- Title: Silk Stalkings – The Sock Drawer
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the unsolved crimes of passion in the wealthy playground of Palm Beach, Florida. William Lucking guest-stars as a prominent police commander who enjoys taping his wife (Patsy Pease) having sex with other men. Through a bit of a convoluted set-up, Stonewell (Lucking) gets into a public shoot-out with Chris (Rob Estes) and Rita (Mitzi Kapture) while killing one of his his wife’s lovers who discovered he was being recorded. Stonewell attempts to sweep up everything under the rug, which includes throwing and under the bus who were the ones at fault in the shooting.
Despite how the script bends over backwards to get our two heroes into trouble to make the set-up work, and how quickly things need to be resolved at the end (this episode would have benefited to have been expanded into a two-parter to let the story breathe), there’s still quite a bit to enjoy including as the amorous Mrs. Stonewell who attempts, but fails. to seduce Lorenzo, George (William Anton) getting caught in the middle of his friendship with the detectives and the politics of his boss (played by show creator Stephen J. Cannell ), and the coda to the episode in which Rita and the others in the bullpen have a bit of fun with where Chris got shot in the episode’s climax.
