 Pete Malloy, a six year veteran of the L.A.P.D., plans on quitting the force after his partner is killed. However, prior to his handing in his resignation he is to break in rookie officer Jim Reed on his first night on the force. During what would be the first patrol of their seven year partnership the two officers deal with a hysterical woman who thinks her son s salamander has crawled down the back of her dress, a pair of liquor store robbers, a baby in distress and a group of trigger happy teenagers.