Night Heat

- Season 1

(1985)

Tom Kirkwood, a journalist for the Eagle, writes a column recording the activities of Kevin O'Brien and Frank Giambone, two night-shift detectives who, along with their team under the direction of Lt. Jim Hogan.

While chasing some perps, Frank shoots one of them claiming he was holding a gun. But a search of the area turns up a flashlight. Frank tries to deal with his guilt if he was wrong.

A woman on the way home is attacked and raped in her own house. Kevin and Frank quickly nab a suspect and are convinced that he is also responsible for six other rapes. Now they must prove his guilt. In a side story, two unrelated murders.

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A woman is shot with a stolen automatic weapon. O'Brien knows the dealer but can he can get witness cooperation?

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Kirkwood shoots a paperboy and a nun--in a simulation. Giambone and Brody arrest a robber...turns out the stickup man is also wanted for murder. A surprise party for Hogan is ruined by a desperate situation at the police station.

An IRA figurehead under police protection is targeted before he can testify at trial. Fingers point in all directions, Internal Affairs is involved, can Obie get to the bottom of it?

A cocaine-addicted singer dies suddenly in her dressing room. It looked like an O.D., but the white powder she snorted was 50% cyanide. At a show biz party, Giambone meets an old high school flame who is now an actress, and also a cokehead

O'Brien and Giambone investigate a murder staged as a suicide and a murder staged as a holdup; linking the two victims to their faked prison records results in the police cooperating with (or rather, colliding with) the CIA.

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Bobby Taylor, a "Cub" reporter comes to Tommy for help on an expose story he's written on corruption in the construction industry. Tommy feels that what he has is a good start, but Bobby needs to come up with more evidence than just one source and he needs to identify that person. Bobby upset with Tommy's constructive criticism, storms out of The Eagle and while crossing the street, he's killed when a car hits him. While visiting Bobby's widow to break the bad news, Kevin is going through the stolen vehicle reports to see if the car that hit Bobby will turn up. Tommy ...

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Colby believes that his brother, Devo, may hold the key to a gem theft/murder case.

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