Superstar

New York cop D'Angelo comes to San Francisco searching for the killer of his partner.

A pretty good episode, Paul Sorvino is Bert and this is a pilot for short lived show "Bert D'Angelo Superstar". He is reckless but a dedicated cop with high number of arrests and citations. Keller is amused by him but Stone does not like the way he skirts the law. Bert even talks of planting heroin on someone to find out what the guy knows. There are some obvious doubles in some fight scenes. Best moment is when Stone looks like he is going to explode at one of Bert's threats but controls himself.

I wanted to like the Superstar episode so much, but the writers had Lt. Stone being such a jerk I wound up hating it. Paul Sorvino absolutely turned in a Superstar performance portraying New York cop Bert D'Angelo. Smooth, smart, sly-like-a-fox and ready, willing and able to do whatever it takes to take down the person or persons responsible for murdering his partner. This COULD have and SHOULD have been one of the very best episodes in the entire series but Lt. Stone (and Inspector Keller too at times) just totally ruined it. Instead of 10 stars I give it 3 (10 for D'Angelo and -7 for Stone).