A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.
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- Busboy
- (as Tony Darren)
- Another Student
- (as Leesa Bryte)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Jessica is looking at the screen of who checked out the criminology textbook, one of the names is "Chester Gould." Chester Gould was the creator of Dick Tracy.
- GoofsJessica's chat with the librarian doesn't sound quite believable. Faculty enjoy considerable privileges when it comes to checking out books from the school library. At a minimum, the librarian should have offered to place a hold on the item Jessica was searching for.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Jessica Fletcher: [on phone] Yes, Harold, I got the galleys and I finished going over them last night.
[pause]
Jessica Fletcher: No, overall, it looks fine. Just a couple of typos I'll give to Kathryn later.
[pause]
Jessica Fletcher: Oh, yeah, I forgot. At the bottom of page 270, there are three paragraphs that are really interior monologue, and they should be italicized.
[pause]
Jessica Fletcher: Well, I'm looking forward very much to seeing the gook when it's done.
[pause]
Jessica Fletcher: Well, I'd love to have lunch, Harold, but I can't. Well, you see, the reason I came to New York was to teach a class in criminology, and today happens to be my first day.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 44th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1992)
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
It's a very enjoyable second episode, Series 8 is definitely one of the show's highest points, and this is a very good offering, I'm enjoying the change in format, it feels worlds away from the early years.
The ending may be a little predictable, but the characters are rather good, and seeing Jessica in the lecture room really does work, her role there feels organic, rather than the usual chance meeting with a random nephew in Milwaukee.
Jessica has definitely changed with time, maybe the move to the big City has toughened her up a little, she's somewhat ruthless, maybe a little rude to the creepy guy who said he was a fan, she could have been a little kinder to him.
I really enjoyed the performance of Wings Hauser, I enjoyed Jessica's conflicts with Wallace, he definitely had a bit of an ego problem. Hauser appeared many years prior to this in one of my favourite episodes, Reflections of The Mind, well worth seeing.
Very good.
8/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Sep 12, 2023
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- 582 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, California, USA(exterior: as Jessica's NYC apartment building, PacMutual Building)
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