The Big Man, Part 2: Narcotics
Aired: Jan 19th, 1950. Sergeant Joe Friday returns from an exhausting undercover haul to launch the manhunt for Belmont, the elusive supplier behind a sprawling heroin pipeline. With federal and state narcotics agents joining forces across state lines, Friday and partner Ben Romero piece together informant testimony and a devastating mugshot comparison that lays bare the human cost of addiction. Dragnet's trademark deadpan realism drives this tense procedural as the net slowly tightens around the city's biggest narcotics target.
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