- [first lines]
- Narrator: The day-by-day job of law enforcement agencies is the protection of the public and crime prevention. But on those occasions when trouble does flare up, they must meet violence with violence, gunfire with gunfire. Such a flareup took place last May eighth, in the small town of Marionville. As a gunfight was taking place on West Marion Avenue in the industrial section, a secretary, hearing the shots, called the Highway Patrol.
- [last lines]
- [Chief Mathews retrieves from his patrol car a package with stolen money]
- Chief Dan Mathews: Mrs. Jordan, do you mind if I open this?
- Gloria Jordan: Yes, I do mind. That's federal mail.
- Chief Dan Mathews: Oh, it is? Let's go talk to the postal inspector.
- [Sergeant Williams opens the passenger's door of the patrol car and places Mrs. Jordan in the back seat. As he gets into the back seat through the driver's door, Chief Mathews admonishes him]
- Chief Dan Mathews: Oh, Williams, you're out of uniform.