Summary
In this episode we can follow along on a suspenseful search for a pyrotechnic madman called Alpha with a grudge against the mayor. The mayor is a tough, no no-nonsense kind of lady who you get the feeling knows Nash better than any other public servant in town, and why not the mayor is a red-blooded female. So, Nash inadvertently becomes the mayor's personal body guard and then the fun really begins.
Meanwhile, we are introduced to Nash's father Nick and sister Stacy, mainly because Nick has gotten himself in trouble with yet another nursing home. This B story is a heartfelt look at a family, albeit a somewhat dysfunctional one, who is trying to cope with a parent in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. This idea is future tear jerking material in the making.
Although the story about the mayor's bomber is supposed to be the main story-line, it loses out over the family story. I also lets you down when you find out that Alpha is a woman who has gone off the deep end about justice when the mayor, as the District Attorney, got a traffic ticket fixed. The idea that the creative Alpha turns out to be a woman is good, but her reasons for her torment fall short of expectations. [written by nashb]
Starring
Don Johnson, Jaime Gomez, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Jeff Perry, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Serena Scott Thomas,and Annette O'Toole.
Guest Stars
James Gammon, Angela Dohrmann, Daniel Roebuck, O-Lan Jones, Candance Brown Houston, and Cheech Marin as Joe Dominguez.
Quote
Stacy is helping Nick into her car at the Nursing Home and asks him "How can you smoke those things? (cigars)" Nick deadpans, "I put them in my mouth and then I light them."
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