The Gas Man

Episode aired May 5, 1995
TV-14
49m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

256

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Richard Edson and Bruno Kirby in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Pembleton is oblivious to being relentlessly stalked by "The Gas Man," a man he sent to jail for negligence in a gas explosion that killed a whole family. The stalker steals evidence from a ... Read allPembleton is oblivious to being relentlessly stalked by "The Gas Man," a man he sent to jail for negligence in a gas explosion that killed a whole family. The stalker steals evidence from a gruesome crime scene--the severed head of a Gypsy fortuneteller and a bloody knife. His pl... Read allPembleton is oblivious to being relentlessly stalked by "The Gas Man," a man he sent to jail for negligence in a gas explosion that killed a whole family. The stalker steals evidence from a gruesome crime scene--the severed head of a Gypsy fortuneteller and a bloody knife. His plan is to force Pembleton to meet him alone and exact revenge.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

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YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Actors Bruno Kirby and Richard Edson previously co-starred in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), also directed by Barry Levinson. In both, Edson's character takes orders from Kirby's.

Connections
Featured in Homicide: Life on the Street: The Documentary (1997)

Soundtracks
Workin' My Way Back To You
written by Denny Randell and Sandy Linzer
Performed by The Spinners.

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8/10

A good conclusion for the first long season

After the short first two seasons of HOMICIDE (the first of 9 episodes, the second only 4) we finally had a first long season since it was becoming popular among TV users of the time. And this final episode closed the season well.

Victor Helms (Bruno Kirby) has served a six-year sentence for negligent homicide since he installed incorrectly a heater that thanks to a leak managed to kill with an explosion the entire family of the house where he installed it. Since Pembleton was in charge of the investigation, it's no surprise that when Helms is released he seeks revenge against Pembleton. Despite Helms stalks Pembleton he can't seem to act his scheme properly. Surprisingly, Helms and his colleague Danny end up in a crime scene short before Pembleton arrives where the head of a fortune teller has been severed but Helms steals the head and the knife for complicating matters for Pembleton and subsequently humiliate him in front of the press, but some time later Danny quits because he started to respect Pembleton also for the fact that he saw him go to a fertility clinic for making his wife pregnant. When finally Helms seems like to kill Pembleton he then bursts in tears and is taken to custody.

What I liked about this episode is that Helms wanted to play the same game Robert De Niro did to Nick Nolte in CAPE FEAR (or Robert Mitchum to Gregory Peck if you also saw the 1962 original) on Pembleton tho in a more subtle manner and the ending was a relief. One of those season enders that makes you want to see more seasons of it.