Episode 38: The Grim Reaper. Part 1 of 2.
SPECIAL GUEST STARS:
JAMES CAAN as Paul Harland.
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL as Sandra Hill.
MICHAEL ROSENBAUM as Kenneth Depp.
JUSTIN HARTLEY as James Fletcher
LARRY HAGMAN as Jerry Evans.
and Introducing Christopher Lloyd as George Parent.
October 31st 1997, Halloween, Manhattan, New York City. Time: 19:31.
Harry and Tina attend a Halloween costume party on Broadway. Harry is dressed as Hell raiser, while Tina is dressed as a female vampire. Tina is overjoyed by the thought, that they could foster a child, with the opportunity to adopt. James Fletcher makes a re-appearance who is Tina' manager (last seen in Season Two's 'Retro' and 'Cabaret').
19:45, Little Italy, Southern Manhattan. Helen meets Greg from work, dressed in her witches costume, with the showing of cleavage and suspenders, which arouses Kenneth Depp. Helen is outraged at seeing him at the Casino. Greg introduces him as his new head of security, before they both leave for a club. Helen is wondering what Kenneth's next move will be.
20:00, Audrey meets an old flame from Texas, who once visited London many years ago, Jerry Evans. He gestures that he was the first real woman that he ever loved. He asks for a dance and Audrey accepts. Billy cannot help, but glare, much to Sandra Hill's dismay, but unbeknown to Billy, Sandra seems to recognise Jerry Evans.
20:22, Lola is at her works Halloween party, when she receives a phone call from Paul, who says he maybe a little late to the party. Lola replies, by telling him not worry and that the party may last til Dawn the way things are going.
20:50, New York Times, Christopher is on the phone to Sylvia. Sylvia is furious that Donald Blunt (who doesn't appear in TGR Part I, but appears in Part II), is working her son too many hours to prove himself. Christopher assures his mother, that everything is ok, even though George Parent drives him round the bend occasionally. Christopher is dressed as a scarecrow. Jeff receives a phone call at the apartment, the line goes dead.
21:00. A male mugger and his girlfriend snatches a woman's purse and makes off down an alleyway. The mugger is then startled by a cat knocking over some trash cans. As he goes through the woman's purse, a shadowy figure in the shape of the Grim Reaper appears behind them and the mugger is eventually bludgeoned to death. His girlfriend is currently at the mercy of psychopath.
21:16, night club in the city, Greg wonders what's bothering Helen. Helen tells Greg, that she misses her father a lot and is upset at the fact, that they didn't talk for a such a long time, before they made up for her and Greg's wedding.
21:30, Subway. A drunken hooker, holding a pumpkin, is left alone on a train platform, when she spots a figure dressed in a Grim Reaper costume. The hooker laughs out loud and asks the suspicious character if he fancies a good time? The Grim character doesn't reply, so the hooker approaches the figure, when suddenly from underneath it's cloaks, appears what appears to be the head of a person. She realizes it's real and screams. She is so scared she slips off the platform and is crushed to death by an on coming train.
21:39. Sandra tries to apologise for the scene she made at Tina and Greg's birthday. Audrey eventually accepts her apology. Tina and Harry get absolutely drunk.
22:00, Jeff is called out in an emergency downtown by Sylvia, where they find the dead body of a mugger and his mutilated girlfriend. Christopher gets pictures, while George interviews the person who found the body. Jeff and Sylvia are sickened.
22:20, the new receptionist at the hospital is hacked to death, on the west side of Manhattan.
22:47, a homeless man spots a frightening figure in the shadow of his bonfire in the scrapyard.
23:30, Jeff and Sylvia get word of more murders occurring within short periods of time, most of them females, who are stripped naked before being slaughtered and witnesses who saw the hooker fall to her death on the subway, claim they saw a figure in a Grim Reaper costume, grasping a scythe. Jeff now knows they are looking for somebody in a Grim Reaper costume, in which many hundreds or thousands could very well be dressed in the same costume in one night alone in a city which holds over seven million people.
Nov 1st, 0:01 hours, In an emergency meeting back at the precinct, Sylvia demands helicopters, swat cars, dogs etc roaming as many neighbourhoods as possible. The horrifying revelationss have already sent shock waves across the world, as well as America as CNN delivers New York's worse ever massacre.
0:11 hours, Jeff receives a phone call in his office. The voice speaks, which is disguised on a device.
'Jeffrey, do you love your wife?' the voice whispers.
'What?' Jeff worries.
'You heard me, cop,' the voice continues.
'You know me?' Jeff acknowledges.
'Shitting yourself?' the voice taunts.
'What do you want?' Jeff calmly asks.
'I want you to tell me, if you love your wife or not.'
'Why?'
'Because, if you don't, then I'm gonna tear her butt naked flesh off! ha ha ha ha.'
'When I find you, I'm gonna rip your f***** head off!' Jeff threats.
'Not before, I rip the heads off many more,' the grim reapers laughs. 'Not even your police force or FBI will succeed me. Hell, you may not even stop me from claiming the life of your true love, ha ha ha!'
The phone goes dead, leaving Jeff scared, yet angry and vengeful.
TO CONTINUED appears on the screen...
END OF EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT