to some people? >> maybe to some people. >> reporter: so murray and dove cobbled together a legal long shot. they flew to phoenix, presented their evidence to a state attorney general, pleaded for an arizona wiretap warrant. and they got it. the game was back on. if they could make it work. >> we were going to try to set a trap for three people and keep track of those three people, and i wasn't sure if it was going to work or not. >> if it didn't? >> in the back of my mind, i gave it probably a 30% chance of success. >> but you're giving yourself a 70% chance of being a goat at the end of the day. >> it had to be perfect. we were only going to get one try. >> reporter: so tom began to compile a team of investigators, even called darren wyatt, the first detective on the case, to see if the plascencia pd wanted in. >> i said, let me fall at your feet and do what we can to help. i felt like they -- look, this is going to be good. >> reporter: the phoenix pd also provided scores of officers, so on game day dove had close to 100 cops working the case. >> i reminded them of that mousetrap game you played when you were a kid. in that this huge ball bearing was going to have to go through a tremendous amount of obstacles that were kind of thrown together. in order to lower the trap and catch the mouse. and anywhere along the line there could be a snag. there could be something that we hadn't planned for that could throw this ball completely off