A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)
| "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)" |
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| Police Squad! episode | |
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Frank discovers who Sally really is
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by |
Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker |
| Written by |
Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker |
| Original air date | March 4, 1982 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Lorne Greene (special guest star) |
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Lorne Greene (special guest star)
Barbara Tarbuck as Mrs. Twice
Terry Wills as Jim Johnson
Terrence Beasor as Dr. Roland Zubatsky
Russell Shannon as Ralph Twice
Jimmy Briscoe as Cop
Kathryn Leigh Scott as Sally Decker
A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise) is the first episode of the television series Police Squad!. It was written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.
Tonight's Special Guest Star Lorne Greene is introduced during the opening credits. Greene, wearing a trench coat, is thrown from a speeding car. He lands on the ground, then rolls over, wincing in pain and clutching his chest where a knife handle is protruding. He promptly expires in Police Squad! guest star fashion, setting the precedent for the immediate death of all special guest stars in the series.
The episode starts inside the office of the Acme Credit Union. A young credit union teller named Sally Decker (played by Kathryn Leigh Scott) is arguing with her boss, Jim Johnson, over a loan of money. Sally needs the money to pay a debt to her orthodontist. Johnson declines, saying that due to an upcoming audit, he has to balance the credit union's books and can't loan her any more money. The argument ends as customer Ralph Twice, recently laid off from the Lorman Tire Company, arrives to cash his last payroll check. During the extended identification process, Sally devises a scheme to solve her money problems: she shoots her boss and Mr. Twice, making it look like Twice was trying to rob the credit union by planting a gun on him. She pilfers the cash drawer and then begins screaming to attract attention.
We then see Frank park his car in front of the credit union, avoiding an absurdly long stretcher removing a body of one of the victims as he enters. He inquires of his boss, Ed Hocken, about the case. Ed tells Frank that the alleged robber, Ralph Twice, is a good family man with no prior record. They both question Sally, who makes a really complicated statement (in the manner of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine) in which she makes clear that Twice shot Jim Johnson twice, and then she shot Twice once. As Frank and Ed depart, Sally continues sobbing falsely, believing that they have bought her story.
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