The BEST episodes directed by Michael Mann
#1 - Top of the World (aka The King in a Cage)
Crime Story - Season 1 - Episode 21
Luca's jubilation over his growing business turns to fear that his associates are setting him up. Luca's insatiable lust for violence proves his undoing when he rapes Pauli's girlfriend. Pauli testifies for the prosecution in Luca's trial.
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#2 - The Kingdom of Money
Crime Story - Season 1 - Episode 17
Torello and Krychek join the Federal Task Force planning to raid Luca's new gambling business in Las Vegas.
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#3 - Abrams for the Defense
Crime Story - Season 1 - Episode 7
Attorney Abrams falls for a reporter helping him defend a tenant accused of assaulting a slum landlord.
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#4 - Pilot
Luck - Season 1 - Episode 1
Released from prison after three years, "Ace" Bernstein plots revenge against the colleagues who betrayed him. With his trusted aide/chauffeur Gus Demitriou acting as a front for his race horse investment, Ace seeks to reverse the sagging fortunes of a famous racetrack. Meanwhile, four dissolute gamblers at the race track - Jerry, Marcus, Renzo and Lonnie - pool their meager resources to make a Pick Six bet that could be worth millions. A key to their fortunes is a long-shot horse trained by Turo Escalante, a self-made success story with loads of talent and few scruples, whoʼs also training Gus/Ace's colt. Walter Smith, another more grizzled trainer, sees classic potential in an untested thoroughbred with impressive bloodlines.
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#5 - The Test
Tokyo Vice - Season 1 - Episode 1
Hired as Meicho Shimbun’s first American crime reporter, Jake Adelstein is quickly tasked with covering two cases that initially appear unrelated, but soon stakes his career – and life – on connecting the dots.
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Police Woman - Season 4 - Episode 6
When a Greek shop owner's murdered, Crowley's surprised to learn robbery wasn't the motive. The victim was petrified with terror even before he was killed . The killer donnun's habit and walks with a limp. The only clue; a buttercup flower dropped next to the victim.The team realisesthe clues are designed to remind them off someone wronged terribly, and are now to pay the price.
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#7 - Ground Zero
Crime Story - Season 1 - Episode 22
After his murder mistrial, Luca clashes with a crime kingpin over plans to split up control of the sinking Luca gambling empire. Pauli changes his mind and rescues Luca from Torello as they hide in a house in the desert, a target site for nuclear testing.
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