Awesome / Adam-12

• Season 2, Episode 14, "SWAT": The Adam-12 team respond to a sniper taking shots from the top of a downtown theater, showing off their specialized SWAT training in the process. The crowner, however, goes to Reed's interview with a TV news reporter after the suspect is apprehended without lethal force. Reed calmly explains that the tactics they used made lethal force unnecessary, and when the reporter admits he'd personally just shot the guy, Reed retorts that shooting (and killing) people isn't his job. Arguably, Reed at this point stopped being a rookie and truly came into his own as a police officer.
• Season Four episode "The Search": Malloy takes off after a robbery suspect on his own. During the chase, he loses control of the car and goes off the side of the road into a wooded area. He's knocked unconscious, then wakes up with a broken leg and internal injuries. The radio's crapping out, which was foreshadowed earlier in the show when Reed had to keep repeating broadcasts. Malloy cuts a seatbelt and braces his leg with a shotgun. A search chopper comes by but he can't open the trunk to get to the highway flares and shooting his pistol doesn't draw attention. Later, a man comes out of the woods but it turns out he's a criminal from a different crime who's been hiding out there for a week and doesn't want to be found. He yanks the mike out of the radio and leaves Malloy to die. Hearing that Reed is searching near his area, he takes the split wires from the mike and the radio and starts signaling in morse code. Reed hears it and asks Malloy to signal once for yes and twice for no. The signals lead Reed to Malloy's location.
• "Pick-Up" involves Reed and Malloy responding to an armed robbery at a lumber yard, where one of the two robbers has already been subdued - by a group of police scouts who were on their way back from a meeting and happened to be listening to the police frequencies.
• In "Citizens Arrest - 484", Reed and Malloy are checking on a possible burglary at a warehouse. While checking the back, Reed is ambushed by one of the burglars who tells Reed to call out the all clear. Reed shouts "Brinkman! There's nothing back here!". The lookout, relaxing, is quickly taken into custody by Malloy. As the officers are putting the crooks in the squad car, the lookout spots Malloy's nametag.
  Crook: Hey! His name isn't Brinkman!
  Reed: (feigns astonishment) You're right! (smirks) It isn't.
• The two-part series finale, "Something Worth Dying For," sees Jim crawling out into the middle of a firefight in a drug dealer's house to grab a wounded, unconscious Pete and drag him to safety. Jim is subsequently awarded the Medal of Valor, one of the highest honors bestowed by the department.
• At the end of "The Wednesday Warrior", the Police Reservist Ed Wells has been working with uses his knowledge of electronics to determine that the explosive the robber uses to coerce his unwilling accomplices into wearing is probably a dud, and (knowing there's a small chance that it's genuine and the robber's just Too Dumb to Live) takes it off of Wells (onto whom the robber has cast it) and throws it aside—it is, in fact, inert material. But because of the risk involved, Wells puts him up for the Medal of Valor—and on the Reservist's first day on the beat, no less!

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