Episode
Silk Stalkings: Friendly Persuasion
Overview
A socialite is murdered and her beautician is the prime suspect. Unbeknownst to Chris and Rita, the beautician's roommate, a manicurist, has been having affairs with clients' husbands. Meanwhile, a new lawyer puts the moves on Chris and irritates Rita.
Details
- Series
- Silk Stalkings
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1995-10-08
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Friendly Persuasion is Episode 4 in Season 5 of Silk Stalkings. It aired on 1995-10-08. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 3: Sweet Punishment
After a pimp is murdered, two of his employees become suspects. Chris becomes involved with one of the suspects, Maddie, a hooker who is raising her teenage brother. Rita begins to doubt Chris's objectivity as he becomes closer to Maddie.
Episode 5: Family Affairs
While in high speed pursuit of a murder suspect, Chris hits a teenager who ran a red light. After the teenager dies, Chris has trouble coping with the accident. He finds himself in trouble with the police department after he pushes a prominent Palm Beach family too hard while investigating the murder.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: The Lonely Hunter
A model is murdered. At the request of Paul Clifton, the model's ex-husband and photographer, Rita meets with him at his home. He puts her in a compromising position when he makes her lunch and takes a picture of her. When this picture is delivered to the police department, Chris and Captain Lipschitz begin to question Rita's ability to be objective.
Episode 6: Tricks of the Trade
A man with connections to a male prostitution ring is found dead. Chris, under protest, goes undercover as a male escort to find the killer. Meanwhile, Captain Lipschitz sets Rita up with his godson, who has a secret to reveal.
Episode 1: Pulp Addiction
A novelist's assistant is murdered. Chris and Rita encounter the deceitful world of publishing when the novelist, Jackie McMillan, and her drunken husband become prime suspects.
Episode 7: Kill Shot
An old friend of Chris' comes to town with a volleyball tour and their relationship begins to intensify. One of the players is murdered and an obsessed fan becomes a suspect until he, too, is found dead. Meanwhile, Chris sets out to buy a new car.
Episode 8: Partners (1)
Unable to hide their feelings for each other any longer, Chris and Rita secretly get married in a private beach ceremony. They try to hide this from the Captain but he finds out and is livid.
Episode 9: Partners (2)
While Lipshitz isn't happy that Chris and Rita went and got married (in a private beach ceremony), he and the rest of the precint decide to throw a surprise shower for them anway and we are introduced to 2 new detectives.
Episode 10: Glory Days
A newly wed Chris and Rita discover they are expecting their first child. Their joy is short-lived, however when Rita is kidnapped. After making what seemed to be a successful ransom drop in exchange for Rita at a skate park, a man dressed in full hockey gear, skates up and shoots Chris mulitple times. Despite the bullet-proof vest, Chris is severely wounded because the bullets were specialized ""cop-killers"".
Episode 11: Till Death Do Us Part
After being shot during a botched ransom drop, Chris goes into cardiac arrest and dies in a very pregnant Rita's arms at the hospital where he's been since the shooting. Meanwhile, Lipschitz and the new team still try to find the man who just took out their star detective.
Episode 12: The Last Kiss Goodnight
Holly goes to Chris and Rita for help after a detective, Ray Quiller, attempts to rape her. Even though the odds are against her, Holly files a complaint with Internal Affairs. After Quiller is murdered, Rita, who has been promoted to Chief of Detectives, must put Holly on administrative leave. After Chris obtains evidence incriminating a drug lord, Rita is kidnapped. The trade of the evidence for Rita ends tragically.
Episode 13: Dead Asleep
The time has come for Sargeant Chris Lorenzo's funeral service. Though offered a very big promotion weeks before by Lipschitz, Rita cannot bear to stay in the same job without Chris. The episode (and era) ends with Rita bidding a tearful farewell to Lipschitz at Chris' gravesite. She walks away and the following week is the official beginning of a new era with new detectives.