Bubba returns to Los Angeles to tie up some loose ends from his last trip there.Bubba returns to Los Angeles to tie up some loose ends from his last trip there.Bubba returns to Los Angeles to tie up some loose ends from his last trip there.
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Howard E. Rollins Jr.
- Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
- (as Howard Rollins)
Debra Stipe
- Pat Day
- (as Debra Sandlund)
Chi Muoi Lo
- Mike Chin
- (as Chi-Muoi Lo)
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- GoofsAt about ten minutes into the show, a Lincoln sedan is shown drawing alongside Emelio Suarez; a short conversation ensues about the top brass of the mob being concerned about Suarez's talking to the police (are these goons corrupt police critters themselves?) then Suarez is shot twice by the guy riding shotgun before the car roars off. The extended shot of Suarez, lying dead on the pavement, clearly shows three bleeding entrance wounds from a pistol - not two.
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Go for it, Skinner!
In an episode from the previous season, Bubba Skinner was attached to the LAPD from Sparta to help track down and crack a California-Mississippi criminal enterprise. These guys played for keeps, and didn't let people get in their way of doing "business." At the end of that Season Four episode, there were a lot of loose ends untied.
This episode from the following Season Five attempted to tie up all those loose ends. Pat Day (Debra Stipe), while not particularly beautiful or even pretty, is insanely attractive...and she and Bubba very quickly pick up their romance from where they left off from the previous season's show - and the Vietnamese teenager whose life Bubba was charged with, to make sure he made it to court alive to testify against a truly vile character, quickly renewed his friendship/hero-worship for Skinner. Pat Day wasted no time renewing her romance with Skinner, either. Finding the bad seed deep inside LAPD, who was doing his/her level best to eliminate witnesses to the court case against the mob was a chore and a half. It was so satisfying to see that clown put on ice so that the wheels of justice could grind to their inevitable conclusion. Seeing that slimeball Atty. Epp from Sparta finally be exposed certainly was no disappointment, either.
I can't help but get the feeling that this show (and its predecessor, as well) were written and produced as a hidden pilot to spin Alan Autry and Debra Stipe off into their own series based in La-La Land. If so, I'm glad it wasn't picked up by any of the networks. Autry was a mainstay in Sparta's story arc...in L. A. he'd have been a fish out of water.
This episode from the following Season Five attempted to tie up all those loose ends. Pat Day (Debra Stipe), while not particularly beautiful or even pretty, is insanely attractive...and she and Bubba very quickly pick up their romance from where they left off from the previous season's show - and the Vietnamese teenager whose life Bubba was charged with, to make sure he made it to court alive to testify against a truly vile character, quickly renewed his friendship/hero-worship for Skinner. Pat Day wasted no time renewing her romance with Skinner, either. Finding the bad seed deep inside LAPD, who was doing his/her level best to eliminate witnesses to the court case against the mob was a chore and a half. It was so satisfying to see that clown put on ice so that the wheels of justice could grind to their inevitable conclusion. Seeing that slimeball Atty. Epp from Sparta finally be exposed certainly was no disappointment, either.
I can't help but get the feeling that this show (and its predecessor, as well) were written and produced as a hidden pilot to spin Alan Autry and Debra Stipe off into their own series based in La-La Land. If so, I'm glad it wasn't picked up by any of the networks. Autry was a mainstay in Sparta's story arc...in L. A. he'd have been a fish out of water.
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