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Strike Force: Pilot

Episode number: 1

Overview: Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.

Kidnap

Episode number: 2

Overview: The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.

The Victims

Episode number: 3

Overview: The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.

The Predator

Episode number: 4

Overview: Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.

Magic Man

Episode number: 5

Overview: A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.

Night Nurse

Episode number: 6

Overview: Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.

The Hollow Man

Episode number: 7

Overview: A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.

The Outcast

Episode number: 8

Overview: Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.

Ice

Episode number: 9

Overview: An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.

Internal Affairs

Episode number: 10

Overview: Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.

Lonely Ladies

Episode number: 11

Overview: The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.

Fallen Angel

Episode number: 12

Overview: A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.

Shark

Episode number: 13

Overview: Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.

Turnabout

Episode number: 14

Overview: A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.

The John Killer

Episode number: 15

Overview: Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.

Humiliation

Episode number: 16

Overview: Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.

Deadly Chemicals

Episode number: 17

Overview: Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.

Revenge

Episode number: 18

Overview: A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.

Chinatown

Episode number: 19

Overview: Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.

Death Fire

Episode number: 20

Overview: A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".