The Rookies/Trial by Doubt

Trial by Doubt
Season 2, Episode 14
Airdate	January 7, 1974
Written by	James Basler
Directed by	Richard Newton
Produced by	Douglas Benton
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The Rookies — Season Two

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Trial by Doubt is the fourteenth episode of the second season of The Rookies, and the thirty-seventh episode overall.

Starring: Georg Stanford Brown (Officer Terry Webster), Sam Melville (Officer Mike Danko), Michael Ontkean (Officer Willie Gillis), Kate Jackson (Jill Danko)

and Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Lt. Eddie Ryker)

Starring: Malcolm Atterbury (Red McPherson), Fionnula Flanagan (Judy Karcher), Scott Walker (Peterson), Howard Platt (Gentry)

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Plot Overview

A shootout with a burglary suspect results in Willie's veteran partner being killed. He had a tough choice...pursue the killer or remain with his partner until help arrived. He chose the latter. That, along with his failure to shoot at the suspect because he didn't have a clear shot, makes him the object of scorn by a number of other veteran officers, including the dead man's former partner, who wants to have it out with him. Adding to all of his troubles, Willie also feels bad that the dead man's widow, to whom he delivered the bad news, grabbed his gun and shot herself with it. Eventually, the cops search for a witness, a drunken bum, who can back up Willie's version of events.