Quincy's friend, the estranged son of a mobster, is accused of arson and murder. Can Quincy help save his friend?Quincy's friend, the estranged son of a mobster, is accused of arson and murder. Can Quincy help save his friend?Quincy's friend, the estranged son of a mobster, is accused of arson and murder. Can Quincy help save his friend?
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Eugene Roche!
One of the highlights of the last season of Quincy, "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" benefits heavily from the performance of the man whom I titled this review after, Eugene Roche, an actor of immense versatility who was great at playing 'heavies' as well as playing comedic roles in shows like All In the Family and Night Court.
In this episode, Roche shines as Philip St. Johns, a McCarthy-esque Federal Prosecutor who's out to nail Quincy's good friend, Ted Locke (Rudy Solari) on a variety of charges after his warehouse burns down, killing a janitor. It seems that Ted's last name is not Locke, but LoCasele, and that other members of his family on the East Coast are mobsters, and he claims that he changed his name and moved west to disassociate himself with his family (for the record, this is not the first time that Solari had played such a character...he was in the FBI episode "The Cober List", where he played a doctor who suffered because other family members were in the Syndicate).
Anyhow, St. Johns is out to get Ted for any possible charge he can...the money that you sent to your sister to help with her sick kid? Yeah, right...MONEY LAUNDERING! You filed an insurance claim for this so-called accident? MAIL FRAUD! You have family members involved with the Syndicate? Hey, we can make something of that as well! And how about arson and murder, too? We got you nailed ten ways to Sunday! But Roche doesn't count on Ted having Quincy in his corner, our hero being far more sensible than Mr. Prosecutor, and he's even willing to go to jail (briefly) for refusing to participate in this farce.
As stated before, Quincy tries to come up with sensible ways for the Grand Jury to operate, but gets shot down...how could going up against the Grand Jury with legal counsel result in criminals going free, as St. Johns argues? Eventually, Quincy convinces the Grand Jury members to witness his recreation of the accident, which satisfies all but one person...can you guess who that is? At the end of the episode, the Assistant D. A. tells St. Johns that his office is convinced that the whole thing was indeed a tragic accident and that the Federal dude is a fool, but St. Johns remains resolute in his duties...he's gonna nail Locke no matter what, and you better not stand in his way. The freeze-frame on his face to close the episode shows that he means business.
The only problem I have with this episode is that it's not exactly original...Jim Rockford was the target of Grand Jury abuse (in the person of William Daniels) in the Rockford Files episode "So Help Me God". Quincy's writers were coming up with a lot of innovative storylines in the later years, for both legal and medical issues. It's sad to see them not covering new ground here, but seeing two brilliant actors like Eugene Roche and Jack Klugman butting heads is a thing of beauty. Rudy Solari, a TV veteran and a pioneer in the L. A. theater scene, also does a nice job as an innocent guy caught up in a big mess.
In this episode, Roche shines as Philip St. Johns, a McCarthy-esque Federal Prosecutor who's out to nail Quincy's good friend, Ted Locke (Rudy Solari) on a variety of charges after his warehouse burns down, killing a janitor. It seems that Ted's last name is not Locke, but LoCasele, and that other members of his family on the East Coast are mobsters, and he claims that he changed his name and moved west to disassociate himself with his family (for the record, this is not the first time that Solari had played such a character...he was in the FBI episode "The Cober List", where he played a doctor who suffered because other family members were in the Syndicate).
Anyhow, St. Johns is out to get Ted for any possible charge he can...the money that you sent to your sister to help with her sick kid? Yeah, right...MONEY LAUNDERING! You filed an insurance claim for this so-called accident? MAIL FRAUD! You have family members involved with the Syndicate? Hey, we can make something of that as well! And how about arson and murder, too? We got you nailed ten ways to Sunday! But Roche doesn't count on Ted having Quincy in his corner, our hero being far more sensible than Mr. Prosecutor, and he's even willing to go to jail (briefly) for refusing to participate in this farce.
As stated before, Quincy tries to come up with sensible ways for the Grand Jury to operate, but gets shot down...how could going up against the Grand Jury with legal counsel result in criminals going free, as St. Johns argues? Eventually, Quincy convinces the Grand Jury members to witness his recreation of the accident, which satisfies all but one person...can you guess who that is? At the end of the episode, the Assistant D. A. tells St. Johns that his office is convinced that the whole thing was indeed a tragic accident and that the Federal dude is a fool, but St. Johns remains resolute in his duties...he's gonna nail Locke no matter what, and you better not stand in his way. The freeze-frame on his face to close the episode shows that he means business.
The only problem I have with this episode is that it's not exactly original...Jim Rockford was the target of Grand Jury abuse (in the person of William Daniels) in the Rockford Files episode "So Help Me God". Quincy's writers were coming up with a lot of innovative storylines in the later years, for both legal and medical issues. It's sad to see them not covering new ground here, but seeing two brilliant actors like Eugene Roche and Jack Klugman butting heads is a thing of beauty. Rudy Solari, a TV veteran and a pioneer in the L. A. theater scene, also does a nice job as an innocent guy caught up in a big mess.
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