HILL STREET BLUES: BLOOD MONEY (TV)
Summary
One in this series of police dramas about the personal and professional lives of the officers of Hill Street Station, a precinct located in a run-down urban area. In this episode, Esterhaus tells the cops about a criminal who is robbing cabbies while wearing a variety of disguises, adding that a gun store was recently robbed, likely by Jesse John Hudson, the new leader of the Black Arrow gang. Esterhaus then breaks up with Grace over the phone and LaRue tells Washington all about his exciting night of romance with his latest girlfriend. Goldblume convinces Furillo to let him go undercover on the cabbie case, and Washington talks to one of his informants, Freddy, about the murder of a prostitute, Darlene. He suggests that notorious pimp Billy the Monk is to blame, and the man is quickly arrested. Hudson talks to the press about his "educational" community efforts, though they question him about allegations of exploitation and violence, particularly in the death of Clayton Hicks. Virgil tells Belker that Hudson is likely behind Hicks' murder as well as the gun robbery, warning him that Black Arrow is growing strong.
Furillo orders LaRue and Washington to retrieve Freddy, needing more evidence against Billy, and then questions Lambert about an arrest he made in which the woman in question accused him of harassment and several other misdeeds, all of which he strongly denies. Fay arrives and announces to Furillo that she is marrying a man she has known for a week, though she is distracted when the orangutan, still hanging around the station, steals her purse. Goldblume poses as a cabbie and escorts a lonely Southern woman home, assuring her that he is an undercover cop. She asks him to "stay" with her, but he protests that he is married and quickly leaves. Washington finds Freddy preparing to skip town, and Freddy admits that he is deeply in debt and needs money for his son. Washington pays him his informant's fee and makes him swear to meet them later at the station, though tells LaRue to tail him all the same. Grace arrives and overhears Esterhaus making a date with Margaret, and she chastises him for his caddish behavior and returns his belongings. On the way out, she encounters Hunter, and he awkwardly asks her to accompany him to Hudson's art show as his date.
MacAllister invites Esterhaus to his cabin, but Renko overhears and soon invites himself and several other friends to come along. Belker encounters the robber while undercover as the cabbie, and he manages to arrest the man after a dramatic crash. He then tells Furillo that Virgil has provided an possible address for the stolen guns, and Furillo heads for the art show, where he has a tense run-in with Hudson. He meets an attractive woman, Adrianna, but also runs into Joyce, who is there with another man, and Adrianna immediately senses the connection between them. Grace bluntly tells Hunter that Esterhaus could not "handle" her, and they quickly leave the show together. Belker finds the stolen goods and tries to connect them to Hudson, and LaRue and Washington find Freddy about to board a train out of town with his son, proving that he is unreliable after all. Freddy begs not to be arrested in front of his kid, bidding him a tearful farewell as the cops take him away. Back at the station, Goldblume tells Furillo about his close brush with infidelity, and though Furillo advises him against it, Goldblume soon gives in to temptation and returns to the woman's apartment. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 5, 1981 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:49:10
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:66208
- GENRE: Drama, police/detective
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/detective
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1981-1987
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Steven Bochco … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Gregory Hoblit … Supervising Producer, Director
- David Anspaugh … Producer
- Anthony Yerkovich … Producer, Writer
- Scott Brazil … Associate Producer
- Michael Kozoll … Created by, Writer
- Mike Post … Music by
- Daniel J. Travanti … Cast, Capt. Frank Furillo
- Michael Conrad … Cast, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus
- Michael Warren … Cast, Officer Bobby Hill
- Bruce Weitz … Cast, Sgt. Mick Belker
- James B. Sikking … Cast, Lt. Howard Hunter
- Joe Spano … Cast, Det. Henry Goldblume
- Barbara Bosson … Cast, Fay Furillo
- Taurean Blacque … Cast, Det. Neal Washington
- Kiel Martin … Cast, Officer J.D. LaRue
- Rene Enriquez … Cast, Lt. Ray Calletano
- Betty Thomas … Cast, Officer Lucy Bates
- Ed Marinaro … Cast, Officer Joe Coffey
- Charles Haid … Cast, Officer Andrew Renko
- Veronica Hamel … Cast, Joyce Davenport
- Barbara Babcock … Cast, Grace Gardner
- Danny Glover … Cast, Jesse John Hudson
- Sandy McPeak … Cast, Mac MacAllister
- John Dennis Johnston … Cast, Freddy
- Karen Austin … Cast, West Virginia
- Nathan Cook … Cast, Virgil Brooks
- Charles Guardino … Cast, Ben Lambert
- Jim Tartan … Cast, Calloway
- Robert Hirschfeld … Cast, Leo
- Sandra McCabe … Cast, Adrianna Furth
- M.E. Loree … Cast, Samantha McBride
- Lew Hopson … Cast, Billy the Monk
- J.D. Hall … Cast, 1st Man
- Charles Walker … Cast, Reporter #1
- Victoria Thatcher … Cast, Reporter #2
- Faith Minton … Cast, Large Hooker
- Eugene Robert Glazer … Cast, Art Show Suitor