Although Gilbert is able to run away, Richard is caught by a policeman, Officer Medford, when he is caught breaking a window in the old abandoned McMahon house. Richard tells the policeman that his name is Theodore Cleaver, and gives him the Beaver's address. News of Beaver being in trouble with the police gets back to Ward, which places Ward in a difficult position as being an appointed member of the mayor's committee for the new youth center. But when Officer Medford sees that Beaver is not the boy he caught throwing rocks at the window, the collective have to figure out who it was. Beaver is pretty certain that it was Richard, and he has to decide whether to "squeal" on Richard to his father and Officer Medford, or deal with Richard in his own way.
—Huggo