In an episode from the previous season, Bubba Skinner was attached to the LAPD from Sparta to help track down and crack a California-Mississippi criminal enterprise. These guys played for keeps, and didn't let people get in their way of doing "business." At the end of that Season Four episode, there were a lot of loose ends untied.
This episode from the following Season Five attempted to tie up all those loose ends. Pat Day (Debra Stipe), while not particularly beautiful or even pretty, is insanely attractive...and she and Bubba very quickly pick up their romance from where they left off from the previous season's show - and the Vietnamese teenager whose life Bubba was charged with, to make sure he made it to court alive to testify against a truly vile character, quickly renewed his friendship/hero-worship for Skinner. Pat Day wasted no time renewing her romance with Skinner, either. Finding the bad seed deep inside LAPD, who was doing his/her level best to eliminate witnesses to the court case against the mob was a chore and a half. It was so satisfying to see that clown put on ice so that the wheels of justice could grind to their inevitable conclusion. Seeing that slimeball Atty. Epp from Sparta finally be exposed certainly was no disappointment, either.
I can't help but get the feeling that this show (and its predecessor, as well) were written and produced as a hidden pilot to spin Alan Autry and Debra Stipe off into their own series based in La-La Land. If so, I'm glad it wasn't picked up by any of the networks. Autry was a mainstay in Sparta's story arc...in L. A. he'd have been a fish out of water.
This episode from the following Season Five attempted to tie up all those loose ends. Pat Day (Debra Stipe), while not particularly beautiful or even pretty, is insanely attractive...and she and Bubba very quickly pick up their romance from where they left off from the previous season's show - and the Vietnamese teenager whose life Bubba was charged with, to make sure he made it to court alive to testify against a truly vile character, quickly renewed his friendship/hero-worship for Skinner. Pat Day wasted no time renewing her romance with Skinner, either. Finding the bad seed deep inside LAPD, who was doing his/her level best to eliminate witnesses to the court case against the mob was a chore and a half. It was so satisfying to see that clown put on ice so that the wheels of justice could grind to their inevitable conclusion. Seeing that slimeball Atty. Epp from Sparta finally be exposed certainly was no disappointment, either.
I can't help but get the feeling that this show (and its predecessor, as well) were written and produced as a hidden pilot to spin Alan Autry and Debra Stipe off into their own series based in La-La Land. If so, I'm glad it wasn't picked up by any of the networks. Autry was a mainstay in Sparta's story arc...in L. A. he'd have been a fish out of water.
