- [first lines]
- Narrator: When on duty, there is not a moment in a Highway Patrol officer's life that he is not prepared to make a decision. Some decisions come directly from the manual, others from repeat experiences. But the split-second decision of when to shoot, take a life, is his alone. In the early morning of November 19th, Patrolman Mark Reynolds was faced with such a decision.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: All right, Mark, you can wrap it up. When you get the highway cleaned up, ride back in with Blake. I'm going in to make a report.
- Patrolman Mark Reynolds: Report?
- Dan Mathews: Yeah, on the suspect. What's his name again, uh? Oh, John Bennett. It slipped my mind for a minute.
- [Mathews walks to a lit flare on the road, takes a sheet of paper from his jacket pocket, and places the paper on the flare to burn it. He then turns to Patrolman Reynolds]
- Dan Mathews: It's your resignation.
- Broderick Crawford: [frequently used sign off line] The Highway Patrol story next week is a very unusual one. We hope you'll be with us. Until then remember, that clowns at the circus are real funny, but on the highway they're murder!. This is Broderick Crawford saying see you next week.