Amy is a fashion model specialized in presenting fur coats. She secretly helps fur coat robbers (no, it’s not a joke!) to steal, well, fur coats. She is played by the young Barbara Stock (T.J. Hooker, 2.13: “Too Late for Love”). T.J. Hooker’s greenhornish colleague Romano falls for her charms and unwittingly gives her information on the ongoing investigation. Although warned by his superior, he is not willing to recognize Amy’s probable involvement in the crimes they are investigating until the fashion model gets eventually caught in the act along with her male accomplices. Romano asks her why she did it and gets the classic answer: “to reach the top”. As he finds himself incapable of slapping the cuffs on her, he leaves it for his colleagues to take the fashion model into custody.
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- Barbara Stock seems (or seemed) to be a regular cast for villainous roles: She also played villainesses Jacqueline “Jackie” Holt (In the Heat of the Night), Jessica Ford (Father Dowling's Mysteries), and the unnamed Scam Woman (Seinfeld).
- A literary interested audience could have Sacher-Masoch’s novel Venus in furs in mind as the screen writer’s undeclared source of inspiration for all this fur-and-pelt-crime story, although Amy shows no (overt) inclination to sexual domination. But with all the furs displayed during this episode, one could also wonder about a (subconscious) reminiscence of Freud’s ideas on fetishism.
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