Spanking the Monkey (Third Watch)

Infobox Television episode
Title=Spanking The Monkey
Series=Third Watch


Caption=
Season=5
Episode=19
Airdate=April 6, 2004
Production=176769
Writer=Charles Murray (II)
Victor De Jesus
Director=Felix Enriquez Alcala
Guests=Joseph Sikora
Marcia Strassman
Khan Baykal
Ashley Marie Greiner
Henry Winkler
Prev=Purgatory
Next=In Plain View

"Spanking The Monkey" is the 107th episode of the television series "Third Watch" and the 19th episode of the 5th season.

Plot Summary

A fire at a nightclub traps revellers and paramedics, and fire-fighters realise that one of their own has been left behind.

Plot Details

Wary of Lester Martin, the high-priced lawyer his father has found for Mikey and the deal he's attempting to broker, Bosco warns his brother to stay away from Maritza, but Mikey decides to disregard his brother's advice and makes a deal to become her informant; for good measure, Bosco threatens to kill Maritza if anything happens to Mikey; Sully teases Ty about his budding relationship with Sasha; Faith and Bosco strike a deal with Laura, who also has no love lost for Maritza, to protect Mikey by helping her nab the drug dealers before Maritza gets to them; J.D. offers Kim a ride home, but stops off first at a rave that both Anti-Crime and Narcotics have staked out, thanks to information Mikey gave them; when some bad ecstasy begins to take a rapid toll, the paramedics call for backup, which prompts Maritza and her detail to storm the building; after an arsonist lobs a Molotov cocktail into the crowded building, Faith and Bosco give chase and capture him, while the firefighters rescue the ravers who are trapped in the fire; recuperating in the hospital after J.D. rescues her from the burning building, Kim realizes that he is intimately involved with running the rave, and threatens to report him, but he resigns first; Faith threatens to report Maritza to I.A.B. after the sergeant assaults Faith's handcuffed prisoner and breaks his nose; Lester reappears in the station house, this time representing the arsonist, who's also eager to work out a deal by giving up the head of the ecstasy ring; Faith picks out a photo of Joey Mann, who drove the arsonist to the rave, and Laura identifies him as the son of Donald Mann, the head of the ecstasy ring; Maritza spooks Joey as she's about to arrest him, and they head off in a high speed pursuit which narrowly avoids a group of children and leads to Joey's death; Laura warns Faith and Bosco that Donald will be after them to avenge his son's death.

Notes & Trivia

*When the fire truck arrives at the burning building, the front lights are off, and then on.
*The title of the episode refers to the beat-down the squad gives the "Monkey" drug crew by arresting them at the rave.

Quotes

*Lester: Good morning. I’d like to see one of your officers, Maurice Boscorelli.
Swersky: What’d he do now?
*Davis: Why do you care? I was out.
Sully: Why are you being so defensive?
Davis: I’m not.
Sully: So, I just wanted to take you out to breakfast.
Davis: Well, I thank you for that.
Sully: Where were you?
Davis: I was out!
*Bosco: Where did you come from? I mean, where did my father find you?
Lester: We have mutual acquaintances.
Bosco: Oh, that’s great, ‘cause I was getting a little worried there about your credentials.

ee also

* List of Third Watch episodes

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/third-watch/spanking-the-monkey/episode/307181/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;18 Spanking The Monkey] at tv.com