Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!qumix!amd!dual!ptsfa!ptsfb!drp From: drp@ptsfb.UUCP (Dale Pederson) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Hill Street Blues Message-ID: <117@ptsfb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 12:00:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfb.117 Posted: Tue Oct 9 12:00:29 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:02:57 EDT References: <1068@ihuxm.UUCP> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 44 > Does anyone have an update for the October 4th episode > of Hill Street Blues? I know Joyce was trying to save > that guy who was condemned to die. Did she make it? I > also read that Henry's ex-wife was going to be assaulted > and that she wasn't going to press charges. Can anyone > fill me in? Joyce failed to save the killer when a Justice (not sure if it was a state or federal justice) was reached while on a backpacking trip and refused to stay the execution. Henry's ex was assaulted, in her own bedroom by a man with a knife. Henry talked a fingerprint man into dusting the bed on his day off, while the ex-wife was at work ant the apartment empty. They lifted a clean print and Henry tracked down the low-life and confronted him. Henry came close to violating his own feelings about capital punish- ment and almost shot the guy. His better sense prevailed and so an arrest was made on possession and carrying a concealed weapon. His ex-wife still refused to press charges, and said she wished he had killed him instead. The fellow had prior convictions and will probably be in jail for a few years. Ray took part in an undercover operation, unusual for him, because he thought that he was being forced to retire. It turns out he received a routine letter from the pension board notifying him that he was pension-eligible. When he found out that he wasn't being asked to leave the force, he told Captain Farillo (sp?) that he never wanted to go to the field again. A young member of Lt. Hunter's SWAT team shot a man during a hostage situation and was filmed by a TV crew. Unfortunately he shouted "Got the Son of a Bitch" while the camera was on him. Caused some problems for the officer and the precinct. The episode ended with Farillo and Joyce Carpenter attending the execution. The script included details, down to the guards strapping the man in the chair and showing a close up of his face as the first jolt went through him. Meanwhile, Henry was attending a midnite ceremony outside the church where the killing took place, praying for forgiveness.