7.0/1060 votesLoading...#1 - How Sammo Got His Groove Back
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1998
Terrell Parker, an LAPD press officer, sees his cousin, a rap artist shot by an assassin. His life saved only by the appearance of Sammo and Louis. Terrell tries to get himself involved in the investigation by partnering up with Sammo. Between them they uncover a CD bootlegging operation.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
7.1/1051 votesLoading...#2 - Substitutes
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/23/1999
Sammo discovers that a legendary gangster and drugs dealer has left Colombia and come back to Los Angeles, looking for his ex-wife and son.
Director: D. J. Caruso
Writer: Patty Lin
7.1/1046 votesLoading...#3 - Call of the Wild
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1999
A mild mannered man, with no criminal record, walks into an office and kills the man inside. When Sammo catches up with him he nearly kills him as well, with martial arts skills. According to his wife he didn't even know any martial arts skills. Tyrell's ex turns up with stories about her becoming a werewolf on full moons and going out and stalking someone. Are there any connections between these two occurrences? The MCU soon begins to think there is and start investigating.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
7.2/1051 votesLoading...#4 - Captive Hearts
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1999
Sammo and Terrell pursue a sweatshop proprietor suspected of selling babies.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Del Shores
7.2/1047 votesLoading...#5 - No Quarter
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2000
A corrupt councilman demotes Sammo and Terrell. Meanwhile, a gang war erupts, wrecking the plans of an L.A. mobster who wants to bring a pro-football team to L.A.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: Carlton Cuse
7.2/1047 votesLoading...#6 - In the Dark
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2000
Sammo and Tyrell go to a prison to pick up Anton Trimble, the highest ranking Scorpio member ever captured alive. Scorpio tries to rescue him and show off their new weapon at the same time. They use an EMP weapon to disable all the electronics in the prison and the surrounding area. Sammo and Tyrell escape with Anton and are chased by a group of Scorpio agents. Meanwhile Grace is trying to find a way to get into Scorpio via her links with Kyle Strode.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: David Ehrman
7.4/1051 votesLoading...#7 - Final Conflict (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2000
The MCU discover that Scorpio began in Shanghai and has a personal grudge against Sammo. 'The One' steps up his campaign to kill Sammo by first dealing with his friends and family. He already has his son as a member of Scorpio and next he kidnaps Amy and her fiancé and buries them alive in their limo. Sammo, Grace and Tyrell have to find out where Amy is before he targets the next one of them.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: N/A
7.5/1059 votesLoading...#8 - Extreme Measures
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1998
Sammo and his colleagues try to discover the whereabouts a group of White Supremacists armed with heavy weapons.
Director: David Carson
Writer: N/A
7.5/1055 votesLoading...#9 - Wild Life
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1999
Sammo and Tyrell try to nail an illegal animal trading and hunting ring.
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend
7.5/1049 votesLoading...#10 - Thieves Among Thieves
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1999
Sammo and Tyrell are working undercover with some jewel thieves when they are attacked by another group of, heavily armed, thieves. They attack their own comrades and join the new gang so that they can find out who they are, and who they are working for. The new gang specialises in robbing other gangs of criminals which leaves Sammo and Tyrell in a dangerous situation. The MCU have no idea where their two fellow officers are or what they are up to.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: N/A
7.5/1047 votesLoading...#11 - Dog Day Afternoon
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2000
Sammo ends up looking after a dog after his owner is found murdered. While investigating the murder Sammo is attacked and the men try to grab Homer, the dog, in the process. The MCU team decides that there is more to this dog then first seems apparent and decide to find out as much as they can about it and his owner, Mason Talbot. They hope this will lead them to the reason for his death and who murdered him.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: N/A
7.5/1047 votesLoading...#12 - The Thrill is Gone
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/2000
A new designer drug hits the street. It is called 'Thrill' and it breaks down your inhibitions and imbues you with a euphoric sense of invincibility. Sammo and Tyrell have to deal with a gang of 'Thrill junkies' when a traffic jam they are in is attacked. They stop the gang but Sammo's leg is broken in the process. He ends up in the same hospital as Ludlow Teale, the government's chief negotiator for the Middle East. Kyle Strode returns to town and Grace continues trying to get inside his organization so that she can find Lone Wei. The MCU investigations reveal that Scorpio has something to do with 'Thrill' and they plan a major operation to show it's potential.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Michael Gleason
7.5/1048 votesLoading...#13 - Heartless
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2000
The Governor's daughter is waiting in hospital for a heart transplant. Sammo is an old friend of the Governor, they met when they were both in China, and Sammo's job in LA is down to him. The heart is stolen when the ambulance transporting it is attacked and the Governor soon receives the inevitable ransom call. If he doesn't sign pardons for three serial killers then his daughter will never see the heart. The governor decides that his daughter is worth more than his career and signs the pardons, hoping that Sammo and the MCU can catch the criminals before they start killing again!
Director: N/A
Writer: David Ehrman
7.5/1057 votesLoading...#14 - Final Conflict (2)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2000
Scorpio implements its plan to control the world by causing a randomly picked plane to crash. They know that they can now effect any plane, anywhere in the world and the governments of the world will soon be at their control. Meanwhile the MCU tries to find out where 'The One' is running his operation from. Sammo has a chance to capture his son but decides to give him the chance to choose the right path and lets him go.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg
7.6/1050 votesLoading...#15 - Bad Seed
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1998
Winship discovers that his niece is involved with a Triad gang and assigns Sammo and Tyrell to track her down. Terrell is now part of the department.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: N/A
7.6/1047 votesLoading...#16 - Friendly Skies
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1999
Grace and Tyrell take a flight escorting some of the worst criminals known to a maximum-security prison. One of the guards pulls a gun on the pilot and forces him to fly below radar level and then releases the convicts. The leader is a man Grace helped put away for murder and he wants to get revenge on her almost as much as he wants to complete his plan for a major crime. The MCU start to discover what he is up to and find that his plan is more audacious then they could have imagined.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: N/A
7.6/1043 votesLoading...#17 - No Fare
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/2000
Having not taken any time off for two years Sammo is told that he has to take a week off. It doesn't take him long to go stir crazy and he offers to help his neighbor, just out of hospital, by driving his cab for him. Meanwhile the rest of the MCU are involved in looking for a jewel thief and the murderer of a Marine Biologist.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
7.6/1042 votesLoading...#18 - Freefall
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/2000
A new generation of spy satellite crashes down to earth in downtown LA. The FBI tells Amy that the only missing piece is extremely radioactive. If it is opened it could irradiate half the city. Involved in the bringing down of the satellite are the criminal cult Scorpio and their mysterious leader 'The One'. FBI agent Wick insists that Sammo and Grace are not to be allowed to participate in the case because they are both Chinese nationals and are probably Chinese spies. While this is going on Sammo is also trying to track down the whereabouts of his son, Lone Wei.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: William Rabkin, Lee Goldberg
7.7/1065 votesLoading...#19 - Funny Money
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1998
With the help of a federal agent Sammo and his fellow officers go after a gang who are counterfeiting money.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Pam Veasey
7.7/1050 votesLoading...#20 - Trifecta
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1999
Billy Rafferty, Terrell's former partner is found murdered. Terrell and Sammo investigate the last case he was working on, working undercover at a racetrack.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: N/A
7.7/1049 votesLoading...#21 - Blue Flu
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1999
A biological virus is unleashed in a police precinct and the whole station is quarantined. Sammo and Tyrell investigate a student who stole the virus from his university by injecting it into himself. While they try to find out where the virus and vaccine is, and who is behind the outbreak, Amy and Grace find themselves quarantined in the MCU precinct when it to is attacked.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: N/A
7.7/1044 votesLoading...#22 - Sammo Claus
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1999
A group of robbers, all dressed up as Santa, hold up a toy store and get away with all the new Armando toys that had just arrived. Amy discovers that they, along with shipments of toys at the two other stores that have been robbed in the last few days, all came from the same lot number. Surmising that the robbers are after something inside the toy rather than the toy itself they investigate the toy firm and stake out other stores to find out what the thieves are really after.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: N/A
7.8/1068 votesLoading...#23 - Diamond Fever
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1998
Sammo uncovers a diamond counterfeiting and smuggling operation ran by a major Chinese criminal, Lee Hei.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Carlton Cuse
7.8/1073 votesLoading...#24 - Dead Ringers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1998
When fighters start dying in an Internet based all-in-fighting competition the LAPD are called in. Louis goes undercover to see whether or not the fighters are being murdered
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
7.8/1058 votesLoading...#25 - Take Out
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1998
A friend of Sammo's owns a restaurant. He refuses to sell to Nathan Babbott, a big businessman, and then gets attacked. To help his friend Sammo begins an investigation into Babbott. Sammo has problems trying to open a checking account at the local bank.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Patty Lin
The Worst Episodes of Martial Law
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Martial Law is an American/Canadian crime drama that aired on CBS from 1998 to 2000, and was created by Carlton Cuse. The title character, Sammo...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"How Sammo Got His Groove Back" is the worst rated episode of "Martial Law". It scored 7/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by Larry Shaw and written by Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, it aired on 11/21/1998. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Substitutes".