When the State Police arrive, they think Andy's letting Dirksen get away. Andy tells Emma that if she sees the criminal, she shouldn't tell him about Andy's boat down by the lake.Īndy calls the State Police and tells them where they can pick up 'their criminal'. They go to her house and since Emma, the town hypochondriac, says her sciatica is 'just fine', Andy suspects that Dirksen is in her house. They realize that Dirksen probably will stop at Emma Brand's house for one of the fresh-baked pies she usually has in her window. While Barney is out there, he stops Cal, frisks him, then stops Mayor Pike & even frisks him, but the best is when he even frisks his Mama, while he is on a back road as a roadblock when Dirksen, the escapee, 'gets the drop on him' and ties him up. Andy decides he can't let himself become a 'laughingstock' to the town and decides he and Barney should go out and search on their own.Īndy has Barney staked out on one of the back roads that Andy claimed wasn't even marked. They don’t enlist Andy and Barney's help because they aren't important enough. Later, the State Police decide to use Mayberry as a headquarters to search for an escaped criminal. While fishing, Andy and Opie discover that their boat has a hole in it. Andy and his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife, offer to help track down an escaped convict, but the Captain of the State Police scoffs at the small-town sheriff's help.

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