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Crime Story : Season 2
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Air date: 22 Sep '87 - 22 episodesCrime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically — and was watched by over 30 million viewers. It was then scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights, and continued to attract a record number of viewers. NBC then moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABC's Moonlighting, hurting its ratings to the point that NBC ordered its cancellation after only two seasons. Set in the early, pre-Beatles 1960s, the series depicted two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — with an obsessive drive to destroy each other. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was "made" in the Chicago Outfit and then sent to Las Vegas to monitor their casinos, Torello pursued Luca as...
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List of Episodes (22)
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1. The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob
22 Sep '87An overzealous senator outrages crime bosses by subpoenaing them to appear before an organized crime commission. An actress with a shady past falls for Torello.
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2. Blast from the Past
29 Sep '87Torello confronts his feelings for Julie when she asks him to rescue her kidnapped husband, who is a doctor forced to tend to one of his injured kidnappers.
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3. Always a Blonde
20 Oct '87The Senterros, a family of Mexican cattle ranchers, controls the marijuana trade, so Torello's unit sets up a sting operation, but detective Joey Indelli leaves to try to save a callgirl from her sadistic pimp.
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4. Atomic Fallout
27 Oct '87Torello follows a crazed killer into Mexico, unaware his quarry will lead him to an arms-for-drugs operation run by an alive-and-well Luca.
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5. Shockwaves
03 Nov '87Luca returns to Vegas with immunity to work for the US Government, causing revenge-minded Abrams to resign in frustration and Torello unable to get near Luca.
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6. Robbery, Armed
10 Nov '87A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.
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7. Little Girl Lost
24 Nov '87An investigator searching for a man's girlfriend, who happens to be Weisbord's granddaughter, is murdered before he gives information to Torello. Luca offers a drug-addicted Abrams a position on his staff.
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8. Love Hurts
08 Dec '87Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.
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9. MIG-21
15 Dec '87A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.
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10. Moulin Rouge
05 Jan '88The Justice Department tries to deal with troubles at a new nightclub - including bombings, extortion, and racial threats - owned by a beautiful black woman.
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11. Seize the Time
12 Jan '88Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.
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12. Femme Fatale
19 Jan '88A Chinese agent dupes Torello into looking for her father while she smuggles plutonium out of the country.
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13. Protected Witness
02 Feb '88In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.
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14. Last Rites
09 Feb '88After Manny is stricken by a heart attack, Luca demands that he be the first heart-transplant recipient. Max convinces Steve to put a hit on Luca.
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15. Pauli Taglia's Dream
08 Mar '88In a dream Paulie recounts his and Luca's survival of the atomic bomb. After nearly perishing in the blast, Luca and Paulie are taken into federal custody. Delirious from his gun shot wounds and the blast Luca becomes totally on Paulie for their escape. Receiving aid from a federal agent in Manny's employ Paulie rises above his usual persona as he attempts to extricate himself and Luca from their current situation.
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16. Roadrunner
15 Mar '88While escorting a prisoner and his girlfriend, Torello is trapped in the desert and stalked by corrupt lawmen who want the prisoner.
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17. Desert Justice (aka The Brothel Wars)
22 Mar '88The Justice Department must deal with crooked cops and feuding brothel owners when Pauli's prostitute-girlfriend is murdered.
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18. Byline
29 Mar '88Torello's writer-friend plans to take down Luca by exposing him in an article.
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19. The Hearings
05 Apr '88Luca is finally brought to court on racketerring charges but the trial is postponed when a military emergency happens in Vietnam.
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20. Pursuit (1)
26 Apr '88Torello and his men chase Luca to Mexico where they will get no help from the US Government.
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21. Escape (2)
03 May '88Torello and his men save Danny from certain death while Luca is told by a top military commander that he is nothing in Mexico.
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22. Going Home (3)
10 May '88Torello and his men catch up to Luca in Mexico and force him to escape but they all get trapped inside a pilotless airborne plane.
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