#27. CHAPEL OF LOVE: This episode aired on February 14, 1988.
This episode begins with Hanson walking in on Penhall sending out over 200 Valentine's Day cards to all the girls he's ever went out with and Hanson wants to know why Penhall isn't spending Valentine's Day with Dorothy.  Penhall explains that his thing with Dorothy has been going on since they were 14 years old, it didn't work out then, probably won't work out now, and besides that she's spending Valentine's Day with her parents.  Penhall then asks Hanson why aren't he and Amy doing something special for Valentine's Day and Hanson kinda shrugs him off and tells him that the two of them had a disagreement.  Penhall accusses Hanson of being cheap, starting an argument with Amy on Valentine's Day to keep from having to take her out, by her presents, etc and Hanson just flat out says, "I hate Valentine's Day."  Ioki passes through and Hanson and Penhall ask about his Valentine's Day plans and he explains that he's been seeing this girl, but he doesn't think it's serious enough for Valentine's Day.  Hoffs walks by dressed to kill and the three of them ask if she has a date and of course she does, tries not to make a bid deal out of it, and tells Hanson that since it's a school night she'll be home early.  Then here comes Blowfish, whistling, happy as a lark because he remembered for once to send flowers and candy to his wife on Valentine's Day and no he's not going home to a good old fashioned home cooked meal - those flowers and candy bought him the next five hours to play the manly game of poker.  Hanson, Penhall, Ioki, and Blowfish are discussin playing poker since three of them don't have a date and Blowfish doesn't want to go home when Fuller stops by to say goodnight to the gang.  Ioki asks Fuller if he has a date for the big V Day.  Fuller asks so suave about the situation and then firmly says, "NO."  So, there you have it - a typical Valentine's Day for the guys at Jump Street.  Hanson, Penhall, Ioki, Fuller, and Blowfish are ready for a night of card playing, winning, losing, and a bit of man chat.

The card table is set up and the guys are betting, raising, fussing at each other, caller each other compulsive gamblers, bluffers, etc.  Then they all realize that it's Valentine's Day and not one of them has a date.  Hanson remarks that he almost had a date and Penhall reminds him that his date would have been a knock down drag out fight.  Penhall's remarks reminds Fuller of a date he had on Valentine's Day and as he recalls, it was the absolute worst date of his life.  Fuller took his date to a drive in movie to see Tora,Tora,Tora in a convertible car, it rained, they had the top down, he couldn't get the top up, then the car was stolen and it wasn't even his car.  Penhall then chimes in to tell that he had a worse date than Fuller's.  Penhall didn't get a chance to tell his bad date due to the guys throwing in a few chips here and there, making a few raises, showing a few hands of card, and then Blowfish says that he had the worst date of all that changed his life forever.  Blowfish tells that he had this date planned for months and Rosa D'Angelo was his date, and she promised him that on her 16th birthday that they would go all the way.  Penhall remarks, "Poor Rosa D'Angelo", no poor Blowfish.  Blowfish goes on to tell he was like a master at work that night, her father was bowling, her mother was in Philadelphia, and he was making his final preparations.  Blowfish informs the guys that Rosa getting was nervous and feared that her father may come home from bowling early and if her father caught them then he would make them get married.  Blowfish says that he tried to convince her that nothing came in between her father and bowling and that he knew then, because she was stalling, that he had to hurry on her father would be home, but that he did have a friend working a the bowling alley that would call Blowfish and tell him as soon as her father left.   Well, Blowfish's friend ended up having to go mop the floor in the bathroom where some guy had thrown up, Rosa's father got angry at a bowling partner, left the bowling alley, and Blowfish's friend didn't know it until it was too late.  Rosa and Blowfish were getting almost to "that" point when they heard her father pull up.  Blowfish knew he was caught, but caught for what, they hadn't done anything - yet!  Blowfish says that he had half his clothes off, was looking for a place to hide, ran up the steps, hid under her father's bed, and her father comes in the house and goes to straight to bed and then he finds Blowfish under the bed half naked.  So, Rosa's father's brother was a priest and they had to get married the next day at 9am and the irony is that they didn't do anything the night before so his wife was a virgin on their wedding night.

Ioki, through the whole poker game has been acting like he knows nothing about the game, and asks about wild cards, the jacks with one eyes, and that just leads to Penhall trying to tell another story about dating a girl with one eye.  Well, she had two eyes according to Penhall, but she wore a patch over one of them and he presumes that she wore the patch over one of her eyes just for that date with him.  Fuller's getting a bit tired of Penhall's bad dates and tells him to give him a break.  Then Penhall tells the guys that this girl tied him to the mast of her father's sailboat and kept him there for three whole days.  All the guys look at him like he's nuts.  Then, Penhall's frown turns upside down to a big smile as he informs them those days ending up being the best weekend of his life.  Finally, Penhall admits to having at least one bad date or maybe this could count as two - Mary Lou and Betty Sue the identical Fitzgerald Twins.  Penhall goes on to say that he was madly in love or filled with lust and Hanson wants to know which one.  Penhall answers that he was filled with lust, but Hanson wanted to know which twin.  They were identical and Penhall thought they both were gorgeous and he just wanted a date with one of them.  So Penhall meets up with one of them at the supermarket, asks her out, and she says yes.  A couple of days later he calls to make sure that she's still gonna go out with him, it happened to be the other twin who answered the phone and agreed to go out with him and he had no idea that he had a date with two girls, identical twins, on the same night, at the same place, at the same time.  Penhall meets his date (or one of them) at the restaurant, the get a table, and then he runs into his nightmare when he ends up having to go to the bathroom, and the other twin is at the front of the restaurant waiting for him thinking that he was late for their date.  Penhall says that he should have just used the bathroom before he left home.  So, he finally figures out that the twin at the table is his real date that he ran into at the supermarket and the one at the front of the restaurant is the one he spoke with on the phone.  Penhall says that he thought about coming clean about what had really happened, but...  Hanson buts in and tells Penhall that he thought he only wanted one of them and Penhall said that he did, but then he had both of them and just decided to play the devils advocate.  Hanson tells him he was wrong, wrong, wrong.  Blowfish tells him he was stupid.  Ioki tells him he was greedy.  Fuller adds in that he was stupid and a dog.  So Penhall continues with the rest of his story about how he ran back and forth between them, telling one that he needed make a phone call, telling the other that he ran in to an old friend at the bar and had to speak with them, then the waiter catches Penhall in the act and informs him that he'll help him out all he can, but if Penhall doesn't give him a good tip, he will see it as his duty to spill the beans on him.  So the waiter tries to help and comes to the table and tells him he left his lights on his car, but he has a motorcycle, so everything is just going downhill, and he couldn't take the pressure anymore.  He tried to climb out of the bathroom window, stood on the toilet to reach the window, and fell right in the toilet.  So, he goes back to the table with one of the twins who says she needs to freshen up.  The other guys are soaking all this up and Ioki starts talking about horror flicks that you know not to go into the basement, not to go into the attic, and then - all the jump street guys yell out, "Don't go in the bar Penhall!"  But, he does, and the ballgame is over, both twins are standing right there at the bar.  So, Penhall tells the guys that it was a set up, the twins set him up, both of them took him home, and taught him a lesson over and over and over and he needs an honorary degree from Dr. Ruth.  The guys can't believe that he's calling this a bad date, but Penhall says it was a bad date because the twins lied to him and set him up.  Maybe Penhall is just full of it too, he tells the guys he made the whole story up, he's never had a bad date, and it's his turn to deal.

Everyone keeps poking at Hanson to tell his story about his bad date and he keeps telling them that he's not there to tell stories and he's there to play cards.  So the rest of the guys start bugging Fuller to tell his story of the worst date he ever had.  He denied having a bad date, they all look at him like he's insane, and then he admits to having a bad date.  Fuller says that he had the worst, worst date of his life, and it broke up his marriage.  Fuller says that it was a long time ago when he was a patrol man and of course the guys got a good laugh at the bell bottoms and sideburns.  But, Fuller had been assigned a female partner, she was a likable person, and she came on to him from time to time.  Fuller also adds that him just having a female partner was driving his wife crazy.  The guys all wanted to know if his wife had good reason to be jealous and Fuller says no, well not at first.  So Fuller starts making comparisons about Hanson and Penhall's partnership and how they may stop after work and get a meal or something, and Fuller's whole point is that sometimes you spend more time with your partner than with your spouse.  Hanson and Penhall make fun of him, ask each other if they want to go out to get a meal sometime, and then tell Fuller to continue with his story.  So, they were on patrol in a very quiet neighborhood, there were no calls, nothing was going on, and things were boring.  Fuller also adds that he had been married about 7 years, things were sort of rocky in his marriage and not going too well, and his partner begins questioning him about why he stays married if he's so unhappy.  Fuller informs the guys that he explained to his partner that he stayed married because of his son, that his partner told him that wasn't a good reason, and then she asked him to go see a movie with her sometime, and that his partner adds, "you, me, alone, in the dark, you'd like it."  But, Fuller tells the guys that he told her that he'd been in the dark before and wasn't accepting her offer.  Fuller continues and gets to the good part about a night that it was sooooo boring that they couldn't even find a good radio staton, nothing was going on, no calls, nothing, and his partner laid it all on the line to him and asked him to take an EXTRA LONG COFFEE BREAK - which so happened to be at a motel.  The guys really started chasting him.  He tried to defend himself.  Hanson made remarks about him being on duty when this happened and Fuller told Hanson that he's human.  They brought up the fact that Fuller had said his wife had no reason to be crazy over this and Fuller informed them all that his wife was crazy LONG before any of this took place.  So, Fuller and his partner get in the motel, something went down on their end of town, their radios were in the car, they missed a call that they didn't even know existed, and then they were brought up before a review board.  Fuller told the guys that he was asked about what happened the night of the call, that he was sworn in as a police officer, and that he told the truth about where he was, who he was with, what he was doing at the time the call came across the radio and why he didn't respond to the call that came across the radio.  The guys asked him how his wife found out and Fuller told them that after he didn't get a paycheck for 6 months he had to tell her and then he went back to work, came home one evening after a shift, and found everything he owned stacked outside of their house.  Their marriage was over.  Fuller also adds that he wasted over six and a half years of a fairly good marriage and his wife hasn't talked to him since.  All the guys start looking sad and gloomy.  Fuller finally says, "Hey look, nobody died.  My wife remarried - so cheer up.  And, we are playing poker in a church so we're gonna burn for this, so who's in?"  Hanson laughs and everyone gets back in the poker game.  The guys are really into this poker and all of a sudden, a female voice comes through a megaphone shouting, "This is a raid."  It's Hoffs and apparently her date didn't go so well either if she's coming back to play poker with the guys.  Hoffs tells her story about her date being late, his bow ties, and then him expressing his undying love for her singing We've Only Just Begun in a Sushi Bar, not to mention that he can't sing - at all.  So that's Hoff's story.

Then they all start picking on Hanson again to tell his story about the worst date he ever had.  Penhall even goes so far to threaten Hanson that if he don't tell his story - he's gonna sit on him.  Hanson sighs and finally says okay.  Hanson begins his story.  It was a Valentine's Day dance, he was 16 years old, and Diane Thompson had agreed to go with him.  Hanson is really having a hard time telling this story, but he's making it.  Hanson's dad was on patrol that night and his father took them to the dance in his squad car.  They arrived at the dance, discussed the time that he would pick them up, Mr. Hanson seemed to be a great dad and thought the world of his son (sport) Tom, so he agreed that he would pick them up at 1:30am like Hanson had asked.  Hanson was so excited about this dance, thanked his dad for dropping them off, and asked him not to bring his partner (Charlie - remember also Hanson's first partner from the pilot) when he came to pick them back up and Mr. Hanson agreed that he'd drop Charlie off somewhere before picking them up.  Penhall acts like he is asleep as Hanson tells his story and Hanson gets raging mad, gets up from his chair, shoves it back into the table and tells them all to forget it!  Penhall tells him that he was just teasing and Fuller tells Hanson that if he don't want to tell his story that he don't have to.  Hanson paces for a few minutes with this blank stare in his eyes, almost as if he is right back at that dance at that moment in time, tears come to Hanson's eyes, and he lets them know he's okay and he'll finish his story.  Hanson's father is out on patrol with Charlie talking about how great of a kid "Tommy" is while Diane Thompson is dragging Hanson down a back hallway in the school to have some private time with him and lays a big kiss on him.  Hanson's a bit shy about the kiss, but likes it and kisses her back - he's starting to really enjoy the dance with the exception of having to tell Diane that he's not much of a dancer.  Mr. Hanson and Charlie stop at a doughnut/coffee house while out on patrol for a break.  Charlie goes in first, tells the guy behind the counter, Frank, to give them two cups of coffee and Charlie goes to the bathroom.  Frank looks nervous and Charlie asks him what's the matter with him and he nervously answers, "Nothing."  But, something is wrong, bad wrong - the place is being robbed.  Charlie starts toward the bathroom, shots are fired, and Charlie sails through the air.  Mr. Hanson fires a shot into the righ upper shouler of the robber and he turns and fires a shot at Mr. Hanson and Mr. Hanson falls to the ground.  Charlie is alive and moving, but Mr. Hanson isn't moving and doesn't get up from the floor of the coffee hour.    Hanson and Diane are sitting on the steps at the school and Hanson can't figure out why his father hasn't picked them up yet, it's after 1:30am and his father is never late.  Diane tells Hanson that he wasn't such a bad dancer and Hanson tells Diane that she wasn't such a bad kisser and they agreed to go out again, but not to wait until Valentine's Day again.  Finally, a patrol car pulls up, two men get out, but neither of the men are Hanson's father.  Hanson knew immediately what had happened.   Hanson goes on to explain that Charlie is still on patrol, that his father never made it out of the emergency room, that he dealt with this stuff along time ago, Charlie told him all about what happened, and that he is proud of what his father did that night.  Then with tears in his eyes and a tremble in his voice, Hanson adds that he is proud to be able to tell his friends, his partners, the people of Jump Street about it.  Hanson's father was killed in the line of duty on Valentine's Day and that explains why Hanson doesn't like Valentine's Day.

In the end, Penhall informs Hanson that he isn't being fair, that he picked a fight with Amy on purpose because he hates Valentine's Day, and took it out of her.  Hanson denies doing this and Ioki tells Hanson that yes he did do this and Amy is probably still sitting in her apartment feeling bad.  Hanson finally agrees with them and decides to go see Amy and make up with her.  Hoffs tells Penhall, Fuller, Ioki, and Blowfish that eventhough it's after midnight and officially after Valentine's Day, she'd like to buy them a drink.  They all are thrilled and Penhall adds that to a man, it's not the next day until the sun comes up and now they all have dates.  Well, maybe they all have a date (singular because there is just one of Hoffs and four of them), put they'll not be picky.  This is a great episode, the Jump Street Gang really gets close sharing personal information with each other, Ioki didn't have a bad date story to share and doesn't have a whole lot of airtime, but is rather funny to watch as he is either really trying to learn how to play poker or bluffing.  However, this is a very emotional role that Depp plays, has a equal amount of airtime, and is a must see for any Depp Fan.  Overall Rating = 9.5

#28. I'M OK - YOU NEED WORK: This episode aired on February 21, 1988.
This is a really good episode, but there is a lot of time wasted on this story when it could be told in 15 minutes rather than 50 minutes.  Remember Kenny Weckerly from the pilot (Jump Street Chapel), this is a continuation of that saga.  Kenny's father is convinced that Kenny still has a drug problem and needs rehabilitation.  Kenny is signed in to a drug rehab center for adolescents by his father and it's not long before Kenny's father and sister begin to get letters from Kenny talking about how he is being abused in the treatment center.  Kenny's sister goes to Hanson for help.  Hanson is supposed to be going on a vacation, but instead goes to Fuller about Kenny.  Fuller lets Hanson know real quick that he has no business getting involved in this situation and warns Hanson to stay away.  Hanson doesn't listen, goes to a social worker about the situation, and the social worker helps Hanson get in on the inside of the rehabilitation center.  So while everyone at Jump Street thinks Hanson is on vacation, he is undercover as a drug addict at the rehab center.  Hanson finds Kenny at the rehabilitation center and Kenny tells him how verbally and physically abusive the staff at the center are to him.  Hanson tells Kenny that he'll get him out of there, but he has to see for himself how abusive these people are in order to have a case against the center.  That night, Kenny tries to escape, gets stuck in a vent pipe, smothers to death and dies.  The director of the center zones in on Hanson, puts him in leather restraints, and orders for Hanson to be given injections of tranquilizers.  Hanson comes clean with the director and tell him that he's an undercover police officer.  The director thinks that he's delusional and a trouble maker and send him to the state mental institution.  Jump Street finally realizes that Hanson didn't go on vacation, that Kenny is dead, and figures out what he has done.  Fuller and Hoffs go into the rehabilitation clinic to check things out, but can't find Hanson.  The director finally tells then that Hanson was transferred to the state mental institution.  Hoffs and Fuller go immediately and find Hanson tranquilized and barely even knowing who he is.  Hanson got enough information to get the rehab closed for further investigation.  This is a good episode and Depp has a lot of airtime and plays his role well.  This episode deals with a very real issue that is so real it's almost disturbing to watch.  OVERALL RATING = 7.

#29. ORPHEUS 3.3: This episode aired on February 28, 1988.
Hanson begins the episode talking with Penhall about his relationship with Amy, that he's bored, wants to break it off with her, but is difficulty doing it because he doesn't want to be the bad guy.  Hanson even goes into a bid spill as to why the sparks just aren't there anymore and they don't even like the same restaurants.  However, Hanson assures Penhall that tonight is the night and he is breaking his 12 week relationship off with Amy. Hanson and Amy aren't alone in Hanson's mustang 3 minutes until they are engaged in humorous verbal arguments over this, over that, and especially what to do for dinner (Hanson wants burned Hot Dogs and Sauerkraut).  Hanson suggests that they just stop by some mini-mart grab some Hot Dogs and have a quiet night at home, but Amy reminds him that the last time they decided to have a quiet night at home the neighbors ended up calling the police because they were arguing.  Well, they are arguing now too, so Hanson tells Amy that they are gonna go home for dinner and continue their discussion there because he certainly doesn't want the neighbors to miss anything.  They stop at a local convienent mart to grap some snack food to take home.  Hanson is in one aisle, and Amy is in another.  Hanson walks up to the check out counter to set down the food he has selected and Amy is still in another aisle choosing food and sodas.  About the time Hanson sets his food down, a gunman walks up to the counter, points a gun in the cashier's face, then holds the gun to Hanson's head and informs them that if anyone says a word that they are dead.  The robber tells the cashier to empty the register while he points the gun back in his face and Hanson looks up in a mirror to see where Amy is at.  The cashier starts emptying the register and the robber sticks the gun back to Hanson's head.  Hanson sees Amy approaching the counter in the mirror and the robber rushes the cashier.  Hanson keeps looking at the cashier, the robber, and in the mirror to see where Amy is.  The cashier finally gets the cash drawer cleaned out and hands the robber the money.  The robber turns to leave the store, Amy approaches the counter and for the first time sees the robber.  The shock from seeing the robber scares Amy to death and she drops a glass bottle of soda.  When the soda bottle hits the floor and drops, the robber automatically shoots Amy.  Hanson sees all this happen in slow motion and yells, "AAAMMMYY.  NOOOOOO!"  But, it's too late.  Amy has been shot, the robber escapes the store, and Hanson is left without a girlfriend and is an eyewitness to a murder.  Hanson also begins to feel quilty after Amy is shot about even wanting to break off their relationship in the first place.

Hanson returns to work only after a few days and the whole gang is worried about him and really don't know what to say to Hanson.  Penhall asks him if he went to the funeral and Hanson informed him that the funeral is the next week and Hanson immediately asks if he missed anything at work.  Ioki tells him not much and Blowfish informs him that it's been rather quiet.  Hanson asks Penhall what he's working on and it's all Penhall can do to tell him and all Penhall tells him is that he's working on routine locker room, dealer stuff.  Fuller comes out to greet Hanson and expresses his sympathy to Hanson.  Fuller also asks Hanson to come into his office.  Hanson's trying real hard to act as if this whole shooting didn't happen and it's not bothering him, but it's eating him alive.  As Hanson follows Fuller into his office, he yells out to Penhall, Ioki, and Blowfish to see if they want to have lunch and they accept, but they also find that Hanson is taking all this too well, but then again they see it as being typical Hanson - strong.  Hanson goes on into Fuller's office and Fuller wants to know if Hanson really feels like he is ready to come back to work.  Hanson tells Fuller he's ready.  Fuller acknowledges that Hanson looks good considering all he's been through and also tells Hanson that he's not through it all yet because he has to see the department psychiatrist.  Hanson acknowledges that he has to see the department psychiatrist as it's routine procedure for any officer involved in a shooting.  Fuller also tells Hanson that the department wants him to stop by homicide and be interviewed by the officer who is investigating the murder.  Hanson also acknowledges that as well and informs Fuller that there is nothing that he would like more than to see the guy who shot Amy behind bars.  The office is silent for a while, Fuller is worried about Hanson and then tells Hanson that it wasn't his fault, he had no way of knowing this robber would shoot Amy, and he can't blame himself.  Hanson tells Fuller that he knows it wasn't his fault, but that over the past few days he has come to realize that the murder makes no sense, it was a senseless killing, and that no one will ever really know what a senseless killing means until it happens to them.  Fuller tells Hanson again that he is really sorry and instructs him to do see the psychiatrist.  Hanson then asks Fuller if the psychiatrist is gonna make him lay down on a couch and they both kinda laugh.

Hanson follows Fuller's orders and goes to the department psychiatrist.  The psychiatrist talks with him, tells him is routine procedure, and that he just wants to see how Hanson is doing.  Hanson does tell the psychiatrist that he has kept his pain to himself, he knows about pain and mourning because his father died when he was 16, that he doesn't find any consolation in tears, and he'll deal with this thing the best way he knows how.  The psychiatrist then asks Hanson a question that shocks him and wants to know how he is dealing with guilt.  Hanson asks him what he's talking about and the psychiatrist informs him that it's usually normal for a police officer involved in a shooting to feel some type of guilt over what happened.  Hanson is quick to tell him that there is no way he can go back and change anything that happened and that nobody could have stopped that guy from killing Amy in 3.3 seconds.  The psychiatrist gets real concerned and wants to know how Hanson knows that the shooting took place in 3.3 seconds.  Hanson informs him that he viewed the tape of the shooting from the store camera.  The psychiatrist looks even more worried and asks Hanson how many times he looked at this tape.  Hanson replies, "Just once Doc, I'm not crazy."  Hanson follows Fuller's other orders by stopping by homicide to talk to the detective on the case.  They ask Hanson all types of questions about whether or not the guy was on drugs, what he looked like, what his eyes looked like, if he touched anything else besides the money in the store, if he for sure used a 357 gun in the shooting, if the robber was nervous, and if the robber hesitated prior to firing the gun.  Hanson answers all their questions to the last detail reporting that he guy was wired because he could see it in his eyes, but he wasn't on amphetamines because he could have smelled that in his perspiration.  that he only touched the money, he took the money from the clerks hand, turned and fired, the robber used a 357, that had blue steel, regular handle, and 4 inch barrell, and yes the robber was nervous.  When it came down to the investigators asking Hanson about hesitation he became defensive and wants to know what they mean.  All they want to know is if there was an opening, a chance for Hanson to pull his gun, any time that the robber's gun could have been taken, if there was any thing Hanson could have done.  Hanson gets upset and informs them that it went down very fast, the guys gun was on the clerk the whole time with the exception of when the robber had it to his head, and then when he shot Amy and Hanson makes it real clear and tells them that he didn't have a chance in stopping this murder, changing anything that happened, he couldn't have done anything, period.  The investigators realize that they have upset Hanson and apologize and Hanson accepts.  The investigators decide that now would be a good time to take a break.  The two investigators leave the room to get coffee and Hanson stays.  There is a television and a VCR in the room.  The tape of the shooting is in the VCR.  Hanson turns on the TV, starts the tape, watches it over, and over, and over again.  Hanson begins timing the shooting with his watch and always comes up with 3.3 seconds.

Hanson manages to get a copy of the tape and takes it home with him, along with a stop watch.  Hanson watches this tape over and over and over again.  Hanson becomes obsessive and compulsive with all the things in life that can be completed in 3.3 seconds.   Hanson  falls asleep watching the tape and dreams about the shooting, dreams about shooting the robber, and even dreams about the things in life that can be done in 3.3 seconds.  The psychiatrist becomes so worried that he goes to Fuller and tells him about the tape of he shooting and wants to know how Hanson got his hands on it.  Fuller had no idea that Hanson had that tape, but he wants to help Hanson in anyway possible.  The psychiatrist asks Fuller for names of friends that the psychiatrist can talk to and tells Fuller that he may even need to talk with him to really help Hanson.  Fuller informs the psychiatrist that he will get a list of Hanson's friends for him as soon as possible.  Meanwhile, Hanson is hanging out at the Homicide office wanting to know every detail, every piece of information, any progress made in catching this guy.  Hanson even comes in with information on other store robberies in the area and wants to know if they think it's the same guy.  The investigators are getting frustrated, especially with Hanson's asking to check the report every three hours, and coming up with new information such as a patch on the guys jacket, but the investigators inform Hanson that he's already told them this same information, and told them about the jacket just yesterday.  Hanson then asks the investigators if either one of them knew that a person can take all the pepperoni off a slice of pizza in 3.3 seconds.  The investigators sort of look stunned and look at each other as if Hanson has lost his mind.  Hanson then tells them that 3.3 seconds is a long time, they asked him if there was anything he could have done, and he then tells them that he could have taken all the pieces of pepperoni of a slice of pizza.  So Hanson is off trying to figure out all the things he can do in 3.3 seconds while the robber is out playing pool and hustling young kids at playing billiards and refusing not to pay them.  One of the kids gets upset over the robber not paying him and spouts off to the robber who takes him off in a corner, shows him a mole on the right side of his stomach, tells the kid his father has that same mole, and then puts a 357 gun to his head.  The robber then hands the kid his $20 that the robber owed him and asks him to play another game of pool with him.

Everyone, especially Penhall, is really worried about Hanson.  Hanson comes into the chapel and Penhall tries to talk to him.  Penhall makes a statement to Hanson about he and Amy breaking things off, then Amy getting killed, and offering to be there for Hanson if he ever needed him because he must be going through hell.   Hanson flat out tells Penhall that he didn't break up with Amy, he loved her, and that they were getting along great.  Ioki over hears the conversation and remarks to Penhall how weird Hanson is acting and asks if they should tell Fuller.  Penhall denies that they need to tell Fuller and tells Ioki that Hanson just needs some time.  The robber is back at the pool hall when one of his friends shows him a newspaper and tells him that he's famous.  The robber is in all the newspapers, not his name or face, but he is just known as convienent's killer, and he is now famous.  The robber takes offense to this and tells his buddy that he wasn't anywhere near the convienent store that was robbed and someone got killed the night before and decides to call the police and tell them because he's tired of being blamed for every robbery and/or murder in the city.  The robber does call police - the homicide department - talks to one of the investigators on the case and informs him that he was the guy that that blew that chic away last week (referring to Amy), but that he was no where near Lombard Street the night before where a store was robbed and someone was killed.  The robber then tells the investigator to get his facts straight and hangs up on him.  The investigators calls out to his partner over the phone call while the robber's buddy tells him not to be messing around with the police because the girl he shot last week - her boyfriend was a cop.  The robber laughed, didn't believe him, and made the statement that if her boyfriend was a cop, where was his gun.

Hanson is back at his apartment watching the tape of the shooting and flipping through mugshots from the department when there is a knock on his door.  Hanson ignores the knock at first - or tries to - but the knock gets louder.  Hanson finally goes to the door and it's Hoffs.  Hoffs asks if she can come in and Hanson tells her no.  Hoffs quickly tells him that she's coming in, that she's got some movies that she brought, and the two of them are gonna watch them.  Hanson really doesn't want her or anyone else around right now.  So, while Hoffs is trying to force Hanson to watch movies, the robber is at it again, but this time he's tied up the cashier and is demanding that he open the safe.  The cashier informs the robber that he can't open the safe, he doesn't know how to open the safe.  The robber puts that gun in the cashier's face and the cashier tells the robber that he doesn't have the combination to the safe, the owner didn't give him the combination to the safe for his own protection, but the robber insists on having the safe opened.  Hanson's fell asleep watching movies with Hoffs and is dreaming again about shooting the robber.  He wakes up suddenly in a cold sweat, but Hoffs is still with him and demands to know what is wrong.  Hanson notices that the movies are off and music is playing and Hanson demands to know what Hoffs has done.  Hoffs tells Hanson that he fell asleep during the movie so she turned on some music.  Hanson wants to know where the tape of the shooting is and Hoffs tells him that he's sick watching that tape of his girlfriend getting killed.  Hanson wants to know where it is and Hoffs informs him that she is taking the tape back to the department.  Hanson goes to Hoffs purse and pulls the tape out and puts it in the VCR.  Hoffs wants to know where he got that tape because it's police evidence.  Hanson informs her that he's a police officer.  Hoffs asks Hanson what else could he possible see on this tape that he hasn't already seen and promises him that it's the same ending everytime.  Hoffs then asks Hanson how many times he has seen that tape and he tells her that he's seen it 122 times, but that he doesn't watch the whole tape - just 3.3 seconds of the tape.  He then tells Hoffs that 3.3 seconds slipped through his fingers; 3.3 seconds where he could have done a thousand differnt things, but that he didn't move.  Hanson asks Hoffs if she knows how many things that a person can do in 3.3 seconds and before she has time to answer, he says, "You can take off your shoes, pop a beer, and shoot someone in 3.3 seconds."  Hoffs says, "Come on Hanson."  Hanson continues and says, "You can hold your finger down on the remote control and pass 17 stations in 3.3 seconds.  You can open a can of tuna fish, shuffle and bridge deck of cards,or twist the tops off 6 bottles of ginger ale in 3.3 seconds."  Hoffs gets upset and tears come to her eyes and she says, "Hanson Please!"  He continues, "You can ring a door bell 22 times, lock and unlock a dead bolt 4 times, or sing the entire alphabet in 3.3 seconds."  Hoffs is really crying and screams, "HANSON PLEASE! Please."

The next day Hoffs goes directly to Fuller about Hanson's bizarre behavior, but Fuller already knows about it.  Fuller asks Hoffs just exactly what she wants him to do and she asks Fuller to push the investigation a little harder.  Fuller reminds Hoffs of how many murders have been committed in the city that year and that 12 have been committed since Amy was shot and that the homicide team are doing all they can.  Fuller then asks Hoffs how bad Hanson really was and Hoffs tells Fuller that Hanson was really bad, his place was a mess with empty beer bottles, empty whiskey bottles, and that the only thing clean in his whole apartment was his gun.  Fuller sends Hoffs to the psychiatrist to tell him about Hanson's behavior.  Hoffs isn't the only one that goes to the psychiatrist to talk about Hanson, but Ioki and Penhall go see the psychiatrist also.  Hoffs and Ioki are open about Hanson's behavior, that he's acting very weird because he's the most dedicated cop they know, but Penhall is nervous, doesn't want to talk or want the psychiatrist to write anything down.  So while Hoffs, Ioki, and Penhall are at the psychiatrist, Hanson is back at homicide wanting to know about the phone call they got from the guy.  Homicide tells them that all they know is that the call came from a pool hall because they could hear balls hitting in the background, but there are 55 pool halls in the city, and the investigators tell Hanson to just ease up.  Hanson gets angry and informs them that they have had this case for days and are getting no where and they are telling him to ease up.  Hanson makes it real clear to Homicide not to tell him to ease up.  Hanson's not gonna ease up, but it looks like the robber's buddy is gonna make a mistake by trying to sell a stolen car phone to a police officer who busts him and takes him to jail.  So since the robber's buddy, Darrell, doesn't want to be in jail, he tried to make a deal at the police station and tells the cops that he knows who the convienent store killer is.  They don't believe him at first, but then they believe him when he tells them that he knows the guy who killed the cop's girlfriend.  The cop who busted Darrell asks him where this guy lives and he tells him that he doesn't know, but that he knows where he hangs out.

While the police are trying to get info from Darrell, Fuller decides to make a stop over at Hanson's apartment.  Hanson doesn't want him to come inside, but Fuller makes it clear that he's coming in.  Fuller tells Hanson that he came by to see what kinda shape he was in and all he is seeing is complete chaos.  Hanson tells Fuller that he's in mourning, but Fuller doesn't buy it and tells Hanson that he knows that he didn't go to Amy's funeral.  Hanson tells Fuller that Amy's funeral isn't until the next week and Fuller lets Hanson know real quick that Amy was buried three days ago.  Fuller tries to befriend Hanson in a tough way to make him come back to reality and tells Hanson that he didn't even know that Amy was buried and that Hanson didn't love Amy either.  Hanson tells Fuller that he's wrong and that he loves her, that he did love her, he was trying to break up with her, but that he did love her.  Hanson then opens up and tells Fuller that all he can think about is if he had driver a little slower, taken a different street, agreed to go to the restaurant Amy wanted to go to, if......5 minutes either way, they wouldn't have been at that store.  Fuller tells Hanson that he can't blame himself.  Hanson says, "I should have done something.  The guy turned his back on me.  Now if I had done the right thing, I could have saved her."  Fuller tells Hanson that every day, every person on this planet does something they wish they could take back, but it doesn't work that way  and that Hanson has to leave it behind.  Hanson informs Fuller that he can't and Fuller tells him that he has to let it go, nothing can bring that moment back, and that he has to bury the dead.  Hanson says, "I can't just let her go like that.  I need something."  Fuller asks Hanson what he needs and Hanson tells Fuller that he needs to know that the job is being done and that even if he didn't get the guy, that somebody will.  Fuller replies, "Somebody will."  Hanson wants to know what he is talking about and Fuller tells him that he's not talking about anything.  Hanson asks Fuller not to do this to him because he knows that Fuller knows something that he's not telling him about it, asks Fuller to tell him because he needs to know.  Fuller acknowledges to Hanson that he does have some information, but he's gonna feel real stupid if he tells Hanson about it and he hits the streets looking for revenge.  Hanson replied, "I won't.  You got my word."  Fuller tells Hanson that before all of this his word would have been enough, but if Hanson betrays him then things will never be the same between them.  Hanson tells Fuller again that he won't do anything and begs Fuller to tell him what he knows.

Fuller obviously tells Hanson what he knows because the next thing you know, Hanson is walking into a pool hall that looks just like the one that the robber called the police station from.  Hanson walks around the pool hall making sure he gets a good look at everyone.  The suddenly he spots the guy, the robber comes out of the bathroom and Hanson knows exactly who he is.  The robber knows who Hanson is too.  Hanson takes off running after the robber and they both run out into the street with a couple of guys that were in the pool hall behind them.  Hanson chases this guy through the street, into back alleys, then there is gunfire and Hanson falls to the ground.   Hanson is hit in the left shoulder and the robber climbs over a dumpster and continues to fun.  The guys who were in the pool hall run up to Hanson, pull their guns on him, and tell him to freeze.  They are cops and then they recognize Hanson as being a cop.  Hanson is hospitalized after being shot and is dreaming again, but this time his dream is not about him shooting the robber, but about Amy getting shot and this time about getting shot himself also.  When Hanson is released from the hospital, he goes to the pool hall and makes some gun to chin contact with Darrell.  He informs Darrell that he wants to know where his guy lives and if he don't tell him then he swears that he'll pull the trigger.  Darrell tells Hanson that he don't know where he lives.  Hanson then asks Darrell where the robber is at and cocks his gun.  Darrell then tells Hanson that the robber is doing a job and Hanson wants to know where the robber is right at that specific moment in time.  Darrell tells Hanson that the robber is doing a job at a liquor store and tells him where the store is.  Darrell then asks Hanson if he's really a cop and Hanson replies, "I used to be."  Hanson goes directly to the liquor store and catches the robber as he runs out the door.  Hanson calls the department for back-up and tells the department that he's a plain clothed officer in pursuit.  Ioki received the call and tells Fuller that a call came in about the robber and the call came from Hanson.  Hanson chases the robber on foot to the boat docks and there is gun fire in all directions.  Hanson's shoulder is still hurt from his previous gunshot wound and he is bleeding, but that doesn't stop him - he is still in pursuit.  The robber climbs on a boat and thinks that he's lost Hanson only to stand up and find himself looking at Hanson and straight down the barrel of Hanson's gun.  The robber has a gun himself, but Hanson says to him, "Drop your gun.  You got 3 seconds."  Hanson starts counting, "One...Two (cocks his gun on two)"..., then the robber drops the gun.  Hanson never takes his eyes off the robber and never uncocks his gun, not even when his back up arrives to place the robber in custody.  It is only when the robber is being taken away that Hanson uncocks his gun.  Fuller shows up about that time to tell Hanson that he got him, he did a good job, that he did everything the way a good cop is supposed to, and asks Hanson if he got back that 3.3 seconds.  Hanson's answer, "No."   In the end, Hanson is finally able to come to terms with Amy's death and visit her grave.  He takes flowers and places them at he head stone that reads:  Amy Pearson:  1964 - 1988.  Hanson then slowly drops to his knees in front of her grave.  Maybe he did love her.    This episode speaks for itself and is one of my absolute favorites.  Johnny Depp plays through every emotion he has in this role and it's the perfect episode for any Depp Fan.  OVERALL RATING = 10+

#30. CHAMPAGNE HIGH: This episode aired on March 6, 1988.
This episode begins with an porsche being raffled off at a local mall and all these teens around waiting on their chance for a key that may start the engine of that new porsche.  A young girl gets a key, no luck, the key doesn't start the car, they'll all get another chance - or will they.  When the mall closes that night, someone breaks into the mall, and drives the porsche through the glass doors of the mall.  So now Jump Street has a car theif on their hands and a case to solve.  Penhall offers his services immediately to Fuller on the case because he filled out 2500 tickets for that car and feels as though it's righfully his.  But, there is just a little bit more to this case than meets the eye.  Seems that due to overcrowding in the South Central School Systems ang now they have integrated teens from South Central into the luxurious West Side High.  Hoffs is already on a case at West Side investigating some petty theft cases.  And now, Fuller is putting Hanson and Penhall on the car theft case at the West Side High School to try to collect some evidence on the case since some of the South Central students are over at West Side.  Fuller also makes it a point to inform Hanson and Penhall that these South Central kids are getting their first shot at a real education and he doesn't want to see that snatched from them because some kid, rich or poor, decides to take a joy ride in Penhall's porsche.  Hoffs sort of laughs at them and tells them that they better come up with a good cover because she hears that those boys from West Side High can be pretty tough.  Hanson and Penhall already have their cover figured out - THE McQUAID BROTHERS.

Hanson and Penhall are dressed as The McQuaid Brothers at the bus stop picking and poking at each other.  They get on the bus and the bus driver asks where their pass it at.  Penhall informs the bus driver that his dog ate his pass and Hanson pats the bus driver on the head and informs the bus driver that they have the same dog.  The bus driver informs Hanson and Penhall that if they don't have a pass, they can't ride the bus.  Next thing you know the bus driver is thrown off the bus, Penhall is driving the bus, and Hanson is informin the whole bus that The McQuaid Brother will be driving them safely and soundly to their destination, they'll be traveling at speeds between 40 and 140 miles per hour, and asks that the students on the bus to just kick back and enjoy the ride.  While Penhall is driving some of the students in a bus to school, a kid named Drew is talking with his father about a scholarship and turns down and offer from his father to give him a ride to school and decides to walk to school.  On Drew's way to school, he stops by a storage facility to change clothes.  His father isn't real wealthy which is why they are talking about scholarships and Drew really doesn't fit in with the crowd, especially with the clothes he had on, so he changes into some designer clothes and walks on to school.  Hoffs gets a ride to school with some rich kids she is investigating.  Seems as though they all get to school safely and definitely make it to Algebra class.  The teacher starts asking questions about algabraic equations and Hanson and Penhall decide to show their knowledge or should I say lack there of in algebra.  The teacher asks Penhall to do an equation for him and Penhall tells him that he'll pass.  Then Penhall decides to come up with an equation about a guy ripping off car stereos, having to deliver them to different places, and then asks how long will it take this guy to deliver his car stereos.  Hanson chimes in wanting to know if all the car stereos this guy is ripping off are coming from cars in the same lot.  The class laughs and then the bell rings.  Hanson and Penhall are fitting right in to this school, especially with the South Central students.  As Hanson is walking out of the classroom, one of the West Side High students makes a comment about his bandana and remarks to Hanson that he has a nice hat.  Hanson pulls down the boy's leather jacket, rips the pocket off his shirt, stuffs the pocket in the boys mouth and says, "Nice Shirt."  Everyone but Drew has left the room and he is discussing his exam with the teacher.  Drew feels as though his test was graded unfairly because he got the answer correct.  The teacher isn't going to argue with him because the teacher realizes that Drew got the answer correct, but that he used the wrong formula, so his grade stands asan 87.  So Hoffs is off trying to solve her case while a guy named Ricky is doing all that he can to be a real nice guy and get Hoffs to notice him while all the other rich kids, especially Lane, are teasing him because he works at a pizza stand.

The McQuaid Brother's decide to have some lunch in the school cafeteria and observe some South Central students really harrassing a rich geeky kid named Wally.  Wally is in big trouble with these guys, they take his money, give him wedgie's, and have him running all over the cafeteria screaming for help.  Hanson and Penhall notice the leader of the pack teasing Wally and don't like it, but they can't blow their cover, so they still have to act tough.  The call the guy from South Central, Sawyer, over to the table where they are eating their lunch to talk to business with him, let him know that they are interested in making some easy money, stealing, theft, etc.  Hanson and Penhall are really hoping that this guy will spread the word around.  While Hanson and Penhall are working their end, Ioki informs Fuller that the West Side division of the police department had just called and they had busted a kid for shoplifting.  Fuller doesn't seem real surprised and acts as if he doesn't care until Ioki informs him that the kid that was busted just happened to wearing a $10,000 Rolex.    The kid that was busted just happened to be Lane, they guy who was teasing Ricky about his job at the Pizza place.  Fuller takes Lane into interrogation and finds that Lane stole a pair of expensive sunglasses and Fuller wants to know if he stole the Rolex also.  Lane comes clean and informs Fuller that he did steal the sunglasses, the Rolex is his father's, and that his family is wealthy.  Fuller then asks Lane about his BMW car and how it would compare to a 944 Porshe.  Lane gets real smart with Fuller, smiles,  and tells him that he knows that he's gonna have to pay a little fine for shoplifting and then he'll go back to living the lifestyle the Fuller only dreams about and either Fuller can let him go or he'll just wait for his father's attorney to arrive.  Fuller sort of laughs and informs Lane that if he was his kid, he wouldn't be smiling for a week.  Lane gets even more arrogant and tells Fuller that if he was his kid, he would be living in a house the size of his game room.  Fuller goes back to the chapel to inform Hanson, Penhall, and Hoffs about Lane and all the shoplifting that has been going on.  Fuller isn't sure that Lane is the actual shoplifter and won't know about the Rolex watch until Lane's father gets back into town.  Apparently, whoever is doing all the shoplifting isn't trying to make a proffit on it because it hasn't come up on the reports as being resold.

Back at school poor Wally is being harrassed again by these guys from South Central, Sawyer especially.  Wally gets stood on his head and the guys take $50 from him, but let him know that they are gonna give him a little bonus today and skip the wedgie.  Hanson and Penhall see these guys taunting Wally again and Penhall walks right up to Sawyer and asks him what Wally ever did to him.  Sawyer  thinks that Hanson and Penhall are wanting to take their action for them, meaning Wally, and tells them that Wally is his action.  Hanson and Penhall were thinking more like making this guy their action.  At lunch, Wally walks up to Penhall and makes him a business proposition.  Wally tells Penhall that he'll pay "The McQuaid Brothers" $25 a week to keep the guys from South Central off of him and be his bodyguards.  Penhall tells him no way and Wally ups the price to $40, then $75, and tells Penhall that's all he can afford because $75 dollars is his allowance for the week.  Then Wally tells Penhall that his father owns a stero store and he can get him stuff for free if he wants it.  The wheels are turning in Penhalls brain right now.  Wally continues to beg and is really begging when Hanson walks up to the lunch table.  Wally walks away very disappointed.  Hanson hadn't heard any of the conversation and asks Penhall what it was all about.  After gym class, the guys from South Central have picked Wally up, fully clothed, and are taking him to throw him into the showers.  Sawyer is walking backwards with Wally and runs into someone.  He doesn't look back at the time and tells whoever is behind him to move.  When he does look back, he realizes that he's probably in trouble - it's Penhall.  Penhall tells Sawyer to put Wally down, Sawyer mouths off to Penhall, and Penhall tells Sawyer that he must want to see what the inside of his own neck looks like.  Sawyer has a change of heart and puts Wally down.  Sawyer tells Penhall that what they are doing doesn't concern him.  Penhall informs Sawyer that it does concern him because Wally is The McQuaid Brothers' new friend and from now on they are gonna shake Wally down.  Sawyer says, "Like hell you are."  Penhall gets a real disgusting look on his face, his voice gets real deep, and he yells, "TOMMY!"  Hanson appears.  Sawyer informs Hanson and Penhall that the two of them are beginning to get on his nerves.  Bad, bad mistake.  Hanson and Penhall throw Sawyer out of the locker room with just a towel around him, lock the door, everyone is in the hallway, and while Sawyer is beating on the door trying to get someone to open it - his towel drops.  Looks like Sawyer is the geek of the day now.  After all the action in the locker room, Drew finds his algebra classroom empty, goes into the room, and changes his grades by making them higher grades.  Hanson and Penhall are ready to meet Sawyer after school, but not for a fight.  Sawyer walks out and Penhall invites him over to meet their friend Harry (Ioki - who is posing as a buying for stolen goods).  Hanson and Penhall ask Sawyer if he wants to make some money and Sawyer doesn't know what they are talking about.  Hanson informs Sawyer that Harry turns stolen goods into hard currency - money!  Ioki then tells Hanson, Penhall, and Sawyer that if anyone has any leads on the stolen Porsche that he already has a buyer for the car and whoever gives him the info gets a 10% finders fee.  So Hanson and Penhall have put the word out.

Drew is walking home from school when Lane in his BMW with Hoffs stops and asks him if he wants to go out with them tonight.  Drew agress to go with them, but refuses an offer for a ride home.  Drew informs them that he would rather walk home, but he'll meet them laater.  Drew gets home from school only to find that his father went through his school stuff and found his algebra test grade of 87.  Drew is upset and asked his father why he went through his stuff.  Drew's father informs Drew that as long as he lives under his roof that he doesn't have any "stuff".  Drew's father is very angry about the 87 grade and wants to know when Drew was planning on showing it to him.  Drew tries to explain to his father that a one time grade of an 87 isn't gonna hurt him.  Drew's father is so tangled up in all this scholarship and scholastic achievement stuff that he makes it real clear to Drew that these universities out there aren't gonna give money and grants aways to just anyone.  Drew tells his father that he doesn't think that the colleges are gonna do that.  Drew's father becomes angry and makes reference to Drew being a "B average student who uses the word gonna is his vocabulary."  Drew tells his father that he is not a B student.  Drew's father informs him that the algebra test is an embarrassment to him and that he wants him studying and hitting the books.  Drew pleads with his father and tells him that he'll be back in an hour that he just wants to go out with his friends for once.  His father becomes angry and tells Drew that he didn't move Drew into the West Side School District so he could learn how to talk back to his father, that these people aren't his friends, all these so called friends of his are dragging him down, and his father makes it real clear that he doesn't want to hear another word come out of Drew's mouth.  Drew's father then begin to beat Drew severely and all that is heard is Drew's pleading for his father to stop.

Lane and Hoffs' went out on the town without Drew.  Lane gets into Hoffs' car and finds a diamond necklace that was left for her.  Hoffs' is stunned because the diamond necklace is from Ricky and she knows that he doesn't have the money to pay for it.  When Hoffs gets back to the chapel, she is teased by Penhall and Ioki about the necklace.  Then Fuller informs her that it's real gold and diamonds, worth about $450, and it doesn't appear to be stolen.  Hanson then comes up with the idea of sending a couple of uniformed cops into Ricky's house.  Fuller looks at Hoffs and informs Hanson that they can't send a uniformed cop into Ricky's house without a search warrant.  Hoffs knows that Fuller is wanting her to go into Ricky's house and check things out.  Hoffs informs Fuller that she doesn't think that what Ricky gave her was meant as a friendship gift and she doesn't want to go see him and lead him on.  Fuller tells her not to lead him on, to go see Ricky, tell him that he has misjudged their situation, and while she is there - check out his place for stolen property.  Fuller then informs Hanson, Penhall, Ioki, and Hoffs that they can't rule out anyone at this time and maybe they need to put together a little sting operation, lay out some bait, and see who bites.  Penhall knows just the guy who can help them - Wally.

The next day at school Sawyer and his crew are really roughing Wally up in the boys bathroom.  They rip up his clothes and find under his shirt that Wally has a whistle around his neck.  Sawyer makes fun of him and asks Wally if he's gonna be a gym coach when he grow up and then Sawyer blows the whistle himself - bad mistake.  The door to the boys bathroom opens with a loud bang, there stand Hanson and Penhall (The McQuaid Brother), and they make their entrance with their infamous - "HELLO!"  Penhall asks Wally is he whistled and then Hanson tells two of Sawyer's buddies to go away.  The two other guys leave the bathroom and Penhall walks up to Sawyer and makes it real clear that he told him that Wally is theirs.  Sawyer is confused and tells Hanson and Penhall that he thought they were in business together.  Penhall informs Sawyer that they are, that they turn him on to their friend Harry, and he signs Wally over to them.  Sawyer doesn't think that's okay and wants to keep Wally for himself.  Penhall asks Wally if Sawyer and his guys roughed him up.  Wally shakes his head yes.  Hanson smiles.  Sawyer is again thrown out into the hallway with only a shirt and his underwear by the McQuaid Brothers.  Hanson, Penhall, and Wally are still in the bathroom and Hanson informs Wally that it's payday.  Wally is thrilled, pulls out his wallet, and informs Hanson that it's no problem.  Penhall informs Wally that they don't want his money - they want lunch.  Actually, they want lunch at Wally's house to check out his father's books from his stereo store to see when another big shipment is gonna be going through.  Wally is freaking out and tells Hanson and Penhall that his father would die if he knew they were in there and that he's not even allowed in his father den to look at the books.  Hanson has already found something though - a delivery going out that day a 5pm with a whole truckload of CD Players.  Wally really freaks and asks them please not to rip of his Dad's store.  Penhall tells Wally to relax that they are really undercover police officers.  Wally is either really a geek or the McQuaid Brothers cover is too good because Wally's response to that is, "Yeah. Right!"

The phone rings at Drew's house around lunch and he is still in bed.  Lane is calling him to see why he didn't show up for school and also to tell him that he missed his History Mid-Term.  Drew tells Lane that he just felt like blowing his mid-term off.  Lane invites Drew to have lunch with them, informs him that he has reservations at a fancy restaurant, and Drew accepts the invitation.  Drew gets out of bed, opens the curtains in his room, and his back and shoulders are black and blue from where his father beat him the night before.  Drew can hardly move from the beating because he is so sore and this is the very reason he didn't show up for school.  Hoffs goes over to Ricky's to thank him for the gift and check things out.  Hoffs tells Ricky that he shouldn't have bought her something so expensive.  Ricky informs her that it's okay because he has a job at the Pizza Place.  Ricky tries to kiss Hoffs and she stops him.  Hoffs is trying to explain to him that she thinks that he is a great guy and everything, but that he has really misunderstood their friendship.    Hoffs tells Ricky that she really likes him, but just not in the way he is wanting.  Hoffs tells Ricky that she hopes that they can still be friends which really upsets Ricky.  He tells Hoffs that he hates it when a girl says that to him.

Everyone has met back at the chapel and Fuller wants to know if everyone has been tipped off about the CD delivery.  Hanson informs him that they did everything with the exception of announcing it over the PA system at school.  Fuller tells Hanson and Penhall that things are in place, ready to go, and the three of them are gonna go see who swallows the bait.  Hanson and Penhall are hidden well when the delivery truck arrives.  Things seem to be going smoothly until they spot a guy with a black ski mask running up to the truck and ripping off CD Players.  Hanson and Penhall radio to Fuller for them to move in.  Two police cars surround the thief and uniformed cops jump out of the cars.  The thief runs.  Hanson and Penhall have to move in themselves even if it means blowing their cover.  The walk toward the thief in their McQuaid Brothers' get up and flash their badges.  Fuller pulls the ski mask of the thief - it's Ricky.  Fuller takes Ricky to interrogation and asks him why he did this.  Ricky tells Fuller that he has no idea why he did this, stupidity maybe.  Ricky also tells Fuller that he's never stolen anything in his life.  Fuller then asks Ricky about Sawyer and if he'd come into some money lately or a new Porsche.  Ricky tells Fuller that he doesn't know anything about that Porsche being ripped off and that he swears that he was at home the night that happened.  Fuller tells Ricky that he's not asking about him, he's asking about Sawyer.  Ricky tells Fuller that Sawyer talks big, but he wouldn't rip off a car.  Then Ricky tells Fuller that he tried to rip off those CD Players for the money to try and impress some girl.  Ricky tells Fuller that he's never done anything like this before and he never will again.  Ricky swears to Fuller he'll never do anything like this again and begs him to let him go.  Fuller knows that the girl he was trying to impress is Hoffs.  Hoffs is angry about the entire situation and feels like they all set Ricky up to rip off the CD Players.  Hoffs informs Fuller that she gave him the motive and Hanson and Penhall shoved the opportunity by telling everyone about the delivery right down his throat.  Hoffs feels like Ricky was an innocent kid until they went in and started manipulating his life.  Hoffs wants to know what's gonna happen to Ricky and Fuller tells her that he'll be charged for what he has done.  Hoffs wants to call the assistant district attorney and help Ricky because Jump Street was wrong and an innocent guy took the bait.  Fuller informs Hoffs that he'll see what he can do.

Hoffs leaves Fuller's office.  Hanson and Penhall rush in Fuller office and inform him that they just got a call from someone to set up a meeting with Ioki (their friend Harry).  Fuller asks if it's Sawyer.  Hanson informs Fuller that the call came from Drew Wilder.  Hanson and Penhall go with Ioki as the McQuaids to meet Drew at an old storage facility.  Drew opens the door to the storage facility and there are hundreds of stolen electronics, TVs, CD Players, etc. right in front of their eyes.  Also, there is a new red Porsche and Drew is real proud of stealing it.  Drew tells Hanson that he never really thought about selling the stuff until now.  Hanson asks why he stole it and Drew informs him that he stole it to get money for college because he doesn't think that he'll get a scholarship.  Drew looks at Ioki and ask him what he thinks that he can get for all this stuff, including the car.  Ioki is slick, reaches into his jacket, flashes his badge, and says, "Just off the top of my head, I'd say three to five years."  Drew almost passes out and looks to Hanson and Penhall for help.  No help there - Hanson and Penhall flash their badges. Drew knows that he is busted and in big trouble.  Drew is taking back to the chapel and his father is called to the chapel.  Drew's father is outraged and really giving Drew a tongue lashing.  He wants to know why Drew did this and Drew tells him that he doesn't know.  His father then brings up the fact that the clothes he bought him weren't good enough and he had to steal clothes to fit in with his friends.  Drew tells his father that he just wanted people to like him and his father informs him that he didn't make sacrifices for Drew for him to worry about being liked.  Drew tells his father he's sorry and his father tells him he'll know what sorry is when they get home.  Drew asks him what is he gonna do - beat him again.  Drew's father continues to degrade his son and threaten him.  Drew tries to tell his father that he has potential and tries to be a good son, but if he brings home a 98 test score then his father wants to know what happened to the other 2 points.  Drew is in tears because he can't please his father no matter how hard he tries.  Fuller, Hanson, and Penhall are really picking up on what's going on and they are not happy with the situation.  Fuller walks up to Drew's father and informs him that bail has been posted and his son is free to go.  Fuller is really worried about letting Drew go with his father when Mr. Wilder tells Drew that they'll finish their discussion when they get home and Drew says, "You mean you'll finish it."  Fuller tells Drew's father that he might ought to give some thought to what his son has been telling him because it sounds like Drew is under a lot of pressure.  Drew's father tells Fuller not to tell him how to raise his kid.  Drew walks by Fuller and says, "Yeah, he's doing such a great job on his own."  Drew's father hits him and shoves the back of his head and tells him to come on because they are leaving.  Fuller informs Mr. Wilder that he's over the line and Mr. Wilder tells Fuller that unless disciplining his son is a crime then Fuller is over the line.  After Drew and his father leave, Hanson, Penhall, and Fuller are real worried.  Penhall says that he's starting to get this really bad feeling and Hanson agrees and says, "Like Mr. Wilder isn't going to be satisfied just grounding Drew."  Hanson and Penhall decide to take a little ride out to Drew's house.  They find Drew on the front steps of his house in tears.  Penhall is asking Drew if he's okay and Hanson immediately runs into the house.  Hanson is searching every room while Penhall is asking Drew where his father is.  Drew tells Penhall that his father is in the house and that he told him not to hit him, he told him a bunch of times not to hit him.  Penhall rushes into the house to find Hanson who hasn't found Drew's father yet.  Hanson and Penhall both are searching the house when Penhall turns around and yells out to Hanson to call an ambulance.  He's found Drew's father.

Back at school, Sawyer wants to make a deal with Wally so he can get the McQuaid Brothers off his back.  Sawyer tells Wally that he's not gonna always have the McQuaids to hide behind and he'd like to call a truce with Wally.  Wally asks Sawyer if he means that he'll stop harrassing him if he gets the McQuaids to leave him alone.  Sawyer says yeah that's what he means, he figures that Wally has enough problems just being the biggest dweeb in school, and wants to know if they have a deal.  Wally tells Sawyer that he doesn't think so, that he kinda likes the situation the way it is, but he'll let Sawyer know if anything changes.  About that time, Hanson and Penhall meet up with Wally out on the school lawn.  Wally is thrilled that they are there and asks them if they want to go see a movie with him.  Hanson and Penhall tell Wally that they have some bad news for him, that they are moving again, and their old man (father) got a transfer.  Wally is shocked and says, "Transfer?  You can't leave.  I'm sorry but that just won't be possible"  Hanson and Penhall inform Wally that they can't protect him for the rest of his life and that he needs to learn how to take care of his self - how to be a man.  Hanson tells Wally that they salute him and walk away.  Wally is terrified and screams out, "SAWYER!"  Wally is ready to call a truce now.  This episode is great as all The McQuaid episodes are.  There is a lot of Depp airtime and this episodes deals with many, many issues in life, especially child abuse.  OVERALL RATING = 10

#31. BROTHER HANSON AND THE MIRACLE OF RENNER'S POND: Aired on March 13, 1988.
Hanson goes undercover at a local high school where science books are being burned in a act of rebellion against the teaching of evolution in the class room.  One of the teachers in the school objects to the evolution theory and refuses to teach the subject.  The topic of evolution leads to a division among the city's population. The teacher who refuses to teach evolution has strong reason not to teach the subject.  The teacher believes that his son is a living miracle and takes religion to a new level.  The son had a fatal accident that took his life, but he didn't remain dead and came back to life. The son had fallen through some thin ice on a pond, his body temperature went way below normal, was actually pronouced dead, but his body temperature was able to be brought back within normal range, and the kid regained consciousness and possibly/probably life.  The father and son are so engrossed about this probable miracle that the son is unable to live a normal life.  It's possible that this is a pure miracle from the Almightly, but also could be modern medicine.  Hanson, in trying to solve the arson case, finds himself having to also assist in helping this boy find his life and get it back.  In the end Hanson solved the arson case and the young boy has regained the life he lost. OVERALL RATING = 5.

***DISCLAIMER:  This is another episode in which I do not wish to indulge on a website. There are too may debates between creation and evolution, debates about religion and modern medicine, and I do not wish to express any of my personal feelings or opinions on this matter.  This is a direct summary from the episode of 21 Jump Street and does not reflect the beliefs, views, and/or opinions of A Fan's Page for Johnny Depp, 21 Depp Street, or myself.  Anyone wanting a further dertailed episode guide on this episode can contact me at Deppfan@aol.com***

#32. RAISING MARIJUANA: This episode aired on April 17, 1988.
This episode contains very little if any airtime for Officer Tom Hanson (Johnny Depp).  Our key players here are Hoffs, Penhall, and Ioki.  There is a very charming, but just as dangerous man who is running a major marijuana ring and hiring young teenagers in high school to drive 18-Wheelers to transport the marijuana.  Hoffs is sent in undercover to be somewhat of a love interest to this young, soft spoken, fair skinned, and fair headed man who is still a young boy at heart who is overcome with wealth money and drugs.  Then, Ioki and Penhall are sent in undercover in the local school system to investigate the action going on there, get close to some of these kids that may be driving the trucks for this man, etc.  The only thing is that Ioki and Penhall go undercover as brothers, twins to beat that, and dress and act like the biggest geeks in the world.  This man all but confesses his operation to Hoffs and Penhall and Ioki are able to get some guys to tell them about their "midnight runs" and get them in on the action.  A bust is made, this major drug ring is brought to a close, case solved.  The episode is fairly worth watching, but not really worth sitting through if Johnny Depp is what you are wanting to drool over.  There are some very funny moments with Penhall and Ioki as twins and if you are a 21 Jump Street Fan in general, you may find it enyoyable.  OVERALL RATING = 3.5

#33. BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE: This episode aired on May 1, 1988.  Brad Pitt guest stars in this episode.
Hanson and Penhall are in the bushes together in the beginning of this episode.  They are scoping out a house that Jump Street has set up to catch a theif who is robbing empty houses.  Hanson and Penhall have been undercover at a school to catch this thief, put the word out about an empty house, and are standing by to call in for back up when the theif approches the house.  Penhall doesn't quite understand why they need so much back-up but Hanson lets him know that the last time they almost caught this guy, the cops chased him through all the backyards in that neighborhood and couldn't catch him.  The theif definitely knows the neighborhood.  Penhall asks Hanson if he wouldn't rather be working on a real case.  Hanson thinks this is a real case because there have been 20 houses robbed in three weeks adding up to a total of stolen goods of $14,000.  Hanson spots someone with his binoculars.  The guy pulls into the driveway of the empty house, runs over the trash cans, and gets out of the car stumbling around.  Penhall asks Hanson who it is and Hanson tells him that it's Walker Stephenson.  Penhall is shocked and tellls Hanson that he likes Walker and that Walker is in his biology class.  Walker goes up to the door of the house, breaks out the glass in the door, and walks in the house.  Penhall mentions to Hanson that this can't be the actual thief they are trying to catch because he doesn't fit the profile of wearing black and slithering into windows of these house rather than breaking out the glass in the doors.  Hanson and Penhall realize that if Walker is a burgular, he's the worst they have seen, and he's drunk, pickled drunk.  They both know that Walker is not the catburgular that they are looking for and since Walker has ended up in this house, the guy they are waiting for - the real thief - he's not gonna show up now.  Hanson radios to Ioki and tells him that an unexpected guest arrived at the house and in order not to blow their cover at school for Ioki to move in on Walker to make an arrest.  Hanson then tells Penhall that this is too bad because he kinda liked Walker.  Penhall looks at Hanson and repeats himself again by telling Hanson the he liked Walker too and he is in his biology class.  The two of them split from the bushes as Ioki and all the back up move in to arrest Walker.

Walker shows up at Taft High School the next day with a black eye and a grim look on his face.  His friends are joking around with him at lunch about him having a party and not inviting them.  Walker's sister tells all his friends that he spent the night in jail and his friends get an ever better kick out of it.  Walker tells all his friends that they can drop dead.  Hanson and Penhall are sitting at a nearby table in the cafeteria of Taft High School discussing this case.  They both know that Walker is not the catburgular and they are starting to believe that Jump Street has been set up.  Hanson gets up and goes to talk to Walker.  Walker is real upset over going to jail and Hanson tries to console Walker by telling him that he's been to jail 3 times, it's no big deal, and asks Walker what he was doing at that house anyway.  Walker becomes more upset and asks Hanson how he knew that he was in jail.  Hanson tells Walker that it's common knowledge because it's all over school.  Walker tells Hanson and the rest of his friends that they all just don't get it, that whatever he does from no on doesn't matter because he and his life are screwed up.  Walker gets up from the table and leaves.  Hanson sits down at the table with Walker's friends and his sister and tells them that he didn't mean to ruin Walker's lunch.  Walker's sister, Diana, tells Hanson that things are really bad for Walker right now and he won't even talk to her.  All of Walker's friends ask Hanson if he has really been to jail 3 times.  Hanson tells them that yes he's been to jail.  They all aggravate Hanson about going to jail and not bringing them anything.  Hanson sarcastically tells them all that the next time he goes to jail that they can all go with him.  Hanson and Penhall go back to the chapel and Ioki meets them at the door.  Ioki tells them that Fuller is on the phone and they better talk to him.  Hanson and Penhall take the call and Fuller informs them that Walker Stephenson, the guy who stumbled into their stakeout the night before was found dead in his living room with a hunting rifle between his knees and a note on the table - Walker killed himself.  Hanson and Penhall hang up the phone and look at each other in complete shock and disbelief.

The next day at school, Peter (Brad Pitt), one of Walker's friends is trying to convinve the principal of the school to lower the flag to half mast in honor of Walker's death.  The principal refuses to lower the flag because Walker killed himself and informs Peter that lowering the flag to half mast is for heroes.  The whole school then has to go to the auditorium where a psychologist is talking to them about suicide, Walker's death, and that none of them can ever hold themselves responsible for Walker's death.  Penhall looks over at Hanson and tells him that Walker is responsible for him having to sit through all this crap.  The psychologist goes on to explain how many people will kill themselves, how many will try, and that most people don't want to die, but they are crying for help.  He also goes on in an effort to console the school that it's okay to feel whatever they feel about Walker's death because it's not like he was killed by being hit by a car, but that he made the decision to take his own life.  He tells the school that it's okay to talk about it, it's okay to be pissed off about it, it's okay to be mad and that he's gonna be around for the next few days if any of the students want to talk to him about Walker's death, suicide, etc.

Hanson finds himself to really be affected by Walker's death and goes to Fuller to talk to him about it.  Hanson asks Fuller, "Why does a 16 year old kid kill himself?  What could be SO wrong at 16?"  Fuller tells Hanson that there's no easy answer that he can give him.  Hanson tells Fuller that he's not looking for an easy answer and the he really feels like he was the one that pushed Walker over.  Fuller asks Hanson if he really believes that and Hanson doesn't have an answer for him.  Fuller asks Hanson what he wants him to say.  Hanson turns to Fuller and says, "How am I supposed to do my job?  We bust kids all the time.  They don't go around killing themselves.  And I can't go around worrying about the next kid I bust is gonna put a hunting rifle into his mouth or hangs himself in his parents' backyard."  Fuller tells Hanson that he's not fighting him on this issue.  Hanson tells Fuller that he knows that he's not fighting him, that he's sorry, and all he is doing is tryig to figure out why this kid died.  Hanson looks at Fuller with a very sad face and says, "I kinda feel like I helped kill him."  Hanson then goes on to say that he doesn't understand any of this, these are good kids at this high school, they're not too rich, they're not to poor, and that school is like All American High.  Hanson then asks Fuller, "What place could this kid get himself into where he thought suicide made sense?"  Fuller just doesn't have the answers for Hanson.

Hanson goes to Penhall's apartment dressed up for Walker's funeral.  He walks into the apartment to find Penhall boxing and is sort of shocked.  Hanson asked Penhall why he's not dressed and Penhall asks Hanson, "What am I, boxing in the nude?"  Penhall then asks Hanson why he is so dressed up.  Hanson tells Penhall that he's going to a funeral and so is Penhall.  Penhall looks at Hanson and says, "Yeah, who died?"  Hanson reminds Penhall of Walker's suicide and death and Penhall sarcastically asks Hanson to give him a break.  Hanson gets a little edge do him and tells Penhall that these are people that they know and tries to convince him to go to the funeral.  Penhall tells Hanson that school is out for the day because of the funeral and he is off from work since school is out and he's not going to the funeral.  Hanson asks Penhall what is his problem.  Penhall tells Hanson that he doesn't have a problem, walks over to a plant at his apartment, picks a flower off of it, hands it to Hanson, and tells him to toss it on Walker's grave for him.  Hanson looks at Penhall in disgust and says, "Wow."  Hanson leaves Penhall's apartment and when Penhall hears the door shut he continues to punch on his punching bag, but it's not just regular boxing - something is wrong with Penhall.  Hanson goes to Walker Stephenson's funeral while Penhall reads the entire police report on Walker's suicide and death.  After the funeral, Hanson asks the psychologist from the school to come to Jump Street to talk to him, Fuller, and Penhall.  Penhall comes to the chapel with a chip on his shoulder and is upset to find the psychologist there.  He asks Hanson why he's there because he thinks that this will blow their cover.  Hanson informs Penhall that the psychologist is a doctor and he asked him to come to the chapel and talk to them.  The psychologist talks to them about suicide and Penhall continues to make wise cracks.  Hanson asks the psychologist why Walker killed himself and Penhall makes a remark that Walker was a loser and that's why he killed himself.  Hanson give Penhall a very sharp look.  The psychologist goes on to explain that suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents and there are many reasons why the kill themselves like: trouble at home, trouble at school, drugs and alcohol, getting in trouble with the law, etc.  He goes on to explain that these teens end up alienating themselves, find something as permanent as a gun lying aroung the house, they have problems, and they feel that suicide is the only way to solve the problems.  Hanson makes a comment that if that's what Walker thought then he was wrong and the doctor agrees and tells Hanson that they know that, but Walker probably didn't because teens have problems with identity and they get real confused along the way.  The psychologist goes into a story about a 15 year old girl that he was treating who recently killed herself by overdosing on a bottle of anti-depressants.  Penhall jumps in and sarcastically asks, "She killed herself on anti-depressants.  What'd she do - chuckle herself to death?"  Hanson and Fuller both shoot Penhall a sharp look.  Penhall jumps up and admits that what he said wasn't funny, but may this girl was so happy that she exploded.  Hanson really gives Penhall a mean look and asks him if he's done.  Penhall says in realation to his comment about being so happy and exploding, "Ha, ha, ha - Boom!"  Hanson's really mad now and screams out at Penhall, "SHUT UP!"  Penhall takes it personally and leaves.  Fuller apologizes to the psychologist for Penhall's behavior and tells the doctor that Penhall has a strange sense of humor.  Hanson tells the doctor and Fuller that Penhall's humor isn't funny and that's what is strange about it.  Penhall goes to the locker room, Hoffs is there also, and he asks her if she has ever thought about killing herself.  Hoffs tells Penhall that sure she has thought about it and feels like that everyone has thought about it.  Penhall slams his locker shut and says, "Not me!"  Penhall is really acting strange and even goes home to tell Dorothy jokes about suicide that she doesn't find funny at all.  Penhall gets mad when Dorothy doesn't think he's funny and starts screaming at her and degrading her.  She gets so angry that she leaves the apartment.

Walker's friends all gathered together after the funeral in a sort of party in his remembrance.  Hanson and Penhall both attend.  People are asking Hanson if Walker ever talked to him about killing himself and then one of Walker's friends says something that catches Hanson's attention.  Walker's friend asks everyone what did they expect from Walker after Ditmar and Beckman.  Hanson asks about Ditmar and Beckman and was informed that Johnny Ditmar and Roger Beckman were two teens at Taft High School that recently died too by killing themselves.  Hanson is listening carefully as all these people talk about the different stories that they heard about the deaths of Ditmar and Beckman.  Penhall walks up and tells everyone that he loves these rumors and makes a wise crack about hearing that one of them got carried off by a giant vulture.  Hanson is not impressed with Penhall's remark and neither are Walker's friends.  Hanson walks around socializing and finds two girls talking while one is carving a tattoo on the forearm of the other one.  Hanson notices the tattoo, but he also notices scars on the girls wrist.  She explains to Hanson that she had a bad day, cut herself to see if she would bleed, that she thought about suicide a lot, and pretty much everyone she knows has thought about it.  Hanson doesn't understand and tells them that he doesn't get it.  They tell him that it's like giving people notice to let them know that they are seriously in trouble and it really has nothing to do with dying.  Hanson's still searching for answers while Penhall continues to walk around and make wise cracks.  Finally, Peter has had enough of Penhall's mouth and tells him that if he doesn't have anything good to say that he can either shut up or leave.  Penhall chooses to leave only to go back to his apartment consistently punch his punching bag out of anger and clean his gun.  Penhall is really struggling with this suicide and is going through a lot of emotional pain, but he won't let anyone know about it.

Hanson takes the stories of Ditmar and Beckman back to Fuller and the psychologist.  Hanson pulls Ditmar's file and finds that Johnny Ditmar who killed himself 6 weeks ago walked in front of a train and it wasn't reported as a suicide, but an accident.  Hanson wants to know why.  The psychologist and Fuller both explain to him that no one wants to admit that suicide exists, the parents lie, the medical examiners lie, and that if all the accidents were really looked into, suicide would be the number one cause of death among adolescents.  Fuller tells Hanson that he can remember a time when Walker's death would have been written off as a hunting accident even though he was found in his own living room.  The psychologist then tells Fuller and Hanson that maybe these deaths have really affected these teens.  Fuller asks the psychologist if he's saying that suicide is contagious and that is exactly what he is saying.  Hanson is disturbed by this thought and tells both of them that he doesn't get it.  The psychologist explains that when one person kills themself that it opens a door up for others to follow.  Hanson tells them about the party the night before, the tattooing, superficial scars on people's wrists, and all these teens talking suicide.  The psychologist explains to Hanson that these teens are forming a bond with each other by this death, a relationship, and that's why they do this.  Hanson wants to know what he's supposed to do because he feels like a lot of these teens who are talking suicide could really do it.  The psychologist tells him not to avoid the subject of suicide and death, to talk about suicide directly, and get these teens to people that can help them.  Hanson asks if there isn't supposed to be signs or something that he's supposed to look for when a teen is planning on killing themself.  The psychologist gives Hanson a list of signs to look for such as hostile behavior, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity, etc.  The psychologist tells Hanson that the best thing he can do is just listen because what these teens need is someone they can talk to.  Penhall walks into Fuller's office and Hanson remarks to him that it's nice of him to show up for work in a very sarcastic manner.  Penhall asks Hanson if they were discussing the case of the student catburgular.  Hanson and Fuller look at each other and then back at Penhall.  Penhall tells Fuller that Suicide High ain't no case and he ain't working on it no more.  Fuller tells Penhall that he's on this case until he tells him he's not on it.  Penhall lays a file on Fuller's desk and informs him that the kid who was breaking in to all the houses was caught the night before, he was involved in a stolen goods sting operation, and that he transferred out of Taft High School just a few week ago which is why they weren't able to track and catch him.  Penhall then tells Fuller that this kid confessed, there is no longer a case, he's caught up on his paperwork, and is taking a personal day.  Both Hanson and Fuller are getting concerned about Penhall.

Hanson goes back to Taft High School.  The kids have a lot of mixed feelings about Walker's death, some hate him, and some miss him.  Hanson's sole purpose in going back is to listen, to help these kids, and try to prevent another suicide.  Hanson goes and sits down with Walker's friends and the girl, Vicky, who was getting the tattoo and talking about killing herself at the party.  She is really the only one who is talking about having nothing to look forward to, hating school, and hating life.  Hanson really picks up on Vicky's pain and makes it a point to talk to her privately.  She continues to tell him that she's down and out and has nothing.  Hanson tells her that he's been there too, but that it doesn't last and that she has to find something to look forward to.  Hanson tells her that he always tries to find something to look forward to.  Vicky tells Hanson that she's looking forward to just getting out of here somehow.  Hanson asks her if that's it, that's all she has in her whole life that she's looking forward to.  Vicky gets angry and tells Hanson that she doesn't have anything to look forward to and that she doesn't want to talk to him anymore.  Hanson gets up and follows her.  Hanson tells her that lately all he's been able to think about is suicide, maybe not his, but that he's been talking to that doctor a lot, that it makes him feel better, and he's explained a lot of stuff to him that makes sense.  Vicky asks Hanson how this doctor could possibly know anything.  Hanson must have had the right answers because Vicky goes with Hanson to the doctor and talks to him.

Penhall is taking his personal day and is listening to opera which is very unlike Penhall.  Hanson knocks on the door and wants to know what Penhall is listening to and he tells him it's opera.  Hanson tells him that he was in the neighborhood and stopped by to tell Penhall that he's wrong and has been acting like a jerk.  Penhall informs Hanson that he should have just called and told him that so he could have hung up on him instead of having to throw him out of his apartment.  Hanson gets angry and tells Penhall that he has a big problem, that he's self centered, and doesn't care about anybody except for Doug Penhall.  Hanson also tells him that he had the opportunity to help someone that was hurting today while Penhall is sitting around listening to opera.  Hanson tells Penhall that he doesn't even know what's going on.  Penhall walks away from Hanson and tells him that he knows more about suicide than Hanson ever will.  Hanson tells him that all he knows about suicide is making stupid jokes.  Penhall is getting very upset and shaking his head.  Hanson grabs Penhall, shakes him, and screams, "What is wrong with you?"  Penhall screams back, "Hey!  My mother killed herself when I was 6!  I've known about suicide every moment of everyday since then."  Hanson looks shocked and disturbed, but offers himself to Penhall.  They go outside and Penhall talks to Hanson about what happened with his mother's suicide.  Penhall tells Hanson that he was 6 years old, the cops were there, he really didn't know what had happened, but he knew something was wrong and he thought they were taking her to jail.  He goes on to tell Hanson that at his mother's funeral that he walked around with his shoes untied the whole time because he wouldn't let anybody tie his shoes - his mother used to tie them for him.  Penhall talks about when he would stay at the playground all the time because he didn't want to come home and see that his mother wasn't there,that his father had to come and get him, that his father couldn't kill himself so he just drank himself to death.  Hanson tells Penhall that he's really sorry.  Penhall says to Hanson, "I've never really brought this up before.  I wanted to tell you.  I'm sorry, it's just been real hard."

After talking to Hanson, Penhall finds that he can't sleep, jumps on his motorcylce and races it as fast as he can down the road.  Hanson goes back to the chapel and talks to Fuller about Walker and this suicide thing.  Hanson tells Fuller that it's like a one in a million chance that all the wrong things are gonna line up for you, like seven motions in your life that are bad and you can't handle, so if you take one motion, one bad thing away from someone then they'll be okay.  Fuller acknowledges that Hanson has being doing some thinking about this.  Hanson tells Fuller that at first it was so important for him to know why Walker died, but he's never gonna know, ever.  Fuller asks Hanson if he's gonna be able to live with that.  Hanson replies to him by saying, "Yeah.  The best I'm gonna know is that I'm never gonna know.  That's gonna have to be okay."  Dorothy walks in the chapel while Hanson and Fuller are talking and asks them if they have seen Penhall.  Dorothy tells Hanson that she called home and he didn't answer, she went home and he wasn't there, and then she called the chapel and he wasn't on a case and she's worried about him.  Hanson knows exactly where to find Penhall.  Hanson goes to the playground and finds Penhall, tells him that people are looking for him, that Dorothy is worried, and that he needs to call her.  Penhall tells Hanson that he has something that he wants to tell him and that is that he tried to kill himself when he was 8 years old by drinking a bottle of vanilla extract.  Hanson says, "That's kinda cute."  Penhall tells Hanson that it wasn't meant to be cute because he really meant to kill himself.  Penhall also explains that his mother was an alcoholic, hard to be around, that he thought maybe she killed herself because he didn't lover her.  Hanson reminds Penhall that he was 6 years old when this happened.  Penhall tells Hanson that when people leave, you think funny things and make a lot of deals with God.  Penhall further explains that he used to eat all his vegetables because he knew that's what his mother would want and he wanted to make her happy up in heaven, that he didn't talk to his father for months because he thought that would bring her back, that if he was a real good boy then his mother would come back, but she didn't come back and that's the reason he's difficult sometimes.  Hanson tells Penhall that he's sorry and Penhall asks Hanson what he has got to be sorry about.  Hanson tells Penhall the he is his friend and he should have seen his pain and asks Penhall if he's seen or talked to someone about this.  Penhall tells Hanson that he dealt with this a long time ago, that he doesn't need to talk to anybody, and he's only told this because he thought it would help Hanson.  Penhall then asks Hanson if he's got the weasels to ride with him on his motorcycle.  Hanson smiles and Penhall tells him to get on because he has to help him eat Dorothy's terrible meatballs.  Hanson  gets on the back of Penhall's motorcycle and they ride off.
The episode ends with Hanson going to visit Walker's grave while Penhall goes to a group for people who's family has killed herself.  The therapist asks if anyone has anything to say and Penhall says, "Yeah.  I wanna talk.  My mother killed herself when I was 6."  This episode deals with a very important issue among the entire population, not just adolescents.  The viewer is also able to see the strong bond that is between Hanson and Penhall and just how great their friendship really is.  Depp has a lot of airtime and this episode is one to take very seriously.  OVERALL RATING = 10

#34. COREY AND DEAN GOT MARRIED: This episode aired on May 8, 1988.
Depp is only seen in the very beginning of this episode in one scene. This episode focuses on the partnering of Hoffs and Penhall who travel cross country to bring back a teenage girl. The two teens, Corey and Dean, had traveled away from their home to get married. Corey's father forbid their marriage, a fight broke out, Corey's father was dead, and Dean was accused of the murder. At the church, when Corey and Dean are getting married, police raid the church. Dean runs, but Corey is picked up. Penhall and Hoffs are sent to bring Corey back to town. Penhall and Hoffs encouter some trouble when Dean appears. In the end, the Jump Street Program finds that Dean was beaten by Corey's father and Corey was actually the one who killed her father and not Dean. Dean was taking the wrap for Corey. Hoffs and Penhall are able to bring both Corey and Dean back to the city and justice is served. This episode, for a Depp fan, is very boring. Depp's air time probably doesn't even equal to 1 minute. OVERALL RATING = 3.

#35. SCHOOL'S OUT: This episode aired on May 22, 1988 (reaired in July 1988).
Fuller shocks the Jump Street gang by informing them that the Jump Street Program will not be operative during the summer break while school is out. Fuller explains that the case load for Jump Street will be low while scool is out and the city can't get funding to keep the Jump Street program open during summer break. Hanson is working on his last case before school break by being undercover at a local high school to catch a toilet bomber who is putting M80s in the toilet and blowing them up at school. Fuller finds out that the Jump Street program has been diprioritized, the city may not have the money to fund the program in the fall, and Jump Street may end up shutting down. The Jump Street gand ends up having to look for summer jobs that may become permanent.

Hanson ends up getting more than he expected. While trying to find the toilet bomber, Hanson stumbles across a young teen, in which he befriends, who tells Hanson that he has no home and is living in the boiler room of the school. Hanson believes the young teen's story about having a mother who is an alcoholic, being toted back and forth from family members to family members, and not having any where else to go.  Hanson then happens to find out that this teen is an escapee from a juvenile detention center.  Hanson confronts the teen about his escape and his belief that he may be the toilet bomber.  The teen admits to escaping from the juvenile detention and explains to Hanson that he escaped because he wanted to get an education and his high school diploma.  He also tells Hanson that he was put in juvenile for stealing a car, but that Hanson has to believe him when he tells him that he is not the toilet bomber.  Hanson struggles with the right thing to do.  Hanson goes to Fuller with his concerns and asks Fuller to give him a few days before he arrests the teen so the teen can graduate high school and get his diploma.  Fuller tells Hanson to call the teens probation officer late in the day so he won't be in his office, when the probation officer returns the call the next day Hanson is instructed not to take the call, and if by some chance the probation officer answers the phone when Hanson calls  him late in the day, for Hanson to just  hang up on him.  Hanson and Fuller buy enough time for this teen to graduate and get his high school diploma.  On graduation day, Hanson finds the real bomber in the bathroom with explosives and makes an arrest.  The episode ends with Hanson doing the right thing, as usual - the young teen gets to graduate, the toilet bomber is arrested, but all isn't well within the chapel.

There is a sadness among the Jump Street gang.  Jump Street may not continue in the fall and all the officers realize that this may be the end and they may never work together again.  Penhall takes a position with the intelligence division of the police department and Hoffs takes a public relations position within the police department.  In the end, the whole gang assemble in a circle and the episode comes to a close with the infamous Jump Street handshake.  The end credits roll with Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson, and Sal Jenco singing "See you in September". Depp is on guitar guitar and back up vocals.  The closing credits for this episode are fabulous.  The viewer is not only able to hear Johnny's talent but see him in action too.   OVERALL RATING = 9.