Partners (10 Dec. 2010)

Jack becomes suspicious when his ex-partner, now a deputy police chief, frames his "dine and dash" suspect for a murder that he couldn't have possibly committed.

Director:

Stephen Surjik

Writers:

Matt Nix (creator), Ben Wexler

Stars:

Bradley Whitford, Colin Hanks, Jenny Wade

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Bradley Whitford	...	Dan Stark
Colin Hanks	...	Jack Bailey
Jenny Wade	...	A.D.A. Liz Traynor
Diana Maria Riva	...	Lieutenant Ana Ruiz
Gary Cole	...	Frank Savage
Chris Klein	...	George Jenkins
RonReaco Lee	...	Julius Brown
Angela Sarafyan	...	Samantha
Joe Cortese	...	Jimmy
Joel Spence	...	Detective Hodges
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charles Baker	...	Cellmate
Jennifer Besser	...	CSI
Brett Brock	...	Mick Shellhouse
Kimberly Lynn Campbell	...	Detective Williams
Christina Childress	...	Waitress

Storyline

Jack and Dan investigate a simple dine-and-dash at a local restaurant, but things become complicated when Jack's former partner, George Gluck, who is now the assistant chief of the department, shows up after Liz's informant against a mafia kingpin is murdered. With a dirty cop behind the hit, and their lives on the line, everybody must learn that the only way to survive is to stay close to the ones they trust.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Details

Release Date:

10 December 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Did You Know?

Goofs

The shot of the ATM, which Colin Hanks' character indicates is right across the street from the crime scene (in Dallas), is actually in a strip mall in Banff, Alberta, Canada - a distance of 3200km. It even says Banff Sweet Shoppe on the sign above.

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Quotes

Dan Stark: [to Julius, trying to get him to ID a dine-and-dash perp] He's a scumbag, you're a former scumbag.

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Connections

References Family Matters (1989)

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Soundtracks

"For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
(uncredited)
Written by Malcolm Young, Angus Young, and Brian Johnson
Performed by AC/DC

User Reviews

"All Good Things ... "

At long last, we get to see "Savage and Stark". Well, at least a snippet. And it's just as cheesy and ridiculous as we were led to believe.

"Partners" sees the return of past figures into the lives of both Jack Bailey and Dan Stark. For Bailey, it's George Jenkins (Chris Klein), a classmate at the academy who's just been made Assistant Chief (to Jack's chagrin). For Stark, it's his old partner (Gary Cole), as the pair de-mothball their tuxes for a retrospective screening of "Savage and Stark", the '85 TV movie about their daring rescue of the governor's son.

I was sorry to see "The Good Guys" come to an abrupt end, but "Partners" is both a terrific episode, and a fitting end to the show. It delivers on prior promises (a brief scene from the TV movie, which is being shown during an "Oddities of the '80s" film festival, to the annoyance of both characters), brings the Jack/Liz/Samantha tension to its peak, and old dogs Savage and Stark get to ride back in and save the day.

Chris Klein is perfect as the smarmy bastard Jenkins, and Cole brings Savage roaring back from his previous appearance (seriously, when isn't Gary Cole awesome?). And as for the TV movie, it's everything we've come to expect: third-rate acting, melodramatic (lots of dramatic eyes closeups) and features a delightfully overwrought soundtrack.

To top it all off, our heroes get the "ride off into the sunset" ending they deserve.

10/10