Deadlock

Name: Deadlock
Released: 1984-05-12
Cast: Richard Herd, Dennis Lipscomb, Mike Gomez, Clarence Williams III, Adam Postil

Series: T. J. Hooker

Season: Season 3

Episode Number: 22

Air Date: 05/12/1984

Duration: 60 min

On night patrol, Hooker and Romano follow the trail of a pair of graffiti vandals to a department store, only to find the store guard dead and themselves unwittingly stumbling onto a gun robbery from the store's sports department. With their patrol car stolen by the graffiti vandals and the store's phones cut, the pair take on the thieves with no back-up, leading to a gun-fight with the trio of robbers which leaves Romano badly wounded by a gun-blast. Both sides trapped in the confines of the department store floor, the battle of wits climaxes with Hooker and the psychotic leader of the robbers trapped together in a store elevator, in a guns-drawn test of will.