Episode
Nash Bridges: Slam Dunk
Overview
Nash is suspicious of a teen's involvement in a brutal ambush that targeted a pair of lawyers, leaving one riddled with bullets and the survivor barely wounded. Meanwhile, Joe is burdened by an unwanted roommate, and Cassidy begins seeing Rachel's blind date.
Details
- Series
- Nash Bridges
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2001-01-26
Episode context
Slam Dunk is Episode 12 in Season 6 of Nash Bridges. It aired on 2001-01-26.
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Episode 11: Bear Trap
Nash and Joe help a Canadian Mountie track down a ring of poachers who are illegally selling bear gallbladders, which are supposedly valuable as medicine and as an aphrodisiac; Rachel fears she may be pregnant.
Episode 13: Recover Me
Rachel is accused of murdering a man who was helping the police investigate corruption in an accounting firm, but Nash is convinced she was framed; Joe tries to find a ringer to represent the department in an arm-wrestling contest.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Grave Robbers
Nash must resurrect Tony B., who fakes his own death to escape a mob boss, only to discover that Tony's ripped the guy off and has good reason to want to be dead.
Episode 14: Something Borrowed
Nash's former lover Tamara Van Zant forges his name on a marriage license and claims to be married to him in order to protect herself from a thug out to kill her; Nick pretends to be romantically involved with a lesbian friend to deflect suspicion from the woman's son, a high-profile gangster from Philadelphia.
Episode 9: The Messenger
A madman guns down five people in an elevator, but leaves a young news reporter alive. Unfortunately, she's as interested in reporting the story as she is in catching the killer. Also: a woman steals Joe's car and commits a robbery using it.
Episode 15: Out of Miami
Nash and a Federal marshal (Philip Michael Thomas) are taken hostage by a Miami drug lord who wants to exchange them for a witness who's scheduled to testify against him in court; Joe tries to get out of being audited by the IRS.
Episode 8: Blowout
Nash must track down Rick Bettina, who escapes custody during his parole hearing, and recover the $2.5 million dollars in pension money he stole. Joe plays a modern-day Cyrano when the love affair between Dov and Amy abruptly ends, jeopardizing his remodel.
Episode 16: The Partner
Nash hunts for a vigilante who claims he's helping solve crimes by murdering deadly criminals, including a serial rapist; Nash's distant and eccentric cousin, who is also a cop, visits from Scotland.
Episode 7: End Game
Nash tries to stop a deadly game in which participants shoot and kill each other until only one is left alive; a wealthy family's gardener is murdered and Nash starts to fall for a beautiful new investigator working the case.
Episode 17: Blood Bots
Nash goes up against a gang of ruthless techno-geeks who are designing robots to perform robberies. Joe mistakenly sells a painting containing the Declaration of Independence at this yard sale and realizes he must do anything to get it back.
Episode 6: Double Trouble
Nash and Joe discover that someone is using their detective agency's name to stir up business for themselves, and that one of the impostor's clients is out to kill Nash.
Survivor stars from the original season guest star (Dirk Been, Joel Klug, Gervase Peterson, Sean Kennif & Jenny Lewis)
Episode 18: Quack Fever
Nash begins to believe that a 17-year-old boy involved in the Southeast Asian drug trade may be his missing brother's son; Cassidy starts dating a plastic surgeon and considers getting breast implants.