Dragnet 1967 (TV Series)

The Shooting (1967)

Jack Webb: Sgt. Joe Friday

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• Friday : [brandishing a shotgun]  Flinch, and you'll be chasing your head down Fifth Street!

• [Joe and Bill enter an interrogation room bearing the sawed-off shotgun with which Roger Kensington and Harry Johnson shot Officer Dave Roberts] 

  Roger Kensington : Look here, Harry, they sent in the first team.

  Sgt. Joe Friday : [tossing the shotgun on the table for effect]  All right, tunnel mouth! Let's all save time! Last April a police officer was shot at Olive and Main, and we think you and that shotgun did it.

  Harry Johnson : [sarcastically]  He scare you, Roger? He scares me.

  Roger Kensington : He makes me sick! You've been rousting me since I was a kid, you and every other cop from here to Kansas City, year after year!

  Officer Bill Gannon : Why- if it wasn't for prison food, you'd starve to death. You haven't been out of the Joint for more than two or three years in your entire life.

  Roger Kensington : I'll be out again in twenty-six months, brown eyes! Stay home nights!

  Sgt. Joe Friday : You listen to me, punk! I've handled *jaywalkers* who were tougher than you.

  Roger Kensington : When I get out, I'm gonna waste you!

  Harry Johnson : Hey, there's no reason to work up a sweat, Roger. They told us our rights, we don't even have to *talk* to them.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : All right, I'll talk to you Johnson- You were born in Harlan, Kentucky. Your father was a house painter, killed in the war. Your mother and your sister brought you out here. You went to school in Torrance. You got expelled for throwing a punch at your math teacher. The army took you during the Korean War. They didn't want you: they shoved you out on a Section 8! For seven years now, you've either been *in* jail, or just getting *out*!

  Harry Johnson : [sarcastically]  I *do* hope you'll write my *book*!

  Sgt. Joe Friday : [continues]  Now your buddy, he's really big-time; Three states want him for parole violations- two for armed robbery, and one for statutory rape, that's in Kansas.

  Officer Bill Gannon : You remember her name, don't you, Kensington?

  Roger Kensington : [sarcastically]  What if I don't?

  Officer Bill Gannon : You should-! She was your sister's daughter!

  [Johnson looks at Kensington with surprise] 

• Harry Johnson : [upon seeing Officer Roberts alive screams at Kensington]  You told me he died!

  Roger Kensington : He should of!

  Harry Johnson : You hear him that shotgun belongs to him not me!

  Roger Kensington : Shut up!

  Sgt. Joe Friday : I'll tell them to roll the tape.

  Dave Roberts : [Friday and Roberts leave the room]  You know something Joe

  Sgt. Joe Friday : What's that Dave?

  Dave Roberts : I still don't remember them.

  Sgt. Joe Friday : You don't have to now Dave!

• Harry Johnson : You going to let me wipe this soap of my face.

  Sgt. Joe Friday : Why? You look good.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : [Holding the shotgun]  Officer Dave Roberts approached and told you to get out! Then, Kensington, you broke out into a rash of real bravery! You swung this shotgun out from your coat, pointed it at Roberts' middle, pulled the trigger, and slammed two hundred and seventy-six pellets into his stomach! Johnson, you dug the car into gear and drove off, leaving that officer with his life draining out into the gutter!

  Roger Kensington : That's a good story, cop, but you need a witness, and that you ain't got!

  Sgt. Joe Friday : Ain't we?

  [Friday tosses the gun onto the table, and opens the door to the interrogation room. There stands Officer Dave Roberts, in uniform. The astonished suspects incriminate each other]