When an undercover operation is spoilt because the DEA storm in, arrest everybody and take all the drugs and buy money before leaving the local police to pick everybody up Crockett and Tubbs are understandably annoyed. They are even more frustrated when the DEA refuses to comment on the operation and fail to return the police department's money that was being used for the buy... there is a good reason for the DEA to be keeping quiet; they have no knowledge of any such raid and it is rather embarrassing to think somebody could be impersonating them! Things soon get even worse for Crockett and Tubbs when Internal Affairs starts investigating them; with out the money and with no help from the DEA they will have to work quickly to catch the impersonators and clear their names before they are suspended.
This was another fine episode; when we learn that a member of the DEA was leaking information to the gang of impostors we can sympathise with her motives; she needs the money to pay for the medical treatment of her son. Guest star Elizabeth Ashley puts in a fine performance as the desperate mother who is torn between her sense of duty and her desperation to help her son. Another notable guest star, at least for British viewers, is Ian McShane who plays South American drug dealer Esteban Montoya; he brings just the right combination of charm and danger to the role. I was rather expecting it to end with the mother dying and thus providing the needed kidney for her son and must say I was pleased that that cliché was avoided.
This was another fine episode; when we learn that a member of the DEA was leaking information to the gang of impostors we can sympathise with her motives; she needs the money to pay for the medical treatment of her son. Guest star Elizabeth Ashley puts in a fine performance as the desperate mother who is torn between her sense of duty and her desperation to help her son. Another notable guest star, at least for British viewers, is Ian McShane who plays South American drug dealer Esteban Montoya; he brings just the right combination of charm and danger to the role. I was rather expecting it to end with the mother dying and thus providing the needed kidney for her son and must say I was pleased that that cliché was avoided.
