Crime Story/Roadrunner

Roadrunner
Season 2, Episode 16
Airdate	March 15, 1988
Teleplay by	Ken Solarz & Gail Morgan Hickman and Tom Towler
Story by	Ken Solarz & Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed by	Jeff Stein
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Crime Story — Season Two

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Roadrunner is the sixteenth episode of the second season of Crime Story, and the thirty-eighth episode overall.

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

and Starring: Stephen Lang (David Abrams) (credit only)

Guest Stars: Elias Koteas (Jerry Travers), Cathryn de Prume (Rita), Frank Girardeau (Straight), Patrick John Hurley (Pogue)

Featuring in Alphabetical Order: Robert Allen (Cowboy), Vance Colvig (Billy Jones), John Cooley (Cowboy), Laura Leavitt (Bobbi), Don Sample (State Trooper), Darryl Wayne Saunders (Old Cowboy)

Plot Overview

It's a simple 'messenger job' for Torello--pick up a prisoner who escaped from an Arizona jail with only 30 days to go on a sentence for misdemeanor assault. When the punk kid, who seemed cooperative at first, escapes, Mike is determined to get him, even more so when bodies start piling up. As it turns out, the Arizona cops who want the prisoner turned over to them aren't cops at all, but mobsters who want to kill him, and when their car breaks down, Torello, his prisoner and his girlfriend are caught up in a fight for survival in the desert, with the rest of the Task Force searching for them.