In this pilot for a proposed series, Victoria Principal plays a woman who balances her life as a divorced mother of a teenage girl and as an investigator with the D.A.'s office. Her job leads her to the case of the murder of a black jeweler. The cops finger a young black hoodlum, but she has her doubts. She suspects the officers are the guilty ones, and the young punk is their innocent patsy. This would-be series might have stood a chance if the producers had waited for it to develop as a series before filming an episode in which the cops are the bad guys, and a hoodlum the innocent one. Sure, there are bad cops, just as there are bad priests, bad journalists, bad bankers, and, of course, bad politicians. There are bad apples in every barrel. But making the cops out to be the bad guys is a lousy way to start off a series in which law enforcement is a major theme. They could have thought of a better title too.
