The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
The best episode of "Crime Story" is "Desert Justice", rated 8.7/10 from 59 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Desert Justice" aired on 3/22/1988 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Protected Witness".
The Justice Department must deal with crooked cops and feuding brothel owners when Pauli's prostitute-girlfriend is murdered.
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In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.
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Mobsters support Luca's nationwide gambling scheme. A publicity-seeking sheriff hampers Torello's arrest of one of Luca's men.
Director: Leon Ichaso
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Torello is subpoenaed to testify for Luca. An enraged Abrams jumps to Torello's defense. Luca orders Torello and Abrams killed.
Director: Gary Sinise
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Luca's jubilation over his growing business turns to fear that his associates are setting him up. Luca's insatiable lust for violence proves his undoing when he rapes Pauli's girlfriend. Pauli testifies for the prosecution in Luca's trial.
Director: Michael Mann
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After Manny is stricken by a heart attack, Luca demands that he be the first heart-transplant recipient. Max convinces Steve to put a hit on Luca.
Director: Colin Bucksey
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With Torello's MCU hunting a psychopath, Luca plots jewel heists and the takeover of a sports-gambling operation.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: Richard Christian Danus
Torello gains a major advantage when one of Luca's burglars is connected to a robbery-homicide of a coin collector's wife. Torello finds out Julie is pregnant.
Director: Leon Ichaso
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A book intercepted by Torello jeopardizes Luca's nationwide gambling operation. The Torellos meet with tragedy.
Director: Leon Ichaso
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Breitel brutally cross-examines Torello. Acquitted Luca moves to Las Vegas. Torello gets a new assignment.
Director: Gary Sinise
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To take over Las Vegas casinos, Luca murders the head of a resort-workers union to put his own man in the position.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
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Luca's greedy ploy to take over another casino puts his entire gambling empire in jeopardy.
Director: John Nicolella
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A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.
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Torello confronts his new friend, now laundering money for the Mob. Federal investigators indict Luca and Bartoli.
Director: Bobby Roth
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Torello and Krychek join the Federal Task Force planning to raid Luca's new gambling business in Las Vegas.
Director: Michael Mann, James A. Contner
Writer: David J. Burke
Torello falls in love with a Justice Attorney's former wife, only to find out that the attorney has been molesting his adopted daughter. Molestation charges jeopardizes the Unit's investigation of Luca.
Director: Alan Myerson
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After his murder mistrial, Luca clashes with a crime kingpin over plans to split up control of the sinking Luca gambling empire. Pauli changes his mind and rescues Luca from Torello as they hide in a house in the desert, a target site for nuclear testing.
Director: Peter Medak
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An overzealous senator outrages crime bosses by subpoenaing them to appear before an organized crime commission. An actress with a shady past falls for Torello.
Director: John Nicolella
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Torello confronts his feelings for Julie when she asks him to rescue her kidnapped husband, who is a doctor forced to tend to one of his injured kidnappers.
Director: Eugene Corr
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An investigator searching for a man's girlfriend, who happens to be Weisbord's granddaughter, is murdered before he gives information to Torello. Luca offers a drug-addicted Abrams a position on his staff.
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Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.
Director: David Soul
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While escorting a prisoner and his girlfriend, Torello is trapped in the desert and stalked by corrupt lawmen who want the prisoner.
Director: Jeff Stein
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
Torello's writer-friend plans to take down Luca by exposing him in an article.
Director: Eugene Corr
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