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It Cuts Both Ways
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Power Corrupts
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Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
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Dying To Live
Ties That Bind
Shoot To Kill
Bloodlust
Every Five Minutes
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Cycle Of Violence
Die Beautiful
Root Of All Evil
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The VCTF concentrates on a series of highly public murders in Chicago. The motivation of the killings seems to be the public exposure of corruption and fraud. Bailey worries about Frances' fate.
Special guest star: Richard Roundtree (Jim Henegar), Jon Cypher, Larry Brandenburg, Thomas Kopache, Dayton Callie.
Co-producer: John Forrest Niss
Producer: Charles Holland
Produced by: Anthony Santa Croce
Co-executive producer: Steve Feke
Co-executive producer: George Geiger
Written by: :Jeremy R. Littman
Directed by: Tucker Gates
The inaccuracy of several storylines:
This episode was intended to be run right after the season premiere "Ambition In The Blood", which was seen November 1st 1997. However, it was pushed back because TPTB presumably wanted to run the season shocker "Second Best" during the November sweeps. So "Power Corrupts" was deemed dispensable to make way for "Second Best". This helps to explain the inconsistencies of storyline happenings in this episode.
A. Santa Croce:
In Henegar's hearing you see that one of the judges is named A. Santa Croce, which also happens to be the name of a producer from the first season. After this episode it seems that Anthony Santa Croce went his own way since he is not mentioned in any credits here after. A way of saying goodbye, maybe? Seems probable, seeing that "AITB" and this episode were shot at the end of the first season due to Ally's pregnancy.