- Reed starts the day with filing a report on being conned out of $300.00 by a door to door salesman who modifies a $30.00 check Reed gives him. Officer Ed Wells gives Reed a hard time about being too trusting which is further embellished when Reed buys a day old newspaper from a young boy. On the street they are faced with a fight by two men over a marijuana plant. It is followed by a woman running to a bank for a $1000 ransom for her young baby being held by a mentally unstable and armed man. Finally they are called to a home where a hysterical woman tells them a man in a light colored shirt shot at her. Reed and Wells catch a man fitting the description in the backyard but the man says he is innocent. Reed wants to see if the woman can identify him but Wells takes him to the station under arrest. After the woman calmed down she told Mally the man who shot at her was her drunk husband who shows up again threatening her and Reed. Wells is then faced with a chewing out by Sgt. MacDonald for making the false arrest giving Reed some revenge and smiles.—Anonymous
- Prior to roll call, Reed is missing from the locker room and is seen at the report desk, despite he and Malloy having submitted all their necessary reports at the end of their last shift. The officers learn the reason is that Reed has been the victim of theft, he being swindled out of $270 from a person he trusted. This ironic twist of fate is fodder for Officer Wells, who won't stop from ribbing Reed about being too naive to be a good police officer. Reed, who quietly seethes at Wells' criticisms, nonetheless hopes he never gets as cynical as Wells. On patrol, Malloy and Reed stop a frantic looking woman, who is distressed but won't divulge her problem. After they see that she is heading to the bank which has just closed, she finally breaks down and tells them her problem: her brother, who has just escaped from a mental hospital, is holding her infant son hostage at her house for $1,000 in return, he threatening to kill the boy otherwise. As other officers get involved, they have to approach the house carefully, especially as they have no lines of sight inside since all the curtains are drawn. They have to choose what they deem the best of several options to get both out of the house without incident. Next they are called to a house where there were reports of shots fired. They attend to the scene with Adam-43, which includes Wells. The frightened Latina woman inside the house reported that a Hispanic man in beige pants was the shooter. When Reed and Wells find such a man outside, Reed believes the seemingly scared man's story of his innocence, whereas Wells believes Reed is once again being naive. Further information from the woman inside will show if Reed or Wells' view on policing is correct this time.—Huggo
- Reed (Kent McCord) is the victim of a door-to-door salesman who altered a check and successfully robbed him of $300. Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) needles Reed about his trusting nature over the course of several shifts. After busting two "friends" arguing over a potted marijuana plant, the boys help save a baby being held hostage by a mentally ill offender. Later, they respond to a call from a young woman who claims she was shot at through the window of her home and Wells promptly arrests the wrong man, against Reed's caution. The woman reports that the shooter was her husband and when he returns home, Reed and Maloy (Martin Milner) have to deal with the armed, drunk man who claims he still wants to kill his wife and threatens to shoot Reed. Wells is called on the carpet by the sergeant for the incorrect arrest.
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