Sally Decker

Sally Decker, is a fictional, supporting character from the 1982 television series Police Squad! She is the episode's villian.

Background
The episode, "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)" starts inside the office of the Acme Credit Union. Sally Decker is arguing with her boss, Jim Johnson, over a loan of money. Sally needs the money to pay a debt to her orthodontist, a Dr. Zubatski. Johnson declines, saying that due to an upcoming audit, he has to balance the credit union's books and can't loan her any more money. The argument ends as customer Ralph Twice, recently laid off from the Lorman Tire Company, arrives to cash his last payroll check. During the extended identification process, Sally devises a scheme to solve her money problems: she shoots her boss and Mr. Twice, making it look like Twice was trying to rob the credit union by planting a gun on him. She pilfers the cash drawer and then begins screaming to attract attention.

Sally continues sobbing falsely, when Captain Ed Hocken and Lieutenant Frank Drebin arrive and interview her. Sally believes that the policemen have bought her story.

However, when Frank later receives the cause of death reports, they tell a different story to Sally's version of the events, suggesting that the shooter was really much further away from the victims than she claimed.

Sally used to be the girlfriend of Joe Surlov and got mixed up in penny-ante bunko scams. Visiting Dr. Zubatski's office, Frank learns that Sally was chronically in arrears with her payments to Zubatski, but that she paid him in full the day after the credit union holdup. Setting up the final confrontation, Frank calls Sally, claiming that he is Zubatski (perfectly imitating his voice merely by placing a handkerchief over the telephone mouthpiece), and threatens her with blackmail in order to arrange a clandestine meeting.

When Sally sees that the meeting is really with Frank and not Dr. Zubatski, she tries to leave, but Frank tells her what he has discovered. Before Sally was Sally, she was Babs Caltrane, a notorious gun runner in Memphis. But Frank notes that "Babs has red hair!" He grabs Sally's blonde hair, revealing it to be a wig with red hair underneath, showing that Sally is indeed Babs Caltrane. Frank then says before that she was a brunette hitman named ZaSu Pitts, and pulls off yet another wig. He then reveals that before that she sang back up for Aretha Franklin, and removes the brunette wig to reveal a large afro hairstyle. Sally then pulls this wig off, showing a military style buzz cut and claiming before that to have been in the U.S. Marines. Sally throws the red wig into Frank's face, momentarily incapacitating him (a joke that was re-used in The Naked Gun with a pillow instead of a wig). Sally runs away and hides behind some trash cans, and Frank takes cover behind a bench. Frank and Sally start shooting at each other, but we later see that they are really close to each other, a joke that was re-used in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear. Eventually they run out of ammunition and start throwing guns at each other. Sally runs out of things to throw and attempts to flee. Just when Sally tries to run away, Ed, Sergeant Take-Her-Away and Sergeant Booker arrive to take her away and book her.

Sally Decker was incarcerated in the Statesville Prison.

Relationships

 * Joe Surlov - former boyfriend.