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- Narrator: Across the nation, men of the Highway Patrol remain constantly alert to crime, danger, and violence. They know that even in a lonely, isolated service station, tragedy can strike hard and fast. To a sailor and his girl, there was no sign here of impending disaster - nothing to warn them that in a matter of moments, they would be trapped in a nightmare.
- Dan Mathews: Now, let me have that again, Doc.
- Dr. Ronald Kincaid: Mrs. Hoffman just told me. The child was choking, and a young sailor got it to breathing again. To do it, he breathed in the baby's mouth.
- Dan Mathews: Well - go on, go on, go on!
- Dr. Ronald Kincaid: I'm almost sure the child has epidemic meningitis. It's highly contagious. I've just inoculated Mrs. Hoffman.
- Dan Mathews: You say the sailor breathed into the kid's mouth. Where's the sailor now?
- Dr. Ronald Kincaid: Mrs. Hoffman doesn't know. She doesn't even know his name.
- Dan Mathews: C'mon, Doc - tick it off for me fast!
- Dr. Ronald Kincaid: Well, the sailor drove up for gas, he saw the trouble and he got the child breathing again. Then, he drove off without even giving his name.
- Dan Mathews: What are his chances?
- Dr. Ronald Kincaid: Unless he receives inoculation within a matter of hours, he has no chance at all.