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Final: 1x07 -- The Reward (Dec/17/1981)

Jessica badgers Max for permission to pursue a story about a man who kidnapped his own children.

Cast

Helen Shaver As Jessica Novak	Andrew Rubin As Phil Bonelli
David Spielberg As Max Kenyon	Eric Kilpatrick As Ricky Duran
Kip Gilman As Vince Halloran	Lara Parker As Katie Robbins
Nina Wilcox As Audrey Stiles

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1x7: The Reward recap: A chance encounter with a mother worried about her two children eventually leads to Jessica's becoming directly involved - and getting an exclusive story on - the plight of the distraught father holding the children at gunpoint in a motel room. Max orders a live television transmission from the scene as Jessica, properly equipped with a lapel microphone, enters the motel in an effort to calm the man.
Breaking down, he supplies the social relevance by explaining that he has lost his job because of all those cheaper cars made by the Germans and Japanese. ''It's not my fault,'' he cries. Jessica gets her man, of course, and an opportunity to wrap up the live report with some tremblingly profound words about what has happened to the American dream. Watching the feed back at the office, her colleagues burst into spontaneous applause, which, given the cut-throat competition among all television performers, constitutes the episode's most unbelievable moment.
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Executive Producer: Mare Merson
Producer: Paul Waigner
Editor: Artie Mandelberg
Music: Fred Karlin
Director of Photography: Isidore Mankofsky

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