Rating system: 1 - 10: 1 being terrible and/or contains little or no Johnny Depp and 10 being the best of the best.
 

#14. IN THE CUSTODY OF A CLOWN: This episode aired on September 20, 1987.
A young boy named Brian Sheffield is being harassed by older kids in the school parking lot when a man driving an older model Lincoln and in a clown masks kidnaps him from school grounds as the older kids stand by and witness his abduction. Brian is the young son of two very distinguished parents who are now divorced. Brian has also found himself caught up in the middle of the divorce and subject to his wealthy parents' arguing. Hanson, Penhall, and Ioki are sent in to investigate the kidnapping by Fuller and the FBI. Brian Sheffield's parents are wealthy and found to be pillars in the community, he attends a very prestigious school, and his kidnapping warrants FBI involvement. A ransom tape is found with Brian's voice on the tape begging for $75,000.00 for ransom and not to involve the police or the kidnapper will kill him. Brian's parents seem to be more concerned with fighting and blaming each other than Brian's welfare at this time. His parents are divorced, his mother has custody, his father has visitation rights, and the ransom tapes only drive the parents to blame each other more.

Captain Fuller is also involved in a dispute of his own with the FBI. Fuller makes it real clear to the FBI that since Brian was taken from one of his schools that the Jump Street Program will be involved in the entire case and the FBI is not happy. The next thing you know, the guy in the clown mask rears his face. It's Brian's grandfather (note - the grandfather is played by the same person who played Hanson's first partner Charlie in the Pilot episode). The story unfolds even more. It seems that Brian is very unhappy about his home life and his maternal grandfather is the only person Brian wants to be with right now. Brian and his grandfather have gone to a local campground to fish and camp out. Brian is recording another ransom tape when his grandfather interrupts and tells him that his voice on the tape sounds like he is really afraid and thinks he should re-record the tape. Brian doesn't want to and tells his grandfather that he doesn't care if his parents think he is scared. Brian really thinks that his parents hate him, but his grandfather makes it real clear to him that his parents don't hate him, but they hate themselves. Brian and his grandfather continue making the ransom tapes to send to Brian's parents and it is at this time that the reason for ransom money is disclosed.  The only reason they are asking for ransom money is so they can start their own business together; A Bait and Tackle Shop. The ransom tape is finished and gives specific instructions on where to leave the money, how to leave the money, and not to involve the police.

The next scene in the episode show Ioki delivering the money. Ioki is in a local park and part of the ransom tape continues to run through Ioki's mind. Ioki remembers the tape instructing him to be at a specific statue in the part at exactly 6:00pm and that Brian's parents are NOT to make the money drop themselves. When Ioki arrives at the statue, there is a Walkie Talkie at the base of the statue, Brain's grandfather begins talking to Ioki through the Walkie Talkie and instructs him to pick it up and follow his directions. Ioki is instructed to walk behind the statue, locate a life jacked that is lying next to the statue and put it on, to head toward a waterfall, to find a small pine tree located at the base of the waterfall, to put the money next to the pine tree and cover it up with pine needles from the tree. Oh No - Ioki is instructed to set the Walkie Talkie on the ground and to feel the lining of the life preserver. Brain's grandfather informs Ioki that the life preserver he is wearing contains enough explosives to blow him into the next town. Hanson and Penhall are up on a hill taking pictures of the drop off scene when they hear that Ioki is in trouble. Hanson and Penhall rush to Ioki's aide while Fuller is contacting the bomb squad. Ioki is terrified as Brian's grandfather instructs Ioki to walk back to the statue and not to turn around. Hanson, Fuller, and Penhall arrive on the scene where Ioki is walking back to the statue in the park. Hanson and Penhall, believing there are explosives in the life preserver that Ioki is wearing, begin to evacuate the park. Ioki is terrified. As Fuller rushes to his side, he spots Brian. Brian has came out from behind the waterfall and is going to the pine tree to pick up the ransom money. Fuller begins to speak to Brian and Brian gets nervous. Brian thinks he is caught, but then realizes that Fuller thinks he has been sent by the kidnapper to pick up the money. No one, but Brian and his grandfather (an of course the viewers), know who the real kidnapper is at this point. Fuller even tells Brian to be care and do exactly what the kidnapper tells him to do. Hanson, Penhall, and Fuller remain in the park with Ioki waiting on the bomb squad while Brian and his grandfather travel back to the campground.

Brian is counting the ransom money when he becomes very upset. He and his grandfather didn't receive the entire $75,000.00, they only got $600. Brian feels cheated by his parents again and makes reference that his parents didn't give enough money because his father wouldn't sell his golf clubs. Back at the Jump Street Chapel, the FBI is rather angry with Fuller. It appears that Ioki's life preserves was not lined with explosives. Ioki was wearing a life preserver lined with 4 road flares and telephone wire. This was enough to make the FBI really start to doubt Jump Street's ability to handle any case, especially one so prestigious such as the kidnapping of Brian Sheffield. Just about the time Fuller begins to get suspicious about the kidnapper, Hanson and Penhall inform him of some new information they have found. Hanson and Fuller ran a check on the ransom tapes and their lot number and found they were purchased at a drug store in a remote area in the state of Michigan. Now the story is coming together, Hanson has figured out that Ms.Sheffield's father owns a summer cabin in this part of Michigan and turns Fuller and the rest of the Jump Street gang on to his revelation - that the kidnapper is Brian's grandfather. With Hanson's revelation, the FBI continue to make more jokes about the Jump Street Gang. Fuller finally informs the FBI to take the Walkie Talkie that Ioki used from the drop-off scene, tells them to have the batteries dusted for finger prints, and that he is willing to bet that the finger prints on the batteries match the grandfather's. The FBI finds this ridiculous, but it's the only lead they have. Hanson, Fuller, and Penhall inform the Sheffield's that they believe that Ms.Sheffield's father is the kidnapper. They also inform them that another ransom tape has been received that asks Ms.Sheffield to drop the rest of the money off herself. Mr. Sheffield doesn't want her to do it because he thinks that she'll just drive down some back road and start throwing money out of her car window. Fuller informs the Sheffield's that Ms. Sheffield may not have to make the drop and questions her about her father's eye sight. Ms. Sheffield doesn't have to say anything about her father's eye sight as Fuller already knows and his plan is coming together. Fuller looks at Penhall, Penhall looks at Hanson, and Hanson begins to get a bad feeling. Yep, Hanson had reason to have a bad feeling.

The next step is Officer Tom Hanson in a dress, make-up, and high heels. Hanson is posing as Ms. Sheffield to make the drop for the ransom money. Hanson is driving Ms. Sheffield's car while Penhall and Ioki are lying down in the back seat. Hanson is not happy, but Penhall and Ioki seem to be getting a big laugh out of this. Hanson isn't too concerned right now with their humor as he sees a car approaching them from behind. Hanson slows down and the car still won't pass him, then he sees the headlights flash, he knows then that grandpa is right behind them. Hanson informs Ioki and Penhall that Brian's grandfather is behind them. Fuller and the FBI are sitting on a side road and watch as Hanson with the grandfather trailing pass by. Fuller and the FBI follow. Hanson sees the headlights flash again and throws a bag out the car window. When the bag lands on the ground, Brian comes up from the ditch to pick up the money. Hanson sees him and immediately spins the car he is driving around on the dirt road and begins to chase the grandfather. Penhall and Ioki jump out of the car to chase Brian on foot while Hanson chases the grandfather down the dirt road and in to a road block that Fuller has set up. Hanson jumps out of the car in a blonde wig, make-up, earrings, a dress, and heels with his gun. Hanson's chewing his gum, has his gun pulled, and tells the grandfather to get out of the car (an unforgettable scene - Hanson actually makes a pretty woman). The grandfather readily gives up, but tells Hanson to put his gun down before Hanson hurts someone.

The grandfather is taken back to the Jump Street Chapel where he has everyone's attention, even Hanson's who is still in make-up and a dress (he has taken off the blonde wig). The grandfather is telling old baseball stories and the Jump Street gang is hanging on to his every word. Fuller is busy with the FBI who has informed him that Jump Street must make a conviction on the grandfather for the kidnapping. Hanson sees Fuller coming out of his office and begins explaining to the grandfather that what he did is not in-excusable. Fuller and Hanson begin explaining to the grandfather that Penhall and Ioki weren't able to catch Brian and ask him to give up the information about Brian's location. The grandfather agrees to tell them where Brian is at, but not until he has his say so in court. The grandfather informs Fuller that he is aware that kidnapping his grandson may land him in prison for life, but that if he hadn't done something that his grandson would have ended up living the rest of his life two people who don't care anything about him and it's worth him going to prison if he can change that. Fuller explains to the grandfather that Brian is alone and probably scared and the grandfather tells Fuller where Brian is located. Hanson and Penhall are sent to pick up Brian. Brian is upset when Hanson tells him that he has to return to his parents. Brain explains to Hanson and Penhall why he doesn't want to go back home. Hanson and Penhall begin to feel sorry for both Brian and his grandfather and realize why they planned this kidnapping. Hanson and Penhall begin to make a plan of their own.

Hanson and Penhall go to the courthouse the day of the grandfather's trial. Hanson and Penhall are informed by the district attorney that the judge on this case would send George Burns away for smoking in an elevator and that the grandfather will definitely be convicted. As Hanson and Penhall go out of the court room to carry out their plan, the judge comes out, but it's not the one they expected. The hanging judge who would send George Burns to jail for smoking in an elevator is having a root canal and another judge (played by Ray Walston) is hearing the case. Unfortunately, Hanson and Penhall doesn't know who the judge is and are out in the hall on the phone trying to get in touch with the Sal Banduchi (the janitor of Jump Street). The grandfather has refused legal counsel and opted to be his own attorney. The grandfather begins asking the father, Mr.Sheffield, questions such as why he wouldn't let Brian attend his grandmother's funeral and the only reply was because it was Mr. Sheffield's weekend to have Brian and he had tickets to a baseball game. The trial continues and the judge begins to realize that the grandfather meant no harm in taking Brian away and actually the grandfather was trying to help Brian. The judge then asks the District Attorney if there is any evidence in this case and is informed that there are ransom tapes which are being transported to the court house by a bonded justice courier. So, this is what Hanson and Penhall were up to when they were on the phone. Well, now enters Mr. Sal Banduchi which is neither bonded or a justice courier. He is informed by the judge that he has tampered with evidence since he is merely a janitor and is not a bonded justice courier and the evidence is inadmissible in the case. Mr. Banduchi objects to the judge calling him a janitor and informed the judge that he likes to be considered a maintenance engineer. This objection leads to Mr. Banduchi being in contempt of court and charged a minimal fine. The judge finally rules on the case, and since there is no evidence in this case, the grandfather cannot be charged on felony charges. The judge sentences the grandfather two years of probation and places a restraining order on the grandfather in which forbids the grandfather from coming within 50 feet of Brain for 6 months. The judge makes it real clear to the parents that Brian has suffered enough and he wants any disputes between each other settled so Brian can live a normal and happy life. Court is then adjourned. Penhall, happy that the grandfather didn't get sentenced to prison, leans over and kisses Hanson on the cheek right in the middle of the court room. Well, both of them shouldn't be celebrating yet because Fuller is right behind them. Fuller informs Hanson and Penhall that he likes to see his guys happy, for them to get their smiles in now because they won't be smiling when they get back to the Jump Street Chapel. Back at the chapel, Hanson, Penhall, and Banduchi are in Fuller's office. Fuller gives Banduchi a speech and lets him go. This leaves Hanson and Penhall to take the rest of the heat. Hanson begins to argue with Fuller about the case and that the grandfather didn't need to be sentenced to prison for doing what he did. Fuller agrees but informs Hanson that what he and Penhall did were wrong. Hanson and Penhall think that they are off the hook as they are leaving Fuller's office. Not quite, Fuller stops them short of leaving his office and informs Hanson and Penhall that they were officially on two days suspension - without pay. Hoffs is busy on her own assignment - her parents. Hoffs is attempting to patch up differences between her mother and father. OVERALL RATING = 9.
 

#15. BESIEGED - PART I: This episode aired on September 27, 1987.
The jump street gang are sent in undercover to solve the shooting death of a local high school drug dealer, Ozzie, who was found shot six times in a car parked in front of the Piedmont High School.  Hanson asks about the owner of the Mercury that Ozzie was found in and Fuller informs him that the car is registered in Ozzie's name and that he paid $60,000 cash for the car.  It doesn't take long for Jump Street to figure out that the only way a young high school student could get that kind of money is from dealing crack.  Fuller introduces an officer that will be assisting Jump Street in this investigation, Sergeant James Adabo.  According to Fuller he is the eyes and ears of all that goes on in and around the Piedmont and will be a tremendous asset to Jump Street.  Fuller assigns Hoffs to Ozzie's girlfriend, Darlene, to try and find any information from her.  Hoffs is not undercover on this assignment and is going in as a police officer.  Hanson is assigned to go undercover into Piedmont High School and try to get close to another well known drug dealer, Ronnie Seabock.  Fuller warns Hanson up front that he must be very careful on this assignment and Adabo also warns Hanson that Ronnie could be the prime suspect in Ozzie's murder.  Fuller moves on the Ioki, well here there is a problem.  Ioki has received a letter from the government stating that there is no record of him existing and/or being employed at Jump Street.  So until Ioki can prove he exists, Fuller has decided that Ioki cannot be placed on assignment until this matter is cleared up.  Penhall is assigned to ride with Adabo.  Penhall is okay with this until Fuller tells him that he's riding with Adabo in uniform and Penhall isn't very thrilled.

Penhall is riding around with Adabo who introduces him to Piedmont High.  Hanson is already inside the Piedmont undercover and is just waiting for the right time to get involved.  Hanson's appearance lacks a bit to be desired, but he is undercover and for his assignment, he fits right in with all the others. Hanson's real cool on how he approaches his suspect, Ronnie Seabock.  Ronnie is sitting out in the parking lot of the Piedmont discussing BMWs and other hot cars with two other guys who aren't in agreement with Ronnie's opinion of BMWs.  Hanson, uninvited of course, approaches the three boys and puts in his two cents worth about cars, engines, and that he agrees with Ronnie about BMWs being a much better car.  One of the guys gets real irritated at Hanson and his know it all attitude and asks Hanson is he's a salesman.  Hanson replies no that he isn't a salesman and this guy bluntly tells Hanson to get out of his face.  Ronnie begins to laugh and informs this guy that the only reason he doesn't like Hanson is because he's right about the car.  Hanson sees this as being his chance to get close to Ronnie.  Hanson introduces himself, acknowledges that he knows that he is Ronnie Seabock, and tells Ronnie that the Beamer is a better car especially if he's gonna spend that kinda cash because it would be such a waste for him to get ripped off on another car.  Ronnie smiles at Hanson, salutes him, and all three of the guys walk off leaving Hanson alone in the parking lot at the Piedmont.

Hoffs is off doing her part of the investigation by dropping by Ozzie's apartment to check on Darlene.  Darlene doesn't appear to be the grieving girlfriend that's typical after the tragic murder of a boyfriend.  Darlene seems more concerned about the apartment being messy than anything else.  Hoffs is picking up some bad vibes from this situation and from Darlene especially when Darlene tells Hoffs that she got a great black dress for Ozzie's funeral, is overly happy about the dress, and demands that Hoffs look at the dress.  Hoffs is shocked when Darlene shows her the dress.  The dress is black and looks like either a party dress or cocktail dress and is definitely not the typical mourning person's black dress that one would wear to a funeral.  Darlene then surprises Hoffs' again by asking her to go to Ozzie's funeral with her because she has no one to go with her.  Hoff's agrees to go to Ozzie's funeral with Darlene.

Hanson is still playing out his part in the Piedmont.  Hanson finds a locker close to Ronnie's and soon sees that Ronnie is the type of person that no one at the Piedmont is going to fool with.  Ronnie's pager goes off in the hallway and a teacher monitor informs Ronnie that those aren't allowed at school.  Ronnie doesn't really care and challenges the teacher to take it away from him or even expel him from school.  Needless to say, Ronnie keeps his pager and Hanson is quite impressed.  Hanson, however, is just as impressive.  As Ronnie is walking away from his locker, Hanson remembers the conversation about the BMW in the parking lot a few days ago and yells out to Ronnie, "Hey Hotshot - You gonna take the bus or wait for a taxi cab?"  Ronnie doesn't like Hanson's humor and walks away from him, but Hanson is close on his heels.  Ronnie realizes the Hanson is following him and wants to know just exactly what he wants.  Hanson tells Ronnie that he wants to talk to him and Ronnie tells Hanson that this is good because he wants to talk to him too.  Ronnie pulls out a pistol, shoves it in Hanson's face, and tells him that putting that gun in his face is the only thing he has to say to him.  Hanson coaxes Ronnie into putting the gun down and tells Ronnie that he wants to work for him, that he has heard that since Ozzie got whacked in the parking lot that Ronnie is next, and he wants to work for him and protect him.  Ronnie doesn't quite know what to say to Hanson's offer, but at least Hanson is getting somewhere.  Ronnie asks Hanson if he has any sharp looking clothes (Ronnie isn't impressed with Hanson's apparel).  Hanson tells Ronnie that he does have some neat clothes and wants to know why.  Ronnie tells Hanson to change into those neat clothes of his and meet him at Crenshaw's Funeral Parlor.  As Ronnie is walking away from Hanson, Hanson yells out to him in reference to his gun, "Hey, the safety is on the left man.  You oughta take it off if you're gonna threaten somebody with it."  Ronnie is stunned, but acts cool about it.  Ronnie kinda struts around and then informs Hanson, "The safety don't work man.  Never has."  Ronnie walks out of Hanson's site.  Hanson knows now that Ronnie may be a drug dealer, but he's no killer, and he doesn't even know how to use a gun.  Hanson has just has one problem; where is he gonna get those sharp clothes that Ronnie wants him to wear.

While Hanson is trying to figure out what he's gonna wear to Crenshaw's Funeral Parlor, Penhall is on the beat with Adabo.  Adabo has gotten a lead on someone who is selling crack or bunk (trash that looks like crack but isn't).  Adabo tells Penhall that he's gonna get two cops in plain clothes to make a buy and if these kids are selling crack then they'll bust them and instructs Penhall to stay behind as back-up.  The plain clothes cops go into the crack house to make a buy and attempts to arrest the crack dealers.  The dealers run, but Penhall is exactly where he is supposed to be and gets hot on the dealers' trail.  Penhall runs them into a chain link fence that falls, Penhall falls on top of them, and Penhall yells out, "You're Busted."

Hoffs is with Darlene at Crenshaw's Funeral Parlor where they are having Ozzie's memorial service.  Darlene continues to shock Hoffs every time she turns around.  Darlene and Hoffs are at Ozzie's casket and all of these young guys who are probably drug dealers are coming up to Darlene, telling her how hot she looks, asking her to call them, etc.  Darlene is eating it up and acts as if Ozzie meant nothing to her.  Then Darlene asks Hoffs a real serious questions that is the grandmother of all the surprises she's laid on Hoffs.  Darlene asks Hoffs, since she is a police officer, if there would be any money for her if she provided her with some information.  Hoffs makes sure that she is hearing Darlene right and asks her if she is referring to getting money from the police for being an informant and Darlene informs Hoffs that this is exactly what she is asking about.  Hoffs nods her head saying that yes there is payment for informants.  Hoffs starts to ask Darlene a question and Darlene is distracted again by some young guy who is calling out to her.  Darlene ignores Hoffs and walks off to flirt with some guy named Randall.

Just about that time Hanson walks in with his (or someone else's) sharp duds on, spots Ronnie, and very sarcastically yells out, "Hi Ya Boss."  Ronnie didn't take kindly to Hanson's wise guy attitude nor is he very fond of Hanson's so-called sharp clothes.  Ronnie runs his fingers over Hanson's clothes, feels his shirt, and asks him if his shirt is silk.  Hanson is smiling, chewing gum, and shakes his head to acknowledge that the shirt he is wearing is silk.  Ronnie smirks, shakes his head, puts his arm around Hanson's neck, and tells him that he needs to talk to him.  Hanson is still chewing that gum, has a big smirk on his face, and lets Ronnie know that he's ready to talk to him whenever he's ready to talk.  Ronnie takes Hanson off in the corner and tells him that he has a job for him to do.  Hanson is all excited until he finds out just exactly what the job is - walking Ronnie's dog.  When Hanson gets back to Ronnie's house with his dog, Hanson and Ronnie engage in a conversation about drugs and dealing.  Ronnie begins to talk about some old lady on television that looks like a mummy who hangs out with the president.  Hanson says, "Nancy" - in reference to Nancy Reagan.  Ronnie begins to make fun of her and starts saying, "Just Say No."  Ronnie tells Hanson that Nancy needs to come down to the Piedmont and see if there is anything that she could just say yes to because everyone down at the Piedmont are looking to get out and Ronnie isn't gonna spend the rest of his life in the Piedmont.  Hanson tries to get some info from Ronnie at this time about who whacked Ozzie, but Ronnie's not talking.  Hanson picks up Ronnie's gun and makes a remark about how clean the gun is.  Ronnie is slick and tells Hanson that he doesn't fire the gun much, that he doesn't have to, but if he has to - he will fire that gun.

Hanson goes back to Fuller with what little information he has.  Hanson tells Fuller that yes Ronnie is a crack dealer, yes Ronnie would kill him if he had to, but Ronnie didn't kill Ozzie.  Hanson tells Fuller that Ronnie is carrying a gun that is fresh out of the box that has never been fired and he's carrying it just for show.  Hanson also tells Fuller, Hoffs, and Penhall that he thinks that Ronnie has a chance to get out of the Piedmont if he wanted to, but Penhall is too glorified over his bust of the crack dealers and informs Hanson that Ronnie is gonna go to jail just like all the rest of the drug dealers.  Hanson hardly has time to answer when Ioki approaches Hanson.  Okay, now we know where Hanson's duds came from.  Ioki says, "Hanson, those are my clothes.  From my locker."  Penhall and Hanson then begin to make jokes about Ioki's lack of existence, how there used to be a cop around Jump Street that had a shirt exactly like the one Hanson is wearing, and then Hanson tells Penhall in front of Ioki that he might have that shirt dry cleaned if the cop who owned it ever comes back.  Ioki says "OooohKaaay" and just brushes them off, but the Penhall has to make another smart remark and says, "Sometimes late at night they say that you can still hear his ghostly voice."  Ioki says, "Oh you think that's very funny don't you?" and walks off.  Fuller interrupts and asks Hoffs how she is coming along with Darlene and Hoffs tells Fuller that she truly thinks that she may be getting somewhere.

Hoffs goes to Darlene's apartment to talk to her about giving her a fee for any information she might have about Ozzie's death.  When Hoffs arrives, she notices that Darlene's daughter is gone because Darlene's mother has taken her away and that Darlene has sold her stereo and other items in the house for crack.  Darlene is also loaded up on crack at the time of Hoffs' visit.  Hoffs begins telling Darlene that she can get her clean and get he some help, but Darlene wants money to buy crack.  Hoffs tells Darlene that she'll give her the money, but she has to get some type of information from her either about Ozzie's death, who she bought the crack from, anything.  Darlene tells Hoffs that she doesn't know who killed Ozzie and that she bought the crack off a street corner.  Hoffs probes to try and find out exactly who sold Darlene the crack, but Darlene tells Hoffs to just pick any corner and she is sure that Hoffs will find someone there selling crack and begs Hoffs for the money.  Hoffs tells Darlene that she'll help her if she wants to get help, but she isn't doing anything especially giving money to some junkie whore.

Penhall is with Adabo and chasing a drug dealer down a back alley.  Penhall busts him, shakes him down, and  finds that he is carrying drugs.  Adabo then tells Penhall that he "had a feeling that this guy was carrying."  Penhall looks real suspicious and after the bust asks Adabo if he can have a word with him.  Penhall informs Adabo that he feels like they made a bad bust, that he don't think the bust will stick, and that it will get thrown right out of court.  Penhall tells Adabo that he just don't think that the bust they made was good.  Adabo shows Penhall that they guy they busted was carrying over 60 rocks of crack and that's 60 people who won't get high that day, 60 crimes that won't be committed that day, etc.  Adabo then takes Penhall out for a beer and is trying to explain to Penhall the tricks of the trade at the Piedmont.  Penhall verbally states that he buys into this way of police work, but his facial expressions show that he truly feels that Adabo's way of police work is highly unethical.

Hoffs is called to Darlene's new house and Hoffs decides to stop by hoping for information on Ozzie's murder.  Darlene shows Hoffs this new Penthouse she is living in and tells Hoffs that she just called her because she thought she would like to see her Penthouse and where she is living.  Darlene tells Hoffs that Randy, her new boyfriend who is a dealer, would die if he knew she had a cop visiting her.  Hoffs isn't interested in small talk and asks Darlene for information on Ozzie's death.  Darlene informs Hoffs that Ozzie's death is old news and Ozzie's gone so why should any one care anymore.  Hoffs then inquires about Darlene's daughter.  Darlene tells Hoffs that her mother still has her and refuses to give her back.  Darlene asks Hoffs if there is something she could do to help her get her daughter back.  Hoffs tells Darlene that she really has a nice place to stay, but she is still a junkie and for that matter - she hopes her mother keeps her daughter.  Hoffs then leaves the Penthouse shutting the door in Darlene's face.

Hanson is with Ronnie talking about deals and drugs.  Hanson is discussing a business deal where he got a hold of some money with Ronnie.  Hanson then makes a crack buy from Ronnie and asks Ronnie again who killed Ozzie.  Ronnie tells Hanson that it doesn't matter who killed Ozzie and for him to remember that he works for him.  Hanson's already made a buy from Ronnie and asks him if he still has that gun he's been waving around.  Ronnie tells Hanson that yeah he still has that gun.  Hanson tells Ronnie that he wants to show him something and pulls out a gun himself.  Ronnie looks at Hanson's gun and says, "What's that a .38?  That thing's a piece of trash."  Hanson smiles, chews on his gum, pulls his badge, and says, "Yeah, it comes with one of these."  Ronnie begins laughing uncontrollably and just cannot believe that Hanson's a cop.  Hanson throws Ronnie up against a brick wall and tells him that if he tells him who killed Ozzie that he'll let him walk or otherwise hand to hand buy, Hanson's got the rock, and Ronnie's got the money.  Hanson tells Ronnie to "Thinkaboutit".  Ronnie tells Hanson that maybe he knows who killed Ozzie and maybe he don't, but why is he gonna tell him for.  Hanson then tries to reason with Ronnie about the situation, but Ronnie won't budge.  Ronnie tells Hanson that "they don't have career day at the Piedmont."  So, Hanson busts Ronnie and off to prison he goes.

Penhall is back on the street with Adabo and two plain clothed cops discussing how they can get in to a crack house.  One of the plain clothed cops informs Adabo that he needs $500 to get in the door of the crack house.  Penhall is taking it all in and nearly gets into a fist fight with one of plain clothed cops.  Adabo tells Penhall to get back in the car and Adabo has a plan of his own.  Adabo chases down a young kid, chases him into a back alley, and tells him to loan him $500 and that he'll give it back to him in an hour.  Penhall gets real upset and tells Adabo that he shook that kid down and that he doesn't like it.  Adabo tries to explain to Penhall why he did what he did, that he took the money so the other cops could get in the door to the crack house, that he's gonna make a good clean bust, and if his plan works he'll be cleaning up the streets.  Adabo gives the $500 to the two plain clothed cops who get in the door.  The drug dealers run.  Penhall is able to bust one of them down on the street, but another one runs up the fire escape with Adabo chasing him.  Penhall hears gunshots, sees people jumping from building tops to building tops, and then he sees one of the young drug dealers fall to his death from the top of one of the buildings with Adabo standing on top of the building watching as he falls.  Penhall then notices the two plain clothed cops on top of the building too.  Once Adabo and the two other cops get down on the street with Penhall, they ell Penhall that the kid slipped on top of the building and that's the reason he fell.  However, they are concerned about a departmental investigation regarding where the $500 to get in to the crack house came from.  Adabo tells Penhall and the other two cops to make sure their stories are straight and the story is that Adabo used his own money to try and get a good bust to clean up the streets.  Penhall doesn't believe the kid slipped, doesn't like what is going on, but agrees to go along with it.

Penhall is in Fuller's office explaining what happened when the kid fell from the building and tells Fuller that Adabo felt like this bust would be so important to the community and the bust would be clean so he used his own money to get in to the crack house.  Penhall is scared, especially when Fuller gives a commendation to Adabo for giving up that much money even when the collar would have went to the plain clothed officer and makes a statement about Adabo being a dedicated cop.  Penhall gets defensive, tells Fuller that Adabo is dedicated.  Fuller doesn't understand why Penhall is so uptight, and tells him that he isn't arguing with him about Adabo being a dedicated police officer.  Fuller then tells Penhall to be sure that his report about all of what happened gets written up clean.  Penhall looks like he's seen a ghost, walks slowly out of Fuller's office and to his desk.

Ioki has his paperwork to prove he exists and Hoffs is making jokes about all the paperwork he has just to prove he is an actual person on the planet.  Ioki asks Hoffs about Darlene and then tells her that Darlene's new boyfriend Randy who owned the Penthouse got busted for crack dealing that afternoon, both he and Darlene were thrown out of the Penthouse, Randy was taken to jail, and the Penthouse was sealed off for police evidence.  Hoffs immediately goes looking for Darlene and finds her sleeping on a bench out on the streets.  Darlene refuses any help from Hoffs at this time.  Hoffs feels helpless because there isn't anything else she can do to help this poor girl.
Apparently Ronnie has gotten out of jail since Hanson busted him and is making a drug deal in a parking garage.  A guy takes Ronnie's drugs, refuses to pay him, and Ronnie did exactly what he told Hanson he would do.  He used that gun when he had to, he shot the guy he was making the deal with that refused to pay him, killed him, and drove off in that guy's BMW.

Penhall is out on the beat again with Adabo.  Adabo is talking to Penhall about the little situation that took place the day before and wants to be sure that he got his story straight with what he told Fuller.  Penhall told Adabo that he told Fuller that Adabo used his own money for the other cops to get in to the crack house.  Adabo laughs and then tells Penhall that all they have to do now is figure out a way to get the $500 back to the kid that Adabo took it from.  Adabo even asks Penhall if he would mind dipping into his pension fund to get the money.  Penhall is not up for that at all, but Adabo laughs that off and then tells Penhall that he just can't understand how that kid that fell off the building yesterday slipped on that roof with those $100 running shoes he had on.  Penhall couldn't believe what he was hearing and asked Adabo to repeat himself.  Adabo stated, "I don't see how he could have slipped with those $100 running shoes he had on."  Penhall plays along and says, "Yeah, me neither.", but Penhall knows for sure now exactly what happened and that Adabo pushed that kid off the roof of that building.

Penhall gets off the beat with Adabo and goes directly to Fuller.  Penhall pushes by everyone in the chapel and nearly runs into Fuller's office.  Penhall barely knocks on the door when he enters into Fuller's office and says, "I lied.  Adabo shook down some dealer for the $500."  Fuller informs Penhall that he has made a serious accusation and that he isn't real thrilled that Penhall would lie to him either.  Penhall tells Fuller that there is more, that he let himself get sucked into this, and then he tells Fuller that he thinks that Adabo threw that kid off the roof.  Fuller then asks Penhall to shut the door.  TO BE CONTINUED.  This is a good episode due to the content and nature of the issues that Jump Street's dealing with.  Depp has a lot of airtime in this episode, but the episode is not as focused on Hanson as it is Penhall.  OVERALL RATING = 8.5
 

#16. BESIEGED - PART II: This episode aired on October 4, 1987.  This is a continuation from Besieged Part I.
This episode begins with Penhall in IAD's (Internal Affairs Department) office talking about Adabo and what he feels happened to the kid who fell off the roof.  It is obvious at this point that IAD isn't gonna listen to Penhall and their words are pretty much that they aren't gonna believe accusations from a rookie cop (Penhall) about a upstanding cop who has been on the force for over 18 years (Adabo).  Fuller is with Penhall during this meeting and IAD finally tells Penhall to bring him something more solid and then he'll talk to him.  Penhall sarcastically asks what he wants as solid evidence - "snapshots".  Neither Fuller nor IAD find his remark funny and IAD also tells Penhall that he has two other cops who were on the roof at the time the kid slipped which are disputing Penhall's story.  IAD also informs Penhall that he really can't believe what he's hearing from him because where he was standing there was no way he could have seen what happened from his line of sight and he has came into his office to tell him some remark made about running shoes.  Well, when the meeting is finally over, there is one black and white cop car with dents on the trunk because Penhall left IAD angry to say the least and he hit the first thing he came to - which happened to be a squad car.  Penhall talks to Fuller outside of IAD's office and tells him that there is no way he can ride with him anymore because even if Adabo doesn't know that he told the truth - Adabo still knows that he thinks he killed that kid.  Fuller tells Penhall that they'll have to come up with something - especially if Penhall doesn't want Adabo on the street killing kids.  And boy does Fuller come up with something.   Good Ole Hanson gets the job.  Hanson has to ride with Adabo in uniform and has to wear that terrible police hat.  Hanson isn't with Adabo long until they are arguing.  Adabo knows that Hanson doesn't want to be there and quite honestly Adabo tells Hanson that he doesn't want him there either. Finally Hanson comes off with his great one liner of, "Now what is your problem?"  Adabo is quick to jump on that and tell Hanson that his problem is Hanson's friend Penhall.  Adabo is quick to tell Hanson that he knows that Penhall doesn't have the flu and that Penhall believes that he pushed that kid off that roof.  Adabo then tries to shove all this stuff down Hanson's throat about how he didn't do it and how Penhall knows the truth.  Hanson quickly diffuses the situation and tries to make peace and it works.  Then Hanson spots something that he really didn't want to see.  Hanson sees Darlene prostituting on the street corner.  Adabo asks Hanson if he knows her and Hanson says yeah that he knows her, smiles sort of sadly, and says, "The last time I saw her, she was wearing this great black party dress."  Hanson knows that Darlene is on a roller coaster that she may never get off of until she turns up beaten half to death or even dead.

Fuller has taken a guy from IAD to the scene of where the kid fell from the roof to his death.  The guy from IAD isn't buying Penhall's story and tells Fuller that he thinks that Penhall is vapor locked into something because he has seen people slip and fall into air shafts and die.  IAD tells Fuller that it's not unusual to see this type of death result after someone is being chased by three cops and there are gunshots fired.  Fuller goes back to Jump Street and is trying to talk to Penhall and make him understand why everyone isn't just jumping all over his story.  Penhall becomes angry and tells Fuller that not even he believes him anymore.  Fuller tells Penhall that just because he thinks that he might not be right, doesn't mean that Fuller doesn't believe in him.  Penhall gets angrier and angrier and begins hitting the filing cabinet in Fuller's office and yelling, "Look, I'm telling you what I saw, what I heard, and what I know to be true."  Penhall then tells Fuller that he has clocked out and he leaves Fuller's office.  Penhall runs into Hanson on his way out of Fuller's office and stops to ask Hanson if he has the goods on Adabo.  Hanson tells Penhall that he doesn't have anything on him, it's only been half a day, and from what he has seen that Adabo seems to be a good cop.  Penhall smirks at Hanson and says, "Wonderful, now you too.", and walks off.  Hanson doesn't understand what the big deal is with Penhall and is rather irritated at Penhall's attitude.  Hanson throws some paperwork down on his desk right about the time that Ioki approaches him and asks him what his words with Penhall were all about.  Hanson waves it off as nothing and asks Ioki about what he has found out from downtown and his existence.  Ioki tells Hanson that the US Government thinks that he's dead, but he's gotten a check from them worth a whole lot of money - more money that he would get if they thought he was alive.  Hanson looks real confused and asks Ioki how he thinks that he can cash a check if he's dead.  Ioki say, "I got two pieces of ID."  Gee, Hanson's day has just started off grand.

Well since Penhall thinks that Hanson has abandoned him, he goes to Hoffs' apartment to talk and complain about work.  Hoffs begins talking about Darlene, Hanson seeing her prostituting and how guilty she feels for not doing something - anything.  Hoffs begins to cry and Penhall comforts her.  Hoffs then realized that she is supposed to be there for Penhall and listen to him gripe about work and tells Penhall that he is supposed to be the one complaining and not her.  Penhall tells her that it's okay and for her to talk if she needs to.  Hoffs insists that Penhall talk to her and even threatens to wipe her snotty nose on his shirt if he doesn't start complaining about work.  Penhall agrees and goes into his spill about how no one believes him, the whole story about Adabo and what all has happened within the past few days.  Penhall tells her that Fuller thinks he's crazy, IAD thinks he's crazy, now Hanson's riding around with Adabo and he probably thinks he's crazy.  Penhall asks Hoffs if she thinks he's crazy.  She kinda smiles and tells Penhall that it really doesn't matter what she thinks.  They stare into each others eyes for a few moments, the air gets tense, both Hoffs and Penhall get nervous, Hoffs quietly says, "Doug", and Penhall leans over the couch and kisses her (Sorry guys I'm not good at writing love stories).  Hoffs then asks Penhall what he's doing, Penhall apologizes and tells her that he thought he needed to do that, but maybe not.  Hoffs tells him that it's okay and kisses him.  Hoffs smiles and says, "I can't believe I am kissing Doug Penhall."  Penhall looks back at her, smiles, and says, "Yeah" very softly and the two kiss again.

The next day Penhall returns to work at Jump Street and as soon as he walks in the door he becomes paranoid that everyone is gazing at him.  He holds his head down as walks on in to works.  Hanson comes flying by and says, "Hey Doug how are you doing?  I have been worried about you."  Penhall says, "Why - I'm Fine!"  Hanson responds by saying, "Well, you blew out of here last night, you didn't say anything, and then I called you half the night and uh - you weren't home."  Penhall says, "Yeah".  Hanson says, "YEAH! What'd you do?  Did you get lucky?".  Hoffs walks in about that time, but Hanson is still carrying on and Hanson has no idea where Penhall was at either.  Hoffs gets closer and hears Hanson making fun of Penhall by saying, "Hi.  I'm Doug Penhall.  I'm so depressed.  Why don't you take me to bed and cheer me up!"  Hanson is really getting a kick out of this and he doesn't even know where Penhall was, but it's Penhall who get a real kick in the seat of the pants when he sees Hoffs standing behind him looking none too happy.  Penhall then tells Hanson, "I went home early, went to bed, guess I didn't hear the phone.  YOU GOT A SICK MIND."  Hoffs walks by the two of them and says good morning and they both return the gesture.  Penhall then asks Hanson if he's getting anywhere with Adabo and Hanson tells him that he has to meet him in 15 minutes.  Penhall tells Hanson to watch him because he knows that he did it.  Hanson tells Penhall that he hopes he's right and Penhall get defensive and tells Penhall that HE IS RIGHT.  Hanson says, "Yeah, that's what I meant" and walks off leaving Penhall at the coffee machine.

Penhall pours two cups of coffee and takes one of them over to Hoffs and offers her a cup of coffee with cream only.  Hoffs tells Penhall that she has work to do and Penhall tells her that he thinks that they need to talk.  Apparently things didn't go so well.  Hoffs tells Penhall that there is nothing to talk about, but Penhall insists that they have to talk.  The two decide to use Blowfish's room (the janitor closet) to talk.  Hoffs tells Penhall that she feels like she was taken advantage of and Penhall stops her dead in her tracks and let her know real quick that taking advantage of her was not his intention.  Penhall tells her that he just came over to her apartment to talk and have a beer or two, that he is the one that no one believes, that he is the one who's best friend (Hanson) is riding around with a murderer, and he's the one who everyone thinks is crazy.  Penhall then tells her that he just though that she would have a sympathetic ear.  Hoffs then says, "So you had no plans on getting me in the sack when you came over last night?"  Penhall denies any of that being his plan at all, but then Hoffs wants to know why he had condoms in his wallet and Penhall tells her straight out that he ALWAYS has condoms in his wallet.  Penhall makes things worse by trying to explain the condoms in his wallet.  He says, "You know it's kinda like when you go for a drive, you bring a spare with you in case you get a flat."  Hoffs is really mad now and says, "That's just great.  Judy Hoffs - Road Hazard."  Penhall says, "Well kinda.  Will you go to dinner with me?"  Hoffs tells Penhall that NO she will not go to dinner with him and all of this was a giant mistake.    Penhall then tells Hoffs that he doesn't want to walk in to work and have her hate him because she thinks he took advantage of her.  Hoffs calms down and tells him that it's okay and that she was equally a part of what happened the night before, but warns him that if she hears through anyone that he mentioned to anybody, to Hanson, to Blowfish, to anyone that he spent the night at her apartment the night before that she swears that she will make him miserable for the rest of his life.  Penhall is a little confused by this time and tells Hoffs that he doesn't understand what she is so upset about because she chickened out at the LAST minute and they didn't do anything.  Hoffs casually smiled at Penhall and informed him that it's gonna stay that way.

Penhall has more on his mind that Hoffs right now and he has contacted the two plain clothed officers who were on the roof with Adabo to meet him.  The two officers meet Penhall and want to know what he wants.  Penhall is straight to the point and tells them that he wants to know exactly what happened because he thinks that Adabo shoved the kid off the top of the roof.  Both officers are very defensive and tell Penhall that it went down exactly like what the report said, but then one of the messed up and told Penhall that they really didn't see what happened because Adabo went left and they went right, the kid fell, and it was all over when they got back to where Adabo was.  Penhall then asks them if Adabo could have pushed the kid and one of the officers tells Penhall that anything could have happened.  Penhall knows for sure now that he's not crazy and Adabo did push that kid off the roof.  Hanson is still on the beat with Adabo when he spots a new BMW sliding around in the street.  Well, well, well, it's none other than Ronnie Seabock checking out Hanson.  Ronnie begins making fun of Hanson's uniform and wants to know if he got put back in that uniform because he walked.  Ronnie then asks Hanson how much he's gonna make this year - about $30,000?  Ronnie then tells Hanson that he's gonna make $30,000 this month, winks at Hanson, and drives off.

Fuller goes back to the head of IAD, the same person that he and Penhall were talking to at the beginning of the episode.  IAD asks Fuller why he is back and sarcastically asks him if he brought him some "snapshots".  Fuller informs IAD that he's worried about Penhall and wants to pull Adabo's file.  IAD tells Fuller that he's a captain and can pull anyone's file that he needs to pull.  Fuller informs IAD that he doesn't feel like he can pull files without good reason, that he knows that IAD stills has the file, and asks IAD to give him 5 minutes to look over it.  The IAD lieutenant agrees to let Fuller look a the file.  While Fuller is looking at Adabo's file, Hanson is getting first hand look at Adabo's police tactics - which is brutality.  Adabo has caught some kid on the street with drugs, is pushing him around, and slamming him into the windshields and hoods of cars.  Hanson is just standing by and doesn't really know what to do.  Adabo screams out at the kid who tells him that he threw the crack rocks in the alley.  Adabo tells the kid that if he lies to him that he'll die.  Hanson starts to get concerned and then Adabo throws the kid into the squad car, tells Hanson to get it, turns on the lights and siren, and begins rushing down the freeway.  Hanson doesn't know or understand what's going on.  Adabo explains to Hanson that he thinks that the kid swallowed the rock and if it get absorbed in his stomach that it will hit his system to fast and kill him.  Adabo asks Hanson if he is paying attention to him and how serious this situation is.  Hanson doesn't know how to respond.  Adabo gets the kid to the hospital and then tells Hanson later that the kid went into convulsions 5 minutes after they got him there, his stomach was pumped and six rocks of crack were found.  Hanson was amazed and asked Adabo how he knew because if he had read him his rights the kid would be dead.  Adabo informed Hanson that he knew because of experience and then told Hanson a story about a raid he did on a crack house a few years back.  He told Hanson that there was this kid in the crack house that went a little crazy, that he got the kid outside, the kid hit the ground, went into convulsions, and became unconscious.  Adabo told Hanson that he did CPR on this kid for 15 minutes before the paramedics ever arrived, and the kid was dead by the time he got to the hospital.  Hanson asked Adabo if the kid died from swallowing a bunch of crack.  Adabo shook his head no and told Hanson that the coroner's report indicated that the cause of death was from drugs and outside forces, that there was bruises on his heart.  Adabo laughs and informs Hanson that of course there were bruises on his heart because he had been beating on his heart giving him CPR for 15 minutes.  Hanson continues to listen closely and then Adabo then tells him that the kids family filed a 5 million dollar law suit, the city shouldn't have had to pay a dime, that it was probably settled out of court and now he's got Hanson's friend Douglas thinking that he kills children.  Adabo then tells Hanson that it's stuff like this that just sometimes will eat a person up and get them down.

Hanson is called to the chapel.  Hanson walks into Fuller's office, tells Fuller he has an hour of personal time and wants to know what's up.  Penhall is in Fuller's office also and tells Hanson that he has to hear what Fuller is going to tell him.  Fuller then tells Hanson that he pulled Adabo's file, that he's not the boy scout he's supposed to be, and there is reason to believe that he may have beaten a suspect to death.  Hanson shocks Fuller when he asks him if he's referring to the kid from the rock house that overdosed.  Fuller tells Hanson that this is the same kid he's talking about and wants to know how Hanson knows about it.  Hanson tells Fuller that he doesn't know where he got his information, but Adabo told him that the bruises on the kids heart were from 15 minutes of CPR and asks Fuller it matches the report in the file.  Fuller informs Hanson that it matches because there were broken ribs also which sometimes happens in CPR.  Penhall gets defensive and tells Hanson that it's odd that Adabo brings this up just at the right time and maybe Adabo knew that they were on to him. Hanson isn't trying to be a wise guy or anything, but tells Penhall that the conversation came up pretty naturally.  Penhall says, "Oh Come On."  Hanson defends his point by telling Penhall about taking the kid who swallowed the rock to the hospital, who would have died had it not been for Adabo, and that if that kid had went into convulsions on him that he would have beat on his chest for 15 minutes just like Adabo did with the other kid.  Fuller interrupts and tells both Hanson and Penhall that there was never a coroner's ruling that verified the death of the kid in this particular case either way.  It was never verified whether or not the kid died from drugs and a cop beating him to death or drugs and attempted CPR.  Penhall jumps up and tells Hanson and Fuller that they don't want to see what's in front of their face.  Hanson modestly jumps back and says, "Ya know Penhall, if we pulled your record it wouldn't look too clean either."  Penhall then states, "Yeah, but I haven't killed anybody lately."  Penhall asks Fuller if he needs him for anything else, Fuller shakes his head no, and Penhall leaves Fuller's office.  Hanson continues to talk with Fuller and tells him that he doesn't think Adabo killed that kid and that he thinks they are back to square one of this whole case - who killed Ozzie.  Hanson also tells Fuller that he thinks that the person who killed Ozzie rolled in front of him today, behind the wheel of a brand new BMW 735 - Ronnie Seabock.

Hanson then goes to find Penhall in the locker area.  Hanson very kindly tells Penhall that he is his friend, that he trusts him, and that he trusts his instincts, but so far all that he has seen with Adabo is a good cop.  Penhall looks at Hanson coldly and says, "Yeah, looks like everything is turning against me."  Penhall turns away from Hanson and opens his locker.  Hanson gets angry, slams Penhall's locker shut, and says, "That's not the way I meant it."  Penhall tells Hanson not to patronize him and walks off leaving Hanson standing alone in the locker area.  Hanson is having a difficult time with the situation he has been put in and the emotional turmoil he is experiencing is written all over his face.  Hanson goes back on the beat and sees Darlene in tears talking to Ronnie.  Darlene is begging Ronnie for some money and telling Ronnie that he owes her.  Ronnie is telling Darlene that he doesn't owe her anything.  Darlene brings up the fact that Ronnie owes her because Ozzie did a lot for him and asks Ronnie for $20.  Ronnie tells Darlene that from what he has heard that everybody on the block is getting something for their $20, that he remembers a time when Darlene was so hot, that she used to be really something, but now she's all nappy, beat up, and he doesn't want any part of her.  Ronnie spots Hanson watching him and asks Hanson if he wants some of Darlene and he'll spot him the cash.  Ronnie laughs, gets back in his car, and drives away.  Darlene continues to prostitute on the street knowing that Hanson is watching.  Adabo sees that Hanson is distraught over what just transpired and asks Hanson if he learned anything.  Hanson says, "Yeah - the world is a very cruel place."

All this stuff is eating Hanson up inside.  Hanson is back at the chapel finishing up paper work late in the night when he should be home. Blowfish comes by Hanson's desk as he's sweeping up the place and tells him to go home.  Hanson tells Blowfish that he has work to do.  Blowfish argues with him and tells him that no he doesn't have work to do and for him to GO HOME.  Blowfish then asks Hanson, "Do you know what I do when the toilet breaks at my house?"  Hanson is irritated, laughs, drops his pen, and says, "I can't imagine."  Blowfish answers him and says, "Call the plumber."  Blowfish then informs Hanson that his point is that a person can't work all the time.  Hanson laughs and asks Blowfish if he wants to go have a drink with him.  Blowfish is shocked, but flattered that Hanson would ask him to go have a drink.  Blowfish drops everything he is doing to go with Hanson to have a drink.  Hanson and Blowfish pull up to a local bar and Blowfish asks Hanson if this is where they all usually go for a drink.  Hanson replies to Blowfish that no this isn't exactly where they always go to have a drink.  Hanson may be out of the office, but he's still working.  Hanson has gone to the bar where Ronnie Seabock is hanging out, but Blowfish has no idea what's going on, what Hanson may be getting him in to, and he's just smiling from ear to ear.  Hanson and Blowfish go in to the bar and Ronnie spots them immediately and wants to know what they are doing there.  Hanson tells Ronnie that he was just in the neighborhood, wanted to drop by and see how he was doing, that he was thinking about Ronnie, thinking about Ronnie's new car, thinking about Ozzie's old job and that he's wondering if all this doesn't fit together somehow.  Ronnie tells Hanson that he must want to die or something because that would be the only reason Hanson should be in that place and that maybe Hanson hates his life.  Ronnie then makes a big mistake and spits his chewing gum on Hanson's shirt.  Hanson doesn't take too kindly to that, punches Ronnie in the stomach, and throws him down on a pool table.  Blowfish is getting nervous, can't believe what he is seeing, and is probably wondering whether or not he and Hanson are going to make it out of there alive.  Hanson then puts a pool stick around Ronnie's throat, sticks a gun in his face, and tells Ronnie that he didn't come there to bust him and that he came there to talk to him.  About that time, one of Ronnie's friends grabs Blowfish, yells at Hanson, pulls the hammer back on a gun, and puts it next to Blowfish's head.  Ronnie tells his friend that everything is cool and to let Hanson's friend go.  Hanson backs off and Ronnie tells Hanson that he has 5 witnesses in there that will testify that Hanson hit him first and the best thing that Hanson can do is leave the bar right now while he is still ahead.  Hanson pulls on Blowfish's arm and tells him that it's time to go.

Penhall goes back to Hoffs house to try and talk to her.  Hoffs tells him that there isn't anything to talk about, but Penhall tells Hoffs that their working relationship is too important to let anything come between them.  Hoffs agrees and lets Penhall into her apartment and the two of them make up.  Meanwhile, Hanson and Blowfish have met up with Ioki and Hanson has taken Blowfish to the real place that they go and have drinks.  Blowfish makes it real clear to Hanson that he values his life and for Hanson not to ever do something like that to him again.  Both Hanson and Ioki get a good laugh over Blowfish's experience.  After Hanson's night out with Blowfish and Ioki, he goes back on the beat the next day with Adabo who quickly informs him that going to that pool hall/bar and confronting Ronnie was the wrong thing to do and for him not to ever do that again unless he has got some solid evidence proving that Ronnie killed Ozzie.  Adabo also goes in to talking to Hanson about the kids at the Piedmont who get on drugs, the homicide rate, and how the police officers can't make a dent in the crime rate down there.  Adabo also makes a remark to Hanson about how people care less if it's an african american kid who gets killed and how just anyone can make these drugs in their own kitchen to sell on the street.  Adabo is losing hope in his job and basically losing touch with reality and what his job is all about.

Hoffs goes to visit Darlene at an old hotel she is staying at and find her battered and beaten after prostituting herself.  Darlene tries to explain to Hoffs the reason she is hooking herself and why she is using drugs.  Hoffs doesn't buy her story, tells her that her reasoning just isn't good enough, and lets her know real quick that she is on a one way track to dying.  Darlene asks Hoffs if she has ever been high because there is no other feeling like it in the world.  Hoffs tells her no that she has never been high and that she came to see her because she was concerned about her.  Darlene continues to talk about prostitution, how she isn't good at it, how other girls know how to do it, but that she gets beaten and doesn't get paid.  She tells Hoffs that she just isn't good at it, not like the other girls are.  Darlene begins to cry and tells Hoffs that she doesn't want to do this anymore, live like she is living, hook herself out, and that she definitely doesn't want to die.  While Hoffs is trying to help Darlene, Penhall is riding is motorcycle down a dark alley of a nearby street.  Penhall comes to a stop, turns off his headlight, and yells out, "Hello".  Someone says in the darkness, "Over Here."  Penhall gets off his bike to find one of the plain clothed officers who were on the roof the day the kid fell to his death waiting for him.  This was the same officer who had previously told Penhall that they didn't see what happened and that anything could have taken place on that roof.  The officer tells Penhall that he has no idea what Penhall is doing or what he is trying to prove and that what he told him about not seeing what happened to the kid is actually the truth, but he also tells Penhall that he isn't so sure that Penhall is wrong about Adabo pushing the kid off the roof and killing him.  Penhall questions him and says, "I thought you said you didn't see anything?"  The officer then goes on to tell Penhall about being with Adabo about a year ago on a drug bust where a kid was killed and that he isn't so sure that Adabo didn't beat that kid to death.  Penhall tells the officer that he already knows all about that story.  The officer continues and informs Penhall that the part about the CPR and all that other stuff is true, but Adabo educated this kid real good first when he couldn't find any rocks on him, educated him with his fists, educated him with his night stick, really beat this kid up pretty bad, and he just felt like Penhall should know the truth, that Penhall isn't crazy,  and also know that Penhall may very well be right about Adabo killing the kid on the roof and that the kid on the roof may not have been the first one that Adabo killed.  Penhall thanks the officer for telling him the truth about everything and is really thinking hard about what he should do.

Hanson is out of uniform, in his usual clothes, and has gone to a local jail to do a little checking up on Ronnie Seabock since he was just busted and brought in for possession of 3 Kilos of cocaine. About the time Hanson arrives he is shocked to see that Ronnie is coming down the steps of the jail as he has been let out on bail.  Ronnie stops and talks to Hanson.  Ronnie lets Hanson know that he's done some nasty things in his life, that he may have even killed somebody, but just so Hanson can sleep at night, he's letting him know up front that he didn't kill Ozzie.  Ronnie also tells Hanson that Hanson did him a favor.  Ronnie informs Hanson that the word is out on the street that Ronnie is a shooter, a killer, that he took Ozzie out, and Hanson put that word out there.   So now Ronnie has all of Ozzie's turf and people are afraid of him and Ronnie winks at Hanson and says, "So thank you - little buddy."  Ronnie then leaves the jail with his partner, but leaves Hanson rather irritated.

The next day at the chapel, Fuller and Penhall are in Fuller's office discussing the situation with Adabo.  Fuller informs Penhall that there were two shots fired on the roof the day before the kid fell, they recovered the slugs, did test firings on the officers guns, and put everything away neatly in a file.  Fuller then tells Penhall that he really got to thinking about everything that he had been telling him, so he had IAD pull the slugs from the test firings.  Fuller says to Penhall, "Look, maybe I didn't believe you Doug, but I never stopped believing in you."  Penhall smiles and nods to let Fuller know that he accepts what he is trying to say to him.  Fuller pulls out some photos of some bullets  and informs Penhall that the first photo is the bullet came from the roof, from Adabo's gun - a regulation 9 mm.  Fuller then shows Penhall a photo of the bullet that killed Ozzie and tells Penhall that the bullets match.  The bullet that killed Ozzie came from Adabo's gun.  Fuller tells Penhall that Adabo was probably a really good cop at one time and Penhall tells Fuller that he wishes that he had known Adabo when he was that good cop and asks Fuller what happens now.  Fuller tells Penhall that warrants have went out on Silver and Boyd (the plain clothed officers) for questioning and pick-up went out on the automated 15 minutes ago for Adabo and if someone doesn't stumble across Adabo tonight - a warrant will be out on him in the morning.  Penhall asks Fuller if Adabo will know and Fuller tells Penhall that if Adabo doesn't know by now that he'll know when he pulls into his driveway.

After speaking with Fuller, Penhall receives a phone call from Adabo.  Penhall wants to know where Adabo is and Adabo tells Penhall that it doesn't matter where he is at, that Penhall is a good cop, and he has a confession to make.  Adabo then says to Penhall, "I'm sergeant James Adabo, been with the force 18 years, 6 months, and 14 days.  I was responsible for the death of Osborne Ezekiel Hubbin (Ozzie), and you were right about the kid on the roof, there's been a lot of things.  Tell my wife and kids I love them."  The next day, Penhall finds Adabo dead at a local motel.  Adabo died by taking his own life.  The episode ends with Hoffs taking Darlene to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center where she is accepted, informed that she is a good applicant, they'll get her into the next available space, but the next opening will not be for 4 months.  Here again Depp gets a lot of airtime, the story line is good, and the issues that are dealt with during this episode are fabulous.  OVERALL RATING = 8.5
 

#17. TWO FOR THE ROAD: This episode aired on October 11, 1987.
This episode focuses on a serious issue that is not just national, but global - drunk driving. The opening scenes of this episode show guest star Rob Stone (as T.J.) talking to his best friend . Jonathan. who is a paralyzed from the next down.  Jonathan can't speak, is unable to communicate with T.J., and is in a catatonic state continuously.  The next scene shows Jonathan and his wheel chair going over a bridge into a lake below. It is not for certain at this point, but it certainly appears as though T.J. pushed his friend over the bridge in an effort to put him out of his misery. Pauley Shore (as Kenny) and Jason Priestly (as Brian) also guest star in this episode.

Hanson and Penhall are sent in to investigate a fake IDs ring because Fuller believes there is a connection between these fake IDs and the increase of teenage drunk driving. Fuller gives Hanson and Penhall two very fake IDs to go in undercover so they can scope out the bars and liquor stores who are selling alcohol to young teens. Hanson and Penhall recognize right away that the IDs are very fake and Fuller makes it clear that this is his whole point - to have very fake IDs and see which bars and liquor stores sell to them.  There are a lot of scenes in this episode dealing with drunk driving that it would be too hard to go over them all.

Fuller goes out on a date with a new girlfriend, attends some type of police banquet with his new girlfriend, has a couple of glasses of wine while he is there, and gets stopped at a sobriety check point after he leave the banquet.  The officer at the checkpoint is a rookie cop who takes Fuller's car and gives him a ticket for Driving Under the Influence (DUI).  The enire episode deals with the deadly issue drinking and/or using drugs while driving.  Fuller tries to get out of his ticket for DUI while fighting hard to close down fake ID rings, bars, and liquor stores who are selling to teens that are underage. There is a lot of controversy in this episode with Fuller is trying to get out of a DUI charge even though he had been drinking, and his determination to bust the bars and liquor stores who are selling alcohol to underage teens and also getting the teens who are drinking and driving off the streets. Hanson, Penhall, Ioki, and Hoffs are able to bust the fake IDs rings and also bring charges against the bars and liquor stores who have been selling alcohol to underage teens.

It is found out in the end that T.J was drunk one night, driving,  and had a near fatal car accident.  This  car accident left Jonathan paralyzed and left T.J. feeling so guilty and overwhelmed with grief for his friend that he  pushed Jonathan over the bridge to end his suffering.  Hanson tries hard to get T.J. to testify against the bars and liquor stores who sold alcohol to him the night he was drunk and wrecked. The whole Jump Street gang is involved in this case and the fake ID ring, the bars, and liquor stores selling to minors are shut down. Fuller is finally cleared of his charges, but they all know that his drinking and driving is just as serious as a teen drinking and driving. This episode is very serious and hit on a major issue within the teen population and adult population as well. It gives a wonderful description of exactly what happens to all mankind when people drink and drive. This is not an episode that can be written in an episode guide and is a must see. Although Depp has an equal amount of air time as the other cast, Penhall and Fuller may actually have more air time than Depp, but this is one of the most informative 21 Jump Street episodes produced. OVERALL RATING = 10.

#18. AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL: This episode aired on October 18, 1987.
This episode begins with an inner city school teacher attempted to teach a high school science class, but is unable to due to the lack of respect and taunting he is receiving from his students.  Some students in the class are very interested in learning, but others aren't and continue to tease this teacher.  Finally, one student, Tito, really pushes the teacher to the limit.  The teachers asks Tito to go to the principal's office and Tito refuses.  The teacher grabs him by the shirt and asks him to go to the principal's office again.  Tito refuses and the teacher slaps Tito across the face.  Tito tells this teacher that he'll be sorry that he slapped him and the teacher disagrees with him.  The teacher informs Tito that someone should have slapped him a long time ago.  Tito then pulls out a gun from his coat pocket, begins waving it around the class room, and terrorizing the teacher with it.  The teacher backs down and is giving in to all demands that Tito has, but it doesn't matter what the teacher does at this point.  Tito fires two bullets into the teachers chest and runs out of the classroom.  Lucky for this teacher, Tito only used a .22 pistol and the teacher survived, is in the hospital in fair physical condition, but probably not the best emotional condition.

Fuller is giving Hoffs the run down on what happened with the school shooting.  Fuller feels like that this teacher was lucky getting off this easy because he was the target of all the students.  Students spray painted his house the year before, have teased him for years, and now he's gotten shot.  Fuller doesn't see this teacher returning to the classroom as he was already on the edge anyway.  Fuller informs Hoffs that she's going in undercover at this school to try and find out who is selling these guns because half the school is armed.  Fuller tells Hoffs to center in on a guy named Derek as he is Tito's best friend and he may not be selling the guns, but he sure will know who is selling them.  Hoffs asks who her back up is going to be and Fuller replies, "You're looking at him."  Adam Fuller goes undercover.  Hanson lets Fuller know that he definitely wants to be around to see Fuller going undercover, but Hanson is preoccupied.  His preoccupation is first with training Blowfish's guinea pig to race it, but most importantly his preoccupation is with his mother's new boyfriend, Bob - who sells cars.  Ioki finds it to be great that Hanson's mother is dating a guy who sells cars and asks Hanson is Bob can get him a good deal on a car.  Hanson kinda smirks at Ioki and tells him that this is just great and he'll just set Ioki's mom up with Bob.

Okay, so now we're down to the brass tactics of this episode.  Hoffs goes in undercover to the school to find out who is selling the guns to students and Fuller goes in the school undercover as a substitute teacher for the teacher who was shot.  Fuller also finds that not only are students carrying guns, but so are teachers.  Hanson's dealing with Bob and his mother.  First his mother moves in with Bob against Hanson's wishes and then Hanson has to go, against his will, bowling with Bob and this was pretty much a disaster.  But things turn out good for Hanson.  Ms, Hanson decides that she doesn't like living with Bob and tells Hanson that Bob just isn't good in bed.  Hanson really didn't want to hear that.  So, Hanson helps his mother move out of Bob's place and back into her own home.  Hoffs catches the guy selling the guns to students and makes an arrest and it isn't Derek by the way.  The teacher who was shot returns to school unexpectedly, goes into his classroom with a gun, locks the door, and pretty much lets the students know what it's like to be in a classroom with a gun waving around in their face.  Fuller watches from the window to the room and feels like the teacher has snapped, but Fuller also knows that there is another teacher around there packing a gun too.  Fuller finally gets the door unlocked, runs into the classroom and disarms the teacher.  Arrests are made on students and teachers carrying weapons in the school.  This guide was short and to the point, but there isn't much else to say other than drag it out verbatim.  Depp doesn't have a whole lot of airtime in this episode, most of it focuses on Hoffs and Fuller, but it deals with a very important issue of weapons in school.  OVERALL RATING = 6

#19. HIGHER EDUCATION: This episode aired on October 25, 1987.
This episode guide is gonna also be rather short and to the point as it is not focused on Depp at all.  A young teen becomes pregnant and blames Ioki and claims that he is the father of the child.  Apparently Ioki had been sent into this same school weeks prior to this accusation undercover and this young girl and Ioki were paired up together to go to a dance or some type of school function.  Ioki does everything he possibly can to clear his name and lets Fuller know that he didn't touch this girl, not at all.  Ioki even goes to the girl's house, against Fuller's orders, to try and talk to the girl and her father only to be thrown out among other things.  Finally after some research into this case it is found that there is a young male teacher within the school system who is a great teacher, all the students like him, and he seems to be doing his job very well.  This teacher even has been know to tutor students after school.  Maybe he's doing his job too well.  Evidence is collected and the teen finally tells the truth that she had sex with this teacher during an after school tutoring session and this teacher is the father of her unborn child.  Also, this isn't the only teen that this teacher has been having sex with and molesting after school either.  This teacher is suspended from his teaching position and placed under arrest.  Case solved.  There is very little airtime for Depp in this episode, but it's always great to see Nguyen get airtime as he is a great asset to the show and this episode deals with important issues of teachers, students, and sexual relations between the two.  OVERALL RATING = 5.

#20. DON'T STRETCH THE RAINBOW: This episode aired on November 1, 1987.
This episode is based on a young african american teenage girl who falls in love with a young caucasian teenage male.  The young girls father is principal of a nearly all white school that the city is attempting to de-segregate and there is a lot of controversy.  The young girl ends up trying to kill herself over all the hype of being in love and pregnant with a white boy's child.  The girls survives her suicide attempt and her unborn child is healthy also.  There is a lot of racial slurs, racial wars among teens, etc.  The Jump Street Gang is sent in to try and prevent racism, discrimination, and especially protect the teens from getting hurt or even killed.  The episode has a very good ending and the young girl goes to school and explains to both the black and white student body that she loves her white boyfriend, she is going to have his child, and all this racism and discrimination isn't worth anything.  She explains that there is only one race in the world and that is the human race.  The episode deals with a very important issue - racism/discrimination.  Depp has a fair amount of airtime in this episode.

***DISCLAIMER:  Due to the amount of racial tendencies, racial slurs, and discriminating remarks - I am refraining from writing an entire episode guide for this particular episode.  I am in no way racist and do not want to appear that way in anyone's eyes.  This episode contains a lot of violence over racial issues and I feel that it's better to just give a brief outline of the episode rather than set myself up for judgmental opinions.  If anyone wants a complete written episode guide, I will be happy to provide that for you.  Please email me at Deppfan@aol.com if you would like further information on this episode.  Also, due to the racial tendencies I am not going to rate this episode at all.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.  This does not reflect the views and/or beliefs of myself, 21 Depp Street, or A Fan's Page for Johnny Depp!***

#21. HONOR BOUND: This episode aired on November 8, 1987.

IMPORTANT NOTE PRIOR TO READING THIS EPISODE GUIDE:  This DOES NOT APPLY to Johnny Depp Fans, anyone who frequents A Fan's Page for Johnny Depp, Vicki, etc.  But, I feel that it's important, in all fairness to Johnny and his background to let his fans know that there has been some discriminating remarks in regards to Johnny Depp's diction that he uses in this episode as a cadet that transferred in from Tulsa Military Academy.  Johnny has been referred to as a redneck, hillbilly, etc. for using this accent and some have even made remarks about the fact that he was born in Kentucky, partly raised in Appalachia (Kentucky), then moved to Florida, and basically once a redneck - always a redneck.  One remark that I read recently that I found to be very inaccurate was that Johnny Depp really brings out his redneck, Kentucky roots in this episode.  I feel that the accurate response would be to acknowledge Johnny's talent as an actor in that he can use many dictions, and use a certain diction that is appropriate to the role he is playing.  Actually I feel that Johnny Depp is very honest and proud about his Kentucky roots and where he came from and when one degrades someone's diction or origin, that also degrades that person's family which Johnny is very proud of, to say the least.  To also add to my soap box, I feel that each individual state has  their own certain diction depending on which part of the state one resides.  I am in no way criticizing anothers opinion and have tried to write this in a diplomatic manner, but I want to say that no one should be categorized by the way the talk and their diction.  It is very apparent that Johnny Depp doesn't have a continual Kentucky accent.  I reside in Tennessee and don't live very far from Owensboro where Johnny grew up and although our diction is somewhat different - it's very much similar.  So who cares if Johnny was born in Kentucky, lived in Florida, moved to LA and where he gets his diction from.  The important thing is that he is who he is and if you are reading this right now then chances are you will agree that regardless of how he talks - he'll always be the same Johnny Depp we admire and adore.  I hope I haven't offended anyone by this little addition and welcome any feedback or comments.  Please email me at Deppfan@aol.com!

*** DISCLAIMER:  Also, I want to be real clear that there is a lot of prejudice remarks made in this episode against the homosexual population and this episode guide is taken directly from the episode itself with no opinions of my own added.  The comments and beliefs in this episode do not reflect the beliefs or opinions of myself, 21 Depp Street, or A Fan's Page for Johnny Depp!***

This episode begins with Fuller briefing Jump Street on their next assignment.  It appears that there have been an enormous amount of attacks on homosexuals in a specific area that is within a 5 mile radius of Norton Military Academy.  Fuller also adds to his suspicion that students of the academy may be doing this because all of the assailants that have been seen have had short hair, most of those attacked had not idea there was anyone around until they were ambushed, and the beatings that these homosexuals suffered appeared to be of a professional nature.  Hanson and Penhall make a good point when they realize that all the attacks have occured after midnight and that most of these young GI Joe's have some type of curfew.  But, Fuller lets Hanson and Penhall in on his next little secret, that maybe these cadets are going over the wall and this is why he is sending both of them in to find out what is going on.  Hanson doesn't seem to mind, but Penhall is dying.  Penhall has no desire to go into a military academy, to be a cadet, to wear a uniform, and especially get his hair cut.  Ioki makes a bit of a joke about Penhall having to get a haircut, the Fuller blows him over with his assignment.  Ioki is gonna be sent in as a decoy at the Milestones Cafe, which is more or less a gay bar.  Hoffs assignment is to back up Ioki and buy him coffee.  Looks like Hoffs is getting off easy here.  Fuller also adds, to Hanson and Penhall's dismay, that this academy is a live in situation, they'll have to stay inside until the case is solved, and they can't run back to the chapel for an update and slice of Pizza.  What a way to start the day for Jump Street.

Penhall arrives at the academy and his first acquaintance is Sergeant Major Jackson.  Penhall is ready to leave already and he hasn't even been signed in yet.  Penhall is going in as a fresh cadet.  Hanson is going in as an experienced cadet who was thrown out of Tulsa Military Academy for "bad behavior".  Hanson doesn't have to go through Jackson, which would have been much easier, but he gets to go straight to the General's office who let's him know that he's a screw up and there will be no screw ups at Norton Military Academy.  The general also informs Hanson that rules and regulation are one thing, but above all else at Norton is Honor.  He tells Hanson that a cadet WILL NOT lie, steal, or cheat nor tolerate those that do.  Hanson is standing at attention and says "Yes Sir".  The general looks over Hanson's record and tells him that he see that he once was a Sergeant Major, but was busted down to Sergeant, and tells Hanson that he had a fine rank.  He tells Hanson that he's gonna let him transfer in at that rank just to see if he can keep it (the Sergeant rank), and his guess is that he can't keep it.  Hanson says, "Thank you Sir." and the the general informs him that if there is nothing else then Hanson is dismissed.  Hanson puts on his cadet hat, straightens it, salutes the general, the general salutes him, Hanson does a little military dance (the about face and all) and then walks out of the general's office.

Jackson has befriended Penhall as much as a Sergeant Major can, has been showing him around, and has now taken Penhall to the one place he didn't want to go - the barber.  Penhall watches the barber as he takes shears and just shaves one cadets hair completely off.  Penhall is getting real nervous as he is the only one left in the waiting area.  Jackson has some type of military meeting to go to and leaves Penhall by himself to get his hair "trimmed".  Penhall is really squirmming, especially when the barber finishes with the other cadet and walks out, looks at Penhall, and says, "Next".  Penhall stand ups, looks at the cadets hair that went in before him, his voice gets really high pitched, and he informed the barber that he gave the tailor the wrong hat size, he needs to go get it fixed because he can't look like a dweeb on his first day of inspection, but tells the barber to keep that seat open for him and he'll be back (yeah-right!).

It's time for lunch at the academy and Hanson gets to sit at the table with all the other high rankers while poor Penhall is just out there on his own.  Hanson is at the table talking to others about how different it was at Tulsa, what he did to be thrown out, etc. then he notices Penhall approaching their table with his tray and says to the other guys, "Uh,Oh. Check this doof out."  Hey, Hanson has a reputation to keep with his bad boy image (pardon the cliche) that is on his transfer record from Tulsa Academy.  Hanson yells out at Penhall and says, "Hey, you steal that earring from your mamma little buddy?"  Penhall looks shocked and replies, "Why would I want to do that if your mother gives them to me for free?"  Hanson just smiles, chews on his gum, nods his head, and then as Penhall walks by, Hanson just sticks his foot out and trips Penhall.  Penhall's food from his tray goes flying everywhere and he jumps up and grabs Hanson by the collar.  A couple of cadets jump in between them to keep them from fighting.  Penhall tells Hanson real quick that he better be watching over his shoulder and Hanson blows Penhall a few kisses.  Penhall walks on and Hanson goes back to his table to tell the other guys that at his old school they'd take a guy like that, hold em' down, and cut his hair off with a huntin' knife.  Hanson goes on to tell more about what he did at his old school out on the lake, that the guys would get some sun, drink some beers, and then finish up with sweeping the area.  Hanson is probing for information and none of these guys have a clue and want to know what sweeping the area means.  Hanson explains that they would drive into town, check out the local ladies, the go to the darkside of town (meaning the african-american part) with a broom sticking out of the window and try to hit the local people standing on the corner.  Well Hanson may be clever, but he just messed up because there happened to be an african-american  at the table with him that didn't take Hanson's comment too lightly and asked Hanson if he thought that was funny.  Hanson knew that what he was saying was wrong, but he had to maintain his role and tells the guy to lighten up that it was just a game.

Meanwhile, Ioki is on his assignment at the Milestone Cafe and then this guy comes up to him and tells Ioki that he's hasn't seen him around before (What a pick-up line!).  Ioki is dying, but remains cool, is very police and begins to tell this guy that he's new and that he thinks that the Milestone is a nice place to hang out.  They guy introduces himself as Willie and Ioki tells him that he's Harry.  Willie then asks Ioki if he's there by himself and Ioki says yes and then backs up and tells him no that he's not there by himself that he's waiting on a friend.  Hoffs saves the day by showing up.  Ioki says to Hoffs, in front of Willie, that it's nice of her to show up as they were just talking about her.  Willie takes the hint, tells Ioki it was nice to meet him, and leaves.  Hoffs sits down next to Ioki and laughs her head off.  Ioki lets her know real quick that it isn't funny, not funny at all.  Hoffs says, "Come on Harry, it is funny.  Are you sure you aren't putting out some type of signals?"  Ioki doesn't like her comment, but knows that it's time that he acts as the decoy and patrol around the block to see if anyone tried to attack him.  Ioki tells Hoffs that he's gonna go patrol the block, she laughs, and says, "Happy Hunting!" and then laughs some more.  Ioki is out on the dark street walking by himself and doesn't look like he's happy to be there.  Suddenly Ioki notices a guy beating up on someone in an alley, they guy has the other guy pinned up against a wall and is kicking him with all the strength he has.  Ioki runs to intervene.  Ioki jumps the wall to stop the one guy from nearly killing this other guy, but then he realizes that there are two more of these guys and they begin to attack Ioki.  Ioki uses his expertise in martial arts to try and protect himself, but there are just too many of them, and they are all trained too well.  Ioki gets knocked to the ground and has his ribs kicked in a couple of times.  Hoffs arrives on the scene and tells the guys that she is police and for them to freeze.  The guys run off and Hoffs has no chance of finding them.

The next morning, Hanson is awakened by some other cadet telling him he has a phone call.  It's Fuller who is calling and is informing Hanson that Ioki is in the hospital and also lets Hanson know that these guys hit Ioki from behind.  Fuller tells Hanson that he wants him to meet them at the hospital and bring a yearbook from Norton Military Academy.  The general is standing over Hanson the whole time he is talking to Fuller.  Hanson tells the general that he has an emergency situation and his brother is in the hospital.  The general informs Hanson that he knows that because he just spoke with his father (Fuller), tells Hanson that his father seems like a fine man, and asks Hanson if his father ever spent any time in the military.  Hanson informs the general that his father is a police officer.  The general then tells Hanson that he comes from fine stock and that he wouldn't mind meeting his father sometime (whoa that would go over good).  Hanson then tells the general that he's sure that he'd find meeting his father very enjoyable.  Hanson then head straight to the hospital to see Ioki with a yearbook in hand.  Hanson is at Ioki's bedside as Ioki looks through the yearbook.  Hanson is really concerned that Ioki is alright and Ioki tells him that he's only there for observation.  Hanson makes a joke with him to try and cheer him up.  Hanson says, "I'm disappointed in you Iokage, you against only three  combat trained psychos; what'd you do slip on a banana peel or something?"  Ioki says, "Yeah, Something..."  Ioki finally spots one of the guys that attacked him, Hank Demerest.  Fuller asks Hanson if he knows him and Hanson says yeah, but that he hasn't met him officially.  Fullet stresses to Hanson to go back and meet him - OFFICIALLY!  Ioki then tells Fuller and Hanson that the second guy was hidden in the shadows and he didn't even see the third guy.  Hanson tells them that he's got a line on who the others might be.  Ioki then asks Fuller and Hanson if they can bring in Demerest and see if he rolls over on the other two.  Fuller and Hanson both tell Ioki that they doubt Demerest rolling over on anyone because in the military, the Honor Code is the biggest and and he won't break that code which means basically that he's not gonna rat out his buddies.  Fuller tells Hanson to bring Penhall more into the investigation and try to get some better leads.  Ioki then asks how Penhall is doing and Hanson sort of laughs and tells Ioki and Fuller that Penhall is a natural soldier.

Of course Penhall isn't a natural soldier and can't even march right.  Everyone is screaming at Penhall especially for not getting his hair cut.  Jackson is the only one who has taken up for Penhall actually taken some pity on him.  Jackson runs to the other Sergeant Major and tells him that Penhall is new and to cut him some slack.  He tells Jackson to make sure Penhall's hair is cut, for Penhall to drop and give him 20 push ups, and asks Jackson to count them out.  Penhall starts doing his push ups, cheats a bit, and Jackson informs him that he owes him 6 more push ups.  Jackson also tells Penhall that it is his responsibility to see that he gets through training safely and gets the most out of it and asks Penhall not to confuse Jackson's actually liking him with the thought that Jackson's gonna let him get away with any and every thing.  Jackson then takes Penhall to the side and tries to help him in his stance and marching techniques.  Jackson is called away by another cadet and tells Penhall that he'll be right back.  Penhall sees that this is his chance to look at the sign in - sign out sheets.  Penhall goes quickly to look at the list from the night before and finds Demerest's, Adderly's, and Hudson's name on the list from the night before and finds it very interesting.  Penhall doesn't want to diappoing Jackson so he goes back to the barber to get his head shaved, but has no intention of having it done for he has a plan.  As soon as the barber starts, Penhall accidentally knocks off the barber's glasses, breaks them, apologizes, and wants to know if he has another pair.  The barber tells Penhall that he does have another pair at home.  So Penhall informs the barber that he'll kindly wait until he gets his glasses before he gets his hair cut.  Hey, Penhall is slick - he went for his haircut and couldn't get it - it's a good excuse according to Penhall.

Next the cadets are in gym class learning wrestling techniques.  Penhall makes a comment that the instructor doesn't like and Penhall tells him that he was just admiring the instructors technique.  The instructor tells Penhall that this is good because now he can show the whole class what he has learned.  The instructor pairs Penhall and another cadet together and tells them to go through the King of the Mountain drill.  Hanson makes a snide remard and say, "Looks more like Queen of the Mountain to me."  The wrestling match starts and Penhall takes his opponent down easily.  The instructor calls in Demerest to wrestle Penhall who quickly pins him also.  Penhall is on a roll and looks like coach is gonna call it a day until Hanson says, "Can I have a shot coach?"  The coach tells Hanson and Penhall to go for it and the whole gymnasium goes wild because they know they've got a match now.  Hanson and Penhall square off and everyone is yelling, "Search and Destroy."  Hanson looks at Penhall and says, "How 'bout a little kiss first?" and Penhall says, "Okay, pucker up."  Penhall hardly gets the words out of his mouth when Hanson just draws back, punches Penhall in the face, and knocks him out cold.  The coach isn't real happy, but Hanson says, "I won didn't I?" and the coach tells Hanson that if he does that again he'll pack his bags and be out of the academy and sends Hanson to the shower.

Hanson goes to the shower room and believe it or not there was a good reason that Hanson did what he did because in the showers, Rick Adderly comes up to Hanson and is discussing what he did to Penhall and tells Hanson that it was about time that someone did it.  Hanson tells him that most of the people around there wouldn't know a good time if they walked in on it.  See there ya go - Hanson's looking for info and from the right guy too.  Hanson also asks Adderly if he is any different (referring to whether or not Adderly knows about having a good time).  One of Adderly's buddies, Hank Demerest, tells Hanson that they go alone on their escapades and Adderly stop his friend from speaking and tells him that he should be more polite (to Hanson) especially with someone who can whip his butt.  Demerest then tells Hanson that he has his brother's car that day to go out if he's intersted in going with them.  The other friend, Hudson, interrupts as he can't believe that Adderly is telling Hanson about this stuff that they do.  Hanson tells him that it sounds good and asks where they are going.  Adderly informs Hanson that they are going into town for a little search and destroy.  Hanson asks if they are going to find some women to wrestle, Adderly tells him that what they are gonna do is even better, and they'll pick Hanson up in ten minutes.  Hanson knows right then and there that he's got his three guys, but now all he has to do is get the evidence, but he's gonna need Penhall's help who may not be so willing since he just punched him out.  Hanson goes to find Penhall who is also in the shower room nursing his face where Hanson hit him.  Penhall looks at Hanson and tells him that he he would appreciate a little warning next time before Hanson decides to just go off and knock him out.  Hanson tells Penhall to just listed.  About that time the coach walks up and catches the two of them conversing, thinks that there is still some type of fight going on between them, and tell Hanson that he obviously wasn't listening to what he told him earlier and Adderly walks up orders him back to quarters.  Hanson then says outloud, hoping that Penhall will catch on to what he is trying to tell him, "Yeah I guess he's not worth the trouble."  Hanson then points at Adderly and says, "Parking lot in ten minutes right?"  Then Hanson walks off.  Penhall got Hanson's message and knows that he has to do something.

Penhall runs down to the cadet payphone where there is a line a mile long and he tells the guy on the phone that it's an emergency and he has to use the phone.  The guy won't let him use the phone.  Penhall has to get a hold of Fuller or someone right then and now, so he slips through a window into the general's office to use the phone.  Penhall gets a hold of Hoffs and about the time she says Hello, two cadets with Jackson come in and catch Penhall.  Well, Penhall is in trouble and Hanson is out cruising around with these three psychos.  Hanson then asks the cadets how they get away with breaking the curfew and was informed that Sergeant Major Jackson covered for them the first time and then they just sort of held it over his head all the rest of the times and this is how they get out and are able to stay out so late.  Hanson acts to the three guys like he's getting bored and wants to know if this is the search or destory part of the evening and one of he guys tells him that it's neither.  Back at Norton, Penhall is taken to the general's quarters for breaking into his office.  Penhall tries to explain that he desperately needed to call his father and the public phones were taken.  The general asks how he got in and Jackson tells him that Penhall got in through the window.  The general then tells Penhall that he was breaking and entering along with tresspassing and which Penhall rebuttles by informing him that no property was damaged and he had every right to be on campus.  The general then tells Penhall to call his father and tell him to get his butt out of Norton Academy tonight.  Penhall seems a bit confused and then tells the general that he needs to get something straight - that he's being kicked out of the academy for trying to call his father and now that he's kicked out he can call his father.  Penhall laughs it off and tells the general and Jackson that he can't wait to get back to public school.  Penhall is overjoyed that he's getting out.

Hanson is still riding around with the other three cadets and one of them spots a guy walking down the street and Demerst points him out to the others.  Hanson asks the cadets why that guy and the response is because he is a faggot.  Hanson asks if that's it, that's the only reason to pick on this guy.  The cadet then tells Hanson that's all he needs to know and he's not to question orders around there.  Hanson then asks what they are gonna do, beat on his head for a little while and the others reply no.  They tell Hanson that he's gonna get in front of the guy, make him think that Hanson's gonna take him out, and when he tries to run, they'll get him from behind.  Hanson does what they ask and when the guy approaches, Hanson says, "Run past me, don't turn around - just run past me.  I'm not gonna hurt you.  I won't hurt you I swear man, just run"  About that time, the guy blows this whistle he has hanging around his neck and runs backwards straight into the other three cadet who start beating up on him pretty bad.  The people in the Milestone Cafe heard the whistle and they all came running out to help whoever was in trouble.  The three cadets see the other guys coming and jump in the car leaving Hanson behind facing all these people.  Finally, before Hanson gets his head beat in, the cadets circle around, yell at Hanson who jumps over a brick wall to get into the car.

Back at Norton Academy, the cadets are arguing over what happened and Hudson tells Demerest that he doesn't think that he want's to do this stuff anymore.  Demerest gets angry and doesn't understand Hudson's reasoning for wanting to stop.  These cadets have really lost sense of reality because they truly believe that what they are doing is justice in society, plus they think it's fun and it's not harming anyone, but it's harming everyone - including themselves.  Hudson finally tells Hanson, Demerest, and Adderly that he's afraid and asks the other guys if they have any idea what would have happed to them if they had been caught by those guys.  Hanson jumps in and lets them know that if they would have caught anybody it would have been him first.  Hanson's trying to hang in there to get more evidence and has to be this tough guy, but he doesn't like it, and then Hanson says, "And so what if they caught is, they're just a bunch of fags."  Hudson tells them all that he just thinks that they should just cool it, maybe shut down for a while and Adderly agrees and informs them all that they are shutting down until further notice.  Hanson jumps up and starts to say something and Adderly informs him that the subject is not up for discussion.

Back at the chapel, Hoffs and Ioki are giving fuller the run down on what happened the night before.  Ioki tells Fuller that if those guys would have caught them there would have been serious trouble because the gays are out for blood, they aren't about to take any prisoners, and are ready to go after anyone who looks at them sideways.  Fuller asks Hoffs and Ioki if any one came up with a description.  Hoffs sort of frown and says, "Yeah, we got a great one - of Hanson."  Fuller then informs Hoffs and Ioki that he has some bad news.  One of the guys who was beaten severely at the beginning of the episode, Benny Mason, which led to Jump Street's involvement in this case died that afternoon.  Hoffs knows that this not only means that they are looking at an assault case, but now a murder case as well.  Fuller tells Hoffs and Ioki that there is nothing to prove these guys did it and if these kids are smart, they are gonna take themselves out of the game for a little while.  Fuller also tells them that Penhall has reported to him that a cadet Jackson signed in Demerest and two other guys the night Mason was attacked, that Jackson signed them all in at 11:00pm before curfew and over an hour before the beating of Mason.

That day Penhall goes in street clothes to the cadet firing range to speak with Jackson.  Penhall tells Jackson that he happens to know that 5 days ago that he signed in Adderly and his buddies after curfew.  Jackson apologizes to Penhall for being dismissed from the academy, as he doesn't know Penhall is a cop, and then tells Penhall that accusations like he just made against Jackson would not get him reinstated into the Academy.  Penhall just smiles, pulls out his badge, and tells Jackson that it's okay because he's already got a day job.  Jackson asks Penhall if he was masquerading as a cadet and Penhall tells him that he was undercover because Adderly and his buddies were playing war games and beating up homosexuals for practice.  Jackson denies any knowledge of this and Penhall informs him that maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but now someone is dead.  Jackson then asks Pnehall if Hanson is a police officer too and he won't do anything to impede Hanson's work to solve the crime if he is undercover.  Penhall tells Jackson that he was looking for Jackson to help him in a different way, a little more direct approach.  Jackson tells Penhall that there is nothing more that he can do and Penhall assures him that there is plenty more that he can do like why he covered their butts for coming in two hours late.  Jackson then tells Penhall that he stands by his report.  Penhall then asks Jackson if he knows what type of trouble he could be in for being an accessory to murder.  Jackson tells Penhall again that there is nothing more he can do and wants to know if Penhall learned anything while at the academy.  Penhall informs Jackson that he hasn't learned anything that he wants to remember and wants to know if covering murders is what Jackson has learned because someone is dead and if he don't help then these guys are just gonna walk away from it.  Jackson quickly tells Penhall that the academy has taught him honor and that honor is his life.  Jackson then tells Penhall that he has dreams and he is going to West Point Military Academy and that Penhall just doesn't understand.  Penhall tells Jackson that he understands, but that he's wrong about where he's going because he's going to jail and all because he won't violate some unwritten fraternity code.

Penhall goes back to the chapel and informs Fuller and Hoffs that Jackson wouldn't budge and that Jackson figured out that Hanson was a cop.  Fuller tells Hoffs and Penhall that they are gonna have to bring in Hanson and Demerest or Hanson may walk right into an ambush.  Penhall tells Hoffs and Fuller that Jackson promised that he wouldn't say anything.  Hoffs asks Penhall is he really believes Jackson.  Penhall tells Hoffs that he does believe Jackson and he gave him his word.  Hoffs can't believe that Penhall would trust someone who would rather go to jail than turn over three murder suspects and Penhall makes it very clear that's his whole point.  Penhall then tells Fuller that he knows it sounds crazy, but that he trusts Jackson.  Fuller thinks for a moment and agrees that he'll give Hanson a little more time.

Hanson is still undercover and no one at the academy but Hanson and Jackson know that he is a cop.  Hanson is also dressed out in his cadet blues right down to the shined shoes when he walks up to Adderly at the shooting range and shows him  the mornings paper that reads - "Beating Victim Dies."  Adderly kinda shrugs it off like he knows nothing about it and Hanson tells him that it sounds sort of like a search and destroy mission to him.  Demerest mouths off and asks Hanson if he thinks that they are the only one who beat up on fags.  Hudson then tells Hanson that this happened after curfew.  Hanson tells the three of them not to tell him, but to tell the cops because after what happened last night, the cops are gonna be swarming all over campus of the academy.  Demerest asks Hanson what he's gonna tell about this story and Adderly breaks in and says that Hanson isn't gonna say anything because he knows better than to break the code.  Hanson then tells the three of them that he don't know anything because he was on a plane from Tulsa when all this stuff went down, but if they had anything to do with it then they had better be getting their stories straight, to make sure that if anyone else that may have known about it on campus to get their story straight, and if it wasn't them - then they ain't got nothing to worry about.  Hanson smacks the newspaper against his hand, then he swats Demerest on the arm with it and says, "Besides, they's just a bunch'a fags anyway", and walks away knowing that these guys are for sure the one that killed Mason.  Hudson gets nervous and wants to know what they are gonna do.  Adderly and Demerest tells Hudson that they aren't gonna do anything about it because Jackson knows the code and he'll cover for them.  Adderly leaves quickly and meets his brother who is a homosexual that he hasn't spoken to in a long time, but Adderly knows that Benny Mason was his brother's partner and he went there to tell his brother that he knew who was doing the beatings.  Adderly apologizes, tells him that he can't tell him names, but that he was involved in it.  Adderly's brother tells him that someone he loved died because of those beatings, that it could have been him that they beat, and that if he is half the man he claims to be he will do the right thing, the right thing would be what their father would have wanted him to do.  Adderly's brother then walks away leaving Adderly alone.

Hanson goes to visit Jackson as a cadet and Jackson tells him to drop the bull because he knows that he's a cop.  Hanson tells him that he's the only witness and this is the only thing that bring this case to justice.  Jackson tells Hanson that around there Honor is the only thing that matters, that it embodies a special trust and confidence, and it's about valor.. Hanson interrupts and tells Jackson that it's a load of crap and Jackson tells Hanson that he doesn't understand.  Hanson gets angry and tells him that he understands that three of his cadets killed sombody because he was gay, them tomorrow it will be sombody black or jewish, or someone with a stupid label that makes it okay.  Jackson walks over to his desk and refuses to talk.  Hanson tells Jackson that this is just fine, but for him to call and get a pass because he is being arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.  Jackson tells Hanson that he already made a phone call.  Hanson and Jackson walk out together to the front building of the Norton Military Academy only to find Adderly leading a pack of cadets coming their way.  Commander Richard Adderly turns over his team to Jackson, Hanson motions for Jackson to take command, and Jackson accepts.  Then Adderly informs Hanson that he, Hudson, and Demerest are turning themselves over to his custody.  Jackson is no longer in trouble and asks Adderly and his guys to surrender their arms (weapons).  Adderly turns over the weapons to Jackson, salutes him, Jackson salutes back and states that Adderly, Hudson, and Demerest are restricted to quarters until further notice.  The case is solved.  This episode was great and the action between Hanson and Penhall is excellent and a must see.  Depp has a lot of airtime and I must admit that the accent he has in this episode makes him even the more cute than ever.  One of my favorites.  OVERALL RATING = 10.

#22. YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PRISON: This episode aired on November 15, 1987.
Okay, this episode could go on forever and really isn't one of my favorites, so I'm just gonna give a brief summary because there are lots more episodes that deserve more attention than this one.  Hanson and Penhall are sent is as undercover bodyguards to protect this young hot shot movie star, Jeremy Woods, because he's been getting threatening fan mail.  Also, Woods has been known to trash hotel rooms and drive cars into pools just to see if the lights work under water.  Ioki and Hoffs just think that Woods is great and Hoffs just drools all over the thought of him, but Hanson and Penhall know that he's a jerk.  Penhall ends up getting a small role in the movie Jeremy is making as a police office who pulls him over for speeding (how appropriate).  Then, Jeremy takes a fit on the set of this movie, Hanson and Penhall are on the set as his bodyguards, Woods' fires the director, and the media is there filming his every move along with getting in some good shots of Hanson and Penhall.  This little fit is going to be aired all over the local television stations.

So, remember Tyrell (Waxer) from the pilot, well he ended up killing someone in juvenile and is being transferred to the state prison and sentenced as an adult.  During Waxer's transfer on a highly secured bus, something happens, Waxer ends up shooting one of the guards and escapes.  Waxer goes to a buddy's house and is watching the news to see what the reporters are saying about him and the footage from Jeremy Woods' fit throwing airs on the televion and Waxer recognizes Hanson in the background of the set.  Waxer is out for blood and plans on killing Hanson for busting him and sending him away.  Hoffs and Ioki decide that it's time to meet Jeremy and figure out that Hanson has some mail at the chapel and they really need to take it to him.  Hanson, Penhall, and Woods are in Woods' trailer talking about Jeremy's fame because just minutes before an obsessed fan tried to give Jeremy a present, thought that all his movies were about her, and Woods' had to have her sent to the hospital.  Then there is a knock on the trailer door and it's Hoffs and Ioki bringing Hanson his mail.  Hanson and Penhall aren't thrilled that they showed up and are really upset when Jeremy invites them to hang out around the set for the rest of the day.  Hoffs even gets a part as an extra in his movie.  While Hoffs is being filmed as an extra, a student who just walks down the hall - Waxer walks right past her and he's caught on tape.  But, it's too late, Waxer already got to Hanson and he didn't just kidnap Hanson, but also Woods.  Hoffs then realizes that it was Waxer, she and the rest of the Jump Street gang go over the tape, know that it's him, and also know that Hanson is in touble.

Waxer really has it in for Hanson and finds Woods to be quite amusing.  Waxer has every intent on killing both of them and is holding them at gunpoint.  Woods begins to cry and beg for his life.  Waxer really makes fun of Woods because he plays this tough guy in the movies, but is nothing but a crybaby in real life.  Hanson pleads with Waxer not to kill Woods, tells Waxer that Woods didn't do anything to him and he has no reason to kill Woods.  Fuller and the rest of the gang are searching high and low for Waxer, Hanson, and Woods'.  Hanson continues to plead with Waxer to let Woods go.  Hanson tells Waxer that Woods didn't bust him, he did, and if he's gonna kill anybody to kill him, but let Woods go.  Waxer makes jokes and tells them that they both are gonna go and wants to know which one wants to go first.  Hanson finally catches Waxer off guard, wrestles the gun away from Waxer, and saves his and Woods' life.  Just about the time Hanson gets the gun away from Waxer, Fuller and the rest of the gang show up, along with the media.  Fuller makes sure that Hanson is alright and Waxer is arrested.  Don't look like Waxer's gonna be seeing daylight for a while.  Fuller gets real angry when the media tries to tape his undercover officers and forbids any shots of Hanson or any of the others.  The media then focuses on Woods and does a complete interview with him on what happened.  Well we all know that Hanson saved the day, but according to Woods in his interview - he was cool and saved Hanson's life as well as his own, but he does give Hanson a small amount of credit.  This is a good episode, but it's one of those that the story could be told in 15 minutes rather than 50 minutes.  Depp has some good scenes which I did add in this guide and a fair amount of airtime.  OVERALL RATING = 6.5

#23. HOW MUCH IS THAT BODY IN THE WINDOW?: This episode aired on November 22, 1987.
A young gymnast dies after a gymnastics meet at her local school. The cause of death is found to be a result of steriod use. Hanson and Ioki are partnered together to investigate local gyms and the use of steroids. Penhall and Hoffs are sent in undercover at the school where the young gymnast died to investiage steriod use within school system. Hanson signs up to be a Big Brother in this episode, but begins to have second thoughts after he attends a meeting for Big Brothers of America. Penhall is making waves within the school setting and also with Fuller when he a makes a steriod buy from a teen at school. Penhall ends up swalloring the steroid and doesn't make a bust. Hanson's hesitance to be a Big Brother is explained further in the episode. Hanson tells Fuller that he is second guessing his decision to be a Big Brother because he knows that he will end up being undercover and investigating these same kids and it will only be a matter of a few years.  Hanson thinks that he will end up hurting the Jump Street Program in the long run as well as hurting these kids by befriending these young boys.

Meanwhile, Penhall gets in deeper and deeper in the investigation and becomes extremely defensive. Due to Hanson' preoccupation over being a Big Brother and Penhall's defensiveness about the case, tension begins between the two. Hanson also finds tension building between himself and the director of Big Brothers of America when the two realize that they are attracted to each other. Hanson's feelings for Penhall and the director change quickly when Penhall gives Hanson a bad recommendation to be a Big Brother and the director refuses his application.  Penhall finally does the right thing and arrests a high school teen for steroids.  Hanson makes a discovery on the  identity of the teen's steriod supplier which leads  to another arrest and the shutting down a steroid operation. Hanson and Penhall are able to put their differences aside and get back on good terms with each other.  Penhall expains to Hanson that he gave him a bad reference to be a Big Brother intentionally so his application would be rejected.  Penhall explains that he felt like Hanson would not have enough time or attention to be a Big Brother which would be very unfair to these kids and all others involved.  Hanson agrees with Penhall. Hanson's relationship with the director of the Big Brothers Association, takes a positive leap as they grow more and more intimate with one another. This episode is not one of the best. The tension is so high between all the Jump Street charcters that the viewer can't help but become tense just watching the episode. Depp has a fair amount of air time, looks great, and steroids is a great issue to be tackled in an episode, but this is my least favorite episode. OVERALL RATING = 4.

#24. CHRISTMAS IN SAIGON: This episode aired on December 18, 1987.
This episode really is focused around Ioki and I will be the first to admit that it was time that Dustin Nguyen got the airtime. At Christmas, Ioki's cover is blown. Ioki has been posing as a Japanese immigrant who was born in the US and became a police officer. We all know from previous episodes such as Beseiged I and I that there were problems, that something was going on and all the pieces of the puzzle didn't fit because Ioki kept getting these letters from the US Government.  Apparently at the time Ioki was getting those letters,  the US Government gound that Ioki was either dead or didn't even exist.  Unfortunately, Fuller finds out that Ioki is not really who he says he is and this is the whole reason why he was getting those letters in previous episodes.  Ioki isn't who he says he is, but he isn't dead and he does exist.  Ioki comes clean and lets the whole Jump Street gang know that he is Vietnamese and why he presented with a fake identity of being Japanese.  Ioki has to be released from his duties at Jump Street by Fuller until there is an investigation and things are solved.  Ioki is okay with that and goes on to explain his reasoning for doing what he did.  Ioki believed that if law enforcement knew he was Vietnamese, he would never have gotten into the police academy or gotten a job. This episodes takes the viewer through scenes of the Vietnam War that could only be described through the eyes of a young Vietnamese boy. Ioki describes the terror, the lonliness, how he ended up in the US, the inability to speak or read the English language, and his gratitude to those who took him in and helped him. Finally in the end, Ioki is reinstated with Jump Street as by some Christmas Miracle - Fuller finds some paperwork regarding to