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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the burglary division. Emile Hartman, a fur salesman has called about a large amount of high quality furs have been stolen. When looking into leads, an insurance salesman contacts them about a group of people who called wanting to sell high quality furs. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch the thieves.


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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the burglary division. Emile Hartman, a fur salesman has called about a large amount of high quality furs have been stolen. When that were stolen from his store vault. While looking into leads, an insurance salesman contacts them about a group of people who called wanting to sell high quality furs. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch the thieves.




* DestroyTheEvidence: The thieves try to do this on the coats by removing the labels which show Emile Hartman's name. However, one of the thieves points out that they wouldn't catch fire.

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* BluffTheImposter: Sinclair, the crook sent to meet with the buyers, tries to pull this on Friday to make sure he's not a cop. Friday tells him to knock off the "cute" stuff and get to the point.
* DestroyTheEvidence: The thieves try to do this on the coats by removing the labels which show Emile Hartman's name. However, one of the thieves points out that they the synthetic material wouldn't catch fire.



* FashionShow: Emile does this for his customers by using his other workers to come out and display the fur. He also does this when giving Friday and Gannon a crash course on quality of furs.
* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: The buyers use this excuse as to why they have the furs when Friday and Gannon go undercover. However, before going under cover, Emile points that anyone who will deal with them will have to spend a lot of money to dye the furs to offload them.

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* FashionShow: Emile does this for his customers by using his other workers models to come out and display the fur. He also does this when giving Friday and Gannon a crash course on quality of furs.
* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: The buyers use this excuse as to why they have the furs when Friday and Gannon go undercover. However, before going under cover, Emile points that anyone who will deal with them will have to spend a lot of money to dye dye, restyle and recut the furs to offload them.



* PoliceAreUseless: More so Emile's security guard and alarm system. The thieves broke into the building thru the only window that didn't have an alarm. The security guard was caught by luck and told to close his eyes so he didn't get a good look at the thieves.

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* PoliceAreUseless: More so Emile's security guard and alarm system. The thieves broke into the building thru through the only window that didn't have an alarm. The security guard was caught by luck and told to close his eyes so he didn't get a good look at the thieves.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:The thieves try to do this on the coats by removing the labels which show Emile Hartman's name. However, Sinclair points out that they wouldn't catch fire.]]

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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:The The thieves try to do this on the coats by removing the labels which show Emile Hartman's name. However, Sinclair one of the thieves points out that they wouldn't catch fire.]]



* NoHeroDiscount: [[spoiler: Emile wants to give Friday, Gannon and Policewoman Miller a free coat for recovering all of his fur. However, everyone points out to him that police are not allowed to accept gifts for their job. Very much TruthInTelevision.]]

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* NoHeroDiscount: [[spoiler: Emile wants to give Friday, Gannon and Policewoman Miller a free coat for recovering all of his fur. However, everyone points out to him that police are not allowed to accept gifts for their job. Very much TruthInTelevision.]]



* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely her uniform looks in the coat.]]

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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[spoiler:Emile Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely her uniform looks in the coat.]]
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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[Spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely her uniform looks in the coat.]]

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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[Spoiler:Emile [[spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely her uniform looks in the coat.]]
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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[Spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely

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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[Spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely her uniform looks in the coat.]]

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* NoHeroDiscount: [[spoiler: Emile wants to give Friday, Gannon and Policewoman Miller a free coat for recovering all of his fur. However, everyone points out to him that police are not allowed to accept gifts for their job. Very much TruthInTelevision.]]



* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink.

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* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink. [[Spoiler:Emile also says this to Policewoman Miller after Friday and Gannon recover all of the furs. Saying how lovely
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* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: The buyers use this excuse as to why they have the furs when Friday and Gannon go undercover. However, Gannon points that anyone who will deal with them will have to spend a lot of money to dye the furs to offload them.

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* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: The buyers use this excuse as to why they have the furs when Friday and Gannon go undercover. However, Gannon before going under cover, Emile points that anyone who will deal with them will have to spend a lot of money to dye the furs to offload them.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:The thieves try to do this on the coats by removing the labels which show Emile Hartman's name. However, Sinclair points out that they wouldn't catch fire.]]
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First Aired - March 16, 1967

Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the burglary division. Emile Hartman, a fur salesman has called about a large amount of high quality furs have been stolen. When looking into leads, an insurance salesman contacts them about a group of people who called wanting to sell high quality furs. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch the thieves.


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* DotingParent: Mrs. Hilliard wants to get a mink coat for her daughter's birthday.
* FashionShow: Emile does this for his customers by using his other workers to come out and display the fur. He also does this when giving Friday and Gannon a crash course on quality of furs.
* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: The buyers use this excuse as to why they have the furs when Friday and Gannon go undercover. However, Gannon points that anyone who will deal with them will have to spend a lot of money to dye the furs to offload them.
* TheMole: Emile originally thought he was going to be the mole within the group of thieves until Friday and Gannon pointed out that they would be posing as the buyers.
* PoliceAreUseless: More so Emile's security guard and alarm system. The thieves broke into the building thru the only window that didn't have an alarm. The security guard was caught by luck and told to close his eyes so he didn't get a good look at the thieves.
* PrettyInMink: Mrs. Hilliard, a customer of Emile's, wants their daughter to wear a mink coat. However, Emile's inventory was recently stolen. She keeps saying how her daughter will look wonderful in mink.
* ShownTheirWork: In universe, Emile notes that the thieves knew what to steal as they only took the most expensive coats. Emile also gives Gannon and Friday a crash course on the fur business to also appear that they know their work, allowing them to know the jargon that is used.

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