8.1/1084 votes#1 - The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1987
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
Writer: N/A
8.1/1073 votes#2 - Blast from the Past
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1987
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
Writer: N/A
7.8/1068 votes#3 - Always a Blonde
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1987
The Senterros, a family of Mexican cattle ranchers, controls the marijuana trade, so Torello's unit sets up a sting operation, but detective Joey Indelli leaves to try to save a callgirl from her sadistic pimp.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1068 votes#4 - Atomic Fallout
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1987
Torello follows a crazed killer into Mexico, unaware his quarry will lead him to an arms-for-drugs operation run by an alive-and-well Luca.
Director: Bill Duke
Writer: N/A
8.3/1064 votes#5 - Shockwaves
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1987
Luca returns to Vegas with immunity to work for the US Government, causing revenge-minded Abrams to resign in frustration and Torello unable to get near Luca.
Director: Bill Duke
Writer: N/A
8.3/1058 votes#6 - Robbery, Armed
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1987
A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1066 votes#7 - Little Girl Lost
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1082 votes#8 - Love Hurts
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/8/1987
Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.
Director: David Soul
Writer: N/A
7.5/1071 votes#9 - MIG-21
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/1987
A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1059 votes#10 - Moulin Rouge
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/1988
The Justice Department tries to deal with troubles at a new nightclub - including bombings, extortion, and racial threats - owned by a beautiful black woman.
Director: David Soul
Writer: N/A
7.7/1060 votes#11 - Seize the Time
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1988
Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1060 votes#12 - Femme Fatale
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1988
A Chinese agent dupes Torello into looking for her father while she smuggles plutonium out of the country.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
8.5/1084 votes#13 - Protected Witness
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1988
In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1059 votes#14 - Last Rites
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1988
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
Writer: N/A
6.7/1066 votes#15 - Pauli Taglia's Dream
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/8/1988
In a dream Paulie recounts his and Luca's survival of the atomic bomb. After nearly perishing in the blast, Luca and Paulie are taken into federal custody. Delirious from his gun shot wounds and the blast Luca becomes totally on Paulie for their escape. Receiving aid from a federal agent in Manny's employ Paulie rises above his usual persona as he attempts to extricate himself and Luca from their current situation.
Director: Jeff Stein
Writer: N/A
8.1/1060 votes#16 - Roadrunner
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/1988
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
8.6/1064 votes#17 - Desert Justice
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/1988
The Justice Department must deal with crooked cops and feuding brothel owners when Pauli's prostitute-girlfriend is murdered.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1056 votes#18 - Byline
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/1988
Torello's writer-friend plans to take down Luca by exposing him in an article.
Director: Eugene Corr
Writer: N/A
7.9/1059 votes#19 - The Hearings
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/5/1988
Luca is finally brought to court on racketerring charges but the trial is postponed when a military emergency happens in Vietnam.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: N/A
8.1/1053 votes#20 - Pursuit (1)
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/1988
Torello and his men chase Luca to Mexico where they will get no help from the US Government.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: N/A
7.5/1050 votes#21 - Escape (2)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1988
Torello and his men save Danny from certain death while Luca is told by a top military commander that he is nothing in Mexico.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: N/A
7.9/1058 votes#22 - Going Home (3)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1988
Torello and his men catch up to Luca in Mexico and force him to escape but they all get trapped inside a pilotless airborne plane.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
Genres:CrimeDramaAction & AdventureMystery
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob" is the best rated episode of "Crime Story" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by John Nicolella and written by N/A, it aired on 9/22/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Blast from the Past".