- Jake Weinhaus: That's a nice woman, Saul. She managed to say goodbye even though I told her I couldn't save her son.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: What you are about to see is a dramatization of one of the most controversial and bitterly debated police investigations preceding the supreme Court's landmark Miranda Decision of 1966. Name changes, compressions of time and composites of certain characters have been made in order to present this most significant story.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: I remember the first time I walked the beat. I felt we were doing the most wonderful job in the world. I thought of us as watchers of the city, protecting what was best in it. Some people say the community gets the police force it deserves. I say the police force is the community.