- [first lines]
- Narrator: For all law enforcement agencies, protection of life is their most important job. Of all crimes, the crime of murder is the most shocking and most ruthless. During February of last year, two men arrived by train in Lafayette, a small town of just under five-thousand people. The purpose of their visit - murder.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: Sorry, Mrs. Curran. I'm gonna have to take you in. That was attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
- Mary Curran: But you got him. You got the supervisor.
- Dan Mathews: Well, that happens to be our job. I wish people would learn that. I'm sorry. C'mon.