Adam-12 (TV Series)

Log 105: Elegy for a Pig (1970)

Martin Milner: Officer Pete Malloy

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• [last lines] 

  Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over at the conclusion of Porter's burial]  Tonight's newspaper will report it all. Old news. From now on, she'll have to open her own doors. Carry her own troubles. And her children's. Alone. From now on, it's just the three of them, instead of just the four. And if there must be a final postscript to all of this, then let it here be noted: the coffin will soon be buried. He will be forgotten except by a very few. Out of sight, out of mind. And strangely enough, in view of current custom, no one will raise a placard to denounce his senseless murder. No one will raise indignant cries of protest at the shedding of his blood. No one will march in anger because of his death.

  Announcer : [voice over]  Elegy for a pig.

• Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over]  Telling a policeman's wife she's a widow is a job nobody wants. I never tried as hard for anything. He was a friend. It had to be me... it had to be me.

• Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over]  Officer Tom Porter. One of six thousand. An ordinary policeman. But he was more to me. He was a friend. And now he was dead.

• Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over as Tom, Pete, and Marge get out of a car with Pete holding a newborn baby]  Tom never made the same mistake once. He did everything right. Two years before, Marge first increased the census. Tom was good at addition. This time they drew a little girl. I helped deliver the package.

  Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over continues as Reed approaches holding a box which he hands to Tom]  Reed's attention span was improving by the minute. He remembered the cigars.

  [they all enter the house, happy] 

  Officer Pete Malloy : [voice over continues as the scene cuts to police station]  Roll call. PM watch. About to get underway.