Starsky and Hutch respond to an alarm when a woman breaks a shop keeper's window. The shop keeper is very angry about his window, and the woman has run away, but Starsky and Hutch discover that she was a witness to a murder and needed help. She and the murder victim are also illegal immigrants being exploited by their employers, Starsky and Hutch try to find her in order to protect her and to find the killer of her friend.
Most of this episode is okay. There seems to be a lot of needless stuff in it, though. Starsky meets and interacts with a fashion model; there seemed to be no point to that whole scenario. The model had absolutely nothing to do with anything. The final set-up with Starsky dressed as Charlie Chaplin and Hutch as a mime was also very unnecessary. They couldn't just hide behind something? That scene was pretty sloppy, too, because no one takes out the second bad guy. Both Starsky and Hutch take off after one of the bad guys while the other one is just left standing there. It's a distant shot and maybe we are supposed to think that Hutch took out the second shooter, but he really didn't.
I did like their interaction with the undercover immigration officer, although the whole bar scene where they meet him is another strange set-up. (Hutch teaches Starsky one phrase in Spanish and sends him into a Mexican bar to get info, where they all speak English anyway. I thought PMG did the scene pretty well, but I don't know why Starsky has to look stupid). And I liked the shoot-out scene in the hallway; PMG did his own little stunt somersault-fall and that turned out good. I'm glad I didn't have to see his stunt double do it. And DS gets to give Hutch some righteous anger; Hutch is always good at righteous anger.
So, because the story wasn't really tight and there were needless distractions, it was not a strong episode. This was the one episode directed by Earl Bellamy that I did not think worked as well as it could have. Let's just blame the script.
Most of this episode is okay. There seems to be a lot of needless stuff in it, though. Starsky meets and interacts with a fashion model; there seemed to be no point to that whole scenario. The model had absolutely nothing to do with anything. The final set-up with Starsky dressed as Charlie Chaplin and Hutch as a mime was also very unnecessary. They couldn't just hide behind something? That scene was pretty sloppy, too, because no one takes out the second bad guy. Both Starsky and Hutch take off after one of the bad guys while the other one is just left standing there. It's a distant shot and maybe we are supposed to think that Hutch took out the second shooter, but he really didn't.
I did like their interaction with the undercover immigration officer, although the whole bar scene where they meet him is another strange set-up. (Hutch teaches Starsky one phrase in Spanish and sends him into a Mexican bar to get info, where they all speak English anyway. I thought PMG did the scene pretty well, but I don't know why Starsky has to look stupid). And I liked the shoot-out scene in the hallway; PMG did his own little stunt somersault-fall and that turned out good. I'm glad I didn't have to see his stunt double do it. And DS gets to give Hutch some righteous anger; Hutch is always good at righteous anger.
So, because the story wasn't really tight and there were needless distractions, it was not a strong episode. This was the one episode directed by Earl Bellamy that I did not think worked as well as it could have. Let's just blame the script.
