Strike Force Season 1, Episode 5: Magic Man

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Strike Force: Pilot

Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.

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2

Kidnap

The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.

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3

The Victims

The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.

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4

The Predator

Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

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5

Magic Man

A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

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6

Night Nurse

Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

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7

The Hollow Man

A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.

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8

The Outcast

Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.

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9

Ice

An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

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10

Internal Affairs

Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.

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11

Lonely Ladies

The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

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12

Fallen Angel

A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

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13

Shark

Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

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14

Turnabout

A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.

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15

The John Killer

Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

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16

Humiliation

Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

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17

Deadly Chemicals

Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

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18

Revenge

A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.

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19

Chinatown

Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.

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20

Death Fire

A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".

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