Pacific Blue

- Season 5

(1999)

Pacific Blue's season opener picks up from the cliffhanger season-ender, 'The Right Thing,' in which Bobby Cruz and the three other rookie cops were arrested for withholding evidence in the murder of gang conciliator, John Patrone.

After a sorority girl turns up dead, Monica and Chris go undercover at a very select sorority at Pacific University. Harper discovers that freshman pledges are being forced to strip at a local nightclub as part of their initiation, but then are being blackmailed to continue their activities or risk exposure to their parents and on the internet.

The team goes to Hawaii to train some bike cops. And they get mixed up in Hawaii PD op to get some drug dealers. Eventually they're asked to help and they agree. And Cruz finds himself attracted to one of the cops.

While in Waikiki to train the Honolulu bike patrol, Bobby Cruz and Russ Granger back into an undercover case when they are mistaken for buyers in a large scale drug smuggling operation. They team up with four young, hip undercover officers in Honolulu to bust a ring working out of a surf shop.

A doctor running an underground clinic for plastic surgery causes the death of a young co-ed. The world of high school girls obsessed with plastic surgery is explored when Russ Granger and Monica Harper go undercover. Struck by the beautiful perfection of the students, Monica and Granger learn that the girls' boyfriends have been financing plastic surgery by breaking into homes.

Granger and Cruz are sent to Ventura County on a seemingly simple case to return a witness to a murder trial in Santa Monica. The wild young woman makes their life miserable, escaping numerous times and causing them to miss their date with two gorgeous women headed for Catalina.

A pair of homicidal twins draws Chris into a web of homicide and mystery which threatens both her marriage to T.C. and her career with Pacific Blue.

After a near suicide of a wealthy woman on the Santa Monica Pier, Cruz and Granger go undercover as gigolos to bust a high-end male escort service operating out of a repair shop for imported cars.

When a popular female boxer dies in the ring, it's quickly discovered that the poison which killed her was actually intended for her opponent, real-life boxing superstar, Mia St. John. Envied (and disliked) by her peers for both her feminine beauty and her champion stature, Mia has been the victim of a stalker for several months. Jamie goes undercover as a female fighter, with Bobby as her trainer, both to protect Mia, and find the murderer.

While investigating a drug smuggling case at a Jamaican nightclub, Bobby Cruz is convinced he's being stalked by Emanuel Mendoza, a killer that he sent to prison two years earlier. T.C. tries to relieve Cruz' fears by taking him to Chino Prison to visit Mendoza, who's still incarcerated. Cruz realizes someone has switched places with Mendoza, and that his sworn enemy is actually out to kill him on a 'freebie,' since he is supposedly behind bars.

While headed off for vacation, Jamie Strickland discovers a burned-out, 25-year old soul singer who had a hot career five years before, drunk and stoned on the boardwalk. She tries to help the young woman regain her career and self-respect.

Cory McNamara and Jamie Strickland go undercover in a sex cult operating in Venice Beach under the tutelage of a seductive master who has convinced women to prostitute themselves in the name of God.

When a (black) attorney is suing the city over the death of a young black man at the hands of two cops. He is raising all sorts of hell even saying to the press that he has a witness who will prove that the cops were responsible. Later the man is killed. The Chief knowing that the cops are going to be the prime suspects, assigns the Pac Blue unit to investigate. Initially evidence leads them to suspect the man's wife cause he's having an affair with one of his co-workers. But later his mistress gives them information that helps them snare the killer.

On her way home one night, a female radio talk show host witnesses a woman being murdered by an arms dealer. As the killers are about to shoot her too, T.C. saves her and fires back at the killers - but the flash from his gun blinds the woman. His guilt over this, and the fact that she bears an uncanny resemblance to the love of his life, Chris Kelly, leads T.C. to become obsessed with protecting her. This leads to romance - the victim thinking he is just a caring cop, not the one who robbed her of her sight. Matters become compounded as her sight begins to return.

Jamie Strickland's sister, Jennie, a witness in a previous homicide case, returns from hiding. Detective Marcus, the dirty Narc, is on the warpath, and the juvenile shooter that Jennie can identify has escaped from a work camp as well.

Russ and Cory enter the ugly, violent world of white supremacy to catch the racist killer of several local Mexican and African-American young men. Simultaneously, Jamie tries to protect a young boy, whose talent for photography puts him in jeopardy when he unwittingly captures on film a clandestine meeting between two powerful adversaries.

After a seventeen-year-old girl is kidnapped at a shopping mall, the Pacific Blue team races against the clock during the most critical time in a kidnapping - the first sixty minutes.

After Russ and Bobby arrest a murder suspect, the trial lands before hanging Judge J. Gunnar Halloran. After tossing the weapon because of an illegal search, the heat is turned up on Bobby and Russ, who are accused of planting evidence. The case is further hampered by the fact that Judge Halloran has fallen in love with the exotic dancer sent to blackmail him into releasing the defendant.

Bobby Cruz' sister, Teresa, witnesses the suicide of a high school classmate and begins to fall under the spell of the girl's manipulative boyfriend. An ambitious rookie cop, recently assigned to Pacific Blue, turns out to be a spy for Internal Affairs. Things get complicated when he's let into the young Pac Blue officers' scheme to frame a ruthless drug dealer.

Cory learns she is pregnant, but is unsure whether the father is T.C. Callaway, a one night stand, or Will Blake, her District Attorney boyfriend. Before she can tell either one, she's kidnapped by two jewel thieves who offer to let her go in exchange for the release from jail of their ace safecracker, who happens to be a crazy, violent, female bodybuilder (played by WWF superstar Chynna). T.C. is shot in the leg while saving Cory McNamara.

T.C., now hooked on painkillers from being shot in the leg, leads Pacific Blue on the trail of a potential serial killer who preys on young runaways that he locates via the Internet. Cory and Monica convince a woman psychic, who used to help the police back East, into helping on the case.

While Russ, Bobby, Monica and Jamie are out tracking pot growers in the Santa Monica mountains, Chris Kelly returns to visit a wounded T.C. Callaway, who's fighting addiction to pain pills, as well as kidnap victim Cory McNamara. All hell breaks loose when Chris finds out T.C. slept with her best friend, Cory, and that Cory doesn't know if her pregnancy is the result of Will Blake or T.C. Callaway. The season-ending cliffhanger occurs when Cory opens the blood test results to find out which one is the father.