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Nat Harris
- Nat Harris: Frankly Captain, it's not the year's hottest story, and we ran it once.
- Capt. Ralph Lee: I'll run it twice, Nat. I owe you a bigger one.
- Nat Harris: How come the LAPD is so anxious to publicize this capture of a one-armed transient who broke up a crummy bar? Come on, how come?
- Capt. Ralph Lee: Because we're just a bunch of egomaniacs.
- [Nat pauses]
- Nat Harris: All right. You'll tell me some time.
- [Captain Lee returns to his office, where waiting for him is Lieutenant Philip Gerard]
- Lt. Philip Gerard: Will he do it?
- Capt. Ralph Lee: I think so. He owes me some favors.
- Lt. Philip Gerard: Of course the wire services won't give this the kind of national play the first story got.
- Capt. Ralph Lee: All right, let's give it some juice. Call a press conference, reveal how you saw the routine arrest report on Fred Johnson, your dramatic flight out of Stafford.
- [Gerard shakes his head]
- Capt. Ralph Lee: Phil, I'm kidding. Where's your sense of humor?
- Lt. Philip Gerard: [softly] I don't know. I've lost a lot of things these last four years. Starting with a prisoner the state told me to guard.