While Crockett is arresting school kid Archie Ellis for heroin possession a group of gang members turn up making threats; Tubbs gives chase but the man he catches is actually an undercover cop. He has been investigating the gangs for some time; his unit's main target is 'Count' Curtis Walker a fifteen year old who runs one of the gangs and is behind the trade in dangerous heroin; he isn't too worried though he is has a lifestyle others in the neighbourhood can't even dream about and because of his age he won't do any real time unless he is personally caught doing something very serious. To this end Archie is released; after a meeting with a lower level gang member goes wrong he saves Crockett and Tubbs so is promised he won't be charged so he will be free to pursue his dream of trying for a football scholarship... that is until the state attorney reneges on the deal in order to force him to get direct evidence against Walker.
This series goes from strength to strength with another great episode; once again it continues the serious tone. Set in a neighbourhood of drug dealing youths it felt like an episode of 'The Wire' made twenty years before! There was a sense that the neighbourhood was locked in a deadly cycle as the young kids clearly looked on Walker as a role model. The tone is down beat but there is some exciting action including an impressive explosion. Don Johnson did a fine job portraying Crockett; a man who wanted to do the right thing but in the end was unable to help. Guest star Keith Diamond did a decent job as Archie; making us believe in a character who had made a mistake but was desperate to fix it. The ending had a feel of inevitability about it which made it all the more tragic.
This series goes from strength to strength with another great episode; once again it continues the serious tone. Set in a neighbourhood of drug dealing youths it felt like an episode of 'The Wire' made twenty years before! There was a sense that the neighbourhood was locked in a deadly cycle as the young kids clearly looked on Walker as a role model. The tone is down beat but there is some exciting action including an impressive explosion. Don Johnson did a fine job portraying Crockett; a man who wanted to do the right thing but in the end was unable to help. Guest star Keith Diamond did a decent job as Archie; making us believe in a character who had made a mistake but was desperate to fix it. The ending had a feel of inevitability about it which made it all the more tragic.