Written by Jonathan Lemkin
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Airdate: April 17, 1988
Guest Stars: Christian Clemenson (Charles Greening); Mark Arnott (Bob)
Hoffs goes undercover to stop a drug dealer using High School students to sell his product. She comes to gain the affection of the dealer Charles, who talks about wanting to leave the business and his abhorrence of violence, although his henchman Bob is more than willing to use it.
"Raising Marijuana" takes on the old trope of the undercover operative sympathizing with the criminal. Another Stephen J. Cannell produced TV series Wiseguy drew a lot from the premise. Depp's 1997 film Donnie Brasco also dramatized a real-life example.
Always the professional, Hoffs does the job right and has Charles put away. A subplot with Penhall and Ioki, working the High School end of the operation, acting like they are dorky twins was painfully unfunny.
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Always the voice of reason, Fuller advises Hoffs to leave the job if she's starting to feel morally compromised. When a narcotics agent is killed in a shootout, pretty violent for Jump Street, Hoffs knows what needs to be done. We even get a Miami Vice style raid at the end.
Mostly a middling effort, although it was cool Hoffs get to be the lead in a storyline again. Surprisingly, the legalization of pot, is never raised, it seems there was no better plot to at least broach the issue.
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