- [first lines - opening credit sequence]
- Narrator: Whenever the laws of any state are broken or when the welfare of its citizens is endangered, each state has a duly authorized organization that swings into action. It may be called the state militia or the state police or the highway patrol. These are the stories of the men whose training, skill and courage have enforced and preserved our state laws.
- Officer Brown: How can anyone break out of a prison like that?
- Dan Mathews: Anyone can't - Neal did. Neal usually gets what he wants. He had nothin' to concentrate on 24 hours a day but escape.
- Dan Mathews: Every job he's ever been mixed up with there's been a shooting. He'll probably go for a gun fast. Better notify all units that any crime involving the theft of an auto, gun, clothes, or money, we'll assume it to be Neal. Follow it up immediately. He's gonna move fast; we're gonna have to move faster.
- Ralph Neal: All right, on your feet. Get up.
- Les Wilkins - School Bus Driver: What about the kids?
- Ralph Neal: If you don't get going, you won't care about "what" about anything.
- Ralph Neal: Okay, copper, unless you want to see this innocent bystander shot, you'll throw out your gun and the keys to that patrol car. Remember, you can't get me without hittin' him.
- Dan Mathews: No, Neal, you won't shoot him. He's your shield and dead weight doesn't make a good shield.
- [first lines - story narrative]
- Narrator: Law enforcement agencies have rarely encountered criminals more vicious than Ralph Neal. On the morning of July eighth, he killed a guard, escaped from the state penitentiary, and paused in his flight only long enough to make a ruthless decision about his wounded companion.