Hunter: Season 03  (1986)

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Hunter: Season 03

Season Three of the cop drama Hunter begins with "Overnight Sensation", in which Captain Wyler, longtime superior and chief antagonist of unorthodox LAPD homicide cops Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer), is promoted out of the department, to be replaced by Captain Charlie Devane (Charles Hallahan). At long last, the series' search for a "perfect" superior officer has come to an end: Devane will remain with the series until its cancellation--possibly because, though he strongly disapproves of Hunter and McCall's methods, he is willing to cut them considerably more slack than his predecessors. Highlight episodes this season include "High Noon in LA", a sequel to the previous season's Rape and Revenge", in which the brother of the South American diplomat who'd raped Dee Dee, and who in turn was killed by Hunter, arrives in LA with vengeance on his mind--and protected by the same diplomatic immunity that had shielded his deceased sibling. In "Requiem for Sergeant McCall", Dee Dee stalks the paroled inmate who had murdered her husband, with potentially disastrous results. And in "Any Second Now", real-life assault victim Theresa Saldana plays a famous pianist who is tormented by a violent fan who, though he'd attacked her in the past, has been released from prison and cannot be prevented from contacting his beleaguered victim. Finally, the two-part "Hot Pursuit" finds Hunter briefly relocating to Mexico to smash a white slavery ring--and to be falsely accused of murder, for what seems to be the 1000th time in his career! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide