The worst episodes of Pacific Blue
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- 01
After discovering an old best friend, a guy T.C. felt he let down, has died in a suspicious skydiving accident, T.C. insinuates himself into a group of extreme-sport thrill seekers that he believes are behind the ""accident"". With T.C. seeking redemption in the world of adrenaline junkies caught up in underwater challenges and mountain bike racing, Lt. Palermo and Chris Kelly are worried just how far T.C. will risk himself to find the killer. Ultimately T.C. comes to grips with the reality of his own limitations, and brings down the extreme group who are using their mountain bikes to pull off the daredevil robbery of an armored car. A purse snatching dog is nailing patron after patron on the Venice Boardwalk. The pooch runs up behind women, grabs their purse in his teeth and then flees through alleys and under fences.
- 02
When a dead woman's body turns up on the beach with an origami angel on her chest, Palermo realizes that the serial killer who left him with a permanent leg injury has returned to the area. Obsessed with finding the killer, he stays his vacation and bends all the rules to bring down the Angel of Death before he kills again. There's been a string of cat burglaries at an upscale hotel that caters to couples having affairs. Unable to catch the thief by conventional means, T.C. and Chris have to pose as lovers the to catch the elusive bandit. Mariah, the bicyclist who rides faster than the wind, becomes a challenge to T.C. and Victor's egos as neither one of them can catch him after several high speed attempts.
- 03
After a series of college kids are hurt for not paying a bookmaker, Russ goes undercover at Pacific University. His own gambling problems are brought to the front as he gets involved with bookmakers, college-age gamblers and a star basketball player who's tempted to shave points.
- 04
While teaching del Torro to surf, T.C. encounters a band of highly territorial Surf Nazis bullying a Hispanic surfer on the beach. Operating out of a beach bar decorated with Nazi symbols, the leader of this gang went to law school and is well vested in his rights. T.C. and Victor, who is Hispanic but doesn't look it, are both goaded into a confrontation that results in T.C.'s suspension. Cory and Victor chase and arrest an irrepressible sixteen-year-old black ""tagger"" who hits everything from tunnels to buildings to Victor's bicycle seat and the side of the firehouse. After seeing his home and works of art, Cory realizes the tagger is truly talented and acting out using his painting skills. Unfortunately, after an encounter in the firehouse cell with the leader of the Surf Nazis, the tagger becomes a target for their terror and must ultimately be saved by our officers. ""The Cove"" has long been an illegal nude beach, but election day is fast approaching and a ballot measure may mak
- 05
When MAGGIE GARRITY, the attractive director of a local shelter, comes to the Firehouse to report a missing runaway girl, T.C.'s motivation to help is less than altruistic. During their search for the girl, who has fallen in with two thieves, T.C. gets up the nerve to ask Maggie out, only to find out that she's a nun. Victor borrows Palermo's brand-new, extremely expensive bike, but loses it to a street kid who then delights at eluding him.
- 06
The investigation of a string of ATM robberies brings T.C. and Chris together on a stakeout -- and closer together in their personal lives. When Palermo finds out that his two officers are romantically involved, T.C. and Chris have to decide whether to break up or transfer out of the Bike Patrol. Palermo's name turns up in Hollywood madam Laila Stine's ""little black book"", putting his career on the line. He and Cory discover that Laila padded her book with the names of people in law enforcement, hoping that then no one would come after her for fear of embarrassment.
- 07
Victor's girlfriend, LINDA, is witness to a murder by a notorious local drug lord who has been arrested several times, but manages to get rid of any witnesses before each trial. Realizing that he'll lose Linda if she goes into witness protection, Victor proposes marriage, even though it would mean saying good-bye to his career, friends and family forever. Ultimately, Victor goes after the drug lord, forcing a final confrontation. A star rapper is gunned down after a concert where T.C. and Chris are providing security. With the help of Detective BEN ""WISHBONE"" COLLINS, T.C. and Chris search for the shooter, who turns out to be a psychopath determined to kill one person for each violation of the Ten Commandments. During the investigation, Chris forms a tentative friendship with the rapper's cynical teenage daughter.
- 08
Cory goes undercover to investigate a Hollywood madam's operation after one of her call girls -- who was blackmailing clients -- washes up on the beach. A Hollywood actress whose estranged sister is also a callgirl demands that Pacific Blue help tear her sister from the madam's clutches. T.C. and Victor wonder why three kids in succession would try to steal a very ugly brooch from a pawn shop, then discover that the boys are brothers. The father of the boys finally admits he mistakenly pawned his shrewish wife's brooch and sent his kids to steal it when he couldn't afford to buy it back. T.C. and Chris consummate their romance, but Chris has ""morning after"" regrets and pushes T.C. away, fearing she will lose her best friend. Eventually, both decide to take the risk and be in love, though secretly.
- 09
After a nightmare in which her dead mother shoots her in the course of arresting a suspect, Cory is injured in a car accident. As she works to rehabilitate her knee, Cory tries to decipher her mother's warning in the dream: ""Beware the simple things."" She decides it could be a message to quit the force and become a more well-rounded person. Two Korean twins use their flashy martial arts expertise to dispense vigilante justice along the boardwalk, attracting press attention and creating a headache for Pacific Blue. When the bike squad finally catches the twins, the duo reveals they were hoping to attract attention leading to a movie deal. Unfortunately, they've also attracted the attention of a criminal whose plan to distribute counterfeit money on the boardwalk has been scuttled as a result.
- 10
Ambitious police officer Chris Kelly is introduced to the Bike Patrol after she's transferred from the P.R. Department of the Santa Monica Police Department. T.C. Callaway, at a crossroads with his long term girlfriend, faces additional family pressure to quit the force and join the family business in Newport Beach. The entire unit is on the trail of a vicious car-jacker working the beach area.
- 11
While the Bike Patrol is being used as a CRASH Unit to fight gang activity in the beach area, Cory McNamara is forced to shoot a gangbanger fleeing a crime scene. When no weapon is found, the incident becomes potential ""bad shoot"". The situation is made worse by the fact that Cory is third generation in blue and the ""first shoot"" has to be a clean one (a police tradition and superstition). Cory must deal with a disapproving cop father, the gangbanger on the loose, the threat of a sleazy lawsuit against the department, and her potential for lack of nerve on the street. A brash trouble-making young star comes to the beach to shoot a portion of his feature film, and members of the bike patrol are assigned as liaisons. Once a sexy idol in the eyes of Chris Kelly, he soon proves his arrogant, wild-man reputation is well earned. Victor, no fan of the actor, is charmed into playing a small part in the film. A band of rollerskating pickpockets are working the boardwalk, their spot, dip, h
- 12
While the unit is on the trail of a trio of heavily armed takedown robbers, T.C. finds himself face to face with one of the perps on the roof of a liquor store. After being ordered to shoot T.C., the young gunman has cold feet and flees. T.C., realizing his own mortality, becomes obsessed with the case as he spirals into self destructive behavior. In the final act, our officers get into a high tension situation as two of the heavies try to take a young girl hostage in yet another market. When T.C. finds himself again confronted by the same young gunman, he has to talk him out of killing a wounded Tony Palermo. Victor is shocked to discover that the skinny, awkward girl he took to the high school prom and later dumped, has just appeared as the centerfold in a Playboy-like magazine. He embarks on a personal (and funny) quest to relocate and connect with his old high school sweetheart. After a series of failed relationships, Chris finally meets a man who can deal with the fact that s
- 13
A scorching heatwave has descended on the beach and is making everyone crazy. Palermo has three problems at once: K.C.B.H. radio is transmitting their summer afternoon show from a storefront on the crowded boardwalk we patrol. After striking up a friendship with the sexy sex-talk lady D.J., T.C. learns she's being stalked by a crazed listener bent on eliminating men he believes are part of the D.J.'s life. At odds with the city detective assigned to the case, T.C. ultimately uses himself as a lure (posing as a romantic interest in the D.J.'s life) to capture the bad guy. Cory and Victor are on the trail of the ""topless bandit"". Two young women enter banks and jewelry stores at the beach, begin dancing and stripping, while an accomplice commits armed robbery. No witnesses to the crime can give any description of the robber. Elvis is convinced that a strange series of holes that have appeared at the shore line are the result of aliens trying to make contact with Southern Californian
- 14
T.C. hooks up with an old flame after the boardwalk cafe where she's working is robbed by a till tapper on rollerblades.Shortly after rekindling their romance, she becomes a witness to a late-night shooting by a mysterious figure in the same cafe. After insisting that only T.C. could be assigned to protect her, the couple have to flee another attempt on her life. When too many loose ends don't add up, Chris becomes suspicious about the young woman's intentions and starts to follow her much to T.C.'s anger. She finally reveals to T.C. that the man trying to kill her is a boyfriend from back east, a criminal who recently committed a large diamond robbery with information he forced her to reveal from her old place of employment. In the end T.C. is shocked to discover that she is not the victim, but rather the co-conspirator in the crime and was using T.C. all along to kill her ex-partner and lover. After Tony Palermo is challenged by obnoxious lifeguard captain Mackie Smith he asks Victor
- 15
T.C. and Cory find themselves pinned into a bank when a robbery goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. Palermo, Victor and Chris arrive on the scene, then must search the beach for an eccentric computer genius who dropped out of this high-tech world and is living in a highly decorated rickshaw on the beach. Inside the bank, Cory, who is in no hurry to have children herself, must deliver a baby when the hostage takers refuse to release a woman nine months pregnant.
- 16
An arsonist believed to have perished years ago has reappeared in the Venice area. While working with T.C. on the case, Chris must confront her own childhood memories of terror at having been caught in a fiery situation. The two must also enlist the aid of an eccentric arsonist doing a long stretch in prison for details on how to catch the Phoenix. Cory has to continually chase the ""Snakeman"", the last unlicensed vendor on the Venice Boardwalk. At one point, she nearly traps him running through a wet t-shirt contest where she's thrown on stage, dumped on, and pronounced the winner. The precinct is menaced by a rat that's eaten its way into the evidence lock-up and made off with a large portion of speed, making the rodent nearly impossible to catch. Rat Man and Rat Boy, a father-son exterminating team, are brought in to catch the creature.
- 17
The Bike Patrol has a new transferee, Scott Kramer, a ten year veteran and department bad apple who seems to take extreme risks without regard to personal safety. He's teamed with Chris to try and stop a pair of bikers on Harleys who are robbing merchants in the Venice area and fleeing on their choppers. After several near death experiences, we come to realize that the reason this cop is so reckless is that he knows he has less than six months to live and wants to spend that time taking down every last criminal he can. To complicate matters, Chris Kelly develops a crush on this wild loner. Elvis the bike mechanic gets everyone involved in his can't miss lotto scheme, pooling more and more money to the point where greed overcomes friendships among our regulars.
- 18
A wily bandit on a mountain bike is robbing people stuck in traffic jams at gunpoint and escaping through narrow passage ways on the streets near the beach. Chris and Cory are assigned undercover duty as high priced call girls in order to find an elusive South American gun dealer with a distinctive tattoo on his rear end. To complicate matters, Cory's new boyfriend's upper class parents are staying in the same hotel and the boyfriend has not revealed to them what Cory does for a living. Elvis has a crush on a young woman that works at Helen's Bike Shop and keeps ordering unneeded replacement parts in order to keep seeing her. His hangup is his inability to communicate well in English, so he enlists the aid of T.C. Callaway at the other end of a computer terminal. His dream turns to horror as he finds he can't keep up with the young lover he so desperately pursued.
- 19
An anti-technology terrorist is setting bombs around the beach, and will only let T.C. and Victor dismantle them. He wants all power in Santa Monica shut down for twelve hours on the first of the month. An FBI agent comes in to assist the unit, butting heads with Palermo by making Chris his liaison. In the end, it's the Bike Patrol -- and not the FBI -- that discovers the bomber's true plan is to use the blackout to pull a multi-million dollar bank heist. While this is happening, T.C.'s girlfriend Sandy returns to live with him, with the condition that he not tell her anything about his job so she won't worry. But the agreement ends up making things harder on both of them.
- 20
T.C.'s girlfriend Sandy is attacked at home by a serial rapist called ""The Daystalker"". During their investigation, the Bike Patrol must deal with a by-the-book detective who has her own ideas about how the case should be handled. Afraid that the Daystalker will move on to another town before they can catch him, Cory volunteers to act as bait in a trap, just as he crosses over from serial rapist to serial killer. Elvis is hexed by a Rastafarian vendor on the boardwalk. After discovering that Victor is actually responsible for the resulting weird events, Elvis has the hex transferred to Victor.
- 21
With help from some skinhead cronies, the new manager for an apartment building on the Venice Boardwalk makes life hell for the tenants. The owner wants to raze the existing building and build high-priced condos. Cory and T.C. are sent to ""maintain a presence"" to keep the situation from getting out of hand. One of the tenants, a former Navy SEAL/ war hero, refuses to budge. Despite constant run-ins with the manager and his gang, he refuses to press charges, making it impossible for T.C. and Cory to make any arrests. Palermo has woman trouble on two fronts. He's dating a woman several (noticeable) years his junior, which reinforces his fear that he's gotten old. Matters are complicated when his sixteen year-old daughter Jessie unexpectedly shows up to live with him and doesn't take kindly to the new female in his life. Lifeguard captain Mackie Smith is back, challenging the Bike Patrol to a roller-hockey game versus the lifeguards. The lifeguards show up with NHL hockey star Rob Blake p
- 22
During a fight with an armed robbery suspect, T.C. is knocked out and his gun stolen. T.C. takes it hard, and things get worse when they find the thief...killed by a bullet from T.C.'s gun. The trail of the gun leads to several other crimes, and eventually falls into the hands of a sixteen year-old boy who's being extorted by a group of kids on the boardwalk. Fearing further physical assaults, he's refused to report his bullies to the Bike Patrol. This gun is a way to finally get rid of his tormentors...permanently. Victor and Chris are approached by an eight year-old boy reporting his dog has been stolen. They don't take the report very seriously, until a partial license plate number is traced to a kennel which supplies dogs to research labs. As a practical joke, Cory signs Chris up with a video-dating service. Initially upset, Chris comes to view it as an excellent way to screen thousands of potential boyfriends without the hassle and disappointment of a full-blown first date.
- 23
Palermo, T.C. and Chris arrest two surfers who assault a kayaker ""invading their turf"". Out on bail, the surfers begin an ever-accelerating intimidation campaign against the kayaker's girlfriend to keep her from testifying against them in court. Elvis is excited to be invited to a swingers party. The only catch is that he has to bring along a date to ""exchange"". Chris accepts Elvis' invitation to the supposed Charity Ball, with no idea of what's really in store.
- 24
Against Palermo's wishes, a Lieutenant from Santa Monica Metro sends Chris undercover to catch a man who's laundering money for Latino drug cartels. Chris' job is to hack into his computer and download files for evidence, but after spending time with the enigmatic computer whiz she begins to wonder if her feelings are entirely objective. When he confides to her that he's retiring and invites her to join him on a remote island, Chris finds herself considering the offer. Cory breaks up with yuppie boyfriend Steven, but he begs her to take him back, promising to reform. When she rebuffs him for the last time, he mounts a psychological attack against her and her family, covering his tracks well enough so that Cory can't definitively prove he's the culprit. T.C. and Victor chase down a group of rollerbladers who are terrorizing boardwalk patrons with paintball guns.
- 25
Texas stick-up artist Jackie Earl Bates arrives in town with girlfriend Erlene Keene. Jackie's told her they've won the lottery, and she's excited to pursue her dream of becoming a centerfold model and television star. Once in Santa Monica, Jackie continues to rob stores, but the Bike Patrol's efforts to catch him are repeatedly thwarted by Tyrone Justice, a bounty hunter who's followed Jackie from Texas. When Cory and Victor discover a couple presumed lost at sea, the event makes the newscasts. MTV-style show ""Blast Off"" host Ginger Delvecchio sees the report and recruits Victor (and Cory) to provide security on her set against two frat boys trying to steal her bikini top. Later, Cory is disgusted to learn the rescued couple staged their disappearance to reap the monetary benefits of selling their story.
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