HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET: SHAGGY DOG, CITY GOAT (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic police series about a department of reflective homicide detectives in Baltimore, Maryland. In this episode, Dr. Cox receives an award from the medical examiner's profession, and recalls a complicated murder and suicide that her colleagues Detectives Munch and Kellerman handled. In flashback, a jumper with a shotgun wound to his chest produces the lingering question of whether the man was shot before or after jumping. Meanwhile, in the present, Falsone has hired a lawyer to gain joint custody of his son, and Gharty and Ballard employ the services of Stivers to investigate the execution of a local drug dealer. In flashback, Munch and Kellerman return to the scene of the murder and suicide and notice that a window on the building has been boarded up, offering corroborating evidence for the glass fragments on the ground. The apartment belongs to a couple, the Cochrans, who share everything but marital bliss. Mr. Cochran tells the detectives that he owns a shotgun and sometimes waves it at his wife to drive her crazy, but the shotgun is never loaded. Dumbfounded by this relationship, Munch and Kellerman confiscate the shotgun for tests. Back in the present, Georgia Rae Mahoney issues notices of a lawsuit against Lewis, Stivers, Cox, and Kellerman in the wrongful death of Luther Mahoney. Also, Gharty and Ballard track down possible suspects in the case of the dead drug dealer, but lose them in a car chase. Gharty harbors a hunch that their suspects are hiding out in hillbilly country, which is beyond their jurisdiction. Ballard is amazed at Baltimore's backwoods areas, and although they find their suspects, they lose them once again. In flashback, at the Cochrans, Munch and Kellerman find a box of shotgun shells covered with the fingerprints of the Cochrans' son. Upon further questioning, the Cochrans explain they have been estranged from their son for years. In the present, Cox reveals the ending of this bizarre case to her bewildered colleagues, and Giardello suspends Lewis indefinitely for assaulting Georgia Rae. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: January 16, 1998 Friday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:46:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:52106
- GENRE: Drama, police
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1993-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Barry Levinson … Executive Producer
- Tom Fontana … Executive Producer
- Julie Martin … Supervising Producer
- James Yoshimura … Supervising Producer
- Anya Epstein … Producer
- David Simon … Producer, Based on the book by
- Kyle Secor … Director
- Paul Attanasio … Created by
- Eric Overmyer … Writer
- Douglas J. Cuomo … Music by
- Lynn F. Kowal … Theme Music by
- Richard Belzer … Cast, Det. John Munch
- Andre Braugher … Cast, Det. Frank Pembleton
- Reed Diamond … Cast, Det. Mike Kellerman
- Michelle Forbes … Cast, Dr. Julianna Cox
- Peter Gerety … Cast, Det. Stu Gharty
- Clark Johnson … Cast, Det. Meldrick Lewis
- Yaphet Kotto … Cast, Lt. Al Giardello
- Kyle Secor … Cast, Det. Tim Bayliss
- Jon Seda … Cast, Det. Paul Falsone
- Callie Thorne … Cast, Det. Laura Ballard
- Toni Lewis … Cast, Det. Stivers
- Hazelle Goodman … Cast, Georgia Rae Mahoney
- Ellen McElduff … Cast, Billie Lou Hatfield
- Kathryn Kelley … Cast, Donna McCord
- Steve Allen … Cast, Mr. Cochran
- Jayne Meadows … Cast, Mrs. Cochran
- Jack Frost … Cast, Dr. Jack Frost
- David Harscheid … Cast, M.E. #1
- Bob Lau … Cast, the Process Server
- Josh Pais … Cast, M.E. #2
- Doug Roberts … Cast, Donald Tochterhagen