- The Highway Patrol helicopter travels to a remote and mountainous area to airlift a critically injured kidnap victim and aid in the capture of the kidnappers.
- Kidnap victim Jerry Watts is being held in a decrepit mountain cabin by his two kidnappers. After a game warden discovers the three in the cabin, he leaves to advise the Highway Patrol. When Officers Dorsey and Garvey investigate, Jerry takes a chance on an escape is and is critically injured. The armed kidnappers remain in the cabin,but are in position to foil rescue attempts. Dan Mathews and Dr. Simmons travel to the scene in the Highway Patrol helicopter in the hope of airlifting Jerry to safety. When the kidnappers fire on the helicopter, Dan orders Officers Dorsey and Garvey repositioned to fire continuously upon the cabin while the helicopter is used to collapse the decaying roof of the old cabin in order to force the two felons out into the open.—Sam Spear
- Synopsis - Kidnap Copter Two kidnappers have a son at a remote shelter, have notified the parents of the ransom, while Chief Mathews tells Sgt. Morse he is on the way to try in talking them out of paying the money and let the HP do their job getting their son back and the criminals arrested.
The game warden stops by to check the licenses of the kidnappers dressed as hunters, he notices the son is not dressed for hunting and calls the suspicious situation into the HP. Dan dispatches patrolmen Dorsey and Garvey to the shed area where the game warden meets them.
The two HP patrolmen shoot it out with the kidnappers, the escaping son is shot down, one of the kidnappers is shot in the leg, the HP pair split, Officer Garvey calls for help getting the son to a hospital while Officer Dorsey stays with the young victim.
The two kidnappers are in the shelter, armed, one wounded, they are able to pin down the wounded victim, a helicopter is called, the location is 200 miles from headquarters. Copter has the doctor, the pilot and Dan at the rescue while Garvey and Dorsey hold the kidnappers in the shack.
Negotiating with the kidnappers is for naught when the kidnappers shoot at the copter, patrolman Garvey shoots at the shed. It is determined the criminals have to be caught before any further attempt is made at rescuing the victim; Dan's plan is to land direct on the shed, hoping it will collapse. Dorsey and Garvey shoot at the shack while the copter continues to push on the roof of the shack.
The strategy worked, the shack began to cave, the criminals exited, Dorsey and Garvey cuff both kidnappers as they exited. Dan helps get the victim on the gurney for the copter trip to the hospital with the doctor and pilot.
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