And Rummy was in S E Asia...that stuff blew in the wind....
That's cause Mark wasn't running things. I would envision him in an Apocalypse Now (Marlin Brando) capacity, Ray in the Martin Sheen role - Mark would do that on Mayfield Place if he could get away with it. Can you imagine?
And those Hinkley Hills cops are that thin blue line between chaos and order. You notice how they kept Carol from infiltrating the police line.