24 Accidental TV Finales That Worked as Series-Enders

http://www.avclub.com/articles/dont-slam-the-door-on-your-way-out-24-a ccidental-t,58085/2/

Not sure I agree with them, but at this point I find myself thrilled whenever the show is mentioned at all, sooo...

21. Crime Story, “Going Home” (May 10, 1988)

This retro action epic wasn’t everything it aspired to be, partly because nothing could have been. But it was dependably big and bold, as befits the most ambitious small screen work of executive producer Michael Mann. The series opened in 1960s Chicago, where lawless supercop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) vowed to make it his mission in life to personally rearrange the pompadour of ambitious thug Ray Luca (Anthony Denison). Over the course of two seasons, they bounced from Chicago to Vegas and finally to a South American banana republic. In the final episode, Luca and a couple of his men are fleeing the country aboard a private plane when Torello and a couple of his men manage to scramble aboard. The plane takes off, and while Torello and Luca are slugging it out, Luca’s number-one man decides that it would be a good idea to shoot the pilot. The plane hurtles into the ocean below, and Torello and Luca presumably die as they lived, in each other’s arms. This ending elevates Torello’s self-destroying quest to bring down Luca to an Ahab-like obsession, which is the scale that Crime Story was aiming for all along.

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