Homicide: Life on the Street
The Heart of a Saturday Night
Season 5, Episode 7 · Aired 1996-11-15
Synopsis
Survivors discuss, in a grief-support group, the circumstances of three murders one Saturday night in Baltimore: a girl strangled in an alley on her 16th birthday, a mother who dies as the victim of a carjacker who drives off with her 3-year-old daughter, and a man who was attacked in the Waterfront Bar in the presence of several uncooperative witnesses. One of the cases remains unsolved.
In the series
This episode is part of Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) on NBC.
Baltimore detectives, handheld grit, and cases that don’t tidy up for sweeps.
Key cast
- Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton
- Yaphet Kotto as Al Giardello
- Kyle Secor as Tim Bayliss
- Richard Belzer as John Munch
- Clark Johnson as Meldrick Lewis
- Melissa Leo as Kay Howard