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In the second-season Adam-12 episode "Light Duty", Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) was assigned to the night desk after suffering a sprained wrist. Now it is Pete's partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) who is similarly disabled, and now it's Jim who pulls night-desk duty. And, just as Malloy discovered that this "easy" assignment could be fraught with danger, so too does Jim find himself with a crisis on his hands as the result of an anonymous bomb threat. Meanwhile, Malloy does his best to break in his temporary partner, a rookie named Phillips (Kip Niven.