NYPD BLUE: DEAD MAN TALKING (TV)
Summary
One in this series of rough-edged police dramas about the cases and private lives of the detectives and station house personnel of a Manhattan precinct. In this episode, Detectives Sipowicz and Simone investigate the double homicide of a wife and her infant son, who were shot execution-style, while the husband, Paul Angelos, suffers a stomach wound. Noticing the absence of signs of struggle, Sipowicz is visibly moved looking at the dead infant in its crib. Meanwhile, Lt. Fancy receives a surprise visit from an ailing old friend, Harvey Boutier, who has information about an unsolved murder case from fifteen years earlier. Also, Detectives Russell, Medavoy, and Martinez investigate the beating and death of a rock 'n' roll manager in his office bathroom, which came as no surprise to his colleagues. Meanwhile, Sipowicz and Simone speak with Mrs. Angelos's mother, who thinks little of her wounded son-in-law, and retired detective Vince Gotelli, now working in life insurance, tells them about a policy that Angelos had on his wife and son. When they ask a strip club owner why her number frequently appears on Angelos's phone records, she directs them to a new friend of his who, according to Fancy, was recently arrested. In the meantime, Harvey admits the role he played in a fifteen-year-old murder, and Fancy wants to know why he took so long to come forward. When Sipowicz and Simone question the possible suspect in the double homicide, he admits that Angelos hired him to kill his family, and ultimately, Angelos tells the truth about the shootings during a lie detector test. Also, Russell, Medavoy, and Martinez are unable to find suspects because anyone associated with the deceased manager is happy that he is gone. When a cleaning man from the office building tells the three detectives what he knows, Russell becomes painfully aware that the man has a temper problem. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements. Commercials include Nastassia Kiniski for Visa credit cards; public service announcements include Paul Newman for the American Arts Alliance Foundation and Morgan Fairchild for Shriners Hospitals.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 11, 1997 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:32
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:51792
- GENRE: Drama, police
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1993-2005
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "One Night Stand" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - "The Jackal" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - All laundry detergent
- TV - Commercials - American Express credit cards
- TV - Commercials - Burlington Coat Factory stores
- TV - Commercials - Dove moisterizing body wash
- TV - Commercials - Lens Crafters eyewear stores
- TV - Commercials - MCI phone services
- TV - Commercials - Nicorette nicotine gum
- TV - Commercials - Nissan Frontier pick-up truck
- TV - Commercials - Pam cooking spray
- TV - Commercials - Sony DVD video equipment
- TV - Commercials - Target stores
- TV - Commercials - The Home Depot hardware stores
- TV - Commercials - The Olive Garden restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Tresemme hair products
- TV - Commercials - United States Postal Service
- TV - Commercials - Visa credit cards
- TV - Commercials - Wisk Color-Hold laundry detergent
- TV - PSA - American Arts Alliance Foundation
- TV - PSA - Education Excellence Partnership
- TV - PSA - National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- TV - PSA - Shriners Hospitals
- TV - PSA - U.S. Department of Transportation
- TV - Promos - "20/20"
- TV - Promos - "Ellen"
- TV - Promos - "MedusaÕs Child"
- TV - Promos - "Nightline"
- TV - Promos - "Nothing Sacred"
- TV - Promos - "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher"
- TV - Promos - "PrimeTime Live"
- TV - Promos - "The Drew Carey Show"
- TV - Promos - "The Practice"
- TV - Promos - "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings"
CREDITS
- Mark Tinker … Executive Producer
- Steven Bochco … Executive Producer, Created by
- David Milch … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Steven DePaul … Coordinating Producer
- Kevin Arkadie … Supervising Producer
- Paris Barclay … Producer
- Bob Doherty … Producer
- Chad Savage … Co-Producer
- Leonard Gardner … Co-Producer
- JoAnne McCool … Associate Producer
- Donna Deitch … Director
- Jason Cahill … Writer
- Bill Clark … Writer
- Ian Dye … Music by
- Mike Post … Theme Music by
- Jimmy Smits … Cast, Det. Bobby Simone
- Dennis Franz … Cast, Det. Andy Sipowicz
- James McDaniel … Cast, Lt. Arthur Fancy
- Nicholas Turturro … Cast, Det. James Martinez
- Gordon Clapp … Cast, Det. Greg Medavoy
- Kim Delaney … Cast, Det. Diane Russell
- Andrea Thompson … Cast, Det. Jill Kirkendall
- Michael Buchman Silver … Cast, Asst. D.A. Leo Cohen
- Dick Anthony Williams … Cast, Harvey Boutier
- Alan Blumenfeld … Cast, Paul Angelos
- Carmine Caridi … Cast, Vince Gotelli
- Gabrielle Fitzpatrick … Cast, Naomi Reynolds
- Mark Pellegrino … Cast, Fran Watkins
- Frank Collison … Cast, Dana Lennix
- Shareen Mitchell … Cast, Shauna Mills
- Vera Lockwood … Cast, Mrs. Vargas
- Lola Glaudini … Cast, Patty Bell
- Jon David Weigand … Cast, Nils Non
- Lionel Mark Smith … Cast, Onus Price
- Wendy Schenker … Cast, Officer Barnes
- Erik LaRay Harvey … Cast, Wexler
- Scott E. Davis … Cast, John
- Lisa Louise Langford … Cast, Paramedic #1
- Brian Schwary … Cast, Paramedic #2
- Anthony A. DeVito … Cast, the Bartender
- Henry Murph … Cast, N.D. Det. Harold