The following episode contains extremely graphic material.

Listener discretion is advised.

In part five of our exclusive series, the miscreants are finally captured.

What happens next is cemented in the California history books, the unexpected but always feared.

Policework, they call it about eight hours of boredom,

punk pierced by about one second of terror.

I'm the king of the chumgo.

Oh, yeah.

I'm the king of the ch and 4.30 in the morning.

The streets of downtown Los Angeles are ghostly quiet.

A calm has rested the streets after a rare Hollywood-style gun battle

outside the Hall of Records government building.

Reno, Nevada, Detective Dave Jenkins and his partner have landed in Los Angeles to take

custody of their hunted killers.

Alvaro Calambrough and Duck Wendt surrendered to police after a nine-hour standoff.

They walked outside the bullet-riddled Hall of Records building and released their young

hostage, a single mom named Veronica.

Just as Jenkins starts to interview Duck in a small interrogation room at the

LAPD headquarters, chaos of godlike proportions strike.

We're here in the Channel 4 newsroom. There's you folks. There's no surprise.

We've been hit with a major earthquake.

Half the newsroom behind me has been disheveled a lot of television monitors knocked off the shelves.

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