Cops
Pick up
Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.
Both terms in one sentence
- Even the cops who pick up Jennifer in Back to the Future Part II have names — Reese and Foley, the same names Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale give to all pairs of cops who appear in their films.
Source: All There in the Script - When cops hunting for Luke pick up a street kid who knows him, the boy immediately demands that his mother, who is in law school, be present.
Source: Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers -
You could even accidentally pick up slaves if you scooped up an escape pod from an enemy ship (and there was no way to free them, or hand them over to the cops).
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