 04:23.040 --> 04:25.040 That's what caused all the trouble with my women. 04:25.040 --> 04:26.040 What's that? 04:26.040 --> 04:31.480 Oh, I'm all the time telling me I should get off the dime and do something morning, noon, 04:31.480 --> 04:35.680 night, all the time running off at the mouth about how I was lazy. 04:35.680 --> 04:37.840 You can't expect a man to take much of that. 04:37.840 --> 04:38.840 Come on, get your clothes on. 04:38.840 --> 04:39.840 You going to send me back to Texas? 04:39.840 --> 04:40.840 We don't know what's going to happen. 04:40.840 --> 04:41.840 We just have to take you in. 04:41.840 --> 04:42.840 Gee, I sure hope I don't go back. 04:42.840 --> 04:43.840 Women's nothing but trouble, Mr. Nothing Else. 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 You remembered. 04:44.840 --> 04:45.840 Must not bother you much. 04:45.840 --> 04:46.840 Huh? 04:46.840 --> 04:47.840 You married two of them. 04:47.840 --> 04:48.840 Jed Nagel was taken to the main jail and held for the Texas authorities. 04:48.840 --> 04:49.840 A check of his actions on the previous night showed that he couldn't have committed the 04:49.840 --> 04:50.840 burglary. 04:50.840 --> 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