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| 001 | Free Willie |
| 002 | Diefenbaker's Day Off |
| 003 | Manhunt |
| 004 | They Eat Horses Don't They? |
| 005 | Pizza and Promises |
| 006 | Chinatown |
| 007 | Chicago Holiday Parts I |
| 008 | Chicago Holiday Parts II |
| 009 | A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby |
| 010 | Gift of the Wheelman |
| 011 | You Must Remember This |
| 012 | Hawk and a Handsaw |
| 013 | An Eye for an Eye |
| 014 | The Man Who Knew Too Little |
| 015 | The Wild Bunch |
| 016 | The Blue Line |
| 017 | The Deal |
| 018 | Invitation To Romance |
| 019 | Heaven and Earth |
| 020 | Victoria's Secret, part I |
| 021 | Victoria's Secret, part II |
| 022 | Letting Go |
1994/1995
When the investigation
attracts the attention of the guilty parties, Willie is targeted for removal.
In an unorthodox chase through the streets of Chicago, involving speeding
vehicles, a snarling wolf, and Fraser and Ray at the reins of a horse-drawn
carriage, our heroes must rescue Willie and bring the criminals to justice.
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Fraser and Ray's investigation takes them undercover, in the world of boxing -- but never is Fraser so out of his element as when he's taken on a date by Mackenzie King, a beautiful female investigative reporter, who mistakenly believes that Fraser is in on the scam.
When Charlie's bosses get wind of Fraser and Ray's investigation, they decide that it's time for Charlie to have an accident -- a fatal one. Fraser must keep him alive, both to break a murderous fraud ring, and to give Charlie's daughter the key to a better life: a father she can look up to.
In the meantime Diefenbaker
has his own brush with the law. Defying Fraser's instructions to remain
in their apartment until Fraser can somehow obtain him a "wolf" license,
he sets out to discover Chicago on his own. Unfortunately, it isn't long
before the local dog catcher is hot on his trail.
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Fraser tracks the aging Mountie to a fleabag hotel on the Southside. The Frobisher he finds is not the legend he remembers, but a broken man. Fraser discovers the reason for this -- the arch-villain, Harold Geiger, that Frobisher arrested three decades ago has broken out of prison, and has sworn vengeance on Frobisher -- and for the first time in his life, Frobisher is scared. Frobisher believes that he's old, tired, and not the man he used to be. And he is deeply ashamed of his cowardice.
Fraser convinces his
boyhood idol that he can't hide from his own fears, that the price of shame
is too high. His spirit rekindled, Frobisher joins Fraser on the manhunt
for the deadly villain who has come to Chicago to hunt him down. Now Fraser
just has to keep this legend's legend alive long enough to reach retirement.
And Ray has to contend with two Mounties riding hell-bent-for-leather down
Michigan Ave in their dress reds.
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004 "THEY EAT HORSES, DON'T THEY?"
Further Investigation reveals a small epidemic of food poisonings in the Chicago area. Convinced that these illnesses are linked to this bogus beef, Fraser drags Ray along intent on discovering it's source. Tracking beef backwards, from market to the meat packing plant, to the slaughterhouse, they gradually discover that a criminal element has been rounding up wild and discarded horses from surrounding states and trucking them to Chicago for slaughter and distribution. Consequently consumers are not only eating an animal they didn't intend, but meat which hasn't been properly inspected. In the course of their pursuit, Fraser and Ray find themselves held prisoner in a frigid meat locker and are forced to take advantage of Fraser's Inuit skills and wrap themselves in animal carcasses in order to retain their body heat and survive. back to top
Ray and Fraser go undercover as used car salesmen in order to solve the mystery of the stolen car ring. In the course of their investigation, they must contend with a sleazy salesman, his libidinous wife, Fraser's futile attempts at lying and Ray being trapped in the trunk of a car destined for the bottom of Lake Michigan.
And worst of all,
the first car thief Fraser manages to apprehend is Lenny who, unfortunately,
had his own ideas about how to get his car back. Now, unless Ray and Fraser
can prove their suspicions, Lenny is destined to go to prison for trying
to steal his own car.
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Henry Lee is terrified
for his son's safety and sees no alternative but to bend to the ganglord's
wishes. Fraser, however, advises him to "trust in the law." A fine and
noble concept -- until two power hungry FBI agents force their way onto
the case and "trusting in the law" threatens to cost Henry Lee his son's
life.
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007 "CHICAGO HOLIDAY - PART ONE"
Unfortunately, Fraser isn't the only one trying to keep pace with Christina. She's also being tailed by the very man that Ray and half of Chicago's finest are desperately trying to track down. What Christina, Fraser and Ray don't realise is that in the course of her adventures Christina has picked up something of desperate importance to this crimelord -- something he's already shown a willingness to kill for.
To Be Continued....
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008 "CHICAGO HOLIDAY - PART TWO"
As she innocently
seeks fun and adventure in the Chicago night, Fraser and Ray must find
her, keep her alive and help her learn that growing up isn't just about
growing older. A task which takes Fraser back to a wild after hours club
as well as tobogganing down an escalator and plummeting down a garbage
chute.
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009 "A COP, A MOUNTIE AND A BABY"
The father has found
himself deeply in debt to some very unsavoury types. With no other assets,
dad has chosen to "sell" his baby -- to allow the boy to be adopted in
exchange for enough money to pay off his debt. Fraser attempts to convince
the father of the greater value of the love of a child. However, Diefenbaker
takes a more proactive approach to the problem and won't let the child
out of his sight. But what choice does the father have -- give up his son
or give up his life.
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010 "THE GIFT OF THE WHEELMAN"
Further investigation by Fraser and Ray leads them to discover that the father has double-crossed his partners -- a double-cross he can't possibly pull off and live. Fraser must determine the man's plan and stop him before he and his co-conspirators go up in a giant fireball, taking Fraser and Ray with them. In order to do this, Fraser must make the wheelman understand the most valuable gift a father can give to his son -- an example of how to be a man.
Meanwhile, Detectives
Huey and Gardino are continuing their investigation by hauling down to
the precinct every department store Santa in town.
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When the man's car is recovered, the trunk is found to contain a huge stock of illegal automatic weapons. The police department springs into action, establishing a 24 hour a day stakeout of the man's apartment. But Ray is shocked when the first person to enter the place is his mystery woman. And when she easily beats the hell out of two cops, Ray realises that the woman of his dreams is an arms dealer.
After an unbelievably
bold daylight robbery of a National Guard Armoury, in which things go from
bad to worse for Ray as the love of his life tries to kill him, Fraser
and Ray triangulate the woman's cell phone like they'd track a caribou.
The search leads them to a farmhouse where a kiss and a bottle over the
head leads to a car chase through horse paths and ravines. Finally, Ray
and the arms dealers face off in a little game of chicken: a forty ton
army truck vs. Ray's 1972 Buick Riviera. All of which culminates in a lesson
for Ray -- when it comes to love, nothing is ever as it seems to be.
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But Fraser persists in his belief that someone was out on that ledge. And when a naked corpse is pulled from the river, Fraser is convinced that the corpse is the person whom John Doe saw on the ledge. Fraser goes to the hospital and tells them a little bit of the truth about himself -- a Mountie in Chicago with a lip reading wolf. As he anticipated, he is promptly admitted as a psychiatric patient. While locked up, the patients tell Fraser frightening stories of a mysterious blue room where patients are taken and die.
But when he and Ray
get too close to uncovering the truth, they're both placed in straight-jackets,
thrown in a sealed padded cell and targeted for the "blue room" themselves.
In a few hours, they will receive a lethal injection, the evidence will
be destroyed and all will be lost, unless they can escape and draw upon
the help of the other patients.
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Ray finds his troubles doubled: not only must he find a mugger who seems to be able to blend into the background at will but he must also track down the vigilante. When Fraser cleverly deduces who is behind the muggings, Ray must turn for help to Herb Colling, a long time local resident and the only one capable of identifying the mugger. Ray is surprised when Herb refuses to identify the suspect, but this only confirms Fraser's suspicions: Herb is the vigilante and he has his own brand of justice in mind.
Herb sets a trap for the mugger that night in the local park. Fraser and Ray must find Herb before he can commit his final act of vengeance; both to save the mugger and to save Herb from becoming what he hates most.
Meanwhile, Diefenbaker
has trouble of his own. With Fraser preoccupied with the criminal investigation,
Diefenbaker has been virtually adopted by one of the women at the senior's
centre whose only fault appears to be a compulsion to knit. The poor wolf
desperately hopes that Fraser can solve the crime before he is forced to
wear crocheted booties on all four paws.
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014 "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE"
Unfortunately Ian MacDonald's uncanny ability to cause trouble renders only one route possible -- Ray's car. So Ray, Fraser, Diefenbaker and Ian hit the road for what Ray feels confident will be an easy run. But it seems that a certain trio from north of the border are not too anxious to have Ian tell the truth. Like all Canadians, they're polite, well groomed and respectful. But unlike most Canadians, these three are killers.
When our heroes narrowly avoid being killed in a wild shoot out at a roadside diner, they take to the back roads to avoid their pursuers. But things turn from bad to worse as Ray's car becomes stuck in the mud and Fraser and Ray free it only to have it stolen by Ian. Covered in mud and freezing in the middle of nowhere, Fraser and Ray must deduce where Ian would have gone and get there before the bad guy's do. Regrettably, the bad guys have two advantages over Fraser and Ray: firstly, they have attached a tracking device to Ray's car and secondly, they don't have to hitch- hike.
When Fraser and Ray
do track Ian down just moments before the bad guys arrive, a show-down
ensues; one which can only be resolved by the sacrifice of Ray's beloved
car. Only in this way can they bring Ian back to Canada to face the surprising
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In spite of Diefenbaker's latest escapades with the Wild Bunch, a pack of stray mutts who are wreaking havoc in the neighbourhood, Fraser entrusts him into the hands of young Willie (the reformed pickpocket from our first episode.) Willie proves something of a pushover, and Diefenbaker escapes his supervision for a romantic rendezvous with Maggie, an attractive husky. Maggie is captured by Officer Benedict, a crooked dog catcher who is lining his pockets by selling neighbourhood dogs to research labs. Diefenbaker can't help but lose control and bite Benedict. Diefenbaker is "arrested" and sentenced to be euthanized.
Despite Willie and Ray's insistence, Fraser refuses to use any means other than those prescribed by the law to free Diefenbaker. He takes to the streets, desperately searching for clues to the wolf's unusual actions. Fraser learns that his neighbours believe Diefenbaker to be the leader of the Wild Bunch. He also learns that Diefenbaker is blamed for the recent disappearance of several area pets, including Maggie. The only conclusion Fraser can draw is that his beloved Diefenbaker has returned to his wild state. Willie, determined to save Diefenbaker, sets out to free him from wolf prison and release him into the wilds of Canada. Fearing for Willie's safety, Fraser sets off after them -- fully prepared to destroy Diefenbaker himself rather than leave it in the hands of the authorities.
As Fraser deals with
what looks like the certain loss of his wolf, Ray deals with his own personal
loss - his beloved Buick Riviera. The tragedy becomes even more demoralising
when Ray is forced to drive a motorpool junker.
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Diefenbaker's determination to get an autograph from hockey star Mark Smithbauer lands Fraser and Ray right in the middle of a liquor store shoot out. Ray, along with Huey and Gardino, is ready to dismiss the hold-up as just another garden variety robbery. Smithbauer and his lovely P.R. woman feel differently. They insist that the robbery was a cover for an attempt on Mark's life. In spite of the fact that his childhood hockey buddy doesn't even deign to remember him, Fraser realises that Smithbauer is indeed in jeopardy. Threatening fan mail lends credence to the theory, and Fraser agrees to help protect the hockey star.
As Fraser and Ray
track down the source of the fan mail, Fraser discovers that fame has changed
Mark Smithbauer. A man who once loved the game now only loves what the
game can give him: money. Just as Fraser and Ray take the deranged fan
into custody, they discover that there's someone far more dangerous out
to get Smithbauer. It turns out that he has not only disappointed his fans,
but also a bookie, Broda, who paid Smithbauer to throw a game. Broda and
his murderous thugs corner Fraser and Smithbauer outside Chicago Memorial
Arena. Fraser and Smithbauer's lives hang in the balance as Broda and his
boys pursue them in a wild skates vs. cars chase through the icy streets
of Chicago.
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When the poor-box from Ray's neighbourhood church is robbed, Frank Zuko demands that the police bring the culprit to justice. Ray grew up with Zuko, who's grown from a schoolyard bully into a dangerous mafia boss, and knows that Zuko rules the neighbourhood just as he ruled the schoolyard: with fear. Still, the law's the law, and Fraser and Ray have no choice but to go after the poor- box thief. They track down and arrest Joey Paducci, a destitute shoemaker who was forced out of business by Zuko's strong- arm tactics.
Fraser realises that Zuko has been using them, forcing the cops to find Joey so that his goons can move in and exact Zuko's pound of flesh from the hapless young shoemaker. Fraser and Ray's attempt to sneak Joey out of town goes wrong when one of Zuko's informants tells him that Joey is boarding a bus at the local package depot. A hair-raising chase over and through the buses ends up in the depot warehouse. Fraser saves Joey, but is beaten to within an inch of his life by Zuko's goons.
Ray realises that Zuko won't rest until his personal army of thugs has nailed Joey. Spurred on by the schoolyard memory of standing back when Zuko pummeled one of his friends, Ray decides that the only way to end Zuko's reign of terror is by facing up to it. Ray confronts Zuko one on one, risking his own life to make a deal for Joey's safety.
Meanwhile, Fraser
has to face up to an entirely different brand of fear, when Ray's sister
Francesca, decides it's time she and Fraser had sex.
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018 "AN INVITATION TO ROMANCE"
When the envelope accidentally winds up in the hands of a rather exasperating woman, Fraser must follow her from City Hall to a Bridal Shop to a Honeymoon Hotel, all in hopes of recovering the missing missive. Oddly, the woman's betrothed fails to see the innocent explanation for why Fraser would be in a motel room with his fiancée, or worse yet, why he would be hiding under her wedding dress -- while she was wearing it. After a shoot out at the motel, Fraser and the bride to be, gown and all, must jump to safety into a garbage truck. However it seems to be merely a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire as the jealous boy friend hauls them to the city dump for disposal.
However, when Fraser doesn't return to work by the time expected, Ray springs into action -- covering for Fraser as the Consulate doorman. But when Fraser's tardiness finally becomes suspicious, Ray and Diefenbaker track Fraser to the City Dump where, after some discussion, and even more gunplay, the groom decides that he is ready to forgive and forget. Unfortunately, his conciliatory mood is shattered by the news that his fiancée may be in love with somebody else -- a man in a red uniform. back to top
When a homeless man with information about the kidnapping runs from the police station, Fraser and Ray must track him down; a difficult task without a name or an address and having seen the man only once. But luckily, Fraser didn't just see the man, he also detected the scent of chili powder. A search of the local soup kitchens culminates in the detention of a very unwilling witness.
Garret claims to have had "visions" connected to the kidnapping. Unfortunately, the visions have given him enough information to make him the number one suspect but not enough to solve the case. A gruelling interrogation by the FBI is only slightly alleviated by the arrival of a ransom note. The note demands a million dollars or the girl will be dead by morning.
When the FBI stake
out of the money drop goes awry and the kidnapper is killed in a fiery
blast, Ray and Fraser are left with little choice. Either Garret was the
kidnapper's partner or he's just a man with a special gift. Either way,
Garret, along with Diefenbaker's nose, are the kidnapping victim's only
chance at survival.
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Fraser, Ray and Diefenbaker get caught in the middle of a dangerous cat and mouse game between two bank robbers. At stake: the half million dollars never recovered from an eight year old bank heist. Somebody is going to take the money and somebody is going to take the fall. And it looks like it's going to be Fraser and Ray going down.
Fraser is haunted by a the image of Victoria, a woman from his past; a woman he believes he wronged; a woman he fell in love with but was duty bound to arrest. His nightmare dissolves when she arrives in Chicago and old flames are rekindled. Unfortunately, the two of them learn all too quickly how hard it is to run from your past. Jolly, Victoria's old partner, has followed her to Chicago believing that she has the half million dollars which was never recovered from a bank robbery the two of them staged many years earlier. He's intent on doing whatever it takes to get "his" money back. But the first one paying the price is Diefenbaker, getting shot defending Fraser's own apartment.
Fraser and Ray track Jolly, only to discover that he's one step ahead of them and is closing in on Victoria. After a knife fight set against the back drop of a downtown zoo, Fraser manages to save Victoria, allowing Jolly to get away. But Jolly's escape is short lived; he is shot dead moments later.
Fraser believes that Victoria killed Jolly in self defence. But nobody saw the killing and Victoria seems to have disappeared without a trace. To make matters worse, the money Fraser and Ray have recently been spending came from the eight year old bank robbery. None of the evidence points to Victoria committing the crime in self defence; it all points to Fraser committing the crime in cold blood. And to put the final nail in Fraser and Ray's coffin, it seems that Victoria died two months ago.
But the woman from
Fraser's past still needs one more thing from him...
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Fraser is not only
trying to recover from his physical wounds, but also his more permanent
emotional wounds. He is still torn over his great love for Victoria, in
spite of all she has done to hurt him. While Fraser tries to get over Victoria,
Ray is dealing with his own pain, and the near loss of his best friend.
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