Episode #010

Air Date: 7 Dec 1984 (NBC)
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Chuck Adamson

Episode Summary
Crockett and Tubbs meet up with Noogie [You Better Be Good to Me]. Noogie gives Crockett and Tubbs a lead some small time violations, including one on an amphetamine shipment being stored at a local warehouse, which the two intend to investigate further. Trudy and Gina, in a separate
investigation, are posing as high-class call girls, trying to catch a major-league pimp named Ramirez, who’s rumored to have murdered at least two prostitutes who tried to freelance. Switek and Zito are backing up Trudy and Gina.

Sonny and Rico head to the warehouse. Guarding the goods is a young, naive guy named Bob Richards. Rather than arresting him, Crockett gives him a scare and lets him go after he tells Crockett the time of the pick-up the next morning, and the address to which the shipment will be delivered. Meanwhile, Trudy and Gina are working to connect with Ramirez.

The next day, Sonny and Rico go to the address (a house) Bob has told them about. They don’t even get to the door before people start firing at them from inside. A sports utility vehicle shoots out of the garage next to the house. Crockett and Tubbs pursue it in Tubbs’ Caddy. The SUV crashes during the chase and Crockett and Tubbs arrest the occupant. On the other case, Gina finally gets an audience with Ramirez. She offers him money in return for protecting her as a call-girl.

Sonny and Rico are summoned to the office of a big-time lawyer who, as it turns out, represents Sal Alvarado, the man they arrested earlier in the day. Alvarado is a punk, but was bailed out of jail by some people of means. The lawyer tells Sonny and Rico that they’re in over their heads, and he wants to know the name of their informant. Sonny, of course, refuses to give up Bob Richards. Back at the OCB, Castillo tells Crockett and Tubbs that he’s getting intense pressure for Sonny to name the informant and that Crockett risks a contempt of court charge if he won’t do it. Crockett goes into court and runs up against a judge who insists he give up Richards. Sonny refuses and goes to jail. Richards finds out through the television news that Crockett has gone to jail for his sake.

Gina has begun to make progress with Ramirez. He makes her an offer – to work exclusively for him – meeting an elite clientele, and accompanying him on special business trips. He invites her to a party that night to meet some of these wonderful people. Ramirez’ underling, who turns out to be none other than Sal Alvarado, tells Ramirez that he’s being watched, but he doesn’t know by whom. Ramirez suspects that Gina is involved and may be an informant.

Trudy meets with Gina and becomes very upset when Gina insists on going to the party alone, without backup. Gina, however, is adamant she can handle it. Sonny suddenly gets released from jail and assumes Castillo must have pulled some strings. But upon returning to the OCB, he finds out Castillo had nothing to do with it. Bob Richards came forward and identified himself as the informant. He agreed not to testify, meaning that Alvarado gets a walk… and Sonny can do nothing but fume, which he does.

Gina shows up for the party, but there is no party. It’s just Ramirez, and he wants Gina to have sex with him [You Want More]. Gina has no backup and no way out, so she complies to avoid blowing her cover.

Noogie, for reasons we’re never told, brings someone who knows Alvarado to meet with Crockett and Tubbs. Noogie’s pal tells them that Alvarado works for Ramirez. He also tells them Ramirez is going to murder another prostitute he thinks is an informant – a girl named Paula. Sonny and Rico recognize instantly that Paula is Gina’s “working girl” name, and take off looking for her in a flash.

Gina is back at home. Trudy shows up to find her very distraught and learns what’s happened. Sonny and Rico race to Gina’s. One of Alvarado’s men has snuck into the house with intentions of killing Gina. Crockett arrives in time to hurt the guy, but doesn’t kill him. Under duress, the man verifies the link between Alvarado and Ramirez, and says Ramirez is out to get Bob Richards, too. He agrees to help the police. Sonny and Rico leave to arrest Alvarado. Gina and Trudy go to arrest Ramirez. But Ramirez has a knife. He taunts Gina, and says he doesn’t believe she would shoot him… but then she does. In the final scene [Today's a Beginning], Crockett consoles a now wiser Gina.

— Daryle Gardner-Bonneau