Crime Story/Fatal Crossroads

Fatal Crossroads
Season 1, Episode 15
Airdate	January 9, 1987
Teleplay by	Clifton Campbell and Chuck Adamson
Story by	Chuck Adamson & Gustave Reininger and Michael Mann
Directed by	Gary A. Sinise
← 1x14 Strange Bedfellows	1x16 → Torello on Trial
Crime Story — Season One

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Fatal Crossroads is the fifteenth episode of the first season of Crime Story.

Starring: Dennis Farina (Lt. Mike Torello), Anthony Denison (Ray Luca), Bill Smitrovich (Det. Danny Krychek), Steve Ryan (Det. Nate Grossman), Bill Campbell (Det. Joey Indelli), Paul Butler (Det. Walter Clemmons)

and Starring: Stephen Lang (David Abrams

with Joseph Wiseman (Manny Weisbord), Patricia Charbonneau (Inger Thorsson), Jon Polito (Phil Bartoli), Jay O. Sanders (Steve Kordo)

Guest Stars: Ray Sharkey (U.S. Attorney Harry Breitel), John Vickery (Everett Steele)

and Joseph Ragno (Dominic Tranchita)

Co-Starring: John Santucci (Pauli Taglia), Andrew Dice Clay (Mr. Goldman)

and Featuring in Alphabetical Order: Randy Arney (Belzer), David Boylan (The Clerk), Saralynne Crittenden (Apartment Manager), Nate Davis (Izzy Abrams), Joe Greco (Judge), Francis Guinan (Bruce Walsh), Michael Krawic (Barto the Bartender), Jodie Markell (Waitress), Rick Snyder (Subpoena Server), Tom Zanarina (Hit Man)

Plot Overview

Upon arriving at the airport from Las Vegas, Torello is angered when a subpoena server hits him with a notice...to serve as a DEFENSE witness for Luca! Angry that he was used by Luca, Abrams confronts him violently, then quits the Public Defender's office and agrees to become Torello's lawyer in his trial. Abrams is pleased to see his own father in the courtroom as a spectator, and Bartoli recognizes the old man as 'Izzy the Dancer', who practically invented the book on gambling. Luca and Abrams get into it again outside the Courthouse, and Torello breaks it up, telling Luca if he has to take it out on someone else, to take it out on him and not the lawyer. Inger calls Torello to offer her support to him after reading the 'garbage' posted in the paper. She agrees to meet Mike late at night over her fiancé's objections, and Mike tells her that everyone he loves could suffer because of his troubles, and he doesn't want that to happen to her. They break up, but not after making love one last time. Weisbord angrily defends the new head of the Pension Fund, Steven Kordo, against the objections of the other top mobsters. Luca decides that he has to take out both Abrams and Torello. Torello's men thwart a hit man who attempts to assassinate him, but tragedy strikes Abrams when his dad is killed by a car bomb meant for him.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

Torello sticking a gun down the throat of a sleeping Pauli Taglia.