#Cagney and Lacey the return

[mikereads]

Chris Cagney aka the original gentlewoman.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Cagney Buck and Lacey Eddie return to us!!!!!

[tuttle-did-it]

‘Murder in Milan’ Murder, She Wrote

Cesar Romero returns (The Golden Girls, The Love Boat, Magnum PI, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Hart to Hart, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Ironside, Night Gallery, Bewitched, Here’s Lucy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, etc)

George Coe returns George Coe (Kramer vs Kramer, Bones, Archer, Star Wars animated shows, Supernatural Curb Your Enthusiasm, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, Smallville, Becker, The Nanny, L.A. Law, St:TNG, Night Court, Murphy Brown, so much more!)

Paul Gleason returns (The Wonder Years, Adam012, Columbo, Cagney & Lacey, Magnum PI, Dallas, Kate & Allie, Diehard, Father Dowling Investigates, Seinfeld, Lost on Earth, The Drew Carey Show, Diagnosis Murder, etc)

S9E1 20 Sept 1992

[procrastinatingfeminist]

But also: WHY do we have to throw the old model out when the new is getting established? I know so many people who bemoan the lack of owning books and movies physically, instead constantly being steered towards streaming services, where you buy a membership and can't have any expectations what you will get in return, you just hope like hell that they have that one niche series from ten years ago and haven't purged it from the library. I am one of those people. I remember reading up a decade ago about why there won't be a Cagney&Lacey dvd collection because some dude got his feelings hurt and the series had already been dated at that time and with every year there was less and less potential in the market. And at the time you could still reasonably find dvd collections. I used to buy so many of them. Even those that I haven't watched, bc I didn't have access to a tv reliably and preferred to binge watch them, and anyway, any older series are pain in the ass to find.

I get that it might not exactly be feasible for a movie/series produced by a streaming service, because of the nature of their revenue, but they also don't have the high upfront threshold of working with cinemas. But if a studio produces a movie and puts into a contract that it is locked out of selling the streaming rights for the next, lets say five years, and instead produces a smaller batch run of physical copies. Do you think people who loved it in cinema won't be chomping at the bit own it, rather than renting it? Esp if it doesn't cost an arm and a leg? And those who would rather stream it - well, after five years, it still can be put up on Amazon prime or Netflix.

I am still so glad that I managed to buy the Firefly and Babylon 5 series as a disc-set, no matter how much space it takes up, and sad that i lost my window of opportunity to buy a complete Gargoyles series. And all those series that jumped networks - like Lucifer. I signed up for Netflix in part because I hoped to watch it, but it never streamed in my region, so that was a bust; but also i am pretty sure that they only streamed the seasons that they themselves produced. You think I wouldn't have bought that shit immediately, despite having a subscription just because I didn't want to jump through a series of convoluted loops to watch it completely? Why isn't this revenue model still a thing???

(But of course it would rob the studios and networks of their ability to fuck with the creators if they can't simply yoink something several people have put their blood, sweat and tears into, from existence and retcon it being produced from reality. That has absolutely nothing with profit making. That is a psychopath mindset.)

Matt Damon explains why they don’t make movies like they used to. Pls watch.

[lboogie1906]

James Carter Walker Jr. (born June 25, 1947) is an actor and comedian. He is known for portraying “J.J.” in Good Times. He was nominated for Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actor In A Television Series for his role. His character was known for the catchphrase “Dy-no-mite!” which he used in his TV commercial for a Panasonic. He starred in Let’s Do It Again and The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened. He continues to tour the country with his stand-up comedy routine.

He was born in Brooklyn and raised in The Bronx. He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in New York City. Through a New York State-funded program known as SEEK, he continued his studies and entered the field of radio engineering with WRVR. He was a vendor at Yankee Stadium, starting with the 1964 World Series. He was a weekend personality on contemporary R&B music station KAGB 103.9 FM licensed to Inglewood.

He appeared on The Tonight Show and Match Game. He was a five-time panelist on the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. He appeared on Match Game and various game shows during that era.

He has made guest appearances on Badge 373, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Larry Sanders Show, Son of the Beach, The Drew Carey Show, The John Larroquette Show, In the House, Cagney & Lacey, The Fall Guy, Scrubs, Star Dates, Everybody Hates Chris, George Lopez, Chelsea Lately and Lincoln Heights. He appeared in the films Rabbit Test, The Concorde ... Airport ‘79, Airplane!, Water, Doin’ Time, The Guyver, Monster Mash, Plump Fiction, Big Money Rustlas, and Shark. He starred in the short-lived television series At Ease and Bustin’ Loose.

He returned to his radio roots hosting shows on WHIO, WOAI, WLS, and KKAR. He appeared on a split release with Powerviolence band Spazz.

His autobiography, Dyn-o-mite! Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times – A Memoir, was published. He announced the release of his official app developed by Monty Goulet for iOS. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[moonstonediaz]

home invasion is really just buck and eddie being amateur detectives who are investigating a string of break-in’s in eddie’s neighborhood and they take it too far and get the cops called on them for “accidentally” breaking and entering and they get arrested as the original burglars but it’s all a misunderstanding and they have to explain all of this in detail while under arrest bc athena is still on her honeymoon and too busy to pick up the phone to tell the officers that “they just do that sometimes”

[fancoloredglasses]

[RERUN] Deadly Force (A Gargoyles After School Special)

[All images are owned by Disney. Please don’t sue me]

Once again, I’m giving a RERUN treatment to an older post that suffers from “wall of text”-itis. If you would like to see the original review, you can find it here.

Deadly Force is one of the more preachy and the most controversial episodes of Gargoyles. It was so controversial that after its initial airing, it was pulled from the rotation for some time, and when it returned the offending scene was sanitized for the kids. I for one am glad it returned, as it was a defining moment in Broadway’s character development and touched on a subject that needs to be addressed more often than it does: Gun safety

[Stepping back a bit: I have no issues with a person’s right to defend themselves, but it must be done responsibly. Beyond this, I will not discuss my views on a public forum. If you would like to discuss them in a responsible and civilized manner, feel free to leave me a comment]

OK, soapbox moment over, on to the preaching… If you would like to watch the episode, it’s available on Disney+.

PREVIOUSLY ON...

After using the Clan to perform corporate espionage against Halcyon Reynard, Xanatos is sent to prison for less than a year (must be nice to be rich and white). While Xanatos is in prison, the Gargoyles still live in Castle Wyvern atop his skyscraper.

[Another quick note: This is the third of three early episodes that highlight the junior members of the clan (the first deals with Lexington learning not to believe everything you see on TV (and introduces Fox, whom Xanatos would later marry), the second deals with Brooklyn learning that beings change, and not always for the better (especially Demona)) Of the three, this one is probably the best.]

We open on a dock on the New York waterfront. Owen Burnett (Xanatos’s assistant) is overseeing a shipment of some kind (given what you read above, three guesses what…), only to have it hijacked by a crew...

...led by the criminal Tony Dracon (he led the raid himself? So much for plausible deniability. I mean, his face was covered by a gas mask, but still….)

Later, the sun sets on the city and the Gargoyles awaken (one has to wonder if those people passing by the building ever wonder about the falling debris caused by the Gargoyles’ awakening) and Broadway immediately takes off to watch a western named Showdown. (So the clan is out to protect their new home, but apparently invading movie theaters to get free screenings is OK. For that matter, where do they get their food?)

Meanwhile, at the 23rd Precinct, Elisa is attempting to get her captain to put a warrant out for Dracon for the heist, but there’s not enough evidence for the captain to make a move. It’s then we find out that Dracon the suspect and his crew stole a shipment of 322 “particle beam” weapons.

And at a cinema on Broadway (where else?) a certain rotund Gargoyle is in the rafters watching Showdown and eating popcorn (how? It’s not like he can visit the concession stand)

Later, in the lobby of the building that contains what I’m assuming is Dracon’s residence, Elisa confronts Dracon. His thugs “associates” reach for their… wallets? I mean, it’s not like they’d be dumb enough to draw a gun on one of New York’s Finest in public, right? Anyway, Dracon tells the boys he’ll pick up the check and approaches Elisa.

Elisa all but accuses Dracon of the hijacking, but he claims innocence as his muscle snickers behind him (way to help your boss’s case, boys…) Dracon can’t help giving one last taunt before walking off, leaving Elisa fuming, but unfortunately, she has nothing to charge him with.

Later, the movie ends, with the good guy having shot the bad guy and Broadway thinks it’s the Coolest Thing Ever, and “shoots” randomly with a finger gun as he glides into the night.

Elisa returns to her apartment and we meet her cat Cagney (I was wondering if she has a second cat named Lacey, but then I realized he was named after legendary actor James Cagney.)

About this time, Broadway pops in through Elisa’s skylight for a visit. Elisa plays the good host and offers to cook for him since she was fixing dinner. Then Broadway discovers Elisa’s service weapon that she hung by her jacket, so he pulls it out and plays with it. Unfortunately, the inevitable happens (you mean Elisa didn’t have the safety on?!) and…

(Thanks to Multiversity Comics, since the video on Disney+ has the “sanitized” version)

[OK, stepping back for a bit once again. When this episode was first aired, I was SHOCKED that Disney let this get on the air! (given what I know about Children’s programming, I applaud whatever producer that green-lit this episode, even if they backpedaled afterward) Apparently, so was Disney, as I mentioned the treatment the episode got afterward. Anyway, back to the story…]

Broadway, realizing what he had done, immediately discards the pistol, grabs Elisa, and flies (glides, whatever…) to the hospital, where he deposits her outside the ER (hopefully someone goes back to Elisa’s apartment before whatever she was cooking burns the building down)

A pair of EMTs discover her (after Broadway hides) and bring her inside. Broadway, rightfully filled with guilt, heads off.

Back at the castle, it is nearly sunrise and Broadway has not yet returned. The Clan prepares themselves for their rest as Owen approaches and informs Goliath about what happened to Elisa and that her chances for survival are slim...

...which leave Goliath’s day pose as a look of shock and anger.

Elsewhere, in a secluded woodland (there are secluded areas near Manhattan?) Dracon talks to his crew about an upcoming deal to sell the shipment, and that they sold a few on the street.

Meanwhile, Elisa is in surgery to repair the damage from the bullet. [I remember thinking I would be pissed if they killed off Elisa (I was forgetting that wouldn’t happen, given the target audience)]

As night falls, the Clan barge into Owen’s office demanding to know what happened to Elisa, but unfortunately, Owen doesn’t have all the facts, but mentions the stolen shipment and where Elisa is being treated before walking off (I’d comment on how rude he was being, but it is his office and they did barge in without an appointment…) Brooklyn mentions that Broadway hasn’t returned yet, so Goliath tells him and Lexington to look for him while he looks in on Elisa (and what are Hudson and Bronx supposed to do? Twiddle their thumbs?)

At the hospital, Goliath watches from a skylight (does every room in the Big Apple have one?) as we see Elisa’s family for the first time, (horrible way to “meet” your friend’s family) the doctor telling them Elisa’s condition (she survived surgery, but isn’t out of the woods yet). Then Elisa’s captain arrives and informs the family (and Goliath, who is obviously listening in) that the police think Dracon or one of his men shot Elisa with her own gun (well, they got half of it right…) As Elisa’s family and boss leave, Goliath enters and gives his own words of encouragement and vows vengeance on whomever shot her (Broadway’s in trouble…oh, he meant Dracon)

Speaking of Dracon, Goliath lands on the balcony of his apartment (how does he know what Dracon’s address is, let alone what apartment?) and he overhears when and where the buy is happening. One of his goons (named “Glasses”.

Three guesses why…) excuses himself to sell off a few more of the weapons (why? You have a buyer. You’re only devaluing your merchandise by reducing the inventory!)

Meanwhile, in Central Park, Broadway stops a mugging with extreme (for children’s programming) prejudice. He discovers the would-be mugger has one of the particle beam weapons and destroys it with his bare hands as he demands to know where the guy got it. (oh, it’s about to suck to be Glasses…)

Meanwhile, Elisa’s heart stops and they bring in the crash team! (C’mon, I know how this ends! Why the hell am I getting choked up?) Fortunately, they manage to revive her.

Later, Dracon manages to evade his police tail, but unfortunately, he picked up a Goliath tail. Goliath follows Dracon to a warehouse that is holding the weapons. As Goliath contemplates his next move, Broadway shows up. Goliath invites him to assist him in dealing with Elisa’s attacker.

Inside the warehouse, Dracon gets a call from Glasses…something about being attacked by a monster. (Next he’ll start saying something about giant turtles in the sewer…) Then Goliath and Broadway attack! Goliath kills the lights (literally, as he rips out the breaker box)...

...as Broadway takes out the goon squad.

Dracon does a runner, but Goliath quickly catches him and is about to kill him when Broadway catches up and admits what actually happened (to be fair, Broadway wasn’t hiding what he did. He was just too guilt-ridden to face the clan, and when he accidentally met up with Goliath he couldn’t get a word in edgewise) This is enough to cool Goliath’s blood-lust as he wraps up Dracon and his goons for the cops.

...and they’ll need a crowbar to unwrap them.

At that time, Owen shows up at the warehouse. Goliath deduces that Owen intended on buying back the weapons from Dracon (but was he really? Or was he going to kill them for having the audacity of stealing from Xanatos?) At a glance, Owen guesses 37 weapons aren’t present (I swear, Owen’s ability to count close to 300 assorted weapons in less than 5 seconds is almost supernatural…)

While disappointed, Goliath figures it’s close enough as he picks up a weapon and destroys the rest. Owen says Xanatos won’t be happy about that. Goliath pretty much tells Owen what he thinks about Xanatos’ happiness.

Goliath and Broadway then go to visit Elisa, who finally wakes up. Broadway comes clean to Elisa about playing with her gun. Elisa forgives him, not letting a little thing about being mortally wounded come in the way of her friendship with the Clan.

We also see the hint of something more than friendship between Goliath and Elisa.  

The fallout from this episode was (a) Elisa spends the next few episodes recovering, and gets assigned a partner when she returns to duty, and (b) Broadway develops a hatred of guns, destroying every one that is used to attack innocents (or any of his friends)

I thought the episode did a great job discussing (if a bit heavy-handed at times) the dangers of mishandling firearms without entering into the “2nd Amendment” argument, and is one of my favorite episodes.

[michelleplayswithfire]

apparently the video no longer exists (thanks to youtube), but here's the list:

COMEDY The Great Outdoors Stroker Ace Sixteen Candles Spaceballs Big Trouble in Little China Teen Wolf Overboard Elvira Mistress of the Dark Romancing the Stone Heathers Smokey and the Bandit 2 and 3 Cannonball Run 2 Crocodile Dundee Crocodile Dundee 2 City Heat Burglar One Crazy Summer

KIDS & FAMILY Teen Witch All Dogs Go To Heaven The Secret of N.I.M.H. Labyrinth Little Shop of Horrors Care Bears 2 Willow

TV The Incredible Hulk Returns The Trial of the Incredible Hulk Alf 21 Jump Street Pee Wee's Playhouse It's a Living Cagney and Lacey

ACTION/ADVENTURE First Blood Red Dawn Over the Top Bloodsport Shadow Riders Lone Wolf McQuade

DRAMA Once Upon A Time in America Honeysuckle Rose 2010: The Year We Make Contact The Untouchables The Bounty The Long Riders Mississippi Burning Colors Vision Quest

HORROR/SUSPENSE Killer Clowns from Outer Space Christine Someone To Watch Over Me The Keep

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get in on it! <3

[sitcomified]

my predictions for the b99 finale:

above all if the rest of the season is any indication it will be fucking beautiful and filled with fan service

starting w the gimmes: coolcoolcool, noice, title of your sex tape, smort, terry loves stuff etc.

HEIST???????????????????????? it's gotta be at least alluded to

i'm expecting at least one significant time jump (like at least a year) and probably a bunch of "flashbacks" to things that we didn't see

amy and holt's program is a huge success and there's even some indication of it going beyond the NYPD.

it will not be nuanced enough for some people (because this is an 8 season show tying up in like 40 minutes) and there will be awful internet discourse about it

if there's a huuuuge time skip amy will eventually lead the nypd/whatever it becomes

jake's arc has a few options and right now i think from most to least likely it's 1) substantially scaling down amt of police work/joining rosa 2) being a Good Cop or whatever and having a significant mentoring role 3) stay at home dad

assuming the NYPD isn't full on taken down, terry will take over the 99

gina back?? idk what to expect here but if she is (legit forgot if it was confirmed or not) then just like jokes abt her being an influencer now. but it's okay and i love her

mac will be referenced a ton and i would simply implode if he's actually there/baby #2 exists (but if not we all know @peralta-guaranteed 's maya headcanons are canon)

in terms of other squad kids,,, i think that they probably won't be referenced at all and def not there but from most to least likely it's nikolaj, cagney/lacey, ava, and iggy (and then i guess hitchcock/scullys kids are last but canon was never consistent with that)

also no sharon/genevieve/milton probably

god the way i would KILL for a parks and rec style reunion with the kids all grown up??? a girl can dream

along the lines of family stuff i don't think we can expect any more lore abt the extended peraltas/santiagos sorry

rosa and charles probably won't get any major development, maybe some time goes to rosa's PI stuff doing a ton of good

i want rosa to find love but i know she will be all set canon or not

kevin will be back, but probably not the other guest stars

that said here are characters i think it would be awesome to see: PIMENTO (just not w rosa please), mlepnos, the vulture (explicitly getting fired), sophia (no plot reason except maybe she helps with police reform??? i just love eva longoria. also teddy got to return for the almost finale), eddie fung (no reason for him to be here since jake's romance arc is wrapped up but it was so impt to early show development) marshall haas (another very long shot also no reason for her to be here but i love maya rudolph), david santiago (i actually don't want this i just want everyone to remember lin manuel miranda is canonically a Santiabro)

also fuck it not a prediction but here are some very long shot guest starts i would simply perish if i saw: adam scott, seth meyers, amy poehler, aubrey plazza, and of course john mulaney

scully retires

scully was god all along

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Ferdy Mayne as the sheik in an original publicity still for The Captains Paradise (1953). Ferdy was born in Mainz, Germany, and had a whopping 293 acting credits, from an uncredited bit in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) to 1996, with a posthumous 2016 credit. His entry among my best 1,001 movies is Freud, and his other honorable mention is Abandon Ship.

Ferd's other notable credits include Ben Hur, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Where Eagles Dare, The Magic Christian, Barry Lyndon, Revenge of the Pink Panther, an episode of Dynasty, two episodes of The Greatest American Hero, The Black Stallion Returns, Conan the Destroyer, and two episodes of Cagney and Lacey.

[glenncoco4]

Elevators

He steps onto the elevator weaving his way into a small open space in the corner, paying no attention to the group of people. His focus on the small letters running across the white pages in his hand, getting lost in the story.

Level by level the crowd slowly dissipates until there are just two other people with him. They ride up two more levels before the coworkers step off and the door begins to close.

“Hold the elevator!”

His hand darts out at the request, stopping the metal door just in time.

The doors pop back open and she steps in. His mouth is suddenly dry as she flashes him a breathtaking smile and that’s not all that’s taking his breath away. She’s wearing glasses today and his favorite black dress that contrasts beautifully against her olive-toned skin. Simply breathtaking.

“Thank you.”

“No problem.”

She can feel the heat rising to cheeks as he returns her smile, his cerulean blues more mesmerizing than ever. Especially with that baby blue button-up, he’s wearing. Shaking herself out of her daze, she hits a button and they begin to climb up each floor.

A few seconds later the lights suddenly start to flicker and the metal box comes to a screeching halt.

“That can’t be good.” A hint of concern laced in her voice as her eyes meet his.

Turning towards the panel of buttons, he finds the call button and immediately gets a response. “Yeah, we’re stuck in elevator 2.”

“We’re working on it but it looks like it’ll be about 45 minutes, man, the whole block’s out.”

“Okay, thanks.”

Shrugging, the brunette takes their current situation for what it is and carefully maneuvers herself to be able to take a seat on the floor. She slowly leans back against the wall and reaches into her bag only to bring out a book. Opening up to her bookmark, she briefly looks up and a smile curls at her lips seeing he has one of his own. One she’s quite familiar with in fact.  “How are you liking it so far?”

Doing his best to steady his racing heart, he looks up from his book with an enthusiastic smile. “Oh, I love it.”

“Yeah, it’s really good. Especially the end.” She affirms. “I’m Kensi by the way.”

“Yeah, I know.” He can’t help the blush from rising to his cheeks. “I’m Marty.”

She looks down at her book before her eyes meet his once again. “I know.”

“So you’ve been with Smith & Calhoun for a few months now?”

“Yeah, how’d you know?”

“Well that’s the only office on that floor and I tend to notice things.”

“Things or people?”

She quirks her brow, sending him a look that would have him on his knees if he weren’t already sitting down. “Both.”

“And you’re a manuscript advisor at Wilson & Rowe, right?”

This time he’s the one quirking his brow in curiosity. His heart picking up more speed by the second. “How’d you know?”

“I tend to notice things.” She doesn’t know what comes over her and sends the blonde a wink. She’s definitely never done that before.

“Things or people?”

“Both.”

There’s a beat of silence before he decides to take an even bolder step and moves to the open space next to her, getting closer but not too close.

He took one step so she decides to take the next. “So what’s it like to work at a publishing house? Do you get to meet with the authors or anything?”

“Sometimes. It just depends on who it is and the content of the manuscript.”

“Anything good that I should look out for?”

“Well, right now we’re working on the final stages of Cagney & Lacey type thriller except Lacey is a guy and they’re lawyers.”

“So nothing like Cagney & Lacey.”  She states matter of factly, not afraid to challenge him in the slightest.

“Yeah, I guess you’re right.” He shakes his head, eyes locking with hers as a laugh escapes his lips.  

It’s like everything starts to move in slow motion as his laughter envelopes the room, she doesn't think she’s ever heard anything sweeter in her life. She can’t help but stare.

Once he gathers himself, he meets her eyes. His brow furrowed at the dazed look across her face.“What?”

“I like your laugh.” She states, getting bolder and bolder by the second.

Jelly. If anyone were to ask him how he’s feeling right now he would say jelly. “I like your smile.”

The room becomes silent as their eyes dance with emotion and feel the slow force pulling them towards the other until…

“Look, if you two are gonna kiss, can you at least wait until I get out first?”

They’re inches from sealing the deal when a strange voice that doesn’t belong to either of them fills the small room. Turning their heads in sync towards the direction of the voice, their eyes go wide in shock. “Sorry, man. Didn’t see you over there.”

The stranger waves him off. “No worries, I get it. Just…I know how these things tend to escalate.”

Before anything else can be said, there’s a loud screech filling the room and suddenly they’re moving once again. Marty quickly hops up and stretches out his hand to help the brunette up.

The smile that’s been glued to her face for the past half hour is still there as she takes his offered hand, his touch sending an electric shockwave through her body. She quickly realizes that her floor is approaching and the words are spewing out of her mouth before she knows it. “So, would you like to join me for lunch?”

“I’d love to. What’d you have in mind?’

“I was thinking something like tacos maybe.” This is it. The real test. How they move forward is all depending on how he answers.

His shoulders drop and smile deflates. Eyes unable to meet hers. “Oh, well, I…I just don’t know if I’m ready for you to see that yet.”

“See what?” Her brow furrows in confusion.

“My taco dance.” His frown suddenly shifts into a grin, unable to help himself.

Again that smile makes itself known as she shakes her head in disbelief. “I think I can handle your dance if you can handle my margarita dance.”

His eyes go wide, partly in surprise and partly in excitement. Thank god for malfunctioning elevators.

[sambergscott]

a little drabble inspired by this message from @fourdrinkamy​ ant how big and alert mac’s eyes are!! i'm gonna go cry again

it’s crazy that waking up at 6.30am is considered a lie in for him now. with a newborn, who is half-santiago, long gone are the days he’d sleep in til noon. most days he’s up before it’s even light outside. his coffee intake has more than quadrupled, but it’s totally worth it to hang out with the baby they wanted for so long.

his bed is empty, which is a little unusual. amy likes to stay in bed with mac in the mornings and snuggle under the covers and finish last night’s crossword together (she gives him the clues and pretends he knows the answer, booping him on his lil nose before filling in the appropriate boxes) (it’s the cutest thing in the entire world).

he fumbles for the baby monitor on his nightstand, blindly turning it on. it crackles, then he hears amy’s laughter.

he’s always loved her laugh. the way her eyes crinkle in the corners, the way she tilts her head, the way she keeps a not-so-secret note in her phone of the funniest things he’s said (she started it when he was in florida) (it was rosa’s idea to help ease the pain of missing him) (whenever he catches her adding to it he falls in love even more and gets brainstorming on the next joke).

he still thinks about their undercover date as johnny and dora when she said him making her laugh was how she knew he was the one. he’s always been the class clown (or now, precinct clown) (terry literally hired him to be a clown at cagney and lacey’s 3rd birthday party) but ever since he met her outside that elevator, he’s really only cared about making one person laugh.

her.

thrilled that their son has inherited his comedic talents, and already missing his 2 favourite people, he hops out of bed and heads for the nursery, leaning against the door frame to take in the tableau.

amy is in the rocking chair her mom and dad gave them (it was the one they used for all their babies and as amy was their only daughter, they thought it was the perfect baby gift), mac swaddled in her arms. she has her phone out, showing him something, and mac’s big, alert eyes are staring right at it, a tiny baby smile tracing his lips.

“thought we had a no screen time before 9am rule?”

she glances up at him, her own smile widening. “i guess motherhood has turned me into a rebel”

“oh yeah, you’re a total rebel” he teases, thinking back to yesterday when they went to ikea for some finishing touches to the nursery and she made him walk all the way round to go back and get something they forgot, just so they weren’t walking against the direction of the arrows. “what’s so important that it’s got you breaking rules, santiago?”

“oh, nothing” she shrugs, acting cool. “just showing him some pictures”

he narrows his eyes suspiciously. call it detective intuition. “what pictures?”

“just some ones of you, doesn’t matter”

he pieces together the final piece of the puzzle (metaphorically, of course, because he always loses at least one piece and it drives amy crazy that they can never finish a 2,000 piece puzzle that they’ve spent days working on). “YOU’RE SHOWING HIM THE NOSE RING PHOTO!”

“what? no” she says way too quick and he can see through her lies like the perp he arrested last week that denied stabbing a guy, despite holding a knife and being covered in blood

“you swore you would never tell anyone!”

“and i’ve kept that promise all these years! i just got my phone out to take a picture of him making a cute face and then my phone said my storage was full, you know, because i’ve been taking so many pictures of him, and then i was going back and deleting stuff from my camera roll when i found it”

“i have never felt more betrayed. and by my own wife” he makes a noise of disgust

“i’m sorry, babe, but it’s just so funny. he loves it, look”

he walks over to them and watches as amy swipes right to a random picture of some binders and then left, back to the nose ring photo, mac’s face lighting up at the offending image

“you think laughing at daddy is cool, pal?” he points an accusing finger at mac who makes a gurgling happy sound (that’s not quite a laugh yet, but is the closest baby version to it and is his new favourite sound in the world) (even better than taylor’s bridge in last kiss and the way amy says his name whenever he’s done something sweet)

“only when he has long hair and a nose ring” amy responds on mac’s behalf

“hilarious” he deadpans, rolling his eyes. he cut his hair years ago and yet his wife will not let him live it down

“you tell him embarrassing stories about me!” she cries

“amy, all your embarrassing stories are that you got an a- on a test once or you solved a case in two weeks instead of one or your ponytail wasn’t quite as shiny as it usually is. it’s not nose ring level embarrassing”

“fine,” she concedes “i apologise, i won’t bring it up again. unless he wants a nose ring, in which case it is my duty as his mom to show him how dumb he’d look”

“fine,” he agrees, ignoring the hurtful comment. he actually looked super cool and he scored one whole date because of the nose ring until it got infected and he had to take it out and the girl was no longer interested. whatever. her loss. he ended up with his dream girl anyway

“want to hold him and make friends again while i go change into something not covered in baby spit-up?”

“always.” he carefully accepts the precious cargo, bouncing him gently in his arms. he kisses amy before she leaves the room, squashing mac in between them, and spends the next 20 minutes showing mac all his amy photos, the 9am rule be damned

(yeah, he’s a rebel too. he once had a freakin’ nose ring)

when amy returns in clean clothes and her natural curls that she hasn’t bothered taming since mac was born, she raises her eyebrows. “showing him embarrassing photos of me? low blow, peralta”

“i’m actually not, santiago,” he says snarkily, then murmurs “i couldn’t find any” under his breath

“then why have you still got a screen in front of him?” she rests one hand on her hip

“i’m showing him normal pictures of you. he needs to see how pretty his mom is, babe! it’s a rite of passage! like a bar mitzvah”

she gets this soft look on his face despite herself and he would pat himself on the back if he weren’t holding his son

“for the record,” he adds, “he thinks his mom is suuuuper pretty. the prettiest mom in the entire world”

“he told you that did he?” she laughs

“mm-hmm. we’re bros so he confided in me, he probably wouldn’t say it again while you’re around but he’s definitely thinking it”

“well thank you my little macaroni,” she coos and honest to god, the nickname (of his nickname) was only supposed to be a joke at first, but now it’s kind of stuck and their entire family are calling him macaroni

(charles loves it)

(the first time hitchcock and scully heard it, on the other hand, they thought someone had brought in a delicious bowl of macaroni and cheese and were highly disappointed that they were just talking about the baby again, storming back to their desks in a huff)

“i think you’re very handsome too, mr mac”

“i told you, ames. he’s liquid fire. liquid. fire.”

she laughs again and mac gurgles and he thinks that if he can spend his entire life doing that, making his 2 favourite people laugh, then they’re going to be ok

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Brooklyn 99 AU? If you haven’t seen that, just think like an Office or Parks and Rec-esque work sitcom

“Make Terry do it,” Santiago whispered.  “He’s good at babysitting.”

“Make Terry do what?”  Jeffords looked up from his yogurt, expression concerned.

The informal conference in the precinct break room exchanged a glance.

“We may have arrested a few underage tourists from out of town,” Peralta said.  “They may or may not have been drunk, but, uh...”

Peralta glanced at Boyle.  “But we left them unsupervised in the back of the police van for, like, two minutes,” Boyle explained quickly.  “So by the time we got the breathalyzer working, they were all sober.”

“They all puked?” Scully asked, appalled.

Santiago shook her head sadly.  “They all morphed.”

“Wait.  You mean...”  Jeffords craned his neck to look out across the main room.  He caught a glimpse of the group of kids currently sitting in the Nine-Nine’s holding cell, and his expression went slack in horror.  “No.  No.  No, Terry has not had nearly enough low-fat peach-mango yogurt to deal with this today.”

“They’re famous!”  Peralta made jazz hands at the rest of the squad.  “That’s kind of cool, right?  That Marco kid’s a movie star, Tobias definitely counts as a cryptid, and... the others... do stuff...”

“Yeah.”  Santiago crossed her arms.  “They kill people.”

“There was a war on!” Peralta protested.  “Aliens invaded, Boyle’s mom got possessed by a scary slug thing and tried to kill me —”

“She said she was sorry for mistaking the Sharing for a ferret-themed lomage fanclub,” Boyle said.

“Yeah, no, anyone could make that mistake.”  Peralta pivoted back to Santiago.  “The point is, they killed people as part of a war.  And that, like, doesn’t count or something.”

“What’d they do?” Jeffords asked.

"It was only a few murders,” Boyle said.

“Today!”  Jeffords gestured to the front room, where the delinquents in question were clearly sitting in their holding cell.  “Why’d we arrest them?”

Santiago pulled out her phone, calling up the relevant statement.  “They’re claiming they were provoked when, quote, ‘Some guy wolf-whistled Cassie, and then that guy’s biker gang objected to Rachel’s attempts to rip his arms off and feed them to him, and really it was their fault all along.’”  She looked up.  “Signed Jake Berenson.  Which begs the question: did we get ID from any of them?”

“They all morphed,” Boyle pointed out.  “Who else could it possibly be?”

“So that explains the entire cell’s worth of muscular guys with mild-to-moderate grizzly bear wounds downstairs,” Scully said, staring upward in wonder.

“That’s it, we’re all babysitting them,” Jeffords declared.  “And by that, I mean that we’re getting them out of our hair as fast as we legally can, whether or not we charge them with anything in the process.”

“Agreed,” Santiago said, shoving open the door to the main room.

The scene in the holding cell was... not pandemonium.  Jake and Cassie were sitting on the bench at the back of the cell, Cassie’s head leaning on Jake’s shoulder.  Rachel leaned against the bars, picking at her nails.  Tobias sat on the crossbar next to her, preening.  All in all, the kids seemed to be cooperating, which was a mercy.  It wasn’t like the Nine-Nine had the budget for even one-tenth of the equipment necessary to actually contain an Animorph, after all.

Still, it was probably for the best that some wise soul had moved all the other prisoners downstairs.

“...and you can conceal up to 15 knives in the interior pockets alone,” Diaz was telling Marco.  He watched with rapt fascination, leaning over her desk, as she unfolded a butterfly knife one-handed and then swung it closed again.

“Rosa, did you let him out of the cell?” Santiago asked, exasperated.

“Nope.”  Diaz shrugged.  “Must’ve broken out on his own.”

“He didn’t break anything,” Jake called from inside the cell.  “Marco has not damaged or defaced any government property, nor have any of the rest of us.”

“And yet somehow, there are not one but two delinquents meandering unrestrained around my precinct.”  Holt had emerged from his office, and was now looking slowly from Marco to Ax.

“Yeeeaaah, he’s not technically under arrest.”  Peralta jerked his chin at Ax.  “Seeing as he’s not from Earth, we probably can’t arrest him?  And even if we can, it definitely wouldn’t be worth the headache of trying to charge him with anything in intergalactic courts.”

“If you’re not under arrest, you may leave,” Holt told Ax sternly.

Ax straightened up from where he had been eating... something... off the floor of the microwave.  “I am not going anywhere without my friends!”

“That’s so beautiful.”  Boyle swooned against the door frame.  “It’s like you share a six-way love whose unmatched intensity pours out of you...”

“Not in front of the kids, Charles,” Peralta said.

“What?  I was just—”

“If you’re allowed to leave, could you at least go get us some hot dogs or something?” Rachel asked Ax, ignoring the cops.

“Nah, hot dogs are a Chicago thing,” Jake pointed out.  “Go for knishes, or pizza, or... what else is in New York?”

“Those little paper packets of honey-roasted peanuts,” Cassie suggested.

Everyone glanced over when there was a loud thud from across the room, and then back to the conversation when they realized it was just Marco trying, and failing, to get one of Diaz’s knives to stick in the surface of her desk.

«Tacos.»  Tobias looked unerringly at Scully.  «There has to be a taco truck around here somewhere, right?»

“Don’t you worry.”  Scully pulled his partner to his feet, gasping at the effort of unsticking Hitchcock from his comfortable chair.  “Me and Hitchcock’ll show him all the best food trucks in Brooklyn.”

“How many — any — are there?” Ax asked eagerly.

“Two hundred seven, if you don’t count pushcarts or ice cream vendors,” Hitchcock said immediately.

“We shall return with a bounty as great as three sets of human arms can bear,” Ax promised Rachel.

She flashed him a thumbs-up.

“Hot wings!” Cassie called.  “That’s a New York thing, right?  Hot wings?”

“Have we got a sauce for you,” Scully promised, a hand on Ax’s shoulder.

Jeffords ran to intercept them at the door.  “You can’t just wander in and out of the precinct with suspects, Scully!”

«If you don’t like Ax coming and going, you could always just arrest him,» Tobias said acidly.

There was a long silence.  During this silence, Ax slipped out the door with Hitchcock and Scully behind him.

“Kids these days and their attitudes,” Jeffords complained, spinning around too late to intercept Ax and then turning back to give Tobias his sternest stare.  “I should speak to your parents or guardians, young man.”

Tobias laughed.  «Joke’s on you, since I don’t have any parents or guardians.»

“What?”  Jeffords ran forward to press himself against the bars, appalled.  “Do you want to come home with me?  Cagney and Lacey keep telling me they want an older brother, and Sharon makes excellent chicken cacciatore — you don’t have any food allergies, do you?”

“He’s ours and you can’t have him,” Rachel snapped, standing up to get in Jeffords’s face.  She didn’t seem to care much that she had to tilt her head back at a 45-degree angle to make eye contact, and somehow succeeded in conveying that she was looking down at him.

“Duuuuuuude!” Marco exclaimed loudly from across the room.  “You really mean it?”

“Sure.”  Diaz rested a hand on the hatchet that lay across her desk.  “I teach people how to throw ‘em all the time.”

“Marco!”  Rachel turned away to whack on the bars.  “Quit fraternizing with the enemy.”

Peralta gasped loudly.  “We’re the enemy?” he asked in delight.  “Are we your nemeses?  Does this mean that we’re as scary as the Yeerk Empire?”

“Why?”  Jake stood up, making eye contact through the bars.  “Do you want to be?  Are you saying that you’re controllers?”  He took a step forward, not breaking his stare.  “Or was that just an expression of sympathy for their cause?”

“Uh.”  Peralta laughed nervously.  He’d taken several steps back in the last few seconds.  “You know what, never mind.  We’re cool, right?  Alllllll cool.  Super cool.  The coolest.”

“That’s easy to say for someone currently holding us against our will.”  Jake still sounded unamused.  “We have complied fully with your demands up until now, and will continue to do so unless you give us a reason not to.”

“Are you threatening my detective?” Holt asked, very mildly.

“Are you charging me with additional crimes?”  Jake’s voice wasn’t mild at all.

“Have I mentioned that I’m a big fan of you guys’s work?” Peralta asked, making a grand gesture to include all of the Animorphs.  “Because I’m thinking maybe that didn’t come through.  Huge fan.  Love the way you squash those yeerks.  It’s a delight having you here.”

“Of course we’ll go along with whatever you think is best, Officers.”  Jake sat back down.  He had yet to look away from Peralta.

“Amy I think I changed my mind about having kids,” Perlata said all in one breath, smiling and nodding as he continued to back away from the cell.

“No, chicks dig hatchets,” Diaz was explaining to Marco.  “Guys tend to get all weird about it if you start flinging weaponry around.”

“Oh yeah, that makes sense.”  He was still hanging on her every word.

“The trick with guys is to pull out a little bit of that feelings shit.”  Seeing the expression on his face, she shook her head.  “You don’t have to go full-hog and reveal your real name on the first date or anything.”

Marco laughed.  “Oh good.  Because I am not looking for that kind of commitment.  I usually don’t want any commitment to anyone, ever.”

“Good policy.”  Diaz clapped him on the arm.  “Nah, with dudes it only takes a little bit of sappy stuff.  I’m talking a moderate-tier confession, like...”  She considered for a second.  “I keep one of my knives hidden in my boot, and it doesn’t set off metal detectors when I gotta work government buildings.”

“Uh-huh.”  Marco bent over the sheet of paper on his lap, scribbling frantically.

“Are you taking notes?” Rachel called, disgusted.

“More importantly, is he taking notes on the back of his own arrest form?”  Santiago rushed across the room to rescue the rest of the paperwork from Marco’s defacing.

“Nah, it’s cool.”  Diaz held up the back side of Marco’s paper.  “It’s just the arrest sheet where Peralta made four attempts to spell ‘Aximili’ before declaring that we probably couldn’t arrest an alien anyway.”

“Those two events were entirely unrelated!” Peralta said loudly.

“Of course, we all believe you.”  Santiago leaned over to pat him on the arm.

“If they can’t arrest Ax, can they arrest you?” Cassie asked Tobias.

He shrugged, or at least it looked like that’s what he did.  «They still haven’t processed me, so I suspect not.»

“We are going to process you,” Boyle said, “just as soon as we figure out how to scan your fingerprints.”

«But I’m not under arrest yet, am I?»

“Aren’t you guys legally required to release him, then?”  Cassie turned back to the room at large.

“We can hang on to all of you for twenty-four hours,” Santiago called back.

“The question is,” Peralta muttered, “do we want to?”

“I’m gonna keep this one around to bring me iced coffees and gas up my motorcycle.”  Diaz was watching Marco polish one of her axes.  “For a kid, he’s pretty dope.”

Marco gasped, a hand over his heart.  “You don’t mean it!”

She held up a finger.  “Too sappy.”

“I have a hatchet?”  He held it up in offering.

“Better.”

“Speaking of our legal rights,” Rachel said, “can I call my mom?  She’s a lawyer, after all.”

“Yeah, well my mom’s a teacher,” Peralta said immediately.  “And you don’t hear me bragging about it.”

“That’s not the point.”  Santiago sighed loudly.

“The point is,” Holt interjected, “she asked for a lawyer, and we need to provide her with one.”

«Can your mom be my lawyer too?» Tobias asked.

Rachel shrugged.  “Sure.  I think.  Jake already took his phone call, and Cassie wasted hers on checking in at the hospital—”

“I just wanted to be sure that we didn’t permanently injure that man,” Cassie said mildly.  “Only showed him the error of his ways.”

“You did that, all right,” Diaz said.  “I like your style, for what it’s worth.”

Rachel rolled her eyes.

“I like your style,” Marco breathed, staring up at Diaz.  “Teach me everything.”

“You want to be a cop?” Cassie asked him.

“What?  No!”  Marco turned quickly to Diaz.  “No offense, it’s nothing personal, they don’t mean it, but also...”

“Nah, it’s cool.  You’re a smart kid,” Diaz said.  “Cops are losers.”

“Excuse you,” Santiago said, “Could a loser win both the ‘Most Organized Seminar’ and ‘Highly Relevant Community Announcements’ awards from the same commissioner in one year?”  She gestured pointedly to a matching set of plaques on her desk.  “Checkmate.”

“I have brought a bounty of wings!” Ax declared.  At least, it was presumably Ax speaking from behind the teetering stack of take-out boxes that went clear over his head and somehow didn’t include the four additional plastic bags of Chinese food hanging off his arms.

«Ax-Man, you are a god among insects,» Tobias said.

“Not on top of the binders!”  Santiago lunged to shield them with a drawer before Ax’s tower of food boxes could topple onto the front desk.

“Can I have some?” Peralta asked wistfully, watching as Ax slotted an entire pizza box through the bars to where Jake and Cassie could pry it open.

“Here Jakey, we got you a tub of Wing Slut sauce.”  Scully set it reverently on Peralta’s desk.

“Really, you shouldn’t have.”  Peralta scooted his chair back several inches, eyeing the tub with suspicion.

As the better part of the Nine-Nine watched in horrified fascination, Tobias tossed his head back and swallowed a Buffalo wing whole.  After a second he made a hacking sound and spit up the bone, now completely cleaned of all meat.

“You eat wings?” Boyle asked, leaning in to peer through the bars.  “Is that cannibalism?”

“It’s an open question,” Cassie said.  She folded a paper plate taco-style to protect the lo mein inside, sliding it out to Ax.  “Can you make sure Marco eats something with lots of carbs before he goes hatchet throwing?”

Ax took the plate, saluting her with his free hand.  “The sauce is most excellent, sell-lent, when consumed through a straw,” he told Peralta in a conspiratorial whisper as he went by.

Peralta pushed to his feet.  “Yep, I am never having kids, and I am never eating food ever again.”

“Human bodies do not continue living if you do not consume sufficient nutrients.”  Ax pointedly set the lo mein in front of Marco.

“Ha!” Peralta said.  “That’s what everyone said about drinking water, and yet!”

Marco grabbed a handful of noodles straight off the plate and dropped them in his mouth.  “The bagels might be better here, but you can’t beat California’s Chinese takeout,” he concluded after chewing for several seconds.  “Sorry,” he added, glancing up at Diaz.

“If you suck up any harder, you’re going to injure something,” Rachel snarked.

“Why, are you jealous?”  Marco batted his eyelashes at her.

“No, she just remembers that we’re all under arrest right now,” Jake said loudly.  “And that we’re under no obligation to say or do anything without a lawyer.”

“Which is why I’m here.  To ensure you do not talk yourself into any more trouble than you already have.”

Everyone turned to look at the newcomer.

“Hi Aunt Naomi,” Jake said, voice small.

Rachel rounded on him.  “You used your phone call to contact my mom?”

Jake held up both hands.  “I didn’t say anything about the alcohol!”

“Alleged alcohol,” Naomi said loudly.  “Which these minors have not admitted to purchasing or consuming, because they have not made any statement admissible in a court of law, because you have been holding them all here illegally without an advocate.”

“Ma’am, I think you’ll find that we made every effort to secure advocacy and legal representation for these children with all due haste.”  Holt moved smoothly across the room to shake her hand, and then ushered her into a chair.  “Detective Peralta deemed it necessary to hold them here for their own safety until such time as we could obtain statements from everyone involved.”

“Has anyone pressed charges yet?”  Naomi sat in the folding chair like a queen on a throne, and glared at Holt until he — with a wincing glance at the dust on the seat — sat across from her.

“No, ma’am.  The only person likely to do so is still at the hospital,” Holt explained.

“Oh yeah, he said he wasn’t going to,” Cassie called over.

“What,” Peralta said, laughing.  “You just called him on the phone and talked him out of it?  Just like that?”

Cassie shrugged.  “I asked nicely.”

“It’s Cassie,” Marco told Diaz in a stage-whisper.  “She does stuff like that.”

“Hardcore.”  Diaz looked Cassie over.

“But I’m still more hardcore than her, right?”

“Too desperate.”

“I have four knives?”

“Better.  Only four?”

“Where else am I gonna put them?  I can’t morph and wear a leather coat at the same time.”

“Point.”

“If they’re not being charged with anything,” Naomi said overtop all of this, “and they’ve already given their statements, then you need to release them from custody.”

“I’m not comfortable doing that if we’re not releasing them into the hands of a parent or legal guardian,” Holt said.  “I’m given to understand from their earlier statements that Jake is your nephew and Rachel is your daughter?”

Naomi nodded.

“Then I can only release those two to you.”  Holt seemed genuinely regretful that this was the case.  Then again, it was Holt, so it was hard to tell for sure.

«Look, if Jake can go with his aunt, I can go with my uncle, right?» Tobias said.

“Yes, that would be acceptable,” Holt said.

“Thank you, human captain.”  Ax gave a small bow to Holt.  “I accept this responsibility.”

“Wait, wait.”  Santiago looked Ax over.  “No, we’re not going to just... How old are you, anyway?”

“I am eight-six years old,” Ax announced.

“Eighty-six,” she repeated.

Ax stared back at her, implacable.

Holt sighed.  “Obviously, he is referencing the fact that andalite years are approximately point-two-four-one-zero-nine times the length of human years.  However, since the law does not specify whose years one must count in order to determine whether an individual is over the age of eighteen, I believe I take his point.”

“Does this mean I’m eighty-six too?” Marco asked quickly.

“Were you born on Earth?”  Santiago raised her eyebrows at him.

“Uh.”  He glanced at Diaz.  “Wouldn’t you like to know!”

Diaz gave him a subtle fist-bump.

“My son is not an adult, nor does he mean to indicate that he wishes to be charged as an adult,” Naomi said quickly.

“‘Son’?” Marco squeaked.

“‘Son’?” Holt asked, frowning.

“Yes?”  Peralta stuck his head up, took stock of the scene, and quickly sat back down.

“Son.”  Naomi stared straight at Holt.  “In fact, I will be taking all four of my children, both adoptive and biological, when I leave here today.”

“You adopted me?” Marco demanded.  “Do I get a say in this?”

“Do you have proof to back up your assertion that you are these children’s mother?”  Holt hadn’t broken Naomi’s stare either.

“The way I see it, you have two choices.”  Naomi reached into her purse, pulling out one of her own business cards and setting it on the desk between them.  “Either you allow us to walk out of here, in which case I promise you’ll never see any of us again... Or you continue to hold these minors without formal charges and without counsel, in which case I promise to pursue legal action against whatever stray bricks of this precinct are left standing after my daughter and her friends exercise their legal right to exit the building with as much force as they deem necessary.  Which option would you prefer?”

“See?” Jake whispered loudly to Rachel.  “I knew I made the right call by calling your mom.”

“I take your point,” Holt said, after a moment of consideration.  “Very well, you and your children may leave.  Do keep them out of trouble in the future, won’t you?”

“Thank you for your cooperation, Captain Holt.”  Naomi shook his hand.

Boyle was quickly fumbling for the lock on the cell door.  “Can I have your autograph?” he asked Rachel as she went by.

Rachel looked him up and down, and then kept going without a word.

“Here, I’ll do it.”  Cassie took the paper and sharpie from him.

“Can you make it out to ‘Nikolaj’?” Boyle asked, eyes wide.

“Maybe.”  She uncapped the pen.  “Can you spell that?”

“N-I-K-O-L-A-J, oh and can you add something about always listening to his dreams, and also the music of Diana Ross?”

Slowly, Cassie looked up at Boyle.  She capped the pen — she’d settled for “to Nikolaj, from Cassie” — and handed everything back to him.

“Marco, dude, we’re going,” Jake said.  He currently had both arms around Marco’s waist and was pulling him backward from Diaz’s desk.

“But... but...”  Marco looked up at Diaz.  “Call me?”  Immediately he shook his head and said, “too desperate?”

She smirked.  “Nah, you’re cool.”

He let out a lovelorn sigh and went limp, which was all the excuse Jake needed to haul him over one shoulder and head out of the building.  Cassie and Ax followed, Tobias fluttering up to land on Rachel’s shoulder as she headed out too.  Naomi brought up the rear, casting a pointed look around the room as she went.

“Man,” Jeffords sighed, “I should’ve gotten an autograph for my kids too.”  And then he rounded on Peralta, midway through sneaking the Wing Sluts sauce tub into the trash can.  “What did we learn today, Peralta?”

He considered.  “Lawyers suck?”

“No!” Jeffords said.  “Well, they do, but... Santiago?”

She looked up from where she’d been making an incident report to this exact effect.  “Next time we’re thinking about arresting a whole batch of superpowered child soldiers on questionable misdemeanor charges... don’t?”

Holt nodded gravely.  “Well said, Santiago.”

[tuttle-did-it]

‘Badge of Honour’ Murder, She Wrote guest stars

Daniel Davis (ST:TNG, ST:PIC, The Nanny, The Hunt for Red October, The Prestige, Elementary, The Blacklist, The Good Fight, Gotham, Frasier, The Practice, LA Law, Columbo, MacGyver, Matlock, Cheers, The A-Team, Cagney & Lacey, Texas) one of my favourite character actors.

He does such a good English accent, I don’t really like when he has his American accent. I honestly just get irritated when he has his American accent. True story— he used to receive letters from English viewers of The Nanny asking him to teach Charles Shaughnessy how o do an English accent for his character. Shaughnessy was born and raised in England. Daniel was born and raised in Arkansas.

Cliff De Young returns (The Craft, ST:DS9, Shock Treatment, Grey’s Anatomy, Alias, CSI, The West Wing, The Pretender, The Last Man on Planet Earth, VIP, JAG, Melrose Place, The Magnificent Seven, Diagnosis Murder, RoboCop 1994, etc)

Robert Lansing returns (Star Trek: TOS, Ironside, The Twilight Zone, The Man Who Never Was, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Simon & Simon, Bonanza, Mannix, Marcus Welby MD, Gunsmoke, 87th Precinct)

S8 E21 10 May, 1992

[tabloidtoc]

National Examiner, October 12

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: 50th Anniversary Tribute to The Partridge Family -- where are they now? 

Page 2: How the rich and famous protect themselves -- from beefy bodyguards to bulletproof mansions these celebs go the extra mile -- Pope Francis, Mark Zuckerberg, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Bill Gates 

Page 3: Queen Elizabeth, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Floyd Mayweather Jr. 

Page 4: Richard Gere -- his style leaves us breathless -- he’s an officer, a gentleman, a gigolo and gorgeous 

Page 6: When John Travolta was starting out as an actor his mom gave him some advice which he’s glad he didn’t take -- in 1975 he was offered the role of Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter but his mom Helen who was an acting teacher thought he’d be typecast 

Page 7: Big-hearted country star Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley are hitting the road to feed American families financially hit by the pandemic, Neil Patrick Harris recently revealed some bad news and good news -- he and his family contracted COVID-19 but thankfully they’ve recovered from it, Sam Elliott has grabbed a TV role on the animated show Family Guy, Joan Collins says her late sister Jackie Collins sent her a message from beyond the grave on the fifth anniversary of her death 

Page 9: Cher confessed that Elvis Presley was the one that got away and she’s always regretted it -- she’s also kicking herself about Marlon Brando

Page 10: A black and white spotted dog spotted trouble and ended up saving his entire human family from a blaze that swept through their home 

Page 11: Your Health -- 6 symptoms that are not a sign of normal aging 

Page 12: Crime Countdown: Our Top 12 Fave Screen Detectives -- Columbo, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files 

Page 13: Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order: SVU, Murder She Wrote (continued on page 16) 

Page 14: Dear Tony, America’s Top Psychic Healer -- use gifts you are given -- it’s never too late, Tony predicts Annette Bening will get really involved in the lives of transgender people bringing attention to those on screen and off showing who they really are 

Page 15: Some couples have a special song but this Indiana couple has a special aisle at the grocery store where they reconnected last summer and that’s where he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him 

Page 16: Remington Steele, Mannix, Magnum, P.I. 

Page 17: #1 -- NCIS 

Page 19: A former druggie thanked an Alabama cop who had her locked up multiples times by giving him a kidney 

Page 20: Cover Story -- The Partridge Family at 50 -- triumphs and tragedies of TV’s bubbly band -- Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Suzanne Crough, Jeremy Gelbwaks and Brian Forster 

Page 22: A hero delivery driver who took a wrong turn wound up taking a second detour to save a drowning dog 

Page 24: A woman in Michigan just received a cute postcard sent 100 years ago 

Page 25: How to choose fruit that’s ripe for the picking 

Page 26: Tony’s Mystic World -- the ancient power of Halloween 

Page 30: The Good Doctor -- Dr. Anthony Fauci recommends two vitamins to keep your immune system strong 

Page 33: Look Who’s Talking Meow -- a guide to understanding what your cat is trying to say 

Page 36: Sylvester Stallone paints -- Rambo tough guy Sly says his heart is with his art 

Page 41: How to carve perfect pumpkins 

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Georg Stanford Brown (born June 24, 1943) is an actor and director, known as one of the stars of The Rookies, he played the character of Officer Terry Webster.

He was seven when his family moved from Havana to Harlem. At 15, he formed the singing group ‘The Parthenons’, which had a single TV appearance shortly before breaking up. He quit high school at 16, after being invited to do so by a few frustrated teachers. He left New York to move to Los Angeles at 17. After a few years of not being sure what he wanted to do, he decided to go back to school. He passed the college entrance exam and was admitted to Los Angeles City College where he majored in Theater Arts. He ended up enjoying it and returned to New York to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He worked as a school janitor to pay his tuition. He met his wife Tyne Daly while at AMDA. They were married for 24 years, from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters.

He says he feels acting is just something he “fell into”. He appeared in Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival and next appeared in his first credited feature film, The Comedians with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. His work then took him to Africa for four and a half months, Paris, then Southern France. And a chance meeting with Alex Haley who was on his way to Africa to work on a story he was writing (which turned out to be Roots).

He had a variety of roles in films and TV, including The Comedians, Dayton’s Devils, and Bullitt. His films included Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Man, and Wild in the Sky, Roots, Roots: The Next Generation, Stir Crazy, The Jesse Owens Story, North & South, House Party 2, Linc’s, and Nick/Tuck.

He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for directing the final episode in season 5 of Cagney & Lacey. His directing career continued with the television film Alone in the Neon Jungle.

He co-starred in the comedy sequel House Party 2, and Linc’s. He directed several second-season episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues. He had a recurring role on Nip/Tuck. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence