Episode List
Season 1
Feb. 8, 1987
Some Day We'll Look Back on This and Laugh
David Del Valle, still angry with Andy Omart for re-writing his story, (see pilot episode) is about to leave the 'Crime Side' beat. He spends his last night riding patrol in a police cruiser that happens on an ugly murder. Del Velle is convinced there is a growing gang problem and a story, but no one listens. As his frustration grows he also meets Cash Conover, who promises David exclusive rights to the 'real story'-for a price. Conover offers David a story from inside a crack house in the neighborhood, and promises David will learn the truth about the gangs that are ...
Feb. 15, 1987
The Trouble with Kids Today
A Sunday morning police raid on a series of suspected drug dealers that may have killed a young high school girl nets three more teenagers, and one near adult. The adult is knifed in jail, the two teens are acquitted, but the third has confessed. Everyone buys it - except Blake. Del Velle pursues the knifed adult, and bends the ethics of the profession in the process. Blake meets the parents of the girl who has confessed, and she senses something is very wrong. The father of the dead girl, a wounded Viet Nam war vet, has lost his only bright point in a diminished life...
Feb. 22, 1987
Long Day's Journey Into Flight
After a night club owner dies in a compromising situation with a dancer, everyone thinks it is an accident - until the killer picks Andy to tell his story to. But Andy doesn't want to hear it, and continues to hang up on him - until a co-worker gets the call at Andy's desk - and breaks the story in their paper. E. Miller Savage and Del Valle work to find who damaged Savage's Porche, with intriguing results. Blake, who is becoming closer to Andy, tries to find out why Andy is avoiding the story, but Andy doesn't talk until his editor, angry that a competitor scooped ...
Mar. 1, 1987
A Combination Plate Missing One Taco
During an oppressive heat wave, a young man is brought into the precinct station after breaking out a store window to steal a fan. Meanwhile, Crime Side is no cooler, while the news area is being remodeled, and the reporters are pushed into a side area. The distraught young man, suffering from dementia, makes a break for it, and manages to steal Lt. Guyla Cook's gun, which she left unguarded as she took a break to cool off. The station is evacuated, but in the construction site that is Crime Side, the message to leave doesn't get through to everyone. Eluding the ...
May 29, 1987
Rumor with a View
A hot-dogging Channel 3 TV anchor goes with a story of corruption in the vice squad at the Police Department. The problem is, all Larry has is the lurid story, and he names the cops being investigate by internal affairs. Unfortunately, he doesn't have proof, and neither does internal affairs. His disclosure has tipped off the officers, who are now a covering up any possible evidence, intimidating witnesses, and have filed a lawsuit against Channel 3. The station drops Larry from the air in an effort to protect themselves, and Larry's career looks as dead as the ...
Jun. 5, 1987
Some Days You Get Lucky
Andy notices an odd fact and follows the clues to uncover a federal operation in the last steps of a dangerous sting. An old friend of Andy's is the key player in making the sting come together - selling weapons and munitions to terrorists. He asks Andy to hold on the story, and not to discuss it with ANYONE, which Andy agrees to do. Thus, Andy says nothing to Blake, who also does not mention that a Reserve Army officer has brought her facts about missing munitions from the Army storage, and identified a mystery man involved. When her story breaks, the bad guys bolt, ...
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