So Walter and Judge Dredd settled into their version of domestic bliss.  Of
course Dredd was seldom home, spending most of his time out busting perps but
Walter didn't care as long as he was near his unofficial master.  As for Dredd 
he could have kicked the droid out but didn't so he either felt indebted to
Walter or didn't have the heart to kick him out.  The latter option isn't as
unlikely as it would seem from reading today's Dredd.  Surprising as it may 
be to newer readers Dredd does have a heart and in the early years it wasn't 
as rare for the iron man to show the odd flash of humanity.  Case in point; 
to while away the long hours while Dredd wasn't there Walter watched a lot of 
television, some of it on pirate stations.  Yet when Dredd caught him watching 
the city's most illegal show You Bet Your Life he didn't bust him.  
Something that would be hard to imagine happening a few years later.  From 
Prog 25 here's the story, art by Ian Gibson, story uncredited but either Mills
or Wagner though more likely Wagner.



Of course it was lucky for Walter he could be useful in this instance or it's
a fair bet Dredd would have been a lot harder on him.
 


So why was You Bet Your Life banned in Mega City 1?  Probably because
it lived up to its hype and the penalties for guessing wrong were a little
steep.


An interesting moment, one of the few occasions Dredd and Walter actually 
worked together as a crime fighting team.  Approximately fifteen years Dredd 
would take a strong stand against law enforcement by robot when the Mechismo
project was launched but in the heat of the moment he didn't mind.

After which it's time for the dramatic wrap up and the moral of this story

After this Walter gave up on illegal programming and presumably promised to be
a good robot.  A promise that meant little too many people in a city still 
recovering from the trauma of the Robot War.  As Walter would soon discover.

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