This episode is lyrical and the music is sensuous. We see a young John Larroquette and Edward James Olmos and a sympathetic portrayal of two hookers. (There's also an office party scene where liquor is being consumed at the station house-- something the police brass and the Kerner Commission would've frowned upon in post-Serpico NYC. ) This episode is gritty and melancholy, kinda like the Pogues's famous Christmas carol, "Fairytale of NY." There's a reminder that all is not calm nor bright this Christmas Eve, and it's hardly a Silent Night.











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