I Found Ranyhyn 's Porno Scene! = O
Picture it: Chinatown, Autumn, 1993(I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Season 1, Episode 19)
Six college ladies stolen away, no ransom demands, no trace or clues to their whereabouts. The last woman to go missing was Kwai Chang Caine's most advanced student, Alicia Wright. Peter has a hunch too horrible to confide to his fellow officers, he fears they have been stolen to be SEX SLAVES! (dun! dun! DUN!)
To check out this hunch, Peter must meet with his contacts in the sex industry. And what do you know... one is at the strip club Zanzibar right now! Of course, Peter grabs his father and heads on over toot sweet! Now, Caine has not objected to strip dancing before, and he does not now. Peter's contact, Paul Caldrin, leads the Caines into a back room, introduced with a quick pan shot of a marquee: Girls Girls Girls! Screens Open Sundays. Fantastic! Now people have somewhere to gather after the evening sermon!
Cheesy porn music filters through the small, dark room, along with the sound of panting and husky encouragements like Yeah! and Faster! Back-washed light from the screen and small, dark lamps illuminate the audience, sitting on fold-out chairs arranged in rows. A white bread type in a striped shirt in the back row disinterestedly reads a magazine. There is a shot of a young man looking avidly engrossed in the film, as if they are showing a movie about a juicy cheeseburger, and he has been craving one for days. Beside him sits and older man with a lot of character in his face, but his expression is blank and slightly confused, as if this is the moment he suddenly wonders what his life has come to. A shot of a heavy set matured woman reveals she too appears to be watching the cheeseburger movie. She and the young man should hook up and go to Denny's! Caldrin talks to his contact Stella, a cross-dressing lady with a young woman curled up, sleeping against her on the couch.
Caine walks in, surveying the audience and the film, then walks to the back of the room, to what looks like a top-loader VCR the Size Of A Suitcase! He looks at it, confused for a moment about how to turn it off, and ends up ripping the cable out and dashing it to the floor to break into pieces. A woman softly exclaims a whoa! and the older man gets this Awww, man, what now? look on his face. A (very) quick shot of the screen shows a smiling, dark-haired, naked woman laying on a bed with a set of muscular arms mostly obscuring her breasts as her partner grasps her shoulders from above, then the screen going blank. Caine leaves, and waits for Peter and Paul in the alley. Paul is angry, Caine just ruined Paul's rapport with his client, but he got the information they needed: Peter knows the singer that will be working the party, a former love named Carol Hastings. Paul Caldrin gives Peter some final advice regarding his colleague: "Don't take Bruce Lee here with you!".
Peter turns to his father. "Gentleness overcomes strength? Sound familiar?" Caine replies," You... should have reminded me." Peter walks with his father. "What the hell were you doing in there, anyway?" And Caine answers, "I could not allow those people to view that depravity of the spirit any longer." Peter demurs. "They're going to be in some cramped, smokey little room tomorrow night, you didn't change anything!" Caine sighs, eyes downcast, and admits, "what I did was wrong." Peter comes back with earnest sincerity, "Are you kidding me? I loved it! I gotta go to the precinct!"
On the way back, SlutPuppyInsincereLyingBastardPeter talks to his old girlfriend the singer, and all agree Kwai Chang and Peter will attend the party with her, posing as her managers. Back at the precinct, the Caine's are putting on tuxedos. (Why are these two getting dressed in Blaisdell's office?) As Peter straightens his father's white bow tie, Peter says, "You betrayed some emotion tonight. Can I look forward to seeing some more?" Caine quirks an eyebrow, "I will try to be better behaved at the party." Peter, still futzing with Caine's bow tie, tell him, "Well, we're gonna find Alicia alive tonight... we're gonna have to get out of there in one piece." Another eyebrow quirk. "I will practice... restraint." Peter smiles. "Always worked for me!" Finally happy with the bow tie, Peter lightly slaps his father's arms. "Perfect! Let's go party!"
Great memory, guys! I have been trying to understand why these scenes were not as memorable to me as they should have been. In my opinion, there was something about this episode that just didn't work. The romance between the grandmother and her neighbor/lifelong friend was very sweet, but her storyline absolutely makes the pacing of the episode fall flat. This episode also comes off a little too preachy (Sex Industry Bad!) and it just feels like they have overreached for the darkness and foreboding danger, so the action just doesn't make that much of an impression at all. What with the bad acting from David Carradine, (his unenthusiastic pleading for the grandmother not to leave the kwoon), and the douche bag who was abducting the women, (The oh, so fake ooops-I-accidently-dropped-my-dog bit) this episode just whispers I Am Not Very Interesting, Don't Bother Watching Me. As a consequence, I don't think I did watch it... all that closely, at least. To me, the women locked up in the beginning was familiar, but the ending not at all. If you hadn't have mentioned it, Ranyhyn, I most likely would have overlooked it again! So... thank you!
I was thinking it would be nice to go through and bring the plot summeries up to date here on IMDB, but the option is locked on this show. I have attempted to contact an administrator, but I am not at all sure it worked. There is a plot summery for this episode, referring to the rose garden only. Does anyone here have experience with contacting an Admin?
The majority of the scene is hidden HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXPnIK-ZUw
If you want to see the first three audience members I described, the first 31 seconds of the scene is HERE at 9:12 / 9:43.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2WhPM-r_bM&feature=related
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