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This episode of McCloud finds Chief Clifford finding yet another place to keep Dennis Weaver out of sight and out of mind. He transfers him to the Mounted Police out in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx figuring that McCloud's western ways won't be noticed among the horses. There's even a visiting sheriff from Arizona there as well.

The captain of the Mounted Police Peter Mark Richman feels his troops are given short shrift so when a robbery of an armory goes down and a lot of weapons are stolen from the Marines, McCloud is in a car that spots them and gives pursuit. The robbers are better armed then the cops and one of the mounted patrol is killed and the sheriff wounded.

Along also in the car is Julie Sommars who is trying very hard to make good as a police officer and she's really asking too much for folks not to notice how beautiful she is. Still she does come through for Dennis Weaver when they do their own investigation.

With the usual bumps that give J.D. Cannon the ulcers he has McCloud once again comes through.

Wouldn't it be great if these guys could once get on the same page?

There ya go.

How long does it take a lawman from Taos, NM to learn about big city police work? Apparently, 7 years. And why does a lawman from Taos, NM even need to learn big city police work? The whole premise of McCloud was dumb but this episode is the most unbelievable plot I have ever seen on television. McCloud gets assigned to the NYPD Mounted Unit training department in Pelham Bay Park. As a NYer I can tell you, that's not where it is located. While there, he sexually harasses a female cop in mounted training, who repeatedly asks him to stop hitting on her and consider her only as a cop; not a female cop. This scene could be used in a sexual harassment training video. I guess it was the time period. How things have changed? Then after getting involved in a chase with bad guys, a cop gets killed and McCloud involves himself and the Mounted Unit trainees in an elaborate undercover sting, complete with McCloud being thrown in jail with a suspect, escaping from custody with the same suspect during a road block superbly acted out by the trainees including fake gun play with blanks in the guns. But it works in getting the female trainee and McCloud in with the bad guys. What utter nonscence!