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HOOKER'S
PARTNERS
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Dietrich,
Sam |
| episode: |
3.33:
"Walk A Straight Line" |
| portrayed
by: |
Vincent
Baggetta |
| good
or evil?: |
Primarily
Good |
| description:
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Sam
Dietrich is a cop with a problem: he's an alcoholic. When
drinking on the job gets his current partner injured, Sam
becomes the target of Hooker's desperate attempt to help.
Hooker discovers one of the main reasons Dietrich has turned
to drink is his wife's extravagant spending habits. Eventually
Dietrich redeems himself professionally and checks himself
into Alcoholics Anonymous – all with Hooker's help,
of course. |
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| buddy
scale: |
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Senator
Grayle |
| episode: |
5.88:
"Blood Sport" |
| portrayed
by: |
Don
Murray |
| good
or evil?: |
Equal
Parts Good & Evil |
| description:
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Not
an old professional partner, Senator Grayle was the quarterback
of Hooker's college football team. However, his destiny
led to Congress, and also to a bad womanizing habit which
drives his Japanese wife Barbara to hire some Yakuza to
assassinate him. Hooker begrudgingly helps his old friend,
rejecting his offer to work as his permanent bodyguard. |
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scale: |
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Hudson,
Julia |
| episode: |
3.47:
"Psychic Terror" |
| portrayed
by: |
Marcy
Lafferty (née Shatner) |
| good
or evil?: |
Good |
| description:
|
World-renowned
psychic criminal investigator Julia Hudson becomes Hooker's
unwanted partner in an investigation involving the kidnapping
of a wealthy couple's daughter. Hudson's shocking premonition
of Hooker's death becomes her only prediction to never come
true, as Hooker beats fate and solves the case. (Note: Hudson
was portrayed by William Shatner's then-wife Marcy, who
also portrayed Rita Holmes, one of a trio of bandits who
hold Stacy and a seriously wounded Corrigan hostage in a
church in episode 4.67
- "Sanctuary") |
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