Dragnet 1967 (TV Series)

The LSD Story (1967)

Jack Webb: Sgt. Joe Friday

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• Friday : You're pretty high and far out. What kind of kick are you on, son?

• Philip Jamison : He just kept saying he wanted to get further out.

  Friday : [Checks Blue Boy's pulse]  Well, he made it. He's dead.

• Sergeant Joe Friday : The subject was booked under Section 601: in danger of leading an idle, dissolute, or immoral life.

• Officer Bill Gannon : [Friday and Gannon pull Benjie's head out of the ground]  Stand still.

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : [they begin to frisk him]  Reality, man, reality! I could see the center of the earth! Purple flame down there with a pilot light! All the way down! Purple flame down there and a pilot light!

  Officer Bill Gannon : He's clean, Joe, except for these.

  [holds out sugar cubes] 

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : The pilot light of all creation and reality!

  Friday : What's your name, son?

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : [tracing letters in the air]  You can see my name if you look hard enough.

  Friday : Come on now, what's your name?

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : Don't you know my name? My name's Blue Boy!

  Officer Bill Gannon : What do you think, Joe? Cartwheels?

  Friday : [Blue Boy appears to not be paying attention]  No, sugarcubes. I'll bet you he's been dropping that acid we've been hearing about. All right son, you're under arrest. It's our duty to advise you of your constitutional rights. You have the right to remain silent and any statement you make may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to the presence of an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed before any questioning. Do you understand that?

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : [suddenly alert]  There I am! I'm over there now! I'm not here anymore. My hair's green and I'm a tree!

• Officer Bill Gannon : You ever see anybody this torn up?

  Friday : Not unless he's strung out on sugar cubes.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Yeah.

  Friday : All right, let's take him to Central Receiving.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Come on, son.

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : Even if your body does die, your mind will live on.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Yeah, we know. Come on.

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : You're the dirty disbelievers! The evil disbelievers! Evil! EVIL! EVIL!

  [Benjie jump-attacks Friday, and the two officers work to subdue him] 

  Friday : All right! Come on, son, settle down!

  [they handcuff him] 

  Benjie 'Blue Boy' Carver : Brown, blue, yellow! Green! Green, orange, red! Red! Red! Red! I can hear them, I can hear them all!

  Friday : Yeah, sure you can, kid. Let's go back to the office. We'll all listen.

  [they walk him to the car] 

• Ben Riddle : What do you fellows figure he is going to put in all them capsules?

  Friday : A lot of misery.

• Mrs. Carver : Would you tell him something when you find him?

  Friday : What's that, Mrs. Carver?

  Mrs. Carver : Tell him we still love him.

• Mrs. Carver : You trying to say my boy's a drug addict? Now look, I heard about this LSD, and it is my understanding it hasn't done anyone any harm.

  Friday : If you could've seen your boy a couple of hours ago, I doubt you'd feel that way. Now look at him. Does he always go around painted up like that? Half his face blue, half yellow?

  Mrs. Carver : I thought you men were supposed to be experts with young people. It's probably a high school initiation or something. The boys are always doing some silly thing or another. Letting their hair grow long, or dressing up like those English singers. Here, Benjie. Wipe your face, and let's go home.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : [Aerial footage of Los Angeles]  This is the city, Los Angeles, California. It's a fine place to enjoy life.

  [an amusement park is shown] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : There are places reserved just for kids, when they're young and feel young.

  [Contemporary hot spots on LA's Sunset Strip are shown, including "It's... Boss", "The Scene", and "The Strip Combers"] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : Places they go when they're young and feel old, beginning the big search for something that often doesn't exist in the places they look for it.

  [Places of worship are shown] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : They might find it here, or here, or maybe here.

  [Griffith Observatory is shown] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : They could try looking here.

  [UCLA is shown] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : Their search might end with a college degree.

  [a single, white, drug capsule is shown] 

  Sgt. Joe Friday : One thing's sure: whatever they're looking for cannot be found in a #5 capsule. When they try, that's where I come in. I carry a badge.

• Sgt. Joe Friday : Murray also gave us one last frightening fact: LSD is so potent that a single pound of the preparation could turn every person in Los Angeles County into a total psychotic. The population of the county? Seven million people.

• Friday : [Narrating]  Wednesday, October 5th. Six months went by. LSD users were increasing at an alarming rate, particularly among juveniles. By now, the users had established their own language. The drug itself was now called "the ticket", "the ghost", "the beast", "the chief", "the hawk", or simply "25". Users now referred to themselves as "acid heads" or "acid freaks". A "trip" still referred to having taken the drug, but now, more often the words "a bum trip" and "freak-out" were being heard, meaning a bad LSD experience. The pusher or supplier became known as the "travel agent".