Episode
Hunter: Payback
Overview
Hunter and McCall try to solve a bank robbery and murder, while attempting to cope with the double and triple-crossing schemes of a small time criminal who once saved Hunter's life and won't let him forget it.
Details
- Series
- Hunter
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1988-12-17
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Payback is Episode 8 in Season 5 of Hunter. It aired on 1988-12-17. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 7: Honorable Profession
Hunter puts his job on the line when he defends a female officer wounded and possibly killed in the line of duty.
Episode 9: Partners
When the husband of a policewoman is murdered, evidence of wife abuse makes Hunter and McCall suspect the woman's patrol partner who knew about the beatings.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished
Mysterious tape recordings accusing a powerful company of illegally dumping toxic waste seem like a prank, until Hunter and McCall find that someone is willing to kill to conceal the truth.
Episode 10: The Pit
The son of an LAPD dispatcher lands himself in hot water when he accumulates gambling debts.
Episode 5: Presumed Guilty
McCall finds her loyalties sharply divided when an important murder case being prosecuted by her lover is jeopardized by Hunter, who thinks the defendant is innocent.
Episode 11: City Under Siege (1)
Hunter and McCall track a pair of killers through a Los Angeles suburb where a crime wave and backlash vigilantism threaten to tear the community apart.
Episode 4: Dead on Target (2)
Hunter uncovers a gem-smuggling operation while investigating his war buddy's death.
Episode 12: City Under Siege (2)
An escaped killer continues to stalk Hunter; a desperate vigilante fights crime in his neighborhood.
Episode 3: Dead on Target (1)
While investigating the apparent suicide of Hunter's friend from the Vietnam War, Hunter and McCall uncover a twenty-year-old betrayal with a rising body count.
Episode 13: City Under Siege (3)
Hunter nabs an escaped convict after a neighborhood vigilante is found dead.
Episode 2: The Baby Game
Hunter and McCall enter the world of baby brokering when they find the murdered body of an expensive call girl, and a two-year-old toddler left unharmed in front of the woman's television set.
Episode 14: Me, Myself & Die
A woman is the prime suspect in a brutal murder case after she stops taking her experimental medication.