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 Cyndi Glass: This one is interesting for the different ways that the characters react to the police strike. Ioki wants to give in to the city's demands and not lose what he has. Captain Fuller respects his duty and comes to work, since he is management, yet he also sits with his officers during the labor negotiations and makes it clear that he's on their side. Hoffs and Booker want to fight even if it means giving up their jobs temporarily. Hanson withdraws totally into his own world with Jackie, and Penhall goes into survival mode buying groceries, taking care of the house and enduring Dorothy's wrath. My original question was why is Booker so pro-union, when he's normally so right-wing? This is one episode in which I think the actor’s personal convictions made it onto the show. I think it might have to do with Richard Grieco’s own family in real life - he mentions in several interviews that his father was active in union politics and he was proud of him for it. I admire him in this episode (I’m pro-union myself, and my dad is a member of IBEW). And at the same time I can respect Ioki’s position as well - he’s just grateful for what he’s got and doesn’t want to lose it because he has worked so hard, not to mention his escape from Vietnam under such horrible circumstances. The bad rookie that is paired with Fuller is the same actor who played the police academy student that Booker, Hanson and Penhall visited at the academy to get the gun in #56 "Draw The Line" - he’s famous for his role as Damone in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High." I didn’t catch if his name was the same, but if so, that would be some great continuity - maybe Fuller recommended that he go back to the academy and be trained for an extra-long time! We also get some foreshadowing of the Hanson/Jackie breakup here, where he senses that she is conning him and getting information out of him and backs off from her. And of course, some subtle stuff from Penhall - an entire other subplot where Dorothy is henpecking him and harassing him, along with some great stuff where he’s got industrial size groceries and even some live chickens to get them through the potentially lean financial times. He even has a long list of chores to do. The dinner party scene is great - wonderful work by DeLuise as a very uncomfortable and out of place Penhall, and of course he HAD to bust Dorothy’s boss for doing coke. Guest star Jon Lindstrom is smarmy and funny too (he currently stars as Kevin on the soaps "General Hospital" and "Port Charles.") It’s nice to see some tender moments between Penhall and Dorothy, but it’s obvious they have real problems.

John DeCarli: Hanson has almost nothing to do here. This definitely looks like a Depp phone-in job. He never really takes a position on the strike, does he? He just mentions to Jackie that the negotiators are stupid in general. At the beginning, Hoffs mentions that Booker is holding a pool table at the bar so they can go watch the strike vote results there - Hanson is noticeable by his absence. When Booker asks Penhall to go hit some baseballs, it almost seemed like it was originally written for Hanson. But I don’t think they would have had Hanson be so pro-union. Nor would he have slashed anyone’s tires - so I think this was intended for Booker.

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