Rape And Revenge
PART ONE: November 2, 1985
PART TWO: November 9, 1985
In my opinion, the single most powerful episode in the show's history! A
member of the Curguyan Consolate rapes and murders a cleaning lady in the
building where he is staying. When the police start questioning people at the
scene, McCall questions the murderer, who acts as though he's done nothing.
Thus, McCall never suspects him. When the man sees McCall, he starts flirting
with her by repeatedly asking her out to dinner, but she refuses. The next day
is McCall and Hunter's weekend off. McCall decides to spend most of her weekend
staying at home reading. In the morning, she is reading on her sofa and the
doorbell rings. At the door is a deliveryman with a dozen roses. She takes them
into her kitchen and reads the card, which says "All my love, Raoul". It
is from the man who had flirted with her the day before. She sits back down and
starts reading again, only to be interupted by the same deliveryman again with
another dozen roses. A third try to continue reading interupts her with a third
dozen roses, this time delivered by Raoul himself. He starts to make advances
and she fights him off and orders him to leave her house. He responds by
savagely beating her, then throwing her down on her bed and raping her. After he
leavs the house, she is still on her bedroom sobbing. She strugles to her phone
and dials Hunter's number. All she can get out is a very shaky and teary
"Hunter, help me!". Hunter races to her house to find her on her bedroom
floor, trying to crawl up onto her bed. He took one look and knew what was
wrong. He accompanies her to the hospital then briefly leavs to arrest the
rapist. However, when the man claims diplomatic Immunity, Hunter's hands are
tied and legally, he can do nothing. But because of his strong personal
friendship with McCall, he takes matters into his own hands. He waits for the
man outside his house and assaults him. "I'm gonna be on your case every day!
You're gonna wish to God I killed you!", Hunter says, as he throws the man
into his car. Because of his behavior, Hunter is suspended without pay. He goes
home only to be greeted at his door by the rapist, who is carrying a gun. Hunter
is shot in the shoulder, but recovers quickly. When the man returns to his
country, Hunter flies to San Pablo Curaguay to see if there;s any way the rapist
will get what he deserves. McCall surprises him there, trying to dissuede him
from getting into any more trouble. Hunter finally meets up with him and in a
shootout, Hunter shoots and kills him. The episode ends with Hunter and McCall
boarding a private helicopter, going home.
This was an extremely well done episode that was instrumental in demonstrating the terrific acting ability of both Fred Dryer and Stepfanie Kramer.
Shades
July 18, 1987
The season finale of the 1986-1987 season.
Hunter travels to Fulsom Prison to visit a friend of his late Father. While
there, he places a panic phone call to Dee Dee in the middle of the night. She
immediately goes to where he is staying, but before she gets there, Hunter is
abducted by a group of vigilantes. McCall enters the house where he was staying
and finds it totally trashed and finds Hunter's keys on the coffee table. After
a long search, they are unable to find Hunter and he is presumed dead. McCall
reluctantly accepts the assistance of a new partner to help solve the case.
After a long investigation, ending in a major shootout killing the entire
vigilante group, McCall finds Hunter's body laying in the back of a panel van.
She holds his head in her arms, saying "You're gonna be alright, Rick.".
Hunter does recover and the episode ends on a comical note, with Hunter flirting
with his beautiful nurse.
City Of Passion
PART ONE: November 7, 1987
PART TWO: November 14, 1987
PART
THREE: November 21, 1987
A three-part episode with a few different
storylines. First, a prominent judge is busted for soliciting to prostitution
and spends the entire three-part episode insisting that the arresting officer,
Sergent McCall, trapped him. Another storyline explores the personal life of
officer Brad Navarro, whose wife has filed for divorce, claiming that he lost
feelings for her since he started working with female officers, namely Sergent
McCall and Sergent O'Hearn of the Hollenbeck Division. He eventually works
through his problems with his wife and they wind up back together. The final,
and most important storyline deals with a serial rapist of whom Dee Dee McCall
was nearly his next victim. She arrests him for another rape and when he is
parolled, out of revenge, he seeks out McCall and attacks her in her own home.
She is able to fight him off before he rapes her. Fearing how people may judge
her since she was raped 2 years earlier, she chooses not to tell anyone about
what happened, including Hunter. While on sick leave, claiming she had the flu,
McCall stays at home, waiting for her attacker to return, which he does. When he
enters the house, she shoots him and just stares at him laying on her floor.
Having a gut feeling that something's wrong with Dee Dee, Hunter keeps calling
her home, only to repeatedly get no answer. Later that night, her doctor calls
Hunter out of concern for Dee Dee and tells him what happened to her a couple of
nights before. Hunter races out of the station and over to McCall's. He enters
the house and finds her sitting on her sofa, still staring at the wounded
attacker lying on the floor. When Dee Dee sees Hunter, he gently takes her hand
and she puts her arms around him sobbing, saying "I couldn't tell you".
The man is arrested and while at the station, his wife meets him there. She
grabs an officer's pistol and shoots him 3 times, killing him. The episode ends
with Dee Dee walking over to Hunter's desk, taking his hand and saying a simple,
but teary "Thank you".
Last Run
May 13, 1989
A girl is kidnapped by a group of drug
dealers. Hunter is investigating the case, however, a detective from another
departmant noses into the case. Over the couse of the case, it is discovered
that the other detective is the father of the girl who was kidnapped and he's
taking matters into his own hands. He tracks down the head drug dealer and
forces him, at gunpoint, to take him to his daughter. When he reaches the
abandoned warehouse where she is, he finds her tied to a chair, dead. He walks
out and prepares to shoot the dealer. As he does, Hunter drives up, preparing to
arrest the dealer. Hunter pulls his gun and tries to pursuede the detective not
to shoot the dealer. The man yells "What would you do if it was your
daughter"? He then cocks his pistol and shoots and kills the dealer. Hunter
turns around and slowly starts to walk back to his car. In an interesting turn,
the detective then turns the gun on himself, taking his own life. In
frustration, Hunter takes his service revolver and hurls it through the
building's plate glass window.
Yesterday's Child
November 25, 1989
A moving episode that again demonstrates
the terrific acting ability of Fred Dryer! A group of three teenagers steal a
car from an exotic car dealer and in their panic, they shoot and kill the
salesman who catches them. They take off and the third teenager, a Vietnamese
boy, refuses to go because he is scared, now that the other two have killed
someone. However, when they pull away, leaving him there, the car dealer's night
watchman sees the boy standing there and assumes he's done something. The next
morning, the boy's father comes to the station, begging Hunter to take his son's
case. He explains that the boy's mother was someone Hunter knew during the
Vietnam War. Hunter and the boy's father take a walk to discuss the situation
and he the man explains that he is not the boy's natural father. His request is
summarized with a final plea. "You must help him, Sergent Hunter. He is your
son". This came as a MAJOR shock to Hunter and the rest of the episode deals
with Hunter investigating the case and trying to pick the right time to tell the
boy the real reason on why he took his case. When Hunter finally tells him, the
boy takes off and Hunter tries to find him. The boy's father is then kidnapped
and shot by a pair of jewlery smugglers. He recovers in the hospital and when
his son gets word of what happened, he arrives at the hospital and when he sees
Hunter at his father's bedside, he walks out and sits into the waiting room.
Hunter joins him and theytalk things out. He offers to buy the boy something to
eat, but he remains silent. They talk a little more and Hunter says "I just
want to be a part of your life, if you'd let me". Hunter gets up and slowly
starts to walk down the hall. The boy stops him, saying "Hey Rick, I guess I
am pretty hungry". The episode ends with the two walking down the hall with
Hunter's arm around him.
Oh, The Shark
Bites!
November 7, 1990
Hunter and his new
partner, Officer Joanne Molenski, investigate the murder of a former mob
accountant. During the investigation, they are shocked to discover that Captain
Devane's name appeared on the murdered man's "debtor's" list. Captain Devane is
extremely shocked and orders Hunter to "Stay out of it"! Determined not
to have the Captain's reputation tarnished, Hunter takes matters into his own
hands. In danger of loosing his job because of the controversey the case was
causing, Captain Devane finally confides in Hunter and explains the situation to
him. Turns out, it was his late father's name on the list and he didn't want to
tell anyone for the simple fact that it would upset his mother. "Would you
take a pension to break your mama's heart"?, he says to Hunter. The episode
ends with the two sitting, looking at each other and Hunter saying "You're a
good man, Charlie".
