Dragnet – Big Meet. ep72, 501026

Narcotics detail. A narcotics gang is in your city, they’ve made their contacts, and are ready to do business.

Staked out for two weeks, listening on surveillance equipment has Ben Romero soured on the detail. Will the wait pay off with eavesdropping on a drug deal? What kind of connections, product, and code words are passed. Enough information is gathered to nab a suspect.
Plans to take down the ring leader, Skully, are made. Are contacts isolated enough to not recognize MacMillan, if Joe was to stand in for him? In voiceover, Joe describes the need for drugs to be present, and other conditions that need to happen before a take down can be done. Contact is made, but will Friday slip in under the radar?

To keep the big time gang on the hook, Joe needs to come up with $10k. In the hotel room, all the ingredients for a good arrest seem to come together. Friday plays his undercover well, but the skeptical gang leaders are cautious. The big meeting takes place on a remote hill top where cops can be spotted, and evidence of drugs covered. The arrest will be touchy, and dangerous. Will Ben make it in time?