Just as in Vote of Confidence (1988), this episode is an example of politicians trying to influence police action to protect a campaign.
DAT stands for Digital Audio Tape, a fairly new technology in 1989, designed to be a tape equivalent of a compact disc, but congressional regulations and advances in technology rendered it obsolete, and the last DAT machine was made in 2005.
The edited recording is referred to as being on "DAT", or "digital audio tape." Rather than recording a magnetic audio signal, the device includes an encoder that translates the audio into digital code. Unlike magnetically recorded audio, which noticeably loses audio quality when copied, the digital nature of this tech means that as long as the zeroes and ones can be read, the audio quality never changes.
There is one fallacy, however. DAT is so accurate that it can pick up ambient background audio, which varies according to location and even moment by moment as in slight changes in a breeze. It is often possible to detect edits in this way.
There is one fallacy, however. DAT is so accurate that it can pick up ambient background audio, which varies according to location and even moment by moment as in slight changes in a breeze. It is often possible to detect edits in this way.
Crockett uses his famous "clear my desk" line -slightly paraphrased to, "I will clear my desk of all my other cases and spend every waking hour making sure you fry for the murder of a cop!" -for a final time in this episode. He would use the line a total of four times over the course of the series -the other three occasions being in One Eyed Jack (1984), French Twist (1986) and By Hooker by Crook (1987).
There is a restaurant in Miami actually called "Miami Squeeze"that has been open since the 1990s.