Episode
Nash Bridges: Promised Land
Overview
A people-smuggling ring brings Nash and Joe to the aid of a young man searching for his parents.
Details
- Series
- Nash Bridges
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1996-11-22
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Promised Land is Episode 11 in Season 2 of Nash Bridges. It aired on 1996-11-22. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 10: Hit Parade
Nash and Joe cut a deal with Carlos Casas, a gangland money launderer, offering him a new identity in exchange for his testimony.
Episode 12: 25 Hours of Christmas
It's Christmas Eve, and Nash and his fellow cops are trapped at the SIU as they wrap up a murder investigation and a prostitution case. Joe borrows Nash's 'Cuda to get it detailed and freaks out when the car is stolen; Nash's personal gifts to Lisa and Whitney get mixed-up; personal crises abound as the cops deal with the Christmas holiday.
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Episode 9: Leo's Big Score
Nash is stuck with an eleven year old delinquent who's the link to busting a drug kingpin. Joe is reunited with his grown son J.J. and Nick wreaks havoc with Nash's attempt to find him a live-in nurse.
Episode 13: Road Work
Nash and Joe have a task of escorting a secret key witness from the Witness Protection Program to San Francisco to testify in an important SIU-related case. They fall under gunfire. Nash realizes there's a leak somewhere on the prosecution's team. He enlists the help of Stacy to protect them until he can solve who it is and get the witness safely to San Francisco. Cassidy is stood up for a date and decides to go out with J.J. instead.
Episode 8: Zodiac
After a nearly 20-year absence, the notorious San Francisco serial killer, ""Zodiac,"" returns to taunt Nash as well as haunt Nash's mentor (who has since retired). But is it the actual Zodiac, or just a lethal copycat? Meanwhile, Joe goes undercover as a bike messenger to nab a free-wheeling drug dealer.
Episode 14: Inside Out
Joe goes undercover inside State Prison to bring down a ruthless Mexican gang leader who put out a hit (from behind bars) on a SFPD undercover cop who had infiltrated the Mexican Mafia. Nash runs the investigation on the outside, hoping to fulfill a promise to the dead man's widow by catching the trigger man. Naturally he'll have to overcome the distraction caused by Nick, putting together his will, who discovers some long-forgotten wealth.
Episode 7: Night Train
While coming home from a late night bachelor party, Nash and some of his fellow cops become embroiled in a train heist gone bad on a BART train.
Episode 15: The Counterfeiters
Nash and the SIU uncover a counterfeitering group where the money is top-of-the-line Supernote quality. Moving in to bust the group, they discover a fake SIU gang impersonating the police. Cooperation becomes tense as suspicions abound over who and what to trust. In the interim, as Nick gets in over his head financially with his horse costs, Nash reluctantly agrees to work with Joe on an off-duty case searching for a Super Bowl ring. However, Nash and Joe soon find themselves impersonating a gay couple as the case develops differently than Nash anticipated.
Episode 6: The Brothers McMillan
Nash and Joe trail two brothers who are heirs to a Mafia family. Nash becomes suspicious when he discovers Kelly once had a relationship with the younger brother.
Episode 16: The Web
Nash busts computer hacker/robber, Andy, and discovers Andy's committed the crime because his wife has been kidnapped. The crew of crooks want Andy's hacker skills as their ransom. The SIU must work to save the woman and bring down the crew before their daring daytime robbery is successful. Meanwhile, Nash and Whitney finally consummate their relationship.
Episode 5: Trackdown
A world renowned hit-man has been hired to kill the chief witness in a far reaching drug prosecution. Nash Bridges must stop him. Only problem is, the hit-man turns out to be one of Nash's closest boyhood friends gone bad. Meanwhile, Evan works a stakeout with Bryn and gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a woman living upstairs from their surveillance target.
Episode 17: Knockout
Nash's sister, Stacy, is robbed, forcing her to come out of the closet as a lesbian. Nash deals with his own secret romance with Nick's nurse Whitney. The fallout from these family revelations takes place while Nash tracks down a kinky couple responsible for the robberies.