Directed by Steve Beers
Airdate: October 20, 1990
Guest Star: David Barry Gray (Officer Dean Garrett); Alexandra Powers (Kati Rocky); Austin Pendelton (Mr. Trysia)
Another holdover episode from the fourth season, "Back to School" was intended as a story to bring Garrett and Rocky into the main fold.
Fuller assigns them to a High School to break up a drug ring, he mentions Hanson and Penhall worked a case there a few months ago. Garrett seems excited to get another shot at High School, while Rocky was apparently a dropout. She establishes a rapport with the English teacher Mr. Trysia, mistaking his interest in her as inappropriate. The arrival of Garrett's brother also complicates the case. Meanwhile, Hoffs buys a house!
Once again, a sense of exhaustion repeating old tropes makes for a mediocre episode at best.
For some reason we never saw Garrett or Rocky again. What happened? This episode also featured the final appearance of Sal Jenco aka "Blowfish." Sal was always a welcome comic relief character and would even get the occasional storyline. Sensitive about being a mere maintenance specialist in the midst of all the hot shot detectives, he was always treated as a peer by everyone in the unit.
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