A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)

A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise) is the first episode of the tv series Police Squad! it was written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Act II: Yankees One
2 Goofs
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

The episode stars with a young bank teller^[2] named Sally Decker (played by Kathryn Leigh Scott), killing her boss and then robbing the bank where she works, then she plants evidence to make it look like a dead customer did it. We then see Frank parking his car in front of the bank, stepping out of his car, and then talks to Ed about the crime scene. Ed tells Frank that the victim, Ralph Twice, is a good family man with no prior records. They both enter the bank to question Ms. Decker, who makes a really complicated statement in which she makes clear that the customer shot Mr. Twice twice. Frank leaves to go to Ted Olson, the scientist, Ted tells Frank that if the customer stood where Sally said he stood the bullet should have penetrated deeper, Ted proves this by shooting into Barbara Walters videotapes. After leaving Ted, Ed and Frank go to a place called Little Italy to question Ralph Twice's widow ("We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then"). She tells them that Ralph didn't have any enemies. No further progress was made in the next ten hours, the following morning Frank reports back to Police Squad. While Sally is giving a formal statement, Ed and Frank receive the lab reports, brought to them by a new character named Al. The lab report says that Ralph had to stand face to face with his murderer.

[edit] Act II: Yankees One

Act II: Yankees One

Frank tries to discover the position in which Mr. Twice and the customer stood, by using real people. After several hours Frank has a couple of interesting theories, but still nothing conclusive. Frank needs answers, and he knows where he can get them. Johnny the Snitch. Johnny tells Frank that Sally used to be Joe Surlov's girlfriend, she got mixed up in a big scam. Joe Surlov leads Frank to Dr. Zubatski, an orthodontist who treated Sally Decker once. Sally owed money to Dr. Zubatski, but she paid him in full (with the money she stole from the bank). Frank calls Sally and says that he is Dr. Zubatski, by blackmailing her Frank has a date with her. When Frank meets Sally, Sally tries to run away, but Frank tells her what he has discovered. Before Sally was Sally, she was Babs Caltrane, a notorious gun runner in Memphis, Frank takes off Sally's wig and shows that Sally is indeed Babs Caltrane; however, he then continues and says before that she was a brunette hitman named Zazubitz, and pulls off yet another wig. Sally runs away and hides behind some Trash cans, Frank hides behind a bench. Frank and Sally (or whatever her name is now) start shooting at each other, we later see that they are really close to each other, a joke that was re-used in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.

Just when Sally tries to run away, Ed, Sergeant Take-Her-Away and Sergeant Booker arrive and arrest Sally.

[edit] Goofs

During the Epilogue when Frank tells Al he has something on the side of his mouth, it can be seen that Al actually spits out the piece of banana he had just eaten^[2].

In this episode, Frank introduces himself to Sally Decker as Captain Drebin.