ANNOUNCER 1: Up next,
Women on Patrol" from Williamson County Sheriff's
Office in Austin, Texas, Team Fuze.
I'm Deputy Sarah Cole with Williamson
County Sheriff's Department.
This is my canine partner, Fuze, and he is a
four-year-old Belgian malinois.
Come here!
Walk!
Give me your hands!
Fuze and I have been on "Live PDs"
when we're on patrol multiple times.
I've been a canine handler for a year and a half.
Fuze is an explosive detection dog.
He's a very calm dog which is perfect.
You don't want a very hyper dog running
in and knocking over a bomb.
We nicknamed him Princess.
He's very much of a diva.
He hates getting wet because if it's raining out,
he will not even step outside.
I think it'd be great to win.
We're both really young, start of our careers,
so I'm super excited.
[kissing noises]
Can Team Fuze become tonight's top dog?
Let's go.
[beeping noise]
[buzzer noise]
Very quick off the line.
Hey, up.
Hey.
Fuze. Fuze, here, here.
ANNOUNCER 2: Oh, Fuze kept running
when Deputy Cole stopped. - Here, here.
Come here. Fuze.
ANNOUNCER 2: Could be a communication issue.
Good boy.
ANNOUNCER 1: The 135-pound board no problem
for the 90 pound dog.
But they did lose time. - Up.
There's my boy.
ANNOUNCER 1: Can they make it up?
Climbing into Spiderweb.
ANNOUNCER 2: This replicates obstacles canines face
in the field like high grass and thick brush,
and it doesn't look like they're making up any time.
Getting over the wall at two feet high
is proving to be a little bit of a challenge actually.
Good boy.
ANNOUNCER 1: Quick through Low Crawl,
and they start to climb on Boxes Up.
ANNOUNCER 2: Remember, Fuze is a bomb detection dog
and trained to take his time.
It's great for sniffing bombs, but maybe not for the defeating
The Dog House.
ANNOUNCER 1: Onto the second level
and quick through Ductwork, making up some time.
Upward.
ANNOUNCER 1: All right, so he needs
to grab the ball here at the Door Breach
and open up the door.
He had some ball issues working on the fire escape
back in round one.
Now if the dog can't open the door after 30 seconds,
the handler can do it themselves.
She said that Fuze is a diva, and sometimes
he likes to do what he wants.
ANNOUNCER 1: Another 30 seconds on the second door.
They got beat up bad by the breaches.
Now down the stairs into the takedown.
Fuze takes off like a missile.
Fuze with a great takedown, but to stop the clock,
Deputy Cole must get Fuze to release
and across the finish line. - Fuze, no!
Back!
ANNOUNCER 2: And with this Belgian malinois,
you're looking at about 42 teeth biting down.
That's about 230 pounds of pressure.
ANNOUNCER 1: But the clock is still running as Fuze hangs on.
ANNOUNCER 2: After 30 seconds, she can go help
remove Fuze from that bite.
ANNOUNCER 1: He needs to get back to the finish platform,
and they will.
Probably not the time that they want, but they do finish this.
4 minutes, 31.86 seconds.
Up next, Sgt. Mark Tappin and his impressive German shepherd.
Here we go, buddy.
ANNOUNCER 1: They have a record of over 200 arrests,
and a Purple Heart for valor.
It is Team Mattis.
I'm Sgt. Mark Tappin from the Alpharetta Police Department,
Alpharetta, Georgia.
This is my canine partner, Mattis.
He's a six-year-old German shepherd.
We've been together for four years.
He's my best friend in the world.
I talk to him.
Mattis is trained as a dual-purpose narcotics dog.
So anything that's dangerous, we go to.
We got in behind some guys that had robbed quite a few people.
They ended up bailing out of the car and taking off running.
Mattis comes up and starts running beside me,
and the guy sees us.
And about right here, he makes the decision to jump.
I see Mattis dropping 30 feet down to the ground below.
They said, we need to get them into surgery right away.
I was a wreck for about 48 hours.
Once he came out of surgery at the emergency vet,
that was one of the best feelings in the world.
He won Officer of the Year.
He also got a Purple Heart.
It shows you he makes me look a lot better than I am.
I hope he does that tonight.
[laughs]
It is time to see who is tonight's top dog?
The time to beat is 4 minutes 31.86 seconds.
Is Team Mattis fast enough?
Come on, Mattis. Gee up.
ANNOUNCER 1: There they go.
They're off to a fast start if they can get this door down.
Here.
ANNOUNCER 2: That's an advantage of a 100-pound dog.
ANNOUNCER 1: Worth all the kibble you got to buy.
Hop up.
ANNOUNCER 1: Through the window like it's not even there.
So far size doesn't seem to matter, Nick.
Good boy.
Hop up.
ANNOUNCER 2: But Spiderweb is where
bigger dogs get tangled up.
Is Team Mattis the next victim?
ANNOUNCER 1: Mattis says, you're going to need more than ropes
to stop me. - Gee up.
Hop up.
ANNOUNCER 1: Less than 30 seconds in the Low Crawl.
This could be one of the fastest runs we've ever seen!
ANNOUNCER 2: Mattis waiting for Sgt. Tappin, a strong bond
here.
ANNOUNCER 1: The 42 boxes hardly slow them down.
Hey, go.
ANNOUNCER 2: These guys are hungry, Kirk.
All business.
Yah, yah.
ANNOUNCER 1: Door Breach, open just like that.
Here. Here.
ANNOUNCER 2: Beautiful! [inaudible]
ANNOUNCER 1: They've got a solid lead.
Now it's just a question of how fast they'll finish.
High.
ANNOUNCER 1: Check out the power of this 100-pound dog
on the takedown.
Ooh!
ANNOUNCER 1: Now we need to release
and cross the finish line. - No!
Loose!
[inaudible] Mulligan!
Nay!
Mattis!
Loose!
Mulligan!
ANNOUNCER 1: Finally releases and crosses the finish line
with 1 minute 21.3 seconds.
Dude, look what you did!
ANNOUNCER 1: Mattis smoked The Dog House.
That's one of the best times we have ever seen.
Woohoo!