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Friends, Family & Guests: Judy Prescott (Unknown), Justin Louis (Unknown), Michael Cerveris (Ray), Austin Pendleton (Mr. Trysla), Lisa Dean Ryan (Unknown), Ken Douglas (Unknown)

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Garrett attempts to infiltrate a high school drug ring by dating the sister of the ring's suspected leader.

Opening Scene: Johnny Cash plays in the background, and it’s the 1970’s. Kindergarten Kati is being led up the steps of the school by her mother. Kati’s mother is wearing jeans and looks pretty funky. Kati yells that she hates school and wants to stay home. Then we see Kindergarten Dean. It’s nap time and two boys are looking up a little girl’s dress. Dean tells the teacher, who says "Thank you, Mr. Garrett. You’ll be a fine policeman someday." Later, Elementary School Dean begins to recite "Casey At The Bat," buttoned up in his white shirt and immaculate sweater. Elementary School Kati, looking exactly like every girl in my own (1976-77) 4th grade class, walks by a group of popular girls who pick on her, and she gets in a fight with them. High School Dean is taking a test, writing avidly, and another kid looks off his paper and rolls his eyes. High School Kati, in a suddenly sad turn of events, watches from outside as her high school class (1986) graduates, a cute little thin blonde braid next to her face (remember those?) Then we’re back in the present, and Capt. Fuller is in the Chapel, handing Garrett and Rocky folders with their transfer papers in them - a new assignment at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School. Dean complains good-naturedly - he’s outraged that his new identity had a C- in Geometry and History, but Rocky is quite pleased with her newly good grades. She puts the folder down and looks pensive.

Hoffs is dressed up, walking through an empty house and thinking. She turns to the realtor and says she’s been driving past this house and wanting it for a long time. He tells her it’s $275,000. Back at the Chapel, Fuller tells them that Hanson and Penhall shut down the major supplier at Roosevelt about three months ago (and yes, this is the last time Hanson is ever mentioned), but someone has taken over the market. He thinks it will be a simple case, so Rocky and Garrett can get their feet wet and re-acquaint themselves with high school. Fuller says not to attract attention and that they will be brother and sister, that way it will look better with two kids transferring in at the same time. The next morning, we see Garrett and Rocky getting ready for high school. Garrett, in his only shirtless scene ever, gets out of bed. Rocky is nervous about school and looking at want ads. Garrett eats breakfast. Rocky gets her yearbook down and looks at it - she’s not in the photo section - they have her name in a list at the bottom. Garrett tries on different clothes, finally settling on a black leather jacket and shades. Rocky stands and stares at her sleeping boyfriend, Ray, who is about to become a victim of the 21 Jump Street Opposite Sex Relationship Curse. When Garrett comes to pick her up, she pushes him out into the hallway. Ray stirs in his sleep. As they leave her building, Garrett is cocky - he has rented a red Trans Am so they can go to school in style, and he tells Rocky to lighten up.

At school, they enter a classroom, and Garrett takes a seat while Rocky hands Mr. Trysla their papers. He introduces them as "Dean and Kati Garnett." He asks them to tell about themselves. Garrett lays it on thick, saying they’re from Moonachie, New Jersey and they’ve been in Europe for the past six months. After that, they are told that they have to find a poem to recite in class. Garrett makes suggestive comments to a pretty girl named Brooke, and she’s embarrassed but obviously interested. Later, he asks Rocky why he didn’t have that kind of nerve four years ago, and she says that he’d have been voted Most Likely To Induce Nausea. Rocky reminds him that Fuller said not to attract attention. Garrett spots a cat toy and asks where the cat is. Rocky says her wicked witch landlady took him away. Then, Garrett asks about Ray’s bag, which is laying there. Rocky snaps at him, and they argue about how she spent too much time in the library and isn’t working on the case either. Garrett says she seems like she doesn’t want to be there and reminds her that now is their chance to do things differently - they don’t have to do homework, and he wants to go to parties and join the basketball team. Rocky tells him she dropped out of high school, so she wouldn’t know about things like that.

The next day, Rocky walks into the classroom and Mr. Trysla starts speaking to her in French until she tells him she doesn’t know what he’s saying. He corrects her grammar and embarrasses her, and she tells him she has chosen one of Shakespeare’s poems. He asks why Shakespeare, and she says it’s English class, isn’t Shakespeare English? He gently criticizes her reason for choosing it and says not to pick something comfortable like most teachers would say, pick something new, something she doesn’t know, because that is what education is, and a lot of students don’t understand that. She says softly that she’s trying, but the poem has nothing to do with her. He looks at it and asks if she ever wants to like herself, but the things she does and the way she looks, she just can’t? The astute viewer at home, having just seen the last episode, knows this is hitting Rocky hard. He hands her the book and clasps his hand over her hand, telling her she does understand this poem. She barely hears him, she’s so freaked out over his hand holding hers. Meanwhile, at the bank, Hoffs is shocked at the final mortgage cost. The banker says they have everything and it all looks good, except for some "booboos" on her credit report. She says it was a student loan payment of $25 that was two days late, two years ago when they were on strike (yay! continuity alert!), laughing it off, but he wants a letter explaining the delinquency. He’s seen it all and is sadly amused by her hindsight. Back at Roosevelt, Rocky is sitting outside with her new friend, Lena Alexowski, who is somewhat plain and also happens to be the sister of the school’s main drug dealer. Lena, rapidly developing a huge crush on Garrett, is impressed with his magic tricks and his cool car. She asks Rocky what it’s like having him for a brother. Rocky asks if she has a brother, and she reluctantly points Alex (Alex Alexowski?) across the way smoking pot with his his friends, smoking a joint, and says "yuck." Rocky says "then you know what it’s like." Lena says her brother is the biggest wastoid on campus. Rocky asks where he gets his drugs, and Lena hopes she’s not interested. Later, Rocky catches up with Garrett and teases him about knowing someone who has a crush on him who could help them with their case. Garrett is pleased. He thinks it’s Brooke, but she tells him it’s Lena. He doesn’t want any part of it and tries to pawn her off on Rocky, who says, taking great pleasure in his discomfort, that Lena wouldn’t be friends with someone who did drugs, and the only way to do it is for Garrett to date her. Inside, Garrett, looking as if he’s going to his doom, approaches Lena at her locker and asks her to the Homecoming Formal. She can hardly believe it and calmly accepts. He says they can talk about it later and walks off. Then Brooke stops him and asks him to the Homecoming Formal. He sighs and tells her he already has a date and can’t break it. Lena comes up and tells him that she works at the animal shelter, and they can talk there about what color her dress will be so his tux can match. Brooke looks down, smiling enigmatically, and when Lena leaves, she laughs at him and walks off. Garrett is pissed. At Rocky’s apartment, she is doing homework, and Ray is bugging her, trying to kiss her and get her to go out with him. He tells her she doesn’t have to do the homework, and she says she wants to do it. He remembers her saying that Drivers Ed and Sex Ed were the only classes that taught her anything - isn’t that why she dropped out? She doesn’t answer, and he asks more seriously if she got pregnant. She turns to him and says that a teacher hit on her, hard, and she had considered him a friend, and she just couldn’t deal with it. He asks if she can deal with it now, and she says yes, that she’s learned how to live on her own. He gets up and softly agrees with her, that’s one thing she’s got down.

At school the next day, Garrett is reciting his poem, "Casey At The Bat." Mr. Trysla says with just a hint of disappointment that there’s nothing wrong with an old standard, then he calls Rocky up front to recite. She’s petrified but begins to read it, and she knows it so well that it is obvious that she has really worked hard on understanding it. The class, especially Garrett and Mr. Trysla, are spellbound by her reading of it, and it makes Garrett think, realizing that she is applying the poem to her own life and remembering what she has told him about it. She reads, "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud. Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults, and even I in this. Authorizing thy trespass with compare..." Next we see Garrett alone in his apartment, looking at a framed picture of himself with an older man and woman and another boy, and remembering Rocky reading the rest of the poem: "Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss, excusing thy sins more than thy sins are." His thoughts are interrupted by a knock at the door. He opens it and sees who it is, and he immediately shuts it, but then the guy (sorry, they never once mentioned his name) opens it and says "What’s the deal, man, you won’t offer a place to stay to your own brother?" He brushes past him, and Garrett shuts the door. Garrett asks how he found him and whom he is running from. His brother asks why he has to be running from someone, and Garrett says "Because you’re dirt" and that he wouldn’t be there if he didn’t want something from him. His brother hands him a wallet and says it’s Garrett’s real dad’s wallet and he was an ass for not letting him take it before. He says that Garrett just showed up, and he never knew Garrett existed, but that he disappeared again, and they’ve lost a lot of time and could make it up and get to know each other, and then he tosses him the wallet. At the house, Hoffs is chipping paint off a window frame, and Sal cheerfully informs her of the many problems he has found with the house. She says for a quarter of a million dollars, it should be perfect. Sal says it’s like a used car, you’re just taking over someone else’s problems. Hoffs says she wishes she could go forward five years so she could know if she is doing the right thing or not, and Sal says she really doesn’t. He tells her he’s been where she is and she should just relax and stop worrying, that five years from now she’ll be wishing she hadn’t worried five years ago about five years from now.

At the animal shelter, Garrett shows up to talk to Lena, who’s happy to see him. He asks if he can meet Alex, saying that he wants to get in good with him. She says it’s not necessary and that he’s a jerk and THE dealer at Roosevelt. Garrett suggests getting some stuff for the Formal, and she says she hates it. Garrett gets in a bidding war over a kitten. Next, Garrett shows up at Rocky’s and hands her the cat, telling her his name is "Iron Mike." Rocky says she can’t - her landlady will just take this one away too. Garrett says she has to keep it, it cost him $125. She says he should keep it, and he says he doesn’t like cats. She cuddles it. He gets serious and tells her he liked the poem and the way she read, and she thanks him. He asks if her parents are still alive, and she asks if his are. He says when he was rounding up the paperwork to go to the Academy, he found out that he was adopted, and it turned his life upside down. That is what his six week leave was for - to try to find them, but he didn’t - he saw his dad’s grave, but his mom disappeared. But he’s sort of glad he never found them, because he has this brother, and there’s a lot he hates about him, and himself too, and it all has to come from somewhere. Rocky says she looks at things differently: "We’re all on our own. I take it from there," but she then names the kitten "Cyrano." Garrett grins at her and says he’s gotta go. The next day at school in the bathroom, Garrett approaches Alex and tries to buy drugs. Alex is amused by Garrett, recognizing him as his sister’s boyfriend, and calls him a dork. He says Garrett wants to buy drugs so he can be cool, but Garrett’s type of friends can’t handle it and he’ll get narked on, and he tells him to get out and just say no. In class, Brooke asks if he’s okay and follows him out of the class. Mr. Trysla keeps Rocky after class and asks if the day after tomorrow she can come by after school after everybody’s gone because he wants to give her a reward for doing so well. She smiles hesitantly and leaves. At Garrett’s place, Garrett feels inadequate, like he can’t do his job. His brother wants to make sure Garrett knows that he doesn’t run from his problems, he stands right in the middle because the eye of the storm is the safest place. He asks if he can help, and Garrett says no, but begins to tell him about the case, interrupting himself and saying he can’t talk to him about it. Then he says it’s not even that, he’s trying to deal with stuff and feeling like he’s blowing it, and then he says he should have gone to college. He tells his brother about how at the other precinct he did good and got the boot, and now this. The brother laughs and says Garrett showed up and compared to him, with his criminal history, he’s got it pretty together. He wants Garrett’s help, even though he barely knows him. But he offers to help him with the case, to use his experience, saying, "Tell me about the dealer. I’ll help you get him."

In the bathroom, Alex sends a couple of customers away after a sale. Rocky storms into the bathroom and yells at him, asking if her brother bought his usual half key. She orders him not to sell to her brother, and yells at him some more about how her family just got Garrett cleaned up and she’ll be damned if her mom is going to pay for Alex’s new car. Alex, predictably, says if Garrett wants to buy, it’s a free country, and she repeats her order and storms out. She comes up to Garrett at his locker, grinning triumphantly and saying he bought it. Garrett says he’ll give him a day and set up a buy. Rocky is pleased with him and asks how he came up with the idea, and Garrett says he’ll see her later. Back home, Garrett asks his brother how work went, and he is vague and asks about Garrett’s day. Garrett thanks him for his help, saying that it went real good and he’s going to bust the kid tomorrow night at school. The brother informs him that now he owes him one. At Hoffs’ new house, Hoffs, Fuller, Sal and Garrett are sitting on the bare floor in front of the fire, having a Chinese food picnic. She’s pleased with her purchase but a bit overwhelmed. They all think it’s great. Rocky is sitting slightly apart from them, leaning back against the fireplace. Hoffs wonders aloud if her kids will grow up there, what good and bad things will happen. Garrett says that Captain Fuller was right, things have changed so much in four years that when he’s at the school he feels so out of it. Hoffs laughs, saying he IS out of it, and teasing him about Lena choosing powder blue for the Formal. Sal and Captain Fuller chuckle over this, picturing Garrett in a powder blue tux. Rocky sits and stares. Fuller says he hated school formals, and Hoffs says she loved them. Rocky says she never went, and never got asked. Fuller brings up the case, and Garrett says he’ll make the bust with Rocky as backup and wants to meet Rocky there because there’s something he has to do first. Later, Captain Fuller, Sal and Garrett leave, and Rocky is still sitting by the fireplace and staring. Hoffs looks around at her new living room and asks Rocky if she is okay, trying to get her to talk. Rocky tells her haltingly about Mr. Trysla and how he actually taught her something. Hoffs says if she’s ever undercover at Taft, try to take Mr. Vincent, he’s the best history teacher. Rocky says he’s going to make a pass at her, she can just tell, that it happened to her in high school and really messed her up. Hoffs asks what she’s going to do. Rocky says she’s going to nail him. She sees this as things balancing out, and she’s waited a long time to set things right. Hoffs looks disturbed by this.

The next day, Rocky shows up after school, and Mr. Trysla says he was beginning to think she was breaking their date. She says she wouldn’t miss this for the world. He says that some people may not understand - it’s amazing what closed minds some people possess. Every now and then he feels closer than usual to a student, like without a doubt he made a difference and he feels that way about her, so he feels like in rewarding her, he’s rewarding himself. She shakily asks him what he wants. He goes to his desk and picks up a book of Shakespeare’s writing. "To give you this," he says, adding that he got it in Stratford on Avon, where Shakespeare was born. She takes the book, laughing in relief, and pulls him close in a hug. At the tux store, Garrett is waiting, but Lena hasn’t shown up yet. At Rocky’s, Ray is packing while Rocky reads. Lena arrives late, and Garrett asks where she’s been because he has to be somewhere. She knows all about it - he’s going to meet Alex. At Rocky’s, Ray says he’s leaving. Rocky asks when he will be back, and he says softly "Come on, Kati, who are we kidding?" Back at the tux shop, Lena can’t believe Garrett lied to her. He apologizes. She’s disgusted - so disgusted that she doesn’t want to go to the formal with him anymore and breaks up with him. She says she’s never broken up with anyone before, but she still likes him as a friend if he cleans up. He says there is stuff going on that she doesn’t understand, and she says she hopes it was the mature way and that she didn’t hurt him. He says okay, and to his credit, he doesn’t come across like a jerk who’s glad she did it - he realizes he needs to be careful not to hurt her feelings too badly. Then he ends up having to run to the school to meet Alex, but Alex is nowhere to be found. Rocky calls him over - she has found Alex lying on the ground beaten up. Rocky said the guy Alex described sounded like Garrett.

Garrett goes home, and his brother wakes up and asks how it went, and Garrett lies that it went great, they busted him. Garrett laughs and says the guy got ripped off and beaten up, but he always carries bags of baking soda as a decoy for just that reason. Then he starts pressuring his brother, telling him that they got a pretty good description and telling him he knows he doesn’t have a job. Then he asks what is in the bag. They fight over it, but Garrett dumps it out, and his brother pulls a gun and says "baking soda or not, just let me leave." Garrett wants to know how he can expect him to just let him go, he’s a cop, and his brother says he made it so easy, how could he pass it up? He comes down hard on Garrett for spending weeks to track the family down, not liking what he saw and turning his back on them. He can’t believe Garrett chooses his job over his family. Garrett says he can’t let him go, and his brother raises the gun and aims at him. Garrett kicks it aside and they fight, breaking a lamp and making a lot of noise. Garrett is forced onto the couch with a gun to his face, and he agrees that they can just stay out of each other’s way. The brother grabs his bag and leaves - and Rocky’s waiting for him in the hallway, complete with gun, badge and attitude.

Closing scene: Later, at Rocky’s place, she is in a powder blue dress and comes to the door and makes Garrett promise not to laugh, and then she opens the door. He starts to tell her she looks nice, and she bursts into laughter about his blue tux. They are still picking at each other, but the tone is different - they’re friends now, and they don’t have their guard up anymore. Garrett teases her about waiting out in the hallway, and she says that if she had heard a shot she would have come in. She asks if he is okay, and he says he is, and then she says he looks great - he looks like he could be singing with Wayne Newton. He replies, "Here’s your corsage, you know where to stick it" and that they’re going because she never got to. As they leave, he says "see you, Iron Mike," and she opens the door again to say "Bye, Cyrano. "

Cyndi Glass: The last episode to feature Kati and Dean. I can’t really say I’m sorry to see them go, because I prefer Mac and Joey - yet I wonder if I would have liked them more if they had been given the chance to settle into their roles and integrate more with Penhall, Hoffs and Fuller, the way Mac and Joey later did. Again, they used the Season 4 opening theme, including Hanson and Ioki. This episode was much better written than #82 "Tunnel of Love," and gave Kati and Dean much more layered personalities and depth. The opening scenes showing Dean and Kati as children and showing us their different attitudes about school were well done, too. This episode integrated them more into the series premise - undercover cops in high schools. Additionally, the continuity is superb, with Hoffs mentioning the strike from #43 "Blu Flu" and Garrett talking about his first assignment from #80 "Everyday Is Christmas." We learn that Kati feels intellectually inferior and was sexually harassed by a teacher in high school to the point where she dropped out, and she also has (for part of the episode) a cute brunet boyfriend that she didn’t mention at all in the previous episode. Dean’s interesting brother shows up and it's kind of neat that it's his idea that makes Dean and Kati able to arrest the drug dealer. It’s a shame they didn’t bother to tell us his name. I can see a lot of the Dean/brother dynamic written into the later episode #87 "Brothers," which is about Doug Penhall and his younger brother, Joey, who arrives in much the same manner. Mainly, I think that the last episode was merely an introduction to the Dean and Kati characters as a team, while this one served to make them bond with each other and establish them as main characters for the next season. In particular, Kati’s an attractive character, full of energy that reminds me of the original cast’s Season 2. At the end, the fact that Dean cared enough about Kati to take her to the Homecoming Formal because she never had the chance to go to one before (I guess Alex didn’t get busted and their cover isn’t blown?) is sweet, and it shows the potential Garrett/Rocky relationship that never materialized. Kati seems almost like a female Booker - not comfortable with team work or other people’s ideas of how to work a case. Dean has a lot to him as well, when he gets roused enough to open his mouth. They make good partners - similar to what might have happened if Penhall and Booker had ever gotten along long enough to be partnered more than once or twice. I sense much more potential in these character, but when production of Season 5 started, TPTB evidently decided to go in a different direction.

Equally interesting as the main plot of this episode is the subplot, in which Judy buys her own home, a gorgeous house that she worries about affording. The picnic on the bare floor (just like Doug and Dorothy in Season 3) leads me to wonder, however - where is everyone else? Was Penhall not invited? Is he busy? Are he and Hanson off working on another case? Where’s Ioki? Why wouldn’t they come to Judy’s housewarming picnic? The scene obviously served two purposes - to celebrate Hoffs' housewarming and to tell us the story of Kati Rocky. I think Hoffs could have celebrated with Fuller at a platonic dinner out perhaps, and the Kati stuff could have been done at the chapel. Maybe she could have bonded a bit with Hoffs and told her all this, or had her over for a girls’ movie night or something. The picnic is nice, but Penhall, Ioki & Hanson's absence is too obvious.

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