"Fog" closed out the sixth season on a quiet note, as Barney laments not being promoted to deputy inspector, his squad room staff trying to soften the blow by sharing blame- Harris' book made few friends, Wojo's always getting into trouble, and then there was Dietrich's arrest ("I buried him!"). A street musician (William Dillard) is arrested for assaulting a string quartet from Juilliard because they were playing his corner. Sydney Lassick (second of two) plays Victor Carse, who uses a sledgehammer to knock out a satellite dish from the phone company, believing those microwaves can destroy the senses and boil our blood. J. J. Barry plays Fred Bauer, brought in for breaking an alarm at a Christian Science reading room. Turns out, he got lost in the dense fog and entered the wrong building!
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Props for casting a real trumpet player
Ralpho17 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
One of the two arrestees in this episode (Fast Eddie Jennings) is a street musician played by Bill Dillard. God knows where Danny Arnold found him, but Dillard was an actual trumpet player who hadn't had a TV or movie credit since a 1969 TV movie when he got this role. His solo to close the episode, played from inside "the cage," makes a fitting coda to the sixth season and to what was probably Barney's last chance to make deputy inspector.
The pathos of the scene as everyone listens to Dillard playing is broken up hilariously when J. J. Barry as Fred Bauer pipes up and says "What year is this?"
The pathos of the scene as everyone listens to Dillard playing is broken up hilariously when J. J. Barry as Fred Bauer pipes up and says "What year is this?"
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