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Title: A Ministering Angel... Season: 1 Episode: 5 First Air Date: March 29, 2001 TV Ratings: 5.4/9 (overnight ratings) Teleplay: Anthony Yerkovich, Elizabeth Sarnoff & Bernadette McNamara Story: David Milch & Anthony Yerkovich Director: Charles Haid Guest Stars:
Our Rating: 9/10
Fan Rating: 10/10 (Average of all fan submitted ratings)
Preview: Time for an old fashioned round-up y’all... Being society’s pillar, you’d totally expect that Terry Maddock would want justice when his favorite Dominican bodega proprietor was capped, yes, and he also brings chicken soup to elderly shut-ins. Elsewhere, the world’s true champ of the downtrodden Det. Mooney had to trade his a.m. Lois visit for a deny, deny, deny chat with Stark. Ever polite Mike shook his hand (the guy’s phobic) and Larry drenched himself in beverage. Mike really needed that intravenous shot of Wheaties today of all days. Sick of Preecher always knowing the info Mike’s gonna say before he says it (like Corelli and the doorman were in the same trunk) the Det.’s headed back to their humble old 11th squad. Most of Mooney’s being at wit’s end involved his sis’ failing health and by night’s end he had to dig deep and assure Lois that he could mange without her. This is what we call the Emmy money shot. Back in the Wild West, Terry Maddock was proving her could do more by noon than the 11th can in a week. Chris Scott brought in amateur Keyser Sozes for Sheriff (so anointed by the post-it on his Johnny Cash hat) to interrogate. First up was a mini-gangsta that couldn’t hold his own drinking with your grandma. The showman then convinced a punk (by way of his own safety pins) to confess that the bodega was meant as a hit on Terry. The FBI are not proponents of the performing arts apparently. As far as Preecher’s concerned that’s the last lustrous gray hair he’s plucking in exchange for tickets to the Maddock Playhouse. He ordered Agent Flynn to gather all his Maddock evidence for the U.S. Attorney. Thus spiraling Jimmy into a slight breakdown in front of Day involving dead-on Walken/De Niro impersonations as allegory to his past friendship with Terry. Next week he will talk of Royalle with Cheese as Terry dances to ‘Stuck in the Middle with you.’ Terry, meanwhile, does occasionally live life off camera since it’s the only place he could explain to Chris about the plumber (Nintendo Mario did such great things for the profession, now it’s all for not) who planned the hit. The only thing to be done was pay Jeppeto a visit to cut the strings, a.k.a warn Stark that if he iced Terry, Chris would ice him. Ah, the circle of life.
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