Crime Story

You posin' for pictures? Or you gonna pull the trigger?

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

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Seasons

1. Pilot (1)

Air Date: 1986-09-19

Here we meet the three major players of the series: Lt. Mike Torrello, head of Chicago's Major Crime Unit(MCU); Ray Luca, a young hood about to make his mark on the underworld; and David Abrams, an idealistic public defender trying to bury his Mob-connected roots. As the story unfolds Torrello is working with to bring down members of Chicago's underworld while Luca is taken under the wing of Manny Weisbord; one of Chicago's most powerful crime figures. As events proceed Torrello and Luca each become aware of the other's existence. Torello realizes that there is a new player that he must bring down.

2. Pilot (2)

Air Date: 1986-09-19

Here we meet the three major players of the series: Lt. Mike Torrello, head of Chicago's Major Crime Unit(MCU); Ray Luca, a young hood about to make his mark on the underworld; and David Abrams, an idealistic public defender trying to bury his Mob-connected roots. As the story unfolds Torrello is working with Abrams to bring down members of Chicago's underworld while Luca is taken under the wing of Manny Weisbord; one of Chicago's most powerful crime figures. As events proceed Torrello and Luca each become aware of the other's existence. Torello realizes that there is a new player that he must bring down.

3. Final Transmission

Air Date: 1986-09-20

With Torello's MCU hunting a psychopath, Luca plots jewel heists and the takeover of a sports-gambling operation.

4. Shadow Dancer

Air Date: 1986-09-27

Torello gains a major advantage when one of Luca's burglars is connected to a robbery-homicide of a coin collector's wife. Torello finds out Julie is pregnant.

5. The Saint Louis Book of Blues

Air Date: 1986-09-30

Mobsters support Luca's nationwide gambling scheme. A publicity-seeking sheriff hampers Torello's arrest of one of Luca's men.

6. The War

Air Date: 1986-10-07

A book intercepted by Torello jeopardizes Luca's nationwide gambling operation. The Torellos meet with tragedy.

7. Abrams for the Defense

Air Date: 1986-10-14

Attorney Abrams falls for a reporter helping him defend a tenant accused of assaulting a slum landlord.

8. Pursuit of a Wanted Felon

Air Date: 1986-10-28

Conflict ruins the Torello's weekend trip. Luca situates in Las Vegas. Bigots target Abrams's relationship with Susan.

9. Old Friends, Dead Ends

Air Date: 1986-11-04

Torello confronts his new friend, now laundering money for the Mob. Federal investigators indict Luca and Bartoli.

10. Justice Hits the Skids

Air Date: 1986-11-11

Devastated by Kehoe's death, Torello stonewalls Breitel's federal investigation. Abrams joins the MCU on the street.

11. For Love or Money

Air Date: 1986-12-05

Divorced Torello finds comfort with Inger. The Crime Unit nabs Luca's jewelry-heist team. Torello's best friend supplies the Mob with capital.

12. Hide and Go Thief

Air Date: 1986-12-12

Indelli and Krychek must deal with a tense hostage situation. Torello travels to Indiana to make his move on Frank Holman.

13. Strange Bedfellows

Air Date: 1986-12-26

Holman ideintifies Torello as a dirty cop to Breitel. After an attempt on his life, Luca takes refuge in Florida.

14. Fatal Crossroads

Air Date: 1987-01-09

Torello is subpoenaed to testify for Luca. An enraged Abrams jumps to Torello's defense. Luca orders Torello and Abrams killed.

15. Torello on Trial

Air Date: 1987-01-16

Breitel brutally cross-examines Torello. Acquitted Luca moves to Las Vegas. Torello gets a new assignment.

16. The Kingdom of Money

Air Date: 1987-01-30

Torello and Krychek join the Federal Task Force planning to raid Luca's new gambling business in Las Vegas.

17. The Battle of Las Vegas

Air Date: 1987-02-06

To take over Las Vegas casinos, Luca murders the head of a resort-workers union to put his own man in the position.

18. The Survivor

Air Date: 1987-02-13

Torello falls in love with a Justice Attorney's former wife, only to find out that the attorney has been molesting his adopted daughter. Molestation charges jeopardizes the Unit's investigation of Luca.

19. The Pinnacle

Air Date: 1987-02-27

Luca's greedy ploy to take over another casino puts his entire gambling empire in jeopardy.

20. Top of the World

Air Date: 1987-03-06

Luca's jubilation over his growing business turns to fear that his associates are setting him up. Luca's insatiable lust for violence proves his undoing when he rapes Pauli's girlfriend. Pauli testifies for the prosecution in Luca's trial.

21. Ground Zero

Air Date: 1987-03-13

After his murder mistrial, Luca clashes with a crime kingpin over plans to split up control of the sinking Luca gambling empire. Pauli changes his mind and rescues Luca from Torello as they hide in a house in the desert, a target site for nuclear testing.

1. The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob

Air Date: 1987-09-22

An overzealous senator outrages crime bosses by subpoenaing them to appear before an organized crime commission. An actress with a shady past falls for Torello.

2. Blast from the Past

Air Date: 1987-09-29

Torello confronts his feelings for Julie when she asks him to rescue her kidnapped husband, who is a doctor forced to tend to one of his injured kidnappers.

3. Always a Blonde

Air Date: 1987-10-20

The Senterros, a family of Mexican cattle ranchers, controls the marijuana trade, so Torello's unit sets up a sting operation, but detective Joey Indelli leaves to try to save a callgirl from her sadistic pimp.

4. Atomic Fallout

Air Date: 1987-10-27

Torello follows a crazed killer into Mexico, unaware his quarry will lead him to an arms-for-drugs operation run by an alive-and-well Luca.

5. Shockwaves

Air Date: 1987-11-03

Luca returns to Vegas with immunity to work for the US Government, causing revenge-minded Abrams to resign in frustration and Torello unable to get near Luca.

6. Robbery, Armed

Air Date: 1987-11-10

A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.

7. Little Girl Lost

Air Date: 1987-11-24

An investigator searching for a man's girlfriend, who happens to be Weisbord's granddaughter, is murdered before he gives information to Torello. Luca offers a drug-addicted Abrams a position on his staff.

8. Love Hurts

Air Date: 1987-12-08

Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.

9. MIG-21

Air Date: 1987-12-15

A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.

10. Moulin Rouge

Air Date: 1988-01-05

The Justice Department tries to deal with troubles at a new nightclub - including bombings, extortion, and racial threats - owned by a beautiful black woman.

11. Seize the Time

Air Date: 1988-01-12

Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.

12. Femme Fatale

Air Date: 1988-01-19

A Chinese agent dupes Torello into looking for her father while she smuggles plutonium out of the country.

13. Protected Witness

Air Date: 1988-02-02

In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.

14. Last Rites

Air Date: 1988-02-09

After Manny is stricken by a heart attack, Luca demands that he be the first heart-transplant recipient. Max convinces Steve to put a hit on Luca.

15. Pauli Taglia's Dream

Air Date: 1988-03-08

In a dream Paulie recounts his and Luca's survival of the atomic bomb. After nearly perishing in the blast, Luca and Paulie are taken into federal custody. Delirious from his gun shot wounds and the blast Luca becomes totally on Paulie for their escape. Receiving aid from a federal agent in Manny's employ Paulie rises above his usual persona as he attempts to extricate himself and Luca from their current situation.