Episode
Stingray: Blood Money
Overview
Ray helps the principal of an urban high school prevent a gang war from erupting.
Details
- Series
- Stingray
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1987-04-10
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Blood Money is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Stingray. It aired on 1987-04-10. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 11: Cry Wolf
Ray gets drawn into a case of a drugged-up TV star, Ty Gardiner, who tries to hire him despite Ray's misgivings. Turns out Gardiner's name and celebrity were used by his unscrupulous partner to rip off both the Mafia and the Yakuza. Now that the partner has disappeared, Gardiner is left holding the bag with both sides trying to kill him, and the Feds looking for him as well. Ray's attempts to negotiate the matter aren't helped by Gardiner, who fancies himself the big dramatic hero that he plays on TV. Ray manages to set up both the Mafia and the Yakuza to shoot it out with each other, using Gardiner as bait so that he isn't wanted by the Feds. In the subsequent shootout Ray and Ty both end up in hospital beds, with Gardiner hatching another nutty scheme.
Episode 13: Anytime, Anywhere
Ray travels to Vietnam where an exploding bomb blinds him, hindering his search for a statue which can provide clues to the whereabouts of American MIA's.
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Episode 10: Night Maneuvers
Ray goes undercover as an instructor at a military academy to help a student who witnessed his classmates commit murder.
Episode 14: Caper
Ray must rescue the father of a Soviet defector who is being held captive by the Russians in the hold of an ocean liner.
Episode 9: The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived
Ray helps a man by going undercover as a dock worker at the dock where his father was killed in a suspicious accident.
Episode 15: One Way Ticket to the End of the Line
Ray comes to the aid of a crop duster pilot who gets caught in the middle when two rival marijuana growers insist that he poisoned the other's fields.
Episode 8: The Neniwa
Ray attempts to resolve a dispute between a land developer and Indians who claim the proposed building site is on sacred ground.
Episode 7: Autumn
Ray ends up in real trouble when he gets involved in a fantasy case made up by an author who needed an idea for his book.
Episode 6: The First Time is Forever
After a TV reporter who Ray refused to help is killed, Ray decides to find out what the man was working on.
Episode 5: Echoes
An artist, a former client of Ray's, is getting threatening calls from a stalker who Ray helped her out with, years before. In fact, the guy apparently died during his final encounter with Ray the last time around. The trail leads to a relative of the first stalker who is trying to get revenge.
Episode 4: Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
A rather dimwitted garage worker and his criminal buddy steal $700,000 from a Mafioso who launders his money through the garage which he owns. The garage worker's sister is concerned that her brother is going to blow it: he doesn't seem to realize that quitting the day after you rob your boss and going crazy spending the money on coll stuff is a bad thing. She contacts Ray, who pretends to be another dimwitted crook and tries to get the two criminals out of trouble. The brother's buddy tries to double-cross them, and eventually despite Ray's best efforts to work things out, the sister is killed by the Mafioso Godfather. Her brother is left to mourn, as Ray warns him that he'll have to repay the favor his sister owed him.
Episode 3: Playback
Ray recreates a space isolation experiment to try and clear an old friend of murder charges which stem from the fact he was the sole survivor of the first experiment.