1. | Pills |
Rossi is handed records which prove that a doctor is illegally prescribing drugs. When the story runs and it is suspected that the records may have been obtained by illegal means, Rossi is told to either reveal his source or go to jail. více |
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2. | Prisoner |
When Mrs. Pynchon plays host to the wife of the leader of a controversial Latin American country known for its torturing practices, Charlie Hume is anything but inviting to her. více |
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3. | Hooker | Billie has been assigned to do a piece on prostitutes. Several hookers have been murdered and the killer is being dubbed the "dropcloth" killer, because the bodies are wrapped in a painter's dropcloth. She meets a worker at a massage parlor and is surprised to find the woman not at all like she imagined a prostitute to be. Billie and her subject become friends, and Billie is worried when the woman continues to takes appointments as another prostitute has been found murdered. Rossi is doing a parallel piece on the way porn shops have invaded the older neighborhoods in LA, and invites an elected official to go on a tour of one of the areas with him. The official is upset after Rossi writes a piece about the grandstanding attitude of the man during their tour, who has done nothing to get rid of the porn shops. více |
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4. | Mob |
Lou and Rossi visit a California resort in preparation for the Trib's annual tennis tournament. They are perplexed at the number of mob bosses they see at the resort, and begin to investigate. více |
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5. | Murder |
Billie is upset because her story, about a courageous black woman who is slain in her own apartment, is relegated to the back pages while Rossi's story, about an elderly white woman who fights off burglars, makes the front page. více |
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6. | Dying |
Art Donovan's mother is dying, but he is having trouble accepting this as fact. His relations with everyone in the newsroom suffer as his mother gets worse, and his colleagues try to help him come to terms with the inevitable. více |
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While Billie & Rossi investigate school violence, Lou befriends a guidance counselor who shares his interest in a student vying for a Tribune scholarship. více |
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8. | Slaughter |
Lou visits his home town while on vacation and meets his old boss who now runs the town's newspaper. While there, an outbreak of an unknown cattle disease gets Lou's attention when it's suggested the disease could be transmitted to humans. více |
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9. | Singles | Lou clashes with the new media consultant who believes that the paper should do more trashy stories to cater to the younger crowds. One of those stories has Billie and Rossi investigating the "singles" scene by going out on dates through a computer service. While Rossi has trouble finding time with his date, Billie has trouble getting rid of her date. více |
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10. | Babies |
Billie and Rossi pose as a married couple in order to uncover a black market baby selling operation. více |
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While investigating a string of fires in the same neighborhood, Lou and Billie find a connection linking a building owner and members of a fire department to arson. více |
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22. | Bomb | A terrorist seeking Croatian independence hands Rossi the plans for a nuclear device along with a threat to use it. The paper faces difficult choices. Doing the right thing and telling the Federal Government who feeds them a standard line of plausible denial and asks the paper to sit on the story. The terrorists are waiting with the their agenda on a timeline which cannot be changed. The episode discusses the idea of nuclear terrorism and how easy it is to obtain the materials for and construct a nuclear device. The issues are pulled out the headlines and are still plausible today. In researching the story, Billie rekindles a romance with an old college flame. Meanwhile Rossi must decide what to do about dating Charlie Hume's daughter. více |
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