The plot is predictable and weak. The implicate the wrong man so strongly that becomes obvious that he is not the rape/murder perpetrator. They aren't even subtle about the supposed clues that make him seem guilty. He, of course, is not the criminal. A ten year old could write a better plot.
Then there is the problem of the detectives knowing information about details of the crime which they could not possibly know. The rapist makes the women strip while dancing to music. There is music playing when the detectives get to the crime scene, but that could be for any number of reasons, possibly to cover-up any screams that might occur. The writers are so incompetent that they don't realize that they know this detail because they wrote it, and we know it because we saw it, but the detectives could not possibly know it.
The ending is predictable and hackneyed. In his three previous murders he immediately has the women strip while dancing then rapes and murders them, but in this predictable case he starts a long drawn out conversation with Pepper allowing her back-up team to somehow mirculously find the two of them in the basement parking garage. Just to add to the drama he drags Pepper to the roof then end only then does he threaten to cut her throat if the detectives approach. The writers needed to get them to the roof so the bad guy could plunge to his death over the edge of the roof, a much mre dramatic ending tha just having him fall to the floor in a basement garage.
I watched a few episodes of this pathetic show when it was first broadcast but lost interest quickly due to its weak plot as well as its bad cast. The only actor who portrayed a believable character was Earl Holliman. I cannot recommend anyone watch this show except hard-core Angie Dickinson fans and you will be disappointed how badly she is aging. Her lack of acting skills, on the other hand, are about what you would expect and are no surprise.
Then there is the problem of the detectives knowing information about details of the crime which they could not possibly know. The rapist makes the women strip while dancing to music. There is music playing when the detectives get to the crime scene, but that could be for any number of reasons, possibly to cover-up any screams that might occur. The writers are so incompetent that they don't realize that they know this detail because they wrote it, and we know it because we saw it, but the detectives could not possibly know it.
The ending is predictable and hackneyed. In his three previous murders he immediately has the women strip while dancing then rapes and murders them, but in this predictable case he starts a long drawn out conversation with Pepper allowing her back-up team to somehow mirculously find the two of them in the basement parking garage. Just to add to the drama he drags Pepper to the roof then end only then does he threaten to cut her throat if the detectives approach. The writers needed to get them to the roof so the bad guy could plunge to his death over the edge of the roof, a much mre dramatic ending tha just having him fall to the floor in a basement garage.
I watched a few episodes of this pathetic show when it was first broadcast but lost interest quickly due to its weak plot as well as its bad cast. The only actor who portrayed a believable character was Earl Holliman. I cannot recommend anyone watch this show except hard-core Angie Dickinson fans and you will be disappointed how badly she is aging. Her lack of acting skills, on the other hand, are about what you would expect and are no surprise.
