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1996
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Posing as a pilot, a convict finds his freedom by jumping from a small plane leaving Fraser and Ray to crash deep in the wilderness. Blinded on impact, Fraser must rely on his remaining senses and Ray, his greenhorn partner, as they track the escaped prisoner and find their way back to civilization.
Struggling through the forest the two realize they have gone in circles but an elusive trail suggests that their killer is lurking close by.
Meanwhile night draws near and, to Ray's consternation, Fraser's condition deteriorates. Fraser's head wound has escalated into a serious concussion -- resulting in a high fever, dehydration, and an odd compulsion to call his partner "Steve." As usual in these situations, the ghosts of Ray and Fraser's dead fathers appear to add to their troubles. Each advises his son to save himself and ditch his partner for their own good. But then what are fathers for?
As time and water run out, it soon becomes clear that the hunters may be the hunted, and ultimately survival is left to the fittest. The escaped convict catches up with his injured prey and accosts them with gunfire. Ray, without aid of his normal arsenal of modern weapons, is forced to defend himself and Fraser with only a makeshift Intuit weapon -- a bola -- which, beginners luck, misses it's mark but creates a rockslide that leaves their convict fixtured permanently in the permafrost.
Ray, having saved
his partner's life despite fear and self-doubt, now considers himself a
conqueror of the wilderness. He rafts himself, Fraser and Diefenbaker downriver
and home-free. Now if they can just make it over that waterfall...
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When a computer glitch pronounces Ray dead even the bank won't cash his checks. With Fraser in tow the two visit the bank in order to straighten out the situation. But the familiar face of one of the bank's cleaning staff tips off Fraser that more than just a computer has been corrupted. The cleaners stage a hold up and without hesitancy Fraser pulls Ray with him into the bank vault and shuts the door in an attempt to protect the bank's money.
Their initial plans foiled, the robbers endeavor to drill through the thick metal door protecting the vault. Their agenda now includes disposing of everything in the vault, including it's two captives. In order to save the money and catch the crooks by surprise, Fraser breaks off a sprinkler head and the vault quickly begins to fill with water.
Meanwhile, on the outside, Ray's sister Francesca has become a hostage. Her well-intentioned attempts to slow down the thieves progress may well include drowning her brother and his partner in the process.
Not only do Ray and Fraser feel the pressure of the water rising, but the pressure of coming to terms with what might be their final assignment together.
With seconds to go, Francesca's ploy is discovered and the vault door blows. The tidal wave of water floods the bank and makes a clean sweep of the criminals.
Fraser meets his new
boss, Inspector Meg Thatcher, who, apart from being damned attractive,
seems intent on getting him fired.
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An open and shut case turns sour when Ray is accused of forcing a woman to provide false testimony against Kruger, an old rival awaiting bail on a murder charge. Tempers flare and Ray lands himself in jail on a contempt of court charge that leaves him vulnerable to every con he's ever thrown the book at.
Fraser smells something amiss and learns that a jailbird conspiracy might be threatening Eddie, the witness's husband. With Eddie, Kruger, and now Ray all behind the same bars, Fraser has no choice but to pursue the case from the inside.
Sacrificing personal beliefs for the bigger picture, Fraser enlists the assistance of Detectives Huey and Gardino to teach him how to commit a crime -- such as stealing a box of Milk Duds. It is no easy task, but Fraser does eventually manage to get himself arrested and finally succeeds in landing behind bars.
Fraser befriends the jail inmates as their library monitor with his personalized reading suggestions. He attempts to protect his partner while gaining the confidence of a threatened Eddie, who is biding the 24 hours until his parole.
In an environment far from law and order, Kruger and his men turn the prison population against the two cops in custody and corner their helpless prey. But a lumbering cellmate saves the day, Ray, and Fraser, having learned from Fraser that even in prison a man can behave with decency toward his fellow man.
His time up, Eddie is set free and Ray and Fraser, exonerated, return to the streets.
Ray and Fraser once
again cross swords with States Attorney Louise St. Laurent. Louise still
suspects Ray and Fraser of being dirty cops due to the escape of Fraser's
dark lady, Victoria, in last season's
"Victoria's Secret". Ray,
however, decides to turn Louise's interest in him to his advantage, trying
to prove that even a prosecutor can fall for his Italian charm.
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The tables turn when Fraser must protect Gerrard, the man who murdered his own father. Expected to appear on trial as a witness, Gerrard is the focal point of some elusive killers determined to see him dead rather than testify.
Concerned in the serving of justice over personal revenge, Fraser harbors Gerrard and refuses to release him to the federal agents. In the face of threats of obstruction of justice, Fraser guarantees that he will deliver Gerrard personally for his trail date. But his good intentions are marred when rogue agents get to Gerrard and attempt to silence him permanently.
Fraser denies his
personal history and saves Gerrard's life in an affront against his own
feelings and the ghost of his dead father who eggs on his son to execute
something other than legal justice.
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In a downtown theater district, a high class call girl is murdered for an address book which contain the names of her high profile clientele -- a document she has been using for blackmail. Andy, a young street urchin accidentally pickpockets the book from the murderer and takes off with it, not realizing this has made her, and her pickpocket brother, the killer's next targets.
Fraser, meanwhile is dropping off his new boss, the attractive but prickly Inspector Meg Thatcher, for an evening at the theater. Andy manages to steal Thatcher's brooch, a family heirloom, and the ensuing chase leaves an empty handed Fraser questioning a dead end alley which on further inspection harbors a labyrinthine maze of underground tunnels.
When the murderer, a Senator's handler, almost kills Andy in his attempt to retrieve the book, both her brother Sid and Fraser are alerted to the fact that something larger is at hand. Untrusting of people, the siblings refuse any help offered to them until Andy is taken hostage.
In return for the brooch, Fraser and Ray devise a plan for Sid to entrap the murderer. Sid is caught in the process but the ensuing chase is quickly ended when Fraser appears from the underground labyrinth. Fraser returns the brooch to the sergeant but Sid and Andy have once again disappeared into the underground city that is their home.
The tension between
Fraser and Thatcher heats up and she decides that it may prove more interesting
to keep this cleft-chin hero around than fire him.
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The French and Canadian cultural representatives expresses their chagrin about the loss and ask that Fraser keep them well informed on the progress of the case. Eric, a native leader and an old friend of Fraser's, is also anxious for the safe return of this piece of his people's history. He believes that this crime may have been perpetrated by a young native boy, David, from his village. Eric also wants Fraser to find the masks and hand them over to their rightful owners, the Tsimshian people -- not the governments who stole them a century ago. Concerned for the safety of David, several of his relatives arrive from the north, and set up their home away from home in Fraser's apartment, including a traditional sweat lodge.
Fraser, Ray and Eric's search for David and his accomplice lead them to a hotel, where they discover the Masks. Fraser believes they found the masks too easily, and speculates that they are in fact forgeries. The museum curator claims they are the genuine article, but Fraser is not satisfied, and continues his investigation. Ray takes Fraser to visit a local art-forger, and they arrive to find a dead body, and the French Representative fleeing the scene, but no sign of the masks.
When the French Representative uses her diplomatic immunity, and her gun didn't match the killer's, she walks away. Fraser is certain that the masks are forgeries. In a showdown at the museum with the thieves, the two sets of masks become mixed up, and eventually one set goes missing and we are left to wonder -- did they end up with their rightful owner?
Meanwhile, Ray has
managed a date with his professional rival, States Attorney Louise St.
Laurent, and can't decide where to take her.
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But there is more at stake here than just Irene; Frank's crime family lieutenant, Michael, is intent on taking control of the family business and finds an opportunity to frame Frank for murder by staging a hit on Ray. Tragically, the hit goes wrong and instead results in the death of Ray's friend and fellow officer, Detective Louis "Louey" Gardino.
Vengeance becomes the order of the day as Ray, Detective Jack Huey (Gardino's partner) and their police buddies decide to take down Frank Zuko once and for all -- with or without due process of law. Fraser alone refuses to be influenced by emotion. Investigating the facts of the case, he believes Zuko to be innocent of Gardino's killing and sets out to prove it, placing himself between the cops and Zuko's soldiers in an effort to uphold justice.
Left to sort out the web of intrigue without Ray's support, Fraser discovers that the evidence trail that conveniently ties Zuko to Louey's killing has been manufactured by Michael. Of course his proof is Fraser-like, involving Mountie clues that Ray in his grief over the potential loss of Irene and guilt over Louey's death, refuses to give credence to.
Michael's palace coup is about to pay off when Ray confronts Frank in a jealous clash over Irene. Ray, fearing for Irene's life at her brother's crazed hands, tries to forcibly remove Irene from the mansion. A gun battle breaks out. But when the smoke clears it isn't Ray or Frank left dead on the floor. A stray bullet has taken the one person both men held most dear -- Irene.
Irene's death leaves
both men bereft. Ray as a witness knows he has enough to put Frank away,
but in Irene's memory he honors her wish not to let revenge destroy him
or her brother and lets his enemy walk away.
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Fraser is determined to fight the eviction and rallies the tenants to stage a picket line. He enlists the help of a brash reporter, MacKenzie King but it only serves to fuel Taylor into retaliation. Violence breaks out at the tenement and the frightened dwellers begin to desert their homes.
Feeling responsible for the plight of his neighbors, Fraser questions his own motives. In a final attempt to save their tenement, Fraser finds himself at the podium in City Council Chambers. In a filibuster reminiscent of "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", Fraser fights for his belief that one good man can make a difference.
*** Special thanks
go out to Heather, for going out of her way to help me to be able to see
this episode after my evil CBS affiliate pre-empted the show with an info-mercial.
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Fraser finds himself singled out and taunted by the mysterious assassin who appears to outwit Fraser at every turn. His tracking skills are put to the test when he realizes that the man he is hunting is possessed of survival skills learned from years in the jungle having been forgotten and abandoned by the US military. Dodging hand-made landmines and wire traps at every turn, and after several perceived miscalculations, Fraser begins to fear that he is losing his touch.
His fears are realized
when young Secret Service agents relegate him to hand writing name tags
for the conference's opening night dinner party. As the evening gets underway,
the assassin makes his move and it is up to Ray and Anita to consolidate
their forces, put aside their differences, and truly work together to protect
the lives of their respective diplomats. Fraser alone must bring down the
assassin, as only he has been able to get inside the mind of a man whose
struggle to survive has driven him to the need to kill.
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Upon arriving in the somewhat off the wall town of Rosewell, Illinois, Fraser and Ray head to the motel where Audrey was supposedly abducted. But there is no sign of an abduction in Ian's motel room, and when Ray discover that Ian has known Audrey for only forty minutes, is sure Ian's making the whole thing up. But evidence at the motel convinces Fraser that Audrey exists and he pushes ahead in his investigation.
The ensuing search for Audrey leads them to the military base where she is rumored to work, but the base's unfriendly Colonel and his staff deny knowing an Audrey McKenna. Fraser recognizes that the base is covering something up when he notices a file bearing Audrey's name on the Colonel's desk. Before he can continue to investigate, Ian breaks into the Colonel's office and has them all promptly thrown off the base.
Ray, convinced that
no woman would want anything to do with Ian, deduces that Audrey just didn't
want to see him, and that there is nothing extra-terrestrial going on.
Ian, heartbroken, takes off for the base again in his bus determined to
find out the truth. Fraser rushes to his aid, hoping onto the back of the
bus, riding the rocket on its top through the base's fence and across the
tarmac hotly pursued by helicopters. When they break into top secret Hangar
57, Fraser and Ray finally get their questions answered and Ian gets the
answer to his interrupted question: "Will you.?"
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The next day, Fraser discovers that he, the RCMP and Canada itself, are being sued by Lyndon Buxley, the rescued farmer, and mysteriously, last night's road hazard seems never to have existed.
Fraser approaches Buxley to straighten things out and finds that the man who is threatening to ruin his life and career with the lawsuit is himself in trouble. Buxley, an artist of chicken breeding, has created a superior tasting egg which is also low in cholesterol. The competition wants his farm, methods and formula and are using the leverage of his gambling debts to get them. In clearing himself of the allegations in the lawsuit, Fraser helps Buxley, is trapped in a sweltering incubator with Inspector Thatcher, and battles strong arm farmers wielding guns with, well . . . eggs.
In a parallel story
Ray buys lottery tickets for himself and his sister Francesca and wins.
Francesca thinks she is due half the money since they each put in equal
amounts. Ray thinks he should get it all since the ticket that won was,
he says, bought with his dollar.
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Things go smoothly until Ray's undercover teacher doesn't show, but Fraser comes to the rescue in a dress.
In searching for Celine, an antique gun, once belonging to Elliot Ness, provides Ray the only clue in the mystery. At the school, Fraser becomes Ms. Fraser in an attempt to uncover Celine's whereabouts from the other students. Ms. Fraser the new art teacher narrowly escapes detection by the school's bad girls, and befriends Celine's troubled roommate Melissa.
At the school dance, the attractive Ms. Fraser dances with the male teacher from the boy's school who fancies himself the re-incarnation of an early Travolta. While investigating the many secrets of the corridors and tunnels of a girl's school, Fraser helps Melissa overcome her shyness with boys, finds the missing girl, and makes a discovery that even Al Capone would not have dreamed of.
Tidbit information:
Uncle Lorenzo (Rummy Bishop) has been on DS twice before; once as a salesman
spritzing Fraser's boots in "Free Willie" (uncredited) and as Mr. Rubens
in "Eye for an Eye."
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The situation is complicated when Fraser, in search of his lost boots, uncovers a clue convincing him that Tyree is not responsible for the shooting. Yet, Tyree insists that he is guilty. Fraser posts bail for him, and even convinces Ray that the man he arrested is innocent. Despite Tyree's claim to guilt, Ray defends the offender at his trial acting contrary to his role as arresting police officer.
Tyree, along with his buddy Reggie, are talented basketball players about to play in their big game. They hope to get picked by the college recruiters. Playing college ball, they believe, is the only ticket out of their neighborhood. This is the game that they have invested all their hopes for the future on. They also anticipate a visit from Tyree's hero, Isiah Thomas.
As Ray and Fraser
try to find the real shooter and keep Tyree out of prison and in the big
basketball game they run afoul of the neighborhood leader and drug dealer,
Lou, who doesn't appreciate a Mountie investigating in his territory making
their investigation more difficult.
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As Thatcher and Fraser struggle to save their fellow Mounties, their suppressed desires for each other mount, resulting in a frantic kiss on the roof of the runaway train as it heads for....well, a tunnel.
The situation becomes even more dire when Fraser and Thatcher are captured by the terrorists and Frobisher is left to save the day alone. Well, almost alone. Fraser's ghostly father, Fraser Sr., takes this opportunity to re-acquaint himself with his old friend Buck Frobisher. As Fraser is forced to read the terrorists' demands for ransom money, Frobisher and Fraser Sr. set out to stop the train.
Soon notified of the ransom demand, Ray and the FBI attempt to stage a rescue from the outside while Frobisher and Fraser Sr. try to learn the fine points of train engineering only to find out that the train has already been tampered with. The terrorists have no intention of stopping the train. They're planning to kill everyone on board.
Finally, some quick
footwork from Thatcher buys Fraser and her their freedom and, joining forces
with Frobisher, they succeed in waking the Mounties and stopping the train.
As the terrorists attempt to escape across the open fields, they find themselves
facing the whole Musical Ride charging them, battle lances at the ready
and a thirst for justice burning in their eyes.
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The next day the Assistant States Attorney from the parole hearing steps into her shower and is scared out of her mind when something grabs her shoulder. It turns out to be a frozen turkey. Ray, out with Fraser, is called to her apartment. Inside the turkey giblets package is a small toy bus, with the writing on the front -- Line 28.
Fraser and Ray rush to the Line 28 bus. It is a runaway. They manage to stop the bus, but the toy bus turns out to be only the first in a series of taunting clues to disasters-in-progress which force Fraser and Ray to scramble to each scene in the nick of time. Carver is adamant that he is innocent of the crime for which he went to prison and that Ray framed him. As information about the old case comes to light, it indeed starts to appear that Carver may well have been framed.
Meanwhile Carver's
targets circle ever closer to Ray -- former co-workers, then his family,
finally Fraser. With each hair-raising encounter, Ray increasingly has
to doubt his ability to succeed in a battle of wits with such a clever
opponent. At the same time the authorities are increasingly finding Ray's
actions in the old arrest suspect. Finally, Fraser is threatened and Ray
is all alone when he has to try outsmart the diabolically cunning Carver.
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Vern and Gabe, posing as Fraser and Ray, kidnap our heroes just as Randal Bolt's trial is set to begin. Randal's family takes the courtroom hostage -- strapping bombs to Fraser, Ray, the judge and the jury. The FBI readies to meet Bolt's demands for a helicopter for their escape while S.W.A.T. Teams await instruction.
Fraser and Ray are
trapped in the courthouse strapped to a bomb set to go off if their combined
heart rates exceed 200 beats per minute. Trying to remain calm, they must
diffuse the bomb, choosing between the red, white or blue wires of the
detonator, save the hostages, the Justice Building, thirty million in bonds
and put Bolt back behind bars.
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