Adam-12 (1968–1975): Season 1, Episode 20 - Log 73: I'm Still a Cop - full transcript

At college where he's taking a class, Malloy encounters resentment from Paul Banner and other radical students because he's a policeman. After arresting students at a sit-in at President Lane's office, Pete's new Mustang is trashed. Malloy and Lane later question the student who stole a timing device, who admits giving it to Banner. Malloy suspects Banner hid a bomb on campus and forces him to divulge its location. A few days later Pete is invited to a student meeting.

(female dispatcher)
1-Adam-12, 1-Adam-12,

possible 459 suspects
there now.

1-Adam-12, 1-Adam-12,

a 415, man with a gun.

1-Adam-12, no warrant.
Lincoln, X-Ray, Ida 483.

1-Adam-12, a 415, fight group
with chains and knives.

How are you gonna
get home from here?

I'll have to get a cab,
I guess.

Ah, for the life of
a free-spending bachelor.

I'll tell your wife
you said so.

Hello.
Hi.



Classmates?

Peggy Tompkins, Jim Reed.

(Peggy)
Hi.

Peggy was my
history instructor last term.

I'm impressed.

Is that what you meant by hurrying
over for "a sandwich or something?"

See you in the morning.

I was heading
toward the cafeteria.

Great.

What happened
to your car?

The dealer had a buyer for it. He
told me he'd give me a better deal

if I traded it in
before I got my new one.

Which is tomorrow, I hope.

How's the psychology
going?



Oh, rough,
but I like it.

You know, I used to think Freud
was the only game in town.

But now, I don't know.

Miss Tompkins? What's the word
on those community seminars?

Oh, I gave Dr. Stevenson
my prospectus last week.

Don't hold your breath.

I won't. Thanks.

[people chattering]

What's this about
community seminars?

Oh. "Student unrest,"
they call it on television.

They think the curriculum is
50 years behind the times,

but the faculty is top-heavy
with traditionalists.

And even, there's racism
on the campus.

You agree with them?

Well, any campus
reflects the society

that produces the student.

And heaven knows our society
is far from being perfect.

Who is?

True. But then it's also true
that any university

does have the responsibility
to question popular opinion,

or challenge it
if necessary.

I guess so.

Do these sound like fancy problems
to a man who has to go out

and earn his daily bread?

A little.
But I guess they wouldn't

if I was young enough to be
a full-time student.

(Paul)
Miss Tompkins?

We're having a meeting tonight
at Colby Hall.

Can you come?

Mmm. I think so.
What's it for?

We'll decide that
at the meeting.

Are you faculty?

No. No.
Just a retread student.

Oh, you're welcome, too.

If you have any friends--
Are you a businessman?

No. I'm a police officer.

[scoffs]

Well, in that case,
you can forget the welcome.

Paul!

Never mind, forget it.

Uh, I better run.

Was that necessary?

Why not?

He's a pig, isn't he?

How about some coffee
before roll call?

Uh-uh. You go ahead.

We've got
about five minutes.

I said no.

Pete, what's buggin' you?

Nothin'.

Don't give me that.
The last couple of days

you've been a real drag
to work with.

If I didn't know better,
I'd swear you were getting

a little badge-heavy
out there on the street.

I don't know what
you're talking about

but I don't wanna go into it, okay?
Okay, let's skip it then.

Look, it may be your life, but
I gotta live it with you, too.

At least for
eight hours a day.

Malloy, the Lieutenant
wants to see you.

Right away.
Okay.

You wanted to see me,
Lieutenant?

Yeah, Pete, you issued
a traffic citation yesterday

to some guy named Watson.

Yes, sir. He ran a red light, almost
got himself a couple of pedestrians.

Is he beefing about it?

Not about the ticket.
What's his problem then?

Your attitude.

What exactly
did you say to him?

Nothing much.
He accepted the citation

like it was
some kind of a joke,

I guess I leaned on him a little,
trying to make him understand that

there's nothing funny about
almost killing people.

Is he making
a formal complaint?

No, actually,
he's trying to do you a favor.

I'll bet.

He said that you were
antagonistic and not too polite,

and if somebody didn't
talk to you about it,

sooner or later you'd meet up
with a real cop-hater

and that wouldn't do you
or the Department any good.

Pete, we've worked together
a long time,

and I've never known you
to have an attitude problem.

Something bothering you?

I guess I have been a little
bent out of shape lately.

Sometimes I get tired
of people treating me like

I had some kind of a social
disease just because I'm a cop.

Pete, if I didn't know better,

I'd swear you were feeling
sorry for yourself.

Now you've worked around here

[intercom buzzing]
long enough to know--

Moore.

Yeah. Right.
Right away. All right.

Sergeant.

Just got a report
that what looks like a riot

could be developing
out at the college.

I'm gonna roll on it right
away and take five units.

You take over here and redeploy
the rest of the watch.

Malloy, you and Reed will
roll with me.

Sgt. McDonald's setting up a CP headquarters
in front of the Student Union Building.

We'll stage there. Lets go.
Yes, sir.

What've you got, Mac?

We just got a report, some hotheads are
holding the President in his office.

They want him to sign
some confession.

Where's his office?
I know where it is.

Good. You run it from here. I'll
take a squad in and get him out.

We're not old enough to
vote for our leaders,

but we're old enough to
fight their wars, they say!

And we're smart enough to
attend their universities,

but not smart enough to know
what we want to learn, they say!

Now, what do we say?

(all)
No!

No! No!

Here come the pigs!

Turn your camera around.

Show the establishment that their
storm troopers are on the job!

[crowd chanting]
Oink! Oink! Oink!

Oink! Oink!

[crowd jeering]

Oink! Oink!

Pigs go home!

(student) They must've run
out of winos to beat up!

Hey, look,
it isn't a cop at all.

It's our own Pete Malloy,
a student here!

Student bull!

What did they do, Malloy, send
you to class to fink on us?

[crowd chanting] Here comes the pig!
Here comes the pig!

Here comes the pig!

[people chattering]

Hey, easy.

Reed, Malloy.

Are you all right, sir?

Yes, yes, I'm fine,
thank you.

L, uh, I could agree to
some of these demands.

I would agree to
discuss all of them.

But not like this, ladies and gentlemen.
Not like this.

They're leaving, but we're staying!
Everybody down!

[students murmuring]

I was afraid they'd do
something just like this.

What happens now?

It's up to you, sir.

(Dr. Lane) Well, I don't seem to
have much choice, Lieutenant.

Exactly what do we do?

First, you better
give this announcement.

"California Penal Code,
Section 602J

"states that every person
who willfully commits

"any trespass by entering
any lands with the intention

"of interfering with,
obstructing, or injuring

"any lawful business
or occupation carried on

is guilty of a
misdemeanor."

[students laughing]

This demonstration is interfering with
the normal operation of this college.

And as President
of this college,

I'm ordering you to leave.

Now if--if you don't leave,
you are subject to arrest...

[students chanting]
No, no, we won't go!

"...under California
Penal Code Section 602J."

[students chanting]
No, no, we won't go!

I'm requesting you to
leave immediately.

Well, what do we do now?

No, no, we won't go!
No, no, we won't go!

I am Lt. Moore of the Los
Angeles Police Department.

You have been informed that
if you remain

you will be
in violation of the law.

If you do not leave now,
you will be arrested

for violation of Penal Code
Section 602J.

Will you leave?

[students chanting] No, no, we won't go!
No, no, we won't go!

No, no, we won't go!
No, no, we won't go!

Malloy and Reed, you be the arrest team.
One at a time.

No, no, we won't go!
No, no, we won't go!

No, no, we won't go!

1-L10 to 1-L20.

Mac, we've begun
the arrests,

send three men to
the Administration building.

1-L20, roger.

Holly, take three men to report to Lt.
Moore at the Administration Building.

My name is Officer Malloy.

I know who you are, pig.

[students laughing]

Get on with it.

You've been informed that you
are in violation of the law.

If you don't leave, you will
be placed under arrest.

Will you leave now?

Man, I'm not
going anywhere.

[students agreeing]

So you're under arrest.
Wonderful.

[students booing]

[students chattering]

My name is Officer Malloy.

You've been informed that you
are in violation of the law.

If you don't leave
you'll be placed under arrest.

[students chattering]

What you got, Malloy?

Sit-ins from the college.
We busted 'em for 602J.

How's it going
out there?

It's pretty quiet right now.

But the Lieutenant said he was gonna
stick around for a while just in case.

Well, I might as well start
booking 'em.

Looks like it's gonna be
a long day.

Well, better you than me.

[students screaming]

All right, can I have your
attention for a minute?

The sooner we get started, the
sooner you'll get out of here.

So you tell me
when you're ready to listen.

[yelling stops]
Go ahead, Malloy. Live!

Make your speech.

I Will book you
one at a time

into the jail section
next door.

Then, those of you
who want to, can post bail.

Who wants to go first?

[students scoffing]

He must be kidding.

No volunteers, huh?

Okay, Banner, we might as well
start with you. Let's go.

Having fun, Malloy?

You may be a big man
in the station here,

but you better not come back
to the campus alone.

[students cheering]

They sure weren't
too friendly.

Nope.

By the way,
when's your next class?

Tomorrow.

Think they'll cool off by then?
No.

I just hope I do.

[car horn honking]

Hey look,
it's the cop in disguise!

Come on, fuzz.
Let my people go-go.

Move it, pig.

[students jeering]

(Peggy)
Pete?

Do you mind if I talk to you
for a minute?

Why should I mind?
Here, sit down.

Well, what do you
want to talk about?

I find it difficult to know
where to begin.

It's just that, uh,

well, everybody seems
to have written you off

as a complete fink
after what happened yesterday.

Now wait a minute, wait a minute.
What do you mean "everybody"?

Did they hold a referendum?

Conduct a public
opinion survey?

You know what I mean.

I know what you think
you mean.

To you "everybody" is that little
group of half-baked revolutionaries

you run around with.

Well, Peg, they're a long way
from being everybody.

All right,
they maybe small now,

but it's just possible that
they speak for the future.

Maybe. But it's just
as possible they don't.

So let's drop that, huh?

Now what was it
you started to ask me?

I just wanted to hear your side
of what happened here yesterday.

I don't agree
with what you--

The police did.

I just, uh, want to understand
why it happened.

Well, Peg, there isn't
very much to understand.

A group of students decided
to violate the law,

so they were arrested.

I don't think
it's that simple.

It's just that simple.

Look, these kids think they
have some kind of a grievance.

Well, maybe they do,
but they don't have the faith,

or the patience,
or whatever it takes,

to try to work things out.

So they decide to force
a confrontation.

To dramatize the issue.

They find some law and violate
it and get themselves arrested.

You might even say
we did 'em a favor.

That's just it.

I mean, why do you have to make
such a big thing about it?

Why can't you
just ignore them?

Because if we just
ignore them,

they'd find some other way
to force the confrontation.

Maybe it wouldn't have been
the end of the world

if we'd let them
block that hallway,

but where do you
draw the line?

When they close the school?

Or when they burn it down?

I guess I understand
what you're trying to say.

But, I mean, really,

did you have to drag them off
to jail like that?

No, they could have
come peacefully.

Voluntarily.

They wanted to be
dragged off to jail like that

'cause it's part
of their thing.

Besides, they figure it makes
for better television coverage.

Even so, I mean, it's not like
they're really criminals.

Why not?

Because they're involved in
some kind of social protest?

W-What--what does the motive
have to do with it?

Look, suppose there was
a bottle thrown yesterday

and it had killed somebody,

would they be any less dead than if
they had been shot during a robbery?

No, but still--

But still, the idea of force
bugs you, huh?

Well, Peg, what do you want us to do?
Make an announcement:

"You're all under arrest.
Go directly to jail.

Do not pass 'Go.'
Do not collect $200?"

Now, what if they don't wanna
go to jail?

Very few people do, you know.
What happens then?

No, doesn't work that way,
Peg.

If there's gonna be a law, somebody
has to be around to enforce it.

And when you get right down
to the nitty-gritty,

that means putting people
in jail.

By force, if necessary.

That's quite a speech,
Pete.

I didn't know cops were so
articulate about their work.

Well, Peg, there's probably
a lot of things

you don't know
about cops.

Hey, I gotta get going.
I'm gonna be late.

I'll walk you over.

You know, Pete, I'd really like
to continue this conversation.

Maybe I'm learning
something.

I might even let you in
on the fact

that we're not
exactly perfect, either.

Like human?
Like human.

Your new car.

Yeah.

What have you got, Malloy?

Crime report, Lieutenant.
Malicious Mischief.

Your car, Pete?

That's right.

Seems like some of
my fellow students

kind of resented
getting busted the other day,

so they decided to tell me about
it in large, capital letters.

You insured?
Yeah, fortunately.

Pete, what you do
with your private life

is none of my business,
up to a point.

But don't you think you're asking for
trouble taking courses out there?

There are other colleges,
you know.

Maybe, just happens that
that's the one I'm going to.

Let me ask you something,
are you doing it

to get an education
or to make some kind of point?

I don't know.
Maybe a little bit of both.

[people chattering]

Do you mind?

[sighing]

I heard about what happened
to your car. I'm sorry.

I hope you don't believe
that I know who did it.

Your guess is
as good as mine.

I don't know, Professor.

Maybe your guess is better than mine.
You wanna try?

Ah, there's no point,
really.

It's no secret that my sympathies
are with the students.

All the students?

Those that care about the
world they live in, yes.

What I'm trying
to suggest

is that your being here
gives them a false target.

The police represent
the evil in our society,

they are not evil
in themselves.

Thanks.

I'm not being personal.
That's the point.

The students' anger is
being directed against you

instead of the ideas
you represent.

Can you understand that?

I'm not sure.

I'm suggesting to you
that it might be better

for all concerned
if you dropped out of class

and took the next semester
at some other school.

[laughing]

Well, I didn't realize that
I had said something funny.

Excuse me, Professor,
it's just that you're a fool.

Listen here, Malloy--
No, it's your turn.

You listen.

You like to start the fire, but you
don't want anybody to get burned.

And you like to stir 'em up, but
if a student gets arrested,

or my property gets destroyed,

you don't want any of that
to be your fault, do you?

I don't need a cop to remind
me about my responsibilities!

That's better, Professor.
Now I recognize you.

What does he want
to see me about, did he say?

I don't know. He made a
point of not telling me.

But he did seem worried.

A timing device
has been stolen

from the electrical lab.

The lab instructor
is certain who took it,

but, well, I guess I'm a
little gun-shy, Mr. Malloy,

after what happened
to your car yesterday,

and I thought, perhaps,
it might be a good idea

if you'd inspect it rather
thoroughly before you drove it home.

My car's not here, sir.
It's being repaired.

Well, thank goodness for that.

Maybe not, Dr. Lane. If they're
not after me, who are they after?

I think we better
phone this in.

Uh, Mr. Malloy, I--l appreciate
your experience in these matters,

but, uh, I must tell you, I'd
rather not have the police

or any other outside authority
on the campus

unless it was
absolutely necessary.

You better find out if it is necessary.
And in a hurry.

Yes, I know.

Good place to start would be with
the person that took the device.

I didn't steal it.

I just wanted to try
some experiments at home.

Well, would we find the device
at your home now?

Well, Sally,
would we?

I don't know.
Maybe I lost it.

What is this,
the Inquisition?

We don't have to
answer his questions?

Paul, they're
my questions too.

Will somebody
please fill me in?

This young lady
took the timing device.

It can be used for
a lot of innocent things,

but it can also be used
to trigger a bomb.

A bomb!
You're crazy!

I hope so.

Sally, I don't know
about him anymore,

but you wouldn't go along
with such a stunt, would you?

If anything does go off,

we can analyze
what triggered it.

You know that,
don't you, Sally?

I didn't know
what he wanted it for.

He just asked me
to get it.

Who?

I don't know
what she's talking about.

Paul!
Where did you plant it?

Oink, oink.

Paul, for crying out loud.

If you had such a nutty
idea, call it off!

Call the world off
and it's a deal!

The entrance to
the Administration Building.

He told me there'd be a meeting
later, right on campus,

but to keep away
from the Ad. entrance,

and tell everybody else
to keep away, too.

To keep away at what time?
5:30.

We got 10 minutes. Dr. Lane, as soon as
you clear the building, call the police.

Tell 'em, bomb squad. All
right, everybody out of here.

Not you.
What do you mean?

Where did you plant it?

Okay, where is it?

Oh, no, buddy-boy. Right here's
where it's at for you now.

You'll get us both killed!
Not me, you!

You'll get us killed if you
don't tell me where you put it.

Even if you make it
and I don't,

you'll still be up
for murder one.

Now I have it 5:26.
How about you?

What do you care?

What do you care
if the whole school blows up?

Why get yourself
killed for it?

Whether or not I care
isn't the point. It's my job.

It's 5:27.

The fire extinguisher!
Let me go!

Let me take it down.

[grunts]

[sighing]

I took care that no one...

Nobody'd be around,
get hurt.

I wanted to scare 'em,
that's all.

Just to scare 'em.

They'll be scared all right: the
school, the students, everybody.

So I guess you got
what you wanted.

Now all you gotta do
is pay for it.

What'll happen
to Paul Banner?

First offense.
Nobody got hurt.

If he's lucky
he'll get probation.

Miss Tompkins. We're having
a meeting at Colby Hall

in an hour to discuss
another protest rally.

Malloy, some of us think it might
be a good idea if you were there.

I'm still a cop, Carlton.

We figured that.
But you're a student, too.

Might help to
see both sides.

Are you sure you're not just
looking for a whipping boy, Jack?

(Carlton) No. And we're
not hoodlums, either.

There's things here we don't like
and we're gonna have our say.

You showed us something the
other day and we respect it.

Maybe we can show you
something you respect.

I'll be there.

Good.

Well, it's nice to be wanted.

Didn't you tell me you had to be
on duty at 5:00 in the morning?

Don't remind me.