John Hawkins was a popular DJ in 1958. He was a man true to his music by only playing the music he liked and not taking payments to play the songs record companies wanted him to play. Doing this, gave John a lot of enemies. During a broadcast he gets shot in the head in 1958.
I thought this was a sad episode. It was interesting to see how things were like in the music business back in the '50s. DJs nowadays are just sell-outs and try to hard to get people to like them. John was quite a character. He just wanted to do the simplest thing and he got killed for it.
This was a great episode. Good storyline, acting, writing, orginality, the works.moreless
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The team re-opens the 1958 case of a local celebrity, a radio DJ nicknamed "The Hawk", when they discover his death was staged to look like a suicide.
 Danny Pino |
Scotty Valens |
 Jeremy Ratchford |
Det. Nick Vera |
 John Finn |
Lt. John Stillman |
 Kathryn Morris |
Det. Lilly Rush |
 Thom Barry |
Det. Will Jeffries |
 Tracie Thoms |
Kat Miller (Episodes 3.13+; recurring previously) |
 Nestor Carbonell |
Mike Valens |
Guest Star |
 Camillia Sanes |
Alegria |
Guest Star |
 Allen Alvarado |
Young Valens (1983) |
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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (2)
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John Hawkins was murdered on August 29, 1958.
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We find out that Will Jeffries was a DJ in college who played country music.
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QUOTES (7)
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Bones Hamlin: Teenyboppers always did looove "The Hawk".
Det. Vera: Sounds like he did some lovin' back.
Det. Miller: The kind that gets you arrested. -
The Hawk: What's your kind of dream, Jenny?
Jenny: Getting out of this town.
The Hawk: Going where?
Jenny: Anywhere.
The Hawk: It's nice place, anywhere. I've been there myself many times. -
Skiz: You keep your nose out of it, old man, before I break it for you.
The Hawk: Kid, you rode in here on a bicycle. I'm quakin' in my boots. -
Chorus from Scarlet Rose:
You're my Scarlet Rose,
I will never let you go,
You will always know,
I will be yours to have and hold,
Don't forget me, don't regret me,
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Lilly Rush: (to Jenny) Back then it was called a teenage crush, now we call it stalking.
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Will Jeffries: As far as we know, Hawk never took any payouts. Real fan of the music, wasn't afraid to play black artists to white teens.
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Lilly Rush: Didn't Hawkins...?
Nick Vera: Yeah, combed his hair with a .38 live on the air.
John Stillman: Or so they thought.
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NOTES (8)
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There is a brief scene at a small café or club (red and yellow / gold) right at the beginning. This looks extremely similar to the café where the wife of the victim in episode 4.3, Sandhogs, worked, and is likely a re-used set.
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In this episode, Rutanya Alda plays the victim's daughter, named Jenny, who gave her father a record of a song called Scarlett Rose. Two years before, she played a woman named Rose whose unborn child was called Jenny in episode 4-6: In the Dark of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Curiously, both these episodes have the same season-episode number: season 4, episode 6.
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International Air Dates:
- Denmark: December 6, 2006 on TV3+
- Norway: February 28, 2007 on TVNorge
- The Netherlands: April 7, 2007 on Net 5
- Finland: July 24, 2007 on MTV3
- Poland: August 18, 2008 on TVN -
This is the second episode in which an original composition has been used in closing. The first was the song 300 Flowers (composed by Michael A. Levine) from episode 3-19: Beautiful Little Fool.
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Music Featured in This Episode:
- Say Mama by Gene Vincent
- Dottie by Danny & the Juniors
- Rock, Rock, Rock by Jimmy Cavallo & the Houserockers
- Be-Bop-A-Lula by Gene Vincent
- Ready Teddy by Little Richard
- Problems by The Everly Brothers
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In the original version of the script, the events took place in 1956 (not 1958) and "The Hawk" worked at KIBL radio station (not WIXA).
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The character Jenny was called Judy in early versions of the script. As a result, the CBS press release for this episode still had Sarah Drew's character name as "Judy (1958)". The casting sides and the dialog in the episode also reveal that her last name was Monahan. Additionally, John Hawkins' first name was Jim and Lloyd Chester's first name was Ted in the original version of the script.
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This is the third time we see a younger version of one of the main characters. In episode 2-19: Strange Fruit, young Will Jeffries (1963) was played by DJ Wyatt, and in episode 2-23: The Woods, young Lilly was played by Christina Cellner. Now in this episode, we see young Scotty Valens in 1983, played by Allen Alvarado.
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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Det. Jeffries: That was the time of payola.
"Payola" is music industry jargon for the practice of record companies paying radio stations or DJ's to get their music played on air. Although illegal in the U.S., the practice was quite common during the late 1950's. Allan Freed, one DJ named by Lt. Stillman, got his reputation tarnished in a payola scandal.
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Skiz: We gotta talk to "The Hawk".
Bones: Yeah, and I got a date with Jayne Mansfield.Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967) was a 1950's actress and a platinum blonde sex symbol à la Marilyn Monroe.
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Dvd Info
06/12/1269
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