Dan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.Dan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.Dan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.
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- TriviaKathleen Mulqueen (Eileen Haley) was the longtime wife of this episode's director, Paul Guilfoyle.
- GoofsThe witness describes the stolen car as a "medium sized sedan" and Mathews orders an APB with that description. The car was a 2-door coupe.
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[first lines]
Narrator: A missing person may be tracked down because his personal history and habits are known. But when he has no predictable habits, the problem is difficult, and becomes dangerous when those unpredictable habits are mixed with uncontrollable homicidal tendencies. Haldor Mattern, an ordinary-appearing man with extraordinarily strong hands, was such a person.
[Mattern is shown walking in a wooded area. He backs into a one-inch-thick tree branch and is visibly upset. In a show of strength, he snaps the branch]
Narrator: The search for missing persons is a police function which the Highway Patrol is uniquely equipped to perform, by reason of its mobility and widespread jurisdiction.
A 50ish man escapes from a mental hospital. He is under the delusion that he is the world's greatest violinist, and his (very strong) hands make some kind of involuntary shaking motion. He is unkempt and dressed in white pants and white shirt, both of which are dirty from him traveling through the rural wilderness trying to get to the main road. He does not look like someone to whom you would want to give a ride, because he very much looks like an escapee from somewhere! But a local man picks him up and then bends his ear how he is on the way to pick up a widow woman with whom he has been corresponding to go on a long term trip. The escapee strangles the driver, takes his suit, and goes to pick up the widow woman. Will she be his next victim? Watch and find out.
Dan Matthews and his officers have been trying to find this guy since he broke out, but the willingness of ordinary people to trust a total stranger is at cross purposes with Highway Patrol's best efforts. This was not the point the episode tried to make, it was just something I noticed.
- AlsExGal
- Apr 19, 2024
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1