Arthur Franz exchanges places with Dennis Weaver so that Sam McCloud can go watch the basketball game at Diana Muldaur's apartment and see whatever else develops from there. That act gets Franz killed by Jeff Pomerantz, artist and boy toy for the widow Barbara Rush.
It turns out that Franz was dirty, he deep sixed an account book from an investigation based on a complaint by Rush's late husband who said that Broadway producer Milton Berle bilked the husband out of two million dollars. Until all that is settled Rush is living on love and expectations and expectations won't keep the boy toys around.
Franz's payoff was to get his daughter Lane Bradbury a break on Broadway in Berle's new show. Everyone in the end wants the book, the cops, Rush, Berle, even Bradbury.
This McCloud episode was way too overplotted to really be effective. I've no doubt when you see it you'll be scratching your heads as to why these characters are doing what they're doing. I know I was.
It turns out that Franz was dirty, he deep sixed an account book from an investigation based on a complaint by Rush's late husband who said that Broadway producer Milton Berle bilked the husband out of two million dollars. Until all that is settled Rush is living on love and expectations and expectations won't keep the boy toys around.
Franz's payoff was to get his daughter Lane Bradbury a break on Broadway in Berle's new show. Everyone in the end wants the book, the cops, Rush, Berle, even Bradbury.
This McCloud episode was way too overplotted to really be effective. I've no doubt when you see it you'll be scratching your heads as to why these characters are doing what they're doing. I know I was.