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Be My Valentine

Episode Number: 17    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday February 12, 1993    Prod Code: 9K16
Max goes undercover to catch a vicious serial killer named 'Cupid' who murders women he meets through classified ads. So when she gets a odd response to a personal ad, she goes deep undercover to catch the killer.

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Writer: David E. Kelley
Director: Dan Lerner
Star: Holly Marie Combs (Kimberly Brock),  Lauren Holly (Officer Maxine Stewart),  Adam Wylie (Zachary Brock),  Kathy Baker (Dr. Jill Brock),  Tom Skerritt (Sheriff Jimmy Brock),  Costas Mandylor (Officer Kenny Lacos),  Justin Shenkarow (Matthew Brock)
Recurring Role: Fyvush Finkel (Douglas Wambaugh),  Zelda Rubinstein (Ginny Weedon),  Kelly Connell (Carter Pike),  Sam Anderson (FBI Agent Donald Morrell)
Guest Star: Stephen Tobolowsky (Ben Sasha),  Kurtwood Smith (Barry Jennings),  Jon Menick (Kyle),  Taylor Donlan (Mona)

Notes

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Although featured in the opening credits, Holly Marie Combs does not appear in this episode. (edit)
One of the guest stars for this episode is Kurtwood Smith, best known as Red Foreman on That 70's Show. (edit)

Quotes

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Maxine: All of his victims have been kind of virginal.
Kenny: Well, then you're safe (edit)
Maxine: Kenny and I are tracking a potential serial killer. Now, you should leave.
Carter: I can help! (Maxine and Kenny try to get him to move) No, this is behavioral science; paraphilia. I am of medical use here. I have a trained investigative eye. Don't push me! (edit)
Maxine: I have back up. It's just backed up. (edit)
Carter: I'm telling you Ginny, I have criminal logistic skills. For me not to be deputized, much less utilized, is an atrocity.
Ginny: Oh, give it up. (edit)

Trivia

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Maxine's personal ad: Gorgeous red head, single, 27. Poetry lover seeks compatible compassionate man with buns of steel. - Lola (edit)

Allusions

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Sea of Love: Maxine says that the sting on "cupid" is standard police work, just like how Al Pacino caught Ellen Barkin in the 1989 film Sea of Love. (edit)
Layla: Maxine's date Ben, the suspected Cupid killer, sings a variation of the Eric Clapton song Layla. It includes the name Lola instead of Layla in order to impress Maxine. (edit)
Cupid: The killers name comes the name of the cherub-like pixie of Roman mythology that now symbolizes Valentines day, using a bow and arrow to smitten lovers. (edit)
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown was a 1975 tv movie starring the famous cartoon character. (edit)
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Be My Valentine
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It's near Valentine's day, it the episode starts with a twang as Jimmy is shot in the ass with an arrow. It turns out that the serial killer known as Cupid has apparently come to Rome.
Continue » Posted Jul 23, 2007 11:04 am PST
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