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(*Detective Jerry Miller quote*) - "Try not to trip out there on the pavement, Malloy."

Informant, Tee Jay tells Officers Reed and Malloy about the trouble going on at the Dorado Hotel where there might've been a stabbing.

In the meantime, Adam-12 deals with a runaway child, a family dispute and some serious parking violations.

Officer Jim Reed gets his badge all twisted in a fit when he and Malloy discover a dead body in a room at the dive Hotel Dorado. All they get to do is make certain the guy is definitely dead from the three stab wounds he's suffered and then turn the investigation over to Detectives. Reed wants to stick around for the fun and excitement of investigating the dead body and whodunnit. Malloy informs him that sticking around would mean two less cops out on the mean, ruthless streets of the big city. Reed proceeds to pout about it; the Detectives get to have all the fun.

There's a good scene setting up a camraderie of pokes and jabs (kidding around) between the Detectives and Officer Malloy. Detective Sergeant Jerry Miller makes his first appearance. He'll return in a few more episodes, but it's a shame this joking professional didn't carry on through the full seven years of the series. Miller is quickly established as a terrific, very likeable character

M & R do get to have some of their own fun though. They handle a missing child case, seeing it through to the recovery of the child. This investigation takes all of about 30 seconds. Then they deal with a serial complainant who can't be bothered to listen to the lawful information the Officers politely attempt to provide him with. The viewer gets just as exasperated with this food joint parking lot avenger as Malloy and Reed do. Oddly, a few seasons later in the series, Malloy and Reed will again encounter this same complainant and pretty much play out the exact same scene. However, that second encounter will have a much better, thorough conclusion.

Then the partners are off to keep separated a feuding wife and husband. They seem to solve the problem here, but will visit this couple again to help them celebrate the upcoming Christmas. Oddly, the Officers and the couple will completely forget that they've encountered one another previously as the four pretty much play out this exact same scenario once again. It will be the same couple at the same address, but they will have remodeled their house's interior.

So both the parking lot avenger and the bickering couple will return in later, though separate episodes of Adam-12. They will all play out pretty much the same scenarios a second time. Very strange.

It makes for a happy ending and a delighted Officer Reed when he and Malloy learn that the Detectives investigation of the dead body at the Dorado Hotel, was basically solved for them via an unexpected confession. Meanwhile, Reed had experienced some heavy action on those mean, ruthless streets of L. A. when he and Malloy had gotten into a car chase. The chase leads to them ending up nabbing a couple of armed and dangerous parole violators. Reed is positively giddy with excitement with the arrests he's helped make as well as with the disappointment experienced by the Detectives in their suddenly solved case.

This episode features the first appearance of former drug user and current snitch, Teejay (Theodore Joseph Sims). Actor Richard Donner is very good in the role. He'll return in several episodes through-out the series' run. The episode also features numerous appearances of the White Over Gold Ford Mustang. You would think the two Policemen would notice that this same Mustang is very often present where ever they go. Is it possible that Malloy and Reed have a stalker with a terrific taste in automobiles? This w/g Mustang appears in many, many episodes of the show.