All language subtitles for Dragnet - 01x08 - The Candy Store Robberies_track3_[eng]-en

[ Frida y Nam? ting]
This is the ciz‘y— [as Ange/es, California,

Like eveiyp/ace e/se,
money is what makes it go,

and there are
a lot of ways ofgetting it.

You can earn it.

You can speculate for it.

You can win it... sometimes.

You can borrowit...
oreven buyit.

lf you ’re desperate enough
you can steal it.

When you do, / go to work.
/ car/ya badge,

/t was Monday, March 78,
/t was cloudy in Los Ange/es.

We were working the day watch
out of Robbery Di Vision,

The boss is Captain Ho we.
My partner’s Bill Gannon.

My name is Friday

/n the space of two weeks, an armed
bandit had held up and robbed..

70 branches of one of the city’s
largest candystore chains.

We knew his M. 0.
We had a good description.

So far, we had failed to identiij/ him.

[Man Narrating]
The story you are about to see is true.

The names have been changed
to protect the innocent

[Friday Narrating]
Monday, March 78, 9:00 am.

The candystore bandit
had entered the 70th store...

shortly before 8:00 p. m.
the previous night.

The clerk, Mrs. jean Hardy,
described him as a tall, gaunt man,

armed with a blue—steel automatic.

I‘ve given notice, Sergeant.
The only reason I came in today
was to tell them to get somebody else.

— Yes, ma‘am.
—I didn‘t feel I could quit
without giving them some notice.

They don‘t want me to leave.
They‘ve even offered a raise,

but / told Mr. Claxton—
he ’s the manager—

I said, “Mr. Claxton, there isn‘t
enough money in this world...

for me to go through that again ”—
getting shot at, / mean.

We‘re pretty sure he‘s the same man
who held up the other Rachelle stores.

But this is the first time
he‘s used a gun.
Tell us what happened.

Well, I was about here
when he came in, checking the trays.

He saw me, but he walked
straight over there to the cash register.

I had an empty tray in my hand.
I took itwith me when I moved over
to wait on him. I asked him what he wanted.

He brought his hand up like this.

— That‘s when I saw the gun.
— Yes, ma‘am. Would you go on, please.

I remember thinking
very calmly, very clearly,

“This is a holdup.
It‘s happening to me."

— We understand.
— Well, then he said
to give him all the money.

As I opened the register,
with my left hand,

I made a halfturn to the right
to set the tray down.

— That must‘ve been what did it.
— What‘s that?

Making two movements at the same time.
It must have startled him.

I can‘t think ofany other reason
why he should shoot at me. Can you?

— No, ma‘am.
— Well, he‘s not getting a second chance.

I‘ve given notice.
There‘s not enough money in this world.

Well, it‘s not likely
he‘ll ever come back to this
particular store again, Mrs. Hardy.

— You haven‘t arrested him, have you?
— No, not yet.

Well, then I don‘t know how
you can say he won‘t come back.

Well, we can‘t guarantee it, ma‘am,
but we know he‘s never repeated
on a store so far.

Is that right? Never?

Oh, well, maybe
that does make a difi‘erence.

Here. Have one of these. Go ahead
Or do you prefer light chocolate?

No, thanks. None for me.
All the same to me. Thanks.

You know, there is something wrong
with that holdup man.
How‘s that, ma‘am?

I was talking about him
with Mr. CIaXton this morning,

and he said the head office
had made the same comment.

— What‘s that?
— Ten candy stores, counting this one.

Yes.
Stolen all that money

And never helped himself
to one piece ofcandy.

[Friday Narrating]
9:35 am. We went back to the ofiice.
The captain wanted to see us.

Corner Pocket‘s been asking me
questions. I‘ve got a few foryou.

— Yes, sir.
— These candy store heists—
Why is he still operating?

— Wejust haven‘t been able
to make him yet.
— Ten hits.

— That oughta be enough to give you a fix.
— We‘ve checked him out three ways.

— Yeah?
— We got a description.
Everybody‘s agreed on it.

— We pulled every mug shot that
even came close. Hejust wasn‘t there.
— Mm—hmm.

Then we tried working through his MO.—
kind ofstore, the hours he works,
always a blue—steel automatic.

He is only fired it on this last job.

— Ballistics recovered the slug— 38 caliber.
— What else did you come up with?

Looks like he‘s new.
We‘ve got nothing on him at all.

— Got prints, haven‘t you?
— Yeah, but nothing readable.

Ten candy stores have been knocked over
in almost as many days.

Unless it‘s the Invisible Man,
you must know something about him.

Well, we know he‘s not a big operator.
The most he‘s ever gotten was $50.

— Once it was only I 0.
— But he‘s had steady work.

Well, the way we see it,
he had the shorts one day,

and he walked into that first store,
probably because it was handy.

— It worked for him once,
so he hasn‘t changed his MO.
— Anything else?

The stores he‘s hit, all 10 ofthem,
are in the downtown area.

You could walk to any one ofthem
in an hour. Ten minutes on a bus.

— He‘s never hit the same one twice.
— How many stores does he have left
in the downtown area?

— Five.
— How long a stakeout, do you figure?

Well, he‘s never gone longer than
two nights running without making a hit.

Ifthere were two men
in each ofthose five stores, we oughta
pick him up before the end ofthe week.

— Before the end ofthe week?
— Yes, sir.

Ifanybody asks me,
that‘s what I‘ll tell them.

[Friday Narra ting]
Arrangements were made
to draw 70 men fl’om Metro Division.

They were told they would be
on extra duty...

fl’om 6:30 p. m.
until 9:00, 7000 or 7 7:00,

depending on the closing hour
of the candystore they were assigned to.

4:30pm. The officers reported
to the Robberysquad room for briefing

All right, gentlemen.
IfI could have your attention, please.

Here‘s a description ofthe suspect:
male Caucasian,

between 6 ’and 6 1?” tall,

weight about 750 pounds,

thin and gaunt.

Nearly all the witnesses have used
those words to describe him.

—Thin and gaunt.
— Is he geed up?

— A couple ofthe women clerks said
they smelled alcohol on his breath.
— How about the kind ofclothes?

A few times, a heavy, dark sweater.

Most ofthe time he wears
a cheap, gray suit that looks to be
a size too big for him.

His MO. is always the same.
He‘s never hit anything
but Rachelle candy stores.

Ne i/er before 7:00 p. m.
Usual/y near closing

And only if there are
no customers in the stores.

The suspect carries
a blue—steel 38 automatic.

— Do we check out shotguns?
— No. These stores are too small.

— Too close to the sidewalk.
— Is he trigger—happy?

He was last night.

[Friday Narra ting]
A team was assigned to each
of the five downtown candystores...

that had not yet been robbed

They would take up their positions
at 6:30 p. m.

Bill and / would be in Unit 7 K —80
on rollingstakeout

5:48pm.
Have to take offin about 20 minutes.
Oughta have a sandwich.

Be a while fore we can eat.
What are you gonna have?

— Oh,just coffee.
— You oughta have something solid,Joe.

— Well, coffee‘ll get it.
— It‘s your stomach.

— Where do you want to go? Upstairs?
— It‘s all taken care of.

— What do you mean?
— The food oughta be here any minute.

— Well, then why did you ask me
what I was gonna have?
— I wanted to see ifI guessed right.

— Who‘s bringing it? One ofthe boys?
— Not with those legs.

Thanks, Miller.
Do I have any change coming?

Three cents.
That‘s all right.
Keep it foryour trouble.

Thanks a million, Bill.
How areyou,Joe?

Fine, Dorothy. Nice ofyou
to pick that up for us.

It‘s no trouble. I‘m on the night watch.
You got a rumble going?

Yeah, five—way stakeout.
We gotta leave in a few minutes.

— You‘d better get to that then, hadn‘t you?
— I‘m just having coffee.

It‘s in there. Bill, didn‘t
you tell me to pick up two
ofthose mile—high sandwiches?

— That‘s right.
— Why didn‘t you tell meJoe didn‘t want one?
No use to waste it.

Oh, I didn‘t know that when I called you.
Joe was out ofthe office.

You know I never eat those things.
Pickles, onions and all that stuff.

[Radio Beeping]
I forgot.

[Man On Radio]
All units in the vicinity.

A 211 in progress
at 633 West Olive.

7A— 72, handle the call Code 3.

That‘s a Rachelle Candies,Joe.

[Friday Narra ting]
6:20 p. m. Contrary to his M 0.,

the candystore bandit
had held up a store earlier
than he e ver had so far.

The robbery had occurred
a good 25 minutes...

before any of the teams on stakeout
had taken up their positions...

in the Rachel/e candystores.

Goldman?
In the alley, Sergeant.

When we pulled up, the man ran out
ofthe candy store, down this alley.

Got offthree rounds at us
before we returned the fire.

— [Friday] Nickel—plated revolver.
— Not the gun we‘ve been looking for.

[Friday]
That’s not the man
we ’ve been looking for.

[Friday Narrating]
Tuesday, March 79, 70-00 a. m.
We met with Captain Howe.

That dead man in the alley last night—
Still think he‘s the wrong man?

— We know he is, Skipper.
— We’ve identifiedhim.

— Name‘s Max Schifftler.
—Just in from Kansas City.

He hadn‘t been in town an hour
before he tried that robbery.

— It wasjust a coincidence.
— It made all the papers.

Good chance the guy
you‘re looking for will get hinky.

Could blow the stakeouts.
I think we oughta stay at it
a few more nights anyway.

— Your man has to know
you‘re waiting for him.
—Yes, sir.

— Then what‘s the point?
— What else have we got?

[Friday Narrating]
Tuesday, March 79, 7:00pm.

The stakeouts continued
Bill and/ cruised the area,

ready to respond immediately to a call
fiom any of the five candystores.

900 p. m. Two of the stores
closed for the night

The ofificers on stakeout
had nothing to report

7 000 p. m. The other three Rachel/e
candystores closed without incident

One thing we were sure of
Since he had begun his series of robberies,

the gaunt bandit had ne ver gone
more than two nights without making a hit

Tomorrownight
would be the second night

Wednesday, March 20

We made a request to continue
the candystore stakeouts one more night

Do we go another night?
Yeah. We‘re gonna be shorthanded.

Oh?
Edwards and Logan
have been pulled out.

No other teams available?
Yeah, one.

Yeah?
You and me.

[Friday Narra ting]
8:00 p. m. Bill and / staked out
the Rachel/e candystore on Wi/shire.

Any of the other four teams would contact us
if anything happened at their locations.

We waited
You know what they tell these clerks?

I mean in any candy store.
No. What‘s that?

First day on thejob, help yourself.
Everything‘s free. Eat all you want.

You know what happens.
No. What‘s that?

You get so sick ofcandy,
you never want any more.

Is that so?
You bet.

How long have we been here?

Hour and 10 minutes.

Boy,just the smell ofit
kind offills you up, don‘t it?

[Phone Ringing]

This is Friday. Yeah.

Where? Where?

Yeah. Right away.

Anything?
Yeah, he hit right between us.

What do you mean?
He hit the same store
for the second time.

[Friday Narra ting]
8.20 p. m. Despite our efforts,

the candystore bandit
had held up 7 7 stores in a row

He had avoided the stakeouts
by repeating on one store he had robbed
only three nights earlier.

The clerk was the same one as before—
Mrs. jean Hardy

A black—and— white unit
had almost caught him on the job.

Female customer saw the man had a gun,
backed out, made the call from next door.
Yeah.

We werejust two blocks over.
Got here in less than a minute.
Yeah.

Suspect was on the street by then,
saw us coming, fired twice.

I got one shot off,
he grabbed the side ofhis face
and stumbled around the corner.

Left a few drops of blood
on the street.

Those blood spots—
Let‘s follow ‘em.

[Friday Narra ting]
The spots pointed east,
to ward skid ro w

8:45pm. The trail ofspots ended
at a cheap hotel on lower East Fifth Street

Police officers.
Yes, sir?

We‘re looking for a tall man—
6‘, maybe 63".

Thin, around 150 pounds.
Yes, sir.

His face is bleeding.
He came in 10 minutes ago.
Where is he?

Claude Thibodeau. Room 12.
Does he live alone?

Yes, sir.
Stay offthat phone.

He ain‘t got no phone
in his room.

Police officers! Get your hands
up on that wall! Move!

All right, turn around.
Get your hands behind your head.

I don‘t see why
you‘re so tough about it.

I‘m not making
no trouble for nobody.

Now, that‘s the first time
you‘ve been right in two weeks.

[Friday Narra ting]
A search of the hotel room
failed to turn up the suspect’s gun.

We took him downtown.

9'75p.m. Claude Thibodeau
was advised of his constitutional rights.

Heddmtmmm
MMWfiJM

The candystore clerk, Mrs. Hardy,
was asked to make the identification.

945 p. m. Mrs. Hardy was picked up
in a black—and— white unit..

and brought do wn to wn for the sho w—up.

We made out a 72.27 form
in the event she made an identification.

You know, Sergeant, I stayed on thatjob
entirely on your people‘s say—so.

You gave me your assurance
that man would never come back again.

We‘re sorry, ma‘am.
He‘d never held up
the same store twice.

You found out different,
didn‘t you?
Yes, ma‘am.

— This is almost as bad as the holdup.
— How doyou mean?

Being in a police station
isjust like being in a hospital,
as far as I‘m concerned.

/t makes me terribly nervous.

— Well, it shouldn‘t take very long, Mrs. Hardy.
— Will he be able to see me?

No, ma ’am. There is a copperscreen
between the suspects and the witnesses.

You can see them clearly,
but they can‘t see you.

— You‘re sure?
— Yes, ma‘am.

Who is that man
sitting down there?

— That‘s Sergeant AI Vietti ofour division.
— What do I have to do?

A number ofdifferent men,
all similar in appearance...

to the man who held you up
will walk out on that platform.

— Where will he be?
— Right in front ofthat height board,
along with seven other men.

— I‘m supposed to pick him out?
— That‘s the idea.

—Just take your time and be sure.
— I don‘t want to pick out the wrong man.

We don‘t want you to either,
Mrs. Hardy. You just take your time.

— AI, send in the first line.
— Send in the first line.

Now, Mrs. Hardy,
we ’re going to adjust the lights...

to approximate the brightness
of Rachelle‘s candy store.

You tell us when it looks right to you.
Bring ‘em up, AI.

Bring up the lights.

There. That seems about right.
Hold it there, AI.

Hold it. All right.
Take a quarter turn to your left.

Your left, number four!
Your left!

Another quarter turn to the lefi‘.

Quarter turn to the left.

Number four, your left!

All right Face the fiont

Do you see the man
who held you up, Mrs. Hardy?

Would it be the second man
from the right?

You tell us, Mrs. Hardy.

Well, /’ve seen that man before.
/ kno w that

Where else could it have been?

— Second man fiom the right, you said?
— Yes, I believe so.

From your left, that‘s number seven.

—Yes, but I‘m notjust sure.
— Would you like to hear the man‘s voice?

— Well, you do have
other witnesses, don‘t you?
— Yes, we do.

The clerks in all the other
Rachelle stores saw him too.

Yes, ma‘am.
But you saw him twice.

Well, I simply can‘t say for sure.

And I told you I wouldn‘t want
to send an innocent man tojail.

Are you sure the man who held you up
is not on that platform?

— No.
— Well, then.

I‘m just not sure he is either.

Friday?

— You do any good here?
— Hardy woman‘sjust not sure, Skipper.

— Maybe she‘s got a good reason.
— What do you mean?

Blue—steel automatic, 6‘2", weight
around 150 pounds, thin and gaunt.
They‘re bringing him in.

— What about him?
— Man who looks like thatjust held up
a Rachelle‘s candy store 10 minutes ago.

[Friday Narrating]
7 045 pm. The latest suspect’s
name was George Watson.

He fitted the description
of the candystore bandit
in everyrespect

We advised him of his rights,
and he agreed to talk to us
without a lawyer.

Watson is answers were confused
and contradictory.

7 7:75. We decided to bring
the two suspects together.

Hello, George.

They got you too, huh?
Sure looks like it, don‘t it?

What do you got to say, Claude?

— It‘s up to George.
— All the same to me.

Well, where do you want to start?
Christmastime?

That‘s when I first run into George.
We was having a free turkey dinner...

over at a rescue mission, you know?

— [Friday] Yeah.
— We got to talking, and
that makes a fellow pretty dry.

— So afi‘era while,
we went looking fora drink
— Go on.

Only trouble, I was broke, and George,
he didn‘t have no money neither.

Can‘t remember whether we ever
got a drink that day or not.

Do you, George?
N o.

Maybe wejust talked. Turned out
we had a lot in common, me and George.

— Yeah.
— Ofcourse, we still needed
drinking money.

One day, George happened to say
he knew where there was a gun.

Found it in back ofa bar one day
when I was gathering empties.

All right.
Let‘s get to the robberies.

I did it the first time,
then I told George.

Then he went out
and he held up a store.

After that, whoe ver needed money
would just take the gun
and go find a Rachel/e ’s.

— You both held up those candy stores?
— Me and Claude. We took turns.

— And you used the same gun?
— Same one. We only had one.

Well, what about that, Thibodeau?
How did George get hold ofthe gun?

You used it tonight
We had a special place to keep it.

We‘d take it out, do thejob
and put it right back.

— That way, we didn’t have to talk about it
— Where‘d you keep it?

Buried under the alley
in back of the hotel

— Me and Claude took an oath.
— What kind ofan oath?

That we‘d never shoot offthe gun
to kill nobody.

Just like them two police tonight.
I wasn‘t even aiming at ‘em.

Well, that‘s it.
I guess we‘ve told you everything.

— No, not quite.
— Huh?

Why did you two
keep pulling those holdups?

— You must‘ve figured
we‘d have those stores staked out?
— How could we figure that?

These robberies
have had a lot of publicity.

— We didn‘t know that.
— Never heard nothin‘ about it.

— It was in all the papers.
— That don‘t mean anything to either of us.

— How‘s that?
— One ofthe things me
and George have in common.

— Yeah, what‘s that?
— We never learned how to read.

[Friday Narrating]
7 7:3 7 pm.

Bill and / took the suspects downstairs
to the C entra/ jail, Felony Section,

to be booked for27 7 P. C, Robbery.

While Bill waited
to sign the booking slips,
/ started in on the paperwork

[Sighs]
Kinda tired. You?

Yeah, a little. Why don‘t you
go on home? I‘ll finish up.

— Good. Sure you don‘t mind?
— Why, no. Go ahead.

I promised Eileen I‘d help
my oldest boy with his homework.

— Is that so? What‘s he studying?
— Advanced calculus.

— Since when do you know
anything about calculus?
— I don‘t, but he doesn‘t know that.

/ work fiom his math book, joe.
He asks me questions. /ans wer him.

That’s all
Why don‘t you take off?

Well, I hate to leave you alone,joe.

Why? I can find my way out.
Go on home.

— That‘sjust it.
— What‘s it?

I keep thinking ofyou going home
to that apartment ofyours, all alone.

What brought this on?
Eileen and/ were talking
about you just this morning

Single man Iikeyou. You never think
ofsettling down, doyou?

— I‘m settled.
— No, you‘re not,joe.

Living alone like you do.
You ne ver go out, ha ve any fun.
We! I—

I mean with a real nice girl,
somebodyyou got a lot in common with.

You know, you‘re beginning to sound
like a “lonely hearts“ column— a bad one.

Now, you take tonight
/’d like to see you go out,

have a nice late dinner
at some quiet, out—of—the—way place.

Maybe a couple ofdrinks.
You know, relax, take it easy.

— Yeah, I might do that.
— Not alone,joe.

With a real nice girl.
That‘s your trouble.

— What is?
— You‘re shy.

You see a girl;
you’re afiaid to ask her.

Sure, I know a couple ofgirls.

Yeah, but none you got
anything in common with.

Well, how would you know?

You think about that,joe.
I‘ll seeyou in the morning.

—I sure am tired.
—Yeah. Rest up.

J; [ Whistling]

[Door Opens]
[Dor
[0&7 oth y ]

— Sorry about your car,joe.
— Huh?

Well, Bill called about 15 minutes ago.
He said he had to catch the tail end
ofa lodge meeting.

— Wanted to know if / ’d run you home.
/t’s right on my way
— Yea h?

— What‘s the matter with your car?
— Didn‘t Bill tell you?

— No.just said you were having
trouble with it.
— That‘s it.

—What?
— I‘m having trouble with it.

[Narrator]
The story you ha ve just seen is true.

The names were changed
to protect the innocent

On ju/y 70 and 75, trials were held..

in Department 7 82, Superior Court...

of the State of California,

in and for the County of L os Ange/es.

/n a moment, the results of those trials.

Both suspects were found guilty
on 7 7 counts of robbery in the first degree.

Robbery in the first degree is punishable...

by imprisonment for not less than five years.