Crime Story/Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge
Season 2, Episode 10
Airdate	January 5, 1988
Teleplay by	Howard Chesley, Nancy Audley
Story by	Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed by	David Soul
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Crime Story — Season Two

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Moulin Rouge is the tenth episode of the second season of Crime Story, and the thirty-second episode overall.

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

and Starring: Stephen Lang (David Abrams)

with Andrew Dice Clay (Max Goldman)

Guest Stars: Margaret Avery (Iris Marshall), Pam Grier (Susanne Terry), James McDaniel (Byron), Gregory Wallace (Marcus St. John), Dennis Haysbert (Franklin), Tom Henschel (), John Seitz (Lt. Vanalden), Jann Wenner (Hallahan)

and Dexter Gordon (Rollie)

Co-Starring: Tom Everett (Rothstein), Ji Tu Cumbuka (Buzz)

Featuring in Alphabetical Order: Marilyn Alderson (Waitress), Patricia Buford (Moulin Rouge Waitress), Lamarr Jefferson (Valet), Cork Proctor (Manager #2), Donna Sheehan (Showgirl), James Morgan Williams (Maitre D' / Owner)

Plot Overview

Torello and the team are enjoying a night with an old friend, the son of a former Chicago colleague of theirs, at a Black-owned nightclub where he plays in the house band, when the place is fire-bombed. Ordered by Hallahan to investigate the case as a Civil Rights violation, they soon realize that it may be more than that when masked bandits break into the office, clean out the safe and kill the club's co-owner. Krychek goes undercover at the club and discovers that one of the musicians is also a heroin pusher, and Torello angrily discovers that his friend Byron is an addict and sets out to clean him up. Reporter Suzanne Terry, now working on a story for the club for Newsweek, drops in at the club and reacquaints herself with the team. When she asks about Abrams, Torello just tells her that he's gone into private practice. Suzanne eventually tracks her ex-boyfriend down, and they have a reunion, where the intuitive reporter figures out that he's working for Luca and chides him for selling out all that he believes in. Goldman tells Torello that a cop is behind the bombing and extortion at the club, and Iris, the club's owner, comes clean with Torello, saying that the Nevada Criminal Bureau cop knew her from New Orleans, where she was arrested on a trumped-up prostitution charge. He's holding her gaming license and will revoke it unless she pays him. Torello and Clemmons take down the bad cop, but a new threat looms for the casino...Iris has taken on three partners, and Torello and the Task Force rightfully suspect that they're bad news.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

Torello and his Black friend Byron go out for a cup of coffee after the casino bombing. Byron tries for 15 minutes to flag down a waitress to serve them, and she continuously passes them by, serving other customers who have been seated after them. Mike grabs a pot of coffee and asks Byron how it takes it, deliberately over-filling the cup, which gets the waitress's attention, and the angry cop throws the glass pot at the coffee station, shattering it. The manager comes over and tells them to leave before he calls the police. Torello informs him he IS the police, that they've been waiting and passed by while customers who arrived later were being served. He then tells the manager that he sees at least seven health code violations and probably will find 10 or 14 smaller violations if he goes into the kitchen. Mike then tells him that he and his friend want coffee, and all of a sudden, he and Byron are hungry as well...he wants two thick steaks, medium rare, with baked potato with sour cream, hot rolls and butter and apple pie a la mode for dessert. He also points to the broken glass and says 'Clean this mess up!'

Quotes

• Torello: From now on, it's you...me...your habit...and Channel 3!

(he's got Byron in a back room, trying to sweat him out from the heroin addiction)