**SPOILERS** "Hardtack", the large mutt belonging to Amos, was good looking, gentle and ill-accused in this tale of orange groves, parking lots, and murder. Throw in an unbelievably sexy secretary, Janice Carr (beautifully played by Erin O'Brien), and it looked like Perry's back in business, and ain't we all glad.
Amos was sufficiently grizzled and cantankerous enough to sidebar the main plot about his property being sold for parking lot space for an early shopping mall. Frankly, he had to share credit with the sweet mutt that was inclined to not like rats; the human kind, of course. I'm gonna exclude Janice from this category for obvious reasons. Doyle, well played by Lee Van Cleef, was also not a bad guy. His wife, though was neck deep in an affair, and shady money transfers, with enough dirt on this snake pile to give Mr. Doyle more than adequate grounds for divorce. Community property? You bet she'll pay up.
The killer will no doubt lose a bundle in his investment. You can't profit from a murder. It WAS FIRST degree murder, though, wasn't it? YUP. He stole the dog to set up the scene, took the shotgun to frame Amos, did the actual deed, and stood to make a substantial profit from it. So long respectable life, hello San Quentin (probably not for long, though).
Amos's granddaughter (and Perry's second client, after Hardtack), was a very good looking lady, and I suppose, given the normal desire to slant the conclusions of this show toward "happy endings", she'll wind up with Wheeler (another guy who was getting axed by the dirtbag dead guy). She STILL has charges of evidence tampering, though. As long as Paul turns on the charm and zeros in on the lovely Janice, all will be interesting, don't you think?
One other thing is the C.M.H. that Amos finally was recognized for; Doyle's wife was right about one thing, most guys that brag about medals never earned them, or have the right to wear them. Until recently, these guys would downplay anything they did; typically saying that they wear them only on special occasions, and only for the men who payed with their lives in service to our country. Here, it was a plot device, so it can be excused. More believably, Amos would have never mentioned it.
Amos was sufficiently grizzled and cantankerous enough to sidebar the main plot about his property being sold for parking lot space for an early shopping mall. Frankly, he had to share credit with the sweet mutt that was inclined to not like rats; the human kind, of course. I'm gonna exclude Janice from this category for obvious reasons. Doyle, well played by Lee Van Cleef, was also not a bad guy. His wife, though was neck deep in an affair, and shady money transfers, with enough dirt on this snake pile to give Mr. Doyle more than adequate grounds for divorce. Community property? You bet she'll pay up.
The killer will no doubt lose a bundle in his investment. You can't profit from a murder. It WAS FIRST degree murder, though, wasn't it? YUP. He stole the dog to set up the scene, took the shotgun to frame Amos, did the actual deed, and stood to make a substantial profit from it. So long respectable life, hello San Quentin (probably not for long, though).
Amos's granddaughter (and Perry's second client, after Hardtack), was a very good looking lady, and I suppose, given the normal desire to slant the conclusions of this show toward "happy endings", she'll wind up with Wheeler (another guy who was getting axed by the dirtbag dead guy). She STILL has charges of evidence tampering, though. As long as Paul turns on the charm and zeros in on the lovely Janice, all will be interesting, don't you think?
One other thing is the C.M.H. that Amos finally was recognized for; Doyle's wife was right about one thing, most guys that brag about medals never earned them, or have the right to wear them. Until recently, these guys would downplay anything they did; typically saying that they wear them only on special occasions, and only for the men who payed with their lives in service to our country. Here, it was a plot device, so it can be excused. More believably, Amos would have never mentioned it.