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For the Children

Episode Number: 25    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday October 20, 1999    Prod Code: n/a
Parker quits when a Backstep is cancelled that would have saved children on a subway train from being killed, and the team must question whether they obey NSA orders or act on their consciences.

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Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton
Director: Don Kurt
Star: Jonathan LaPaglia (Lt. Frank Bartholomew Parker),  Don Franklin (Capt. Craig Donovan),  Justina Vail (Dr. Olga Vukavitch),  Nick Searcy (Nathan Ramsey),  Alan Scarfe (Dr. Bradley Talmadge)
Guest Star: Forbes Riley (Carole Shaker),  Granville Ames (FBI Agent Honiker),  Scarlett Pomers (Jessica Schaffer),  Roland Gibbons (Jimmy Parker),  Clement Blake (Kennedy Barstow),  Kevin E. West (LAPD Captain Newman),  Steve Stapenhorst (Mark Mills),  Nicki Tyler Flynn (Mrs. Kelly),  Al Israel (Subway Operator),  Cyd Strittmatter (Tina Schaffer),  Yvonne Zima (Amanda),  Marc Vann (Sgt. David Korshak),  Tim Abell (Sgt. Tyler Higgins),  Michael Angarano (Evan Hamilton),  Dawn Hudson (Mrs. Hamilton),  Douglas Roberts (Donald Roper/Sgt. Ken Dobbs),  Derek Medina (NNL Aide)

Notes

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Norman Lloyd and Sam Whipple don't appear in this episode. (edit)
Postponed from April 28, 1999 due to the Columbine shooting incident. (edit)

Quotes

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Ramsey: I'll vote for a tree: that way you'll feel at home with your ancestors.
Donovan: Lay off, Ramsey.
Frank: It's all right, Donovan. Ramsey's just jealous because he didn't evolve from apes like the rest of us. He evolved from Squamata. (edit)
(Talmadge has received a watercolor painting and is speaking on the phone.)
Amanda: You liked it, really?
Talmadge: Do I like it? I love it. I had no idea I was so handsome. (edit)
Frank: Who's up for a beer?
Olga: For breakfast?? (edit)
Frank: I'm sorry for breaking your nose.
Ramsey: Did that sound sincere to you?
Olga: Good for me.
Donovan: Yeah, sounded great to me.
Ramsey: Let's get a polygraph down here - I want to know if he means it. (edit)
Frank: If saving these kids isn't a matter of national security, then there is no such thing. (edit)

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Frank: What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Quoting the famous line of the Captain (Strother Martin) from the movie Cool Hand Luke. (edit)
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