While this conversation is happening, the killer follows Kim as she leaves her workplace. This was the case that Mike had been working on. He was arrested quite shortly after the theft but the coins were never recovered. The old inmate had stolen solid gold medallions that were cast by Michelangelo depicting the bronze figures in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Although Neely refuses to speak with him, Leo finds out that the old man is Carl Becker.īack at the bar, Leo brings Rollie up to speed with Becker’s notoriety. Leo visits Neely at the prison and sees him visiting the bedside of a dying old inmate.

He warns her that Neely’s testimony was supplied to him. Leo meets with Neely’s lawyer after the court session, an old friend of his named Liz Kennedy ( Joanna Gleason). The next day, Leo arrives in court to listen to the case that Neely is testifying for. O'Connor), an inmate who is given the details to say for his court appearance in exchange for information. Back at the bar, Leo and Rollie intercept a call from Silak to someone named Neely ( Kevin J. Meanwhile, Rollie sneaks into Silak’s office and taps his phone. The next day, he asks his old police contact Velez if she would discreetly check into Mike’s cases. The killer overcomes the robot and the fight leads to the fire escape, with Leo showing up to save the day in the nick of time.Īt Leo’s closed bar, he listens to the story from Rollie and deduces that Silak is interested in an old, unsolved case that Mike was working on in his spare time. Rollie is able to manoeuvre the killer to be in range of Bluey and uses the telemetry suit to control the robot’s actions while it fights the intruder. Just as Rollie finds footage of the killer, the killer appears before him and demands the recording. Rollie doesn’t notice the door bolts being unlocked as he searches the recording. He sees Silak planting evidence to indicate that the model murderer also killed Mike. That night at their loft, Rollie looks through the camera’s footage. As soon as they leave Silak, Rollie suspects Mike was set up and drives Kim and Chris to her sister’s house to keep them safe. He asks Rollie if Mike mentioned any old cases he was working on. He now knows that Rollie saw Mike’s killer and plants the idea that it may have been a cop.

He gives Rollie back the camera from the crime scene, asking why the apartment was being filmed. They are even searching through the files on floppy disks, including Chris’s game disk which is snatched away by Kim. The house is being thoroughly searched by cops. The next day, Rollie, his girlfriend Kim ( Rachel Ticotin) and her son Chris go to Mike’s house to collect some personal items. Rollie immediately calls Leo McCarthy ( Brian Dennehy), a cop he had worked with before, and leaves a message to say that he’s in trouble and needs help. Rollie is suspicious and secretly collects his hidden cameras but must leave one behind. Rollie tells Silak that the killer got away but Silak wonders why he would think that there was a third person in the apartment. Meanwhile, Mike’s boss Ray Silak ( Philip Bosco) enters the apartment with the team and shoots the model murderer. Rollie sees this and rushes towards the apartment, passing Mike’s killer in the stairwell before recognizing him. As the murderer enters the apartment, another man appears behind Mike and kills him. Rollie set-up small cameras in the apartment as well so that he could watch from his van in the street. The trap involves using a supermodel getting ready to have a shower in the apartment across the street from the murderer, and once he’s shown to the team watching him that he’s about to take violent action, the supermodel is switched out the apartment’s back door and Mike takes her place to arrest the murderer. When his girlfriend’s ex-husband, Mike Brandon ( Tom Mason), is assigned to stakeout a killer who had murdered a model but served a reduced sentence, he asks Rollie to create a trap to put the murderer back in prison. He uses his expertise to design high-end robotic toys, such as a robot clown controlled by a telemetry suit and named Bluey, or to create fun effects such as safely setting his finger aflame with a gel covering. Rollie Tyler ( Bryan Brown) is a well-respected designer of film special effects.

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