6.7/1064 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.9/1087 votesLoading...#2 - For Love or Money
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1986
Divorced Torello finds comfort with Inger. The Crime Unit nabs Luca's jewelry-heist team. Torello's best friend supplies the Mob with capital.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: N/A
7.2/1058 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.5/1067 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.5/1048 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.6/1092 votesLoading...#6 - Abrams for the Defense
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1986
Attorney Abrams falls for a reporter helping him defend a tenant accused of assaulting a slum landlord.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt, Michael Mann
Writer: N/A
7.7/1080 votesLoading...#7 - Hide and Go Thief
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1986
Indelli and Krychek must deal with a tense hostage situation. Torello travels to Indiana to make his move on Frank Holman.
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: N/A
7.7/1065 votesLoading...#8 - Strange Bedfellows
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1986
Holman ideintifies Torello as a dirty cop to Breitel. After an attempt on his life, Luca takes refuge in Florida.
Director: Francis Delia
Writer: N/A
7.7/1057 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.8/10850 votesLoading...#10 - Pilot (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1986
Here we meet the three major players of the series: Lt. Mike Torrello, head of Chicago's Major Crime Unit(MCU); Ray Luca, a young hood about to make his mark on the underworld; and David Abrams, an idealistic public defender trying to bury his Mob-connected roots. As the story unfolds Torrello is working with to bring down members of Chicago's underworld while Luca is taken under the wing of Manny Weisbord; one of Chicago's most powerful crime figures. As events proceed Torrello and Luca each become aware of the other's existence. Torello realizes that there is a new player that he must bring down.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: David J. Burke, Chuck Adamson, Gustave Reininger
7.8/10130 votesLoading...#11 - Pilot (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1986
Here we meet the three major players of the series: Lt. Mike Torrello, head of Chicago's Major Crime Unit(MCU); Ray Luca, a young hood about to make his mark on the underworld; and David Abrams, an idealistic public defender trying to bury his Mob-connected roots. As the story unfolds Torrello is working with Abrams to bring down members of Chicago's underworld while Luca is taken under the wing of Manny Weisbord; one of Chicago's most powerful crime figures. As events proceed Torrello and Luca each become aware of the other's existence. Torello realizes that there is a new player that he must bring down.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: N/A
7.8/1065 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.9/1057 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.9/1056 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.0/1089 votesLoading...#15 - Pursuit of a Wanted Felon
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1986
Conflict ruins the Torello's weekend trip. Luca situates in Las Vegas. Bigots target Abrams's relationship with Susan.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: N/A
8.0/1082 votesLoading...#16 - Justice Hits the Skids
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1986
Devastated by Kehoe's death, Torello stonewalls Breitel's federal investigation. Abrams joins the MCU on the street.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1086 votesLoading...#17 - Old Friends, Dead Ends
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1986
Torello confronts his new friend, now laundering money for the Mob. Federal investigators indict Luca and Bartoli.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: N/A
8.1/1096 votesLoading...#18 - Torello on Trial
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1987
Breitel brutally cross-examines Torello. Acquitted Luca moves to Las Vegas. Torello gets a new assignment.
Director: Gary Sinise
Writer: N/A
8.1/1069 votesLoading...#19 - The Kingdom of Money
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/30/1987
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
8.1/1091 votesLoading...#20 - The Survivor
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/1987
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
Writer: N/A
8.1/1082 votesLoading...#21 - Ground Zero
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1987
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
Writer: N/A
8.1/1080 votesLoading...#22 - 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
8.1/1070 votesLoading...#23 - 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
8.1/1063 votesLoading...#24 - 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
8.1/1078 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Crime Story
Every episode of Crime Story ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Crime Story!
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Pauli Taglia's Dream" is the worst rated episode of "Crime Story". It scored 6.7/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by Jeff Stein and written by N/A, it aired on 3/8/1988. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "For Love or Money".