Season 5, Episode 10: The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall

Drama • TV-14 • Directed by: Hill Street Blues • 49 minutes

Furillo bucks public opinion when he arrests a crafty old woman who set a trap for a hispanic thief -- And then shot him to death. He soon feels the heat when he books the woman, the mother of a powerful and antagonistic city councilman, for the coldblooded slaying. Also: The blues are confronted with the weighty problem of extricating a grossly corpulent hood who expired in a downstairs holding cell; While undercover, belker is taken prisoner, beaten and humiliated by a band of bums; And davenport argues for psychiatric lock-Up on behalf of a deranged man who tried to set his wife on fire.