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Serpico
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Good Night, Baby, Time to Die ***
Original air date: 2/22/72
The menacing William Watson plays L.B. Barker, who escapes from jail and threatens his former girlfriend, Carol Rhodes (Beth Brickell). McGarrett arrives at her hotel room and has the place surrounded with cops. When Carol offers McGarrett a drink and he refuses, she says, "I just can't imagine a guy with a name like McGarrett not having one drink." She also talks about her relationship with Alfred Townsend, an older man, which led to jealousy from Barker some years back: "It wasn't sex, he didn't use me like everybody else ... it was just kindness." We learn that McGarrett was appointed to Five-O in 1959 when Hawaii achieved statehood and that in 1968, suffering from major burnout, he took a vacation in Switzerland. Carol, a ditzy blonde, becomes more fragmented as time goes on, yet when Barker appears, she suddenly becomes very lucid. In order to get to her apartment, Barker seemingly has to crawl vertically up a heating vent for several stories and then rappel down the side of the building (and no one notices him, though cops are everywhere). It turns out that Barker's appearance is all part of a scam engineered by McGarrett and the D.A. to make Carol confess to a murder which Barker supposedly committed several years ago. McGarrett gets the whole thing on tape on his "case-sette" tape recorder. I imagine, as Carol suggests, the lawyers are going to have a field day with this case. This is pretty much a three-person show -- there are no "supporting players" in the credits.
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Dem als uerst gefhrlich eingestuften L. B. Barker ist es gelungen, aus dem Gefngnis auszubrechen. L. B. Barker verfolgt nur ein Ziel: Er will sich an seiner frheren Geliebten Carol Rhodes rchen. McGarrett gewhrt der Bedrohten Polizeischutz - nicht ohne Hintergedanken: Mit dieser Manahme versucht der Polizist auch, die Hintergrnde dieser merkwrdigen Geschichte aufzuklren. Schlielich nimmt der Fall eine fr alle Beteiligten berraschende Wendung.
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