Dragnet 1967 (TV Series)

D.H.Q.: The Victims (1970)

Charles Brewer: Off. Rick Myler

Quotes 

• Off. Rick Myler : [Friday and Gannon are investigating a purse snatching. The patrol car unit shows up]  . You guys detectives?

  Officer Bill Gannon : That's right. D.H.Q, night watch.

  Off. Rick Myler : I gotta get into that. These radio calls are driving me right out of my mind. Investigation, that's for me.

  Sergeant Joe Friday : How long have you been on the job now?

  Off. Rick Myler : Six months now. I've got this patrol thing well whipped. I'm ready to move into something else now, you know?

  Officer Bill Gannon : Uh, huh. Six months. That means you just got out of the academy last month, right?

  Off. Rick Myler : Yeah, that's right.

  Sergeant Joe Friday : You know it takes a good investigator to do a decent job working a radio car.

  Off. Rick Myler : Yeah, but it's all preliminary. I want to get into follow up. That's where you get the big capers.

  Sergeant Joe Friday : That's a new one on me, son. Here all the time I was under the impression that patrol officers were always in on the big capers.

  Off. Rick Myler : Here's an example: Look at us. Somebody gets their purse stolen and who gets it? Us. It's getting so routine; I'm bored half-stiff.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Rather be out tracking a bank robber, huh?

  Off. Rick Myler : That's the ticket! None of this old lady drops her purse jazz.

  Sergeant Joe Friday : Let me tell you something, youngster: Someday when you get the backs of those ears dried out, you might wake up and see just how important your job really is! Take a look at your partner over there. Sixteen years in a patrol unit, one of the best on the job. Now apparently you haven't been listening to him or you don't want to. For your information, that little old lady didn't just get her purse stolen: It was robbery! Two hoodlums kicked her senseless out on that sidewalk. You got a real large problem, son: You worry more about yourself than what goes on around you. Do me a favor, will you? Sit back and take a real hard look. Look at the victims and try to have a little empathy. It might do you some good. That's what we're all here, to serve these people. Now if you can't see it that way, maybe you ought to look for some other kind of job. I'm sure the department can spare you.

  Off. Rick Myler : I didn't mean to...

  Sergeant Joe Friday : That's right. You don't know what you mean or what you say or how you impress other people. Now you think about it. Try to learn something from your partner: He'll teach you something if you listen. He understands his job, you don't. Now do me a small favor, will you?

  Off. Rick Myler : What's that, sir?

  Sergeant Joe Friday : Do what your partner told you to do: Go out there and get that book, and then get back in here and go to school!

  Off. Rick Myler : Yes, sir.

  [Myler leaves] 

  Officer Bill Gannon : Green recruit, partner. Kind of hard on him, weren't you?

  Sergeant Joe Friday : Those two punks were kind of hard on Mrs. Anderson.

• Off. Rick Myler : [Friday is investigating a store robbery/shooting. He's talking to a rookie cop that he berated earlier for not taking his job seriously]  Do you want me to phone downtown?

  Sergeant Joe Friday : Right. I want latent prints, photos, crime lab and division detectives down here on the double. Then we'll start going over this place like a vacuum cleaner. Then start penciling the robbery report out.

  Off. Rick Myler : Yes, sir.

  Sergeant Joe Friday : Myler... you'd probably rather be out there hunting down that suspect, wouldn't you?

  Off. Rick Myler : Yes sir, I probably would. But this is important, too

  [Friday winks and nods approvingly] 

  Off. Rick Myler : .