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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 81446" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p><strong>The Lifeline Agency. </strong>When Pepper and Crowley discover the wife of a fellow cop among the wreckage of a small plane crash, the duo go undercover as a dizzy rich couple out to purchase a black market baby. But the doctor running Buy A Baby Island recognizes Pepper from an earlier arrest, so she gets to shoot somebody else and Crowley drives a boat... An okay-ish episode, competently helmed by Corey Allen.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/dd900c56-fa45-4d98-8ddd-cae8e80524bd_zpslgavmnwx.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 713px" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Tennis Bum. </strong>While working undercover at a resort, Pepper becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro and suspect (Alex Cord) who turns out to be an undercover cop his own bad self (which, for some reason Pepper must never know!). And Pep reveals herself to a nightclub singer (who actually delivers a horrible rendition of the unavoidably horrible lounge lizard classic "Feelings") to be a Virgo, after previously claiming to be a Scorpio and a Gemini -- so her horoscopic configuration apparently adjusts with each assignment, just in case she gets recognized... Slow episode might have worked better if Angie weren't so subdued and nervous... Good, windswept freeze frame at the end which seems to be lifted from the program they ought to be making.</p><p></p><p><strong>Bait. </strong>A series of campus rapes leads Pepper to give a clunky speech at a sorority house about how lounging around in your bikini by the pool might lead a pervert on, so don't do it. The pledge sisters all go to a window to verify that girls indeed lay by pools in bikinis and must be asking for rape to happen. (Wherever the line exists between political incorrectness and backsliding sexism, this series seems determined to menstruate all over it). And after interrogating a handful of suspects, Pepper, fully dressed, is confronted by the rapist in an empty building and suddenly forgets she's a trained police officer and just starts to cry. Thank goodness the men show up. But it's a case of <em>climactic</em> <em>interruptus: </em>after all that build-up, the thug is just shoved against a wall and collapses ... Flaws aside, the installment almost works.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Death of a Dream. </strong>Listening to the police radio back at the station as Crowley and the team transfer a former '60s militant whose followers suddenly try to free him from custody, Pepper then descends on the scene, is told to "shut up" and leave by Sgt. Crowley (even the ex-militant laughs at her hubris and humiliation by her boss) and then goes against orders and invades the motel where those well-armed followers are holed up, she's quickly captured, she narcs on one of the thugs who'd mercifully allowed her to run through an alley without shooting her, bombs are detonated, and Crowley and the department now have to save Pepper, too, in addition to several hostages... Decent episode, but why are they making Pepper so stupid? Good original score by Morton Stevens.</p><p></p><p>For some reason, the bikini shots of girls on the walls of the van Crowley and the team is using to observe the motel in question have been blurred on the DVD prints in perhaps a gesture of latter day political correctness.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWdeathofadream_zps4vuz23bk.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 786px" /></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/57/f1/73/57f173c43f96f471dd62cc39bcdbe46c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 578px" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Father to the Man. </strong>A sassy preteen girl (Kim Richards) is picked up while walking home from school by the friend of her father whose head is blown up by a shotgun from a passing car, a shot intended for her dad. Pepper and company realize the murder is a case of mafioso mistaken identity, but that sassy girl just won't tell them where to find Daddy so the cops can protect him. The dialogue is pathetic. Interesting use of locations, but Angie just sits around quietly as Crowley says and does everything. Eventually, everyone winds up at the beach where the goons have the daughter, Pops is lured there in a stolen hatchback with a baby in the backseat in an unsubtle attempt at irony, a couple of guys get shot including Daddy, and Pepper embraces the girl and says something maudlin which doesn't work before the frame freezes and fades to black... A good example of how the show is now taking decent ideas and making flat, dumb and pointless episodes out of them. To be fair, the problem here is the lousy pubescent actress who sinks every scene she's in. Paging Jodie Foster.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/53112d10-0c1f-4745-8ce9-52cb499a1ac2_zpsvlxsah2g.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 760px" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Once a Snitch. </strong>Pepper's favorite informant since Patty Duke was knocked off, "the Black Widow" (Paula Kelly), makes her third annual appearance on the show when someone attempts to murder a new police chief (Berney Casey) in a nearby township -- a new police chief who'd unknowingly fathered the Black Widow's daughter years earlier. Unavoidably, Pepper and her pal pose as hookers and are promptly arrested by Ray Krebbs and Nick Kimball for no valid legal reason. Later, the ladies are saved by the squad before the local mobsters can dust them... A pale, dull redux of Season 1's sparkling "The Company".</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/ea915a36-85ac-4cbd-9c64-21d58d3f9ece_zpsibcim0m1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 779px" /></p><p></p><p>Even the actresses look bored.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Angie_Dickenson_Paula_Kelly_Police_Woman_1976.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 878px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 81446, member: 57984"] [B]The Lifeline Agency. [/B]When Pepper and Crowley discover the wife of a fellow cop among the wreckage of a small plane crash, the duo go undercover as a dizzy rich couple out to purchase a black market baby. But the doctor running Buy A Baby Island recognizes Pepper from an earlier arrest, so she gets to shoot somebody else and Crowley drives a boat... An okay-ish episode, competently helmed by Corey Allen. [IMG width="713px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/dd900c56-fa45-4d98-8ddd-cae8e80524bd_zpslgavmnwx.png[/IMG] [B]Tennis Bum. [/B]While working undercover at a resort, Pepper becomes romantically involved with a tennis pro and suspect (Alex Cord) who turns out to be an undercover cop his own bad self (which, for some reason Pepper must never know!). And Pep reveals herself to a nightclub singer (who actually delivers a horrible rendition of the unavoidably horrible lounge lizard classic "Feelings") to be a Virgo, after previously claiming to be a Scorpio and a Gemini -- so her horoscopic configuration apparently adjusts with each assignment, just in case she gets recognized... Slow episode might have worked better if Angie weren't so subdued and nervous... Good, windswept freeze frame at the end which seems to be lifted from the program they ought to be making. [B]Bait. [/B]A series of campus rapes leads Pepper to give a clunky speech at a sorority house about how lounging around in your bikini by the pool might lead a pervert on, so don't do it. The pledge sisters all go to a window to verify that girls indeed lay by pools in bikinis and must be asking for rape to happen. (Wherever the line exists between political incorrectness and backsliding sexism, this series seems determined to menstruate all over it). And after interrogating a handful of suspects, Pepper, fully dressed, is confronted by the rapist in an empty building and suddenly forgets she's a trained police officer and just starts to cry. Thank goodness the men show up. But it's a case of [I]climactic[/I] [I]interruptus: [/I]after all that build-up, the thug is just shoved against a wall and collapses ... Flaws aside, the installment almost works. [B]The Death of a Dream. [/B]Listening to the police radio back at the station as Crowley and the team transfer a former '60s militant whose followers suddenly try to free him from custody, Pepper then descends on the scene, is told to "shut up" and leave by Sgt. Crowley (even the ex-militant laughs at her hubris and humiliation by her boss) and then goes against orders and invades the motel where those well-armed followers are holed up, she's quickly captured, she narcs on one of the thugs who'd mercifully allowed her to run through an alley without shooting her, bombs are detonated, and Crowley and the department now have to save Pepper, too, in addition to several hostages... Decent episode, but why are they making Pepper so stupid? Good original score by Morton Stevens. For some reason, the bikini shots of girls on the walls of the van Crowley and the team is using to observe the motel in question have been blurred on the DVD prints in perhaps a gesture of latter day political correctness. [IMG width="786px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWdeathofadream_zps4vuz23bk.png[/IMG] [IMG width="578px"]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/57/f1/73/57f173c43f96f471dd62cc39bcdbe46c.jpg[/IMG] [B]Father to the Man. [/B]A sassy preteen girl (Kim Richards) is picked up while walking home from school by the friend of her father whose head is blown up by a shotgun from a passing car, a shot intended for her dad. Pepper and company realize the murder is a case of mafioso mistaken identity, but that sassy girl just won't tell them where to find Daddy so the cops can protect him. The dialogue is pathetic. Interesting use of locations, but Angie just sits around quietly as Crowley says and does everything. Eventually, everyone winds up at the beach where the goons have the daughter, Pops is lured there in a stolen hatchback with a baby in the backseat in an unsubtle attempt at irony, a couple of guys get shot including Daddy, and Pepper embraces the girl and says something maudlin which doesn't work before the frame freezes and fades to black... A good example of how the show is now taking decent ideas and making flat, dumb and pointless episodes out of them. To be fair, the problem here is the lousy pubescent actress who sinks every scene she's in. Paging Jodie Foster. [IMG width="760px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/53112d10-0c1f-4745-8ce9-52cb499a1ac2_zpsvlxsah2g.png[/IMG] [B]Once a Snitch. [/B]Pepper's favorite informant since Patty Duke was knocked off, "the Black Widow" (Paula Kelly), makes her third annual appearance on the show when someone attempts to murder a new police chief (Berney Casey) in a nearby township -- a new police chief who'd unknowingly fathered the Black Widow's daughter years earlier. Unavoidably, Pepper and her pal pose as hookers and are promptly arrested by Ray Krebbs and Nick Kimball for no valid legal reason. Later, the ladies are saved by the squad before the local mobsters can dust them... A pale, dull redux of Season 1's sparkling "The Company". [IMG width="779px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/ea915a36-85ac-4cbd-9c64-21d58d3f9ece_zpsibcim0m1.png[/IMG] Even the actresses look bored. [IMG width="878px"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Angie_Dickenson_Paula_Kelly_Police_Woman_1976.JPG[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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