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This story of revenge and escalating violence has a lot of promise in its opening minutes, but it quickly falls apart amid some absurdities in the behavior of the regular principal characters and a weirdly unbalanced last act. Stefanie Powers is scary as the vengeance-driven mastermind, out to kill the judges that she blames for her father being denied parole and dying in prison. And almost as good is Elliott Street as her somewhat less competent sibling, who is just as dangerous in his unfocused way of living. And Eduard Franz is superb as their intended victim, the only surviving member of the parole panel that denied their father his freedom. But midway through the episode, things go haywire -- an officer, a partner to the other officer (who is a witness to the first attempt), is shot in the line of duty, and no one is in attendance at the hospital except the partner and their lieutenant (my, how cavalier they are -- who the hell was the technical advisor on this series?). And no one among these law-enforcement professionals ever stops to think that maybe the shooting of the officer is more than just a coincidence, coming just a day or two after his partner witnessed an attempt on the life of a sitting judge? And the writers fail to ever even include any kind of verbal confrontation between Powers' avenging, murderous felon and the police. It all winds up with a hastily occurring (and just as quickly resolved, and also ridiculously resolved) hostage situation in the final minutes of the episode -- the irony is that this scene is so beautifully played, that it shows what the script could have been, if the writers had gotten it right.