Crime Story/Justice Hits the Skids

Justice Hits the Skids
Season 1, Episode 10
Airdate	November 11, 1986
Teleplay by	Clifton Campbell
Story by	Chuck Adamson & Michael Mann
Directed by	Mario Di Leo
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Crime Story — Season One

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Justice Hits the Skids is the tenth episode of the first season of Crime Story.

Starring: Dennis Farina (Lt. Mike Torello), Anthony Denison (Ray Luca), Bill Smitrovich (Det. Danny Krychek), Steve Ryan (Det. Nate Grossman), Bill Campbell (Det. Joey Indelli), Paul Butler (Det. Walter Clemmons)

and Starring: Stephen Lang (David Abrams)

with Darlanne Fluegel (Julie Torello), Patricia Charbonneau (Inger), Jon Polito (Phil Bartoli)

Guest Stars: Pam Grier (Suzanne Terry), John Canada Terrell (Sweet Haywood), Tonya Pinkins (Junkie Prostitute)

and Ray Sharkey (U.S. Attorney Harry Breitel)

Co-Starring: Ron Dean (Chief Kramer)

and Featuring in Alphabetical Order: Harvey Blanks (Black Man), Jonathan Council (Clementine), Dan Flannery (Maitre'd), Ray Frewen (Priest), Dean Hill (Bartender), J.J. Jones (Prisoner), Charles Mueller (Bodyguard), Peter Siragusa (Restaurant Patron), John Weeks (Dry Cleaners Worker), Jodi Wright (Nurse)

Plot Overview

Torello doesn't show up at the funeral of Kehoe, but instead seeks out Bartoli and Luca. Suzanne Terry is brutally beaten while seeking information about Mexican brown heroin that is flooding the ghetto, and Abroms asks Torello for help in finding the attackers. Breitel comes to Torello's office with a court order for everything on Weisbord, Bartoli and Luca, and Torello throws him out of his office.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

Torello goes to a private club where Bartoli and Luca are hanging out. When asked to see an invite by a doorman, he punches the guy hard in the stomach, then storms to the back room where the two mobsters are relaxing. Another guy tries to rush Torello, but he smashes him head first into a table next to Bartoli and Luca. He then stands there and stares menacingly at the two mobsters, not saying a word--the look on his face speaks volumes.

At the end of the episode, Abroms is visiting his latest client in lock-up. He looks at the file given to him by the court and sees the notation on it--assault, and the victim's name, Suzanne Terry. We then see him pull out a gun, blow the suspect away, and calmly leave the room. It's all a fantasy, though, as his client then asks if he's defending him or not. Being the bigger man, Abroms says that he'll defend him because that's what he does.