The Worst Episodes of Crime Story

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

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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

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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

A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.

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Attorney Abrams falls for a reporter helping him defend a tenant accused of assaulting a slum landlord.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt, Michael Mann

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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

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Indelli and Krychek must deal with a tense hostage situation. Torello travels to Indiana to make his move on Frank Holman.

Director: Francis Delia

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Holman ideintifies Torello as a dirty cop to Breitel. After an attempt on his life, Luca takes refuge in Florida.

Director: Francis Delia

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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.

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Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.

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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

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

Luca is finally brought to court on racketerring charges but the trial is postponed when a military emergency happens in Vietnam.

Director: Mimi Leder

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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.

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Conflict ruins the Torello's weekend trip. Luca situates in Las Vegas. Bigots target Abrams's relationship with Susan.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

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Devastated by Kehoe's death, Torello stonewalls Breitel's federal investigation. Abrams joins the MCU on the street.

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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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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 and his men chase Luca to Mexico where they will get no help from the US Government.

Director: Colin Bucksey

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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

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

Writer: N/A

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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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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