Friends, Family & Guests: (From opening credits): Joe Maruzzo (Steven Lamoco), Meredith Scott Lynn (Gina); (From closing credits): Joe Brazeau (Special Agent Martin McGuire), Beverley Hendry (Sarah), Dolores Drake (Mrs. Lake), Steven Bland (Earl), Jennifer Copping (Mara), Kim Gerbrandt (Cocktail Waitress)

 Opening Scene: Outside a nightclub, a car pulls up. Some guys and a girl (Gina) walk through the place, crowding around a dark haired guy with a New York accent (Lamoco). He is telling them a story about meeting a stripper, and he asks Gina, who is tarted up to look older than the teenager she is and seems to be his current girlfriend, what the girl’s name was (Porscha). They get to the car and he continues talking, and then he says "Sweetie, let’s go." The car drives off, and he lights a cigarette, and she looks sick of him but says nothing. They drive down a big boulevard, with lit up trees. She looks out the window with resigned bitterness, watching normal teenagers cutting up in a car next to her, but she’s in the back of this limo with this guy. They drop the girl off, and he says "Tell Kati I’m not coming in tonight," and stuffs a package of something in her purse. She goes upstairs to the "International House of Massage" and is buzzed in. Kati, the manager, tells her she’s late and there’s a guy inside who’s been waiting five minutes. She goes in, and a guy is sitting on the table, and she asks him to lay down on his stomach and lotions up her hands. She oils up his back and starts massaging him as he breathes heavily. He asks if he can turn over now, and she says "not yet, okay?" her voice cracking.

The girls at the massage parlor (including an undercover Hoffs, who has short curled under hair and big hoop earrings) are hanging out in the lounge listening to music. Gina sells another girl drugs. Kati comes in and turns off their loud music, griping that the customers can hear it in the rooms, and then she tells Hoffs to vacuum. Hoffs gets smart with her, asking her if she wants her to clean out the shower drain too, and Kati says the new girl always vacuums and folds towels. Next, at the Urban Expresso, Hoffs and Fuller have met for coffee, and she tells him that she’s not fitting in very well at the massage parlor. It’s cold outside, and he wants to go in, but she wants the fresh air after smelling nothing but palm oil and BO for a week. They discuss how to bust the owner, Lamoco, for pandering minors, but he’s never there. Fuller suggests getting Kati to roll over on Lamoco, and Hoffs says she can’t get close to Kati. Fuller says they should work this from the customer side - arrest a girl for soliciting, and get her to roll over on Kati first, and he asks which girl would be the best one? Later, at the massage parlor, Garrett asks for Gina. The bored receptionist asks if he wants an hour ($120) or a half hour ($80) massage. He says a half hour is fine. She tells him to shower and put on shorts and wait in room one, but first he must sign a form saying that none of the girls suggested illegal activity while he was there. He is buzzed in, and Kati comes out, and they say hi to each other. Kati goes into the lounge and rushes Gina out of the place by giving her prescription money. She goes in to massage Garrett herself, and he, thinking it’s Gina, clumsily tries to get her to talk about her age. She says her mom kicked her out when she was fourteen and she went back a couple of months later and her mother had moved. Garrett is sympathetic, but she changes the subject to his folks - would they be surprised to know that he’s here? They tease and banter a bit, and he asks if she ever goes out with guys she meets here. She says his half hour is up and grins knowingly at him as he leaves. Back at the Chapel, he grouses that Gina wouldn’t offer, and Hoffs reminds him that they’re careful about cops and it’s not the girls they’re after, it’s the owner. Garrett says bitterly that they’ll use the girls anyway, and Hoffs asks what he means by that. Garrett says he thought it would be really trashy and sexy in there, and it was, but more than anything it was sad, and that she was really nice. He wishes he didn’t have to do that to her. At Kati’s apartment, Mrs. Lake, the building manager, comes to the door and says she has to get rid of her cat or leave. Kati reminds her that she has a six month lease. The building manager says this is her last warning. Kati talks to her cat, "Bugsy," and then calls someone to report that she thinks they got a cop in the place, and what does he want her to do about him?

Garrett returns to the massage parlor, and they offer him "Gina for half?" When Gina comes in, he says no offense, but he asked for Gina, and Gina replies that she IS Gina. Garrett goes ahead and tries for Gina. Hoffs is almost caught rifling through the desk when Kati and Lomaco come in, but she covers by asking for money for toilet paper. Kati tells her to go to the store and she’ll pay her back. Hoffs holds her hand out for the money. Lamoco approves of her cynicism and introduces himself. Judy is "Judy French." Kati tells him Judy has been there a week, and he says new girls brighten the place up, and she flirts with him right in front of Kati. Lamoco looks her up and down and says welcome aboard, and with a look back at Kati, Hoffs smiles suggestively at him and thanks him. Gina is massaging Garrett, and he says she looks about as old as his little sister. Gina wants to know why all the questions and says his time is up. He asks if they can go longer, and she says she has another customer. He leaves the massage parlor and sees Kati with a laundry basket full of clothes. He goes over to her and asks what her real name is. She asks him out for a drink but says she has to do some laundry, and he offers to go with her and fold her towels, if she’ll tell him her name. She says she doesn’t give away her secrets for free. At the laundromat, she asks how things went tonight with the real Gina, and he says she was okay and teases her about being jealous. Kati smiles and seems to relax, and then abruptly asks if he’s a cop, saying that she needs to know before things go any further. Garrett says he just felt like talking to her, and he wants to help her. Kati is distrustful about it and suddenly says that if he wants to do it with her that’s fine, but it’s going to cost him $200. He asks if she really thinks that’s why he came there, and she says no, he’s a really sweet guy and shouldn’t be hanging around with someone like her, and then she bolts, saying that she has one more customer after all. When he reminds her they were going to have drinks, she leaves, stopping to tell him her name is Kati. Back at the chapel, Hoffs is pouring herself a cup of coffee, and Garrett returns and gets a Coke, explaining to Hoffs that they can bust Kati for soliciting and she was actually the one who originally massaged him the first time he went. Hoffs says that doesn’t make sense because Kati never works the customers. Garrett sighs and says "She must have made me the second I walked in." Hoffs says Kati will tell Lamoco. Garrett suggests getting to her first. At the massage parlor, Hoffs and Garrett come in, guns drawn, and they go to the office. Inside, Kati is sitting there, and she doesn’t care that they have their guns aimed at her, merely saying that she figured Garrett must have a partner. Hoffs says she is under arrest. Kati says "I don’t think so" and reaches for something on the desk, and Garrett, thinking it’s a gun, tells her to take it out slow. She slowly takes out... a ID card and badge - she’s a federal (DEA) agent on her own undercover case.

In Capt. Fuller’s office, Kati (Rocky from here on) and her boss are meeting with Garrett, Hoffs and Fuller. Rocky’s hair is straightened, and she’s much more casually dressed. She can’t believe they "bird-dogged" her case. Fuller says Lamoco is running underage hookers, and he’s not going to ignore that. Kati wants to handle the case herself and says Lamoco’s drug dealing is carefully kept away from the office. Fuller says that they need to find his inside connection. Hoffs says it’s Gina and they were going to use Gina to get to her. Rocky’s boss tells them to turn Gina as a snitch against Lamoco and orders Rocky to work with Hoffs and Garrett. Hoffs, Garrett and Rocky go to shoot some pool, and Hoffs asks Rocky how she knew Garrett was a cop. She says it’s his nice just-out-of-the-Academy 30 inch steps. Hoffs, amused, tells Garrett not to worry, it wears off quick. Rocky starts to tell a DEA story, and Garrett interrupts her, asking if she’s going to shoot. The waitress wants $12, and Rocky says she’ll pay for it, and they’ve helped her make her case. If she makes it, they’ll bump her up to $30,000 a year. Garrett asks her how she can live on that around here? She asks what they make, and Garrett says 42, 43. Hoffs says the city is looser on the purse strings than the feds. They leave the bar, and Judy gets in her red Jeep. Garrett walks with Rocky to her car, the tension thick. He says that they’re stuck working together and he and Hoffs aren’t any happier with it than she is. She doesn’t believe in working in groups and criticizes him for not being able to bust anyone yet at the massage parlor. He says it’s because she was a cop, and she reminds him that Gina wasn’t a cop, and offers him some free advice, which she gives over his objection - to stop asking so many questions and let Gina do all the talking, and she’ll hit him up. Back at the massage parlor, Garrett is lying there, and Gina is massaging him. He’s letting her talk, and she asks if he’s a cop. He says no, and Gina says she accepts tips, anything between $100 and $200 depending on what you want, and for $200 she’ll go all the way. He asks for his pants, and she gives them to him. She drops her shirt, and he flashes his badge, and she yanks her shirt back up, and he gently tells her he’s not going to bust her, if she helps him.

At Rocky’s apartment, she gets home and the door is slightly open. She pulls her gun, and goes in - the cat is gone. She bangs on the building manager’s door, and the building manager says she doesn’t know what she is talking about and slams the door. She pounds on the door hysterically and screams at her and begins to cry. Next, Hoffs, Garrett, Rocky and Gina are at a diner, and they’re trying to get Gina to give them information, but she says she doesn’t know anything, she gets her coke from her dealer. Garrett asks if it’s Lamoco, and Gina looks at Rocky, reminding her what an animal he is and asking how she can burn her like this. She admits that she passes it around, because he makes her, but she makes no money off of it herself. Then she tells them how she met Lamoco at a high school party and he gave her coke, and when she tried to leave him, she couldn’t. He didn’t have to threaten her because she knows what he is capable of. Garrett wants to know who Lamoco’s business associates are. Gina accuses Rocky of using her and pretending to care about her. Rocky, still red-eyed from losing her cat, snaps that she is doing her job. Gina refuses to help them, and Hoffs says they will take her downtown and book her if she doesn’t. Rocky tells her to stop whimpering and save her own butt, because all anyone has is themselves. Garrett wants some air - he can’t handle Rocky’s attitude. Hoffs suggests that Gina introduce her to Lamoco as Gina’s replacement, telling her she has no choice. Lamoco is in the office, and Gina brings Hoffs in and tells him she has a modeling job and will be gone for a while, so Hoffs can take her place. He tells them to come by tomorrow night, he doesn’t have time. They agree to meet him at 8 PM. Gina apologizes for the short notice, and he smiles and tells her "go get ‘em, kid." Gina and Hoffs leave. Later, a street scrubbing truck passes a trash can, and Gina is in it, bloody and unconscious.

Rocky and Garrett are at the diner, and Garrett, already on edge, watches as Rocky pours a ton of sugar into her coffee. Hoffs comes in, she’s been unable to find Gina, not even with Mara, where she stays sometimes. Garrett says she has to meet Lamoco in 15 minutes. Hoffs thinks they should go anyway, and if they don’t show they’ll never get near him again. She is wearing a wire, and they leave. Rocky tells Garrett his left front tire is low, and he says she’s crazy. She says he doesn’t have to be civil but he could at least admit when he’s wrong, and he makes a face. She tells him to go ahead and say it, and he explodes, yelling at her that she screwed up and it’s her fault that Gina is gone. Rocky counters with her opinion that he’s been dying for an excuse to rag her ass. He says she’s pretending to be a team player, but she’s a user. She yells that he doesn’t know a thing about her, and he yells back that she should have told him she was a cop the second she knew he was. It becomes clear that what he’s really upset about is halfway falling for her while she was lying to him. They continue arguing, and she confesses that she came close to becoming one of those girls for real and managed to overcome a lousy start in life, and she’s proud of herself for it. In the massage parlor, Hoffs goes to the office, and Lamoco walks her out, saying he’ll take her to the club for dinner and that if Gina doesn’t show up, they’ll manage. Garrett and Rocky are in the car, listening to Hoffs’ wire. Gina calls and tells someone that Lamoco is showing no concern over Gina at all and to check the hospitals and the morgue. At the club, Hoffs offers to take up where Gina left off. He asks her to dance, and she agrees. She goes to the restroom first and goes in a stall to talk into the wire. She takes it off, wraps it in toilet paper, and puts it in the napkin disposal because she’s afraid he’ll find it. He comes out of the club and Rocky and Garrett see him. Inside, Hoffs returns and then goes out front to find him. They realize she is no longer wired. Garrett can’t believe she’s going to get in the car with Lamoco, but she does. They follow Lamoco and Hoffs to a huge house and kill the lights, deciding to wait. Garrett wants Rocky to know that he didn’t go after her because he wanted to bust her - he liked her because underneath everything she seemed sweet and scared, and he wanted to help her. He doesn’t want her to think everybody’s a user, especially him. The car phone rings. Rocky is upset by the call and tells Garrett that they brought an unconscious girl fitting Gina's description into the ER and they don’t know if she’s going to make it. They agree shakily that it could be some other girl.

Hoffs comes into view through an upstairs window and looks down at them. Garrett says if Lamoco would beat up Gina that badly, he would never have taken Hoffs to some place like that club, with all those witnesses, and he thinks Lamoco won’t touch her. Upstairs, Lamoco pulls the shades. Garrett wants to go around back, but Rocky thinks they should bust in. Garrett says they will demolish the case, and he’ll be right back. He leaves and goes to the back of the house, and Rocky watches their shadows through the blinds - Lamoco kisses Hoffs and then pushes her down. Rocky gets out of the car and runs to the house, slipping in through the unlocked door with her gun drawn. Garrett is sneaking around in the bushes outside. Rocky finds Hoffs’ dress on the bed. She whips into the next room and announces that Lamoco’s under arrest - before she sees that they’re just sitting in bathing suits with their feet dangling in a swimming pool. Hoffs acts surprised. He backs up to run, and Garrett’s behind him with his gun. He punches Garrett, and they both fall in the water. Garrett punches him and gets him out and arrests him, bellowing at him aggressively in a more manly tone than we ever hear from him before or after this scene. The cops come and take Lamoco away, and Hoffs says she didn’t get anything they could use. Rocky said she thought Hoffs was in danger, and Hoffs says she has to go talk to Fuller.

Closing scene. Captain Fuller’s office - he’s explaining to Rocky about joining Jump Street, that it’s not glamorous like her former job. Rocky says that’s what she wants. Fuller says Hoffs says she’s a fine officer, and Rocky asks what Garrett said, and Fuller says "well, he didn’t say very much." He shakes her hand and welcomes her aboard. She goes upstairs to the lockers, grinning, and she can’t get her locker open. Of course, Garrett, being the big strong man, comes along and hits it and it opens right up (gag). He says Gina will testify against Lamoco. Rocky says if it wasn’t for Gina they would have no case. He welcomes her and goes back downstairs, and she looks around and smiles a genuinely happy smile.

 Cyndi Glass: A stunningly tedious episode to choose for the important opener of a new season. The biggest problem here, of course, is that Hanson and Ioki are gone, without a trace or any explanation, and they’re still in the theme. We all know that these episodes were filmed during Season 4, but still, they could have made a new theme sequence. The other problem is that Fuller is barely in this episode, and Penhall is entirely absent, leaving Hoffs to carry the whole show in the airtime she gets, which is about equal to the new kids on the block - new Jump Street cop Dean Garrett and DEA agent Kati Rocky, who, of course, joins Jump Street. Things get slightly interesting when Kati reveals her true identity, but everyone's acting is flat. There’s not much humor in this one, and Hoffs seems cut off from both of them, falling into the role of older teacher to Garrett. We don't even see much trepidation on her part about being alone with Lamoco in his house - it's like we are seeing Hoffs from the outside, from Rocky and Garrett's point of view, and are not privy to her motivations or thoughts. I have a hard time feeling connected to Dean and Kati as main characters - they are just too new, and they have way too much airtime here. I enjoyed, as an example, Garrett’s scenes in #80 "Everyday Is Christmas," because he interacted with Doug Penhall and was fully integrated into Penhall’s plot, and I could see, even with little dialogue to point it out, how much Penhall cared about Garrett. I never get the sense that Hoffs really cares much about Garrett or Rocky. The real purpose of this episode, of course, was to bring Kati Rocky onto the job for a Fox Season 5 (which never materialized). At the end of the episode, she decides to give Jump Street a try after having demonstrated that she has a grasp on teamwork, not to mention that they make way more money than she made as a DEA agent. Speaking of that, what is up with that salary? $42,000? Weren’t they only making about #32,000 in #43 "Blu Flu"? I guess that union negotiation went pretty damn well, huh?

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