Hooker and his team track a psychotic nurse-killer who sends flowers to his future victims.Hooker and his team track a psychotic nurse-killer who sends flowers to his future victims.Hooker and his team track a psychotic nurse-killer who sends flowers to his future victims.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Porsche 928 crash off a parking garage would be recycled the following season in The Surrogate (1985) and again in Season 5 in Nightmare (1986).
- GoofsAt the beginning of the episode a nurse is killed and we are told that another will likely die in 48 hours as the killings are in pairs. Midway during the episode, the killer is shown raising her weapon while approaching a nurse in the shower. The scene then fades out to a break. Later, attempts are made on two other nurses which are both stopped by Hooker who makes the arrest. No mention of the shower attack or a body being found is ever mentioned.
- Quotes
Officer Jim Corrigan: You guys ok?
Officer Vince Romano: Yeah.
Officer Jim Corrigan: Your back hurting, Hooker?
Sgt. T.J. Hooker: Only when I breathe.
- ConnectionsReferences Love at First Bite (1979)
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The lipstick killer
Following the bludgeoning to death of a nurse, Hooker and co. Investigate the case, the latest in a series of similar murders - a string of killings that Hooker investigated years before that has recently began again, in which the attacker sends a rose to the intended victim prior to the attack. With the aid of a disabled veteran detective and a top psychiatrist, Hooker and the team investigate and find evidence that the murderer, always dressed as an old-fashioned nurse, may actually be...
One of my favourite episodes with a creepy killer dressed in a nurse outfit bludgeoning nurses to death. It becomes obvious further into the story who the killer is, but it's fun getting there. There are some good chase scenes, the best in the series, and a Porsche getting totalled - but the fight between Hooker and the killer is quite exciting, relentless and seems no-holds barred with the lab getting wrecked.
One of my favourite episodes with a creepy killer dressed in a nurse outfit bludgeoning nurses to death. It becomes obvious further into the story who the killer is, but it's fun getting there. There are some good chase scenes, the best in the series, and a Porsche getting totalled - but the fight between Hooker and the killer is quite exciting, relentless and seems no-holds barred with the lab getting wrecked.
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