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Lieutenant Mike Torello is the head of the Chicago Police Departments Major Crimes Unit.
Torello and Luca are rivals, but each develops a kind of admiration for the other and his method.
Theyre both wounded men who put work above all else; they wander the same lonely streets at night.
Torellos pursuit of Luca turns from an assignment into an obsession.
Still, its a hit, and NBC has given Mann carte blanche to produce anything he wants.
WithCrime Story, his next project, he would cash that check to prove his detractors wrong.
Friday night on NBC became Manns night, withCrime StoryfollowingMiami Vice.
Even Miles Davis turned in a cameo.
Those three words are what madeCrime Storydifferent from any other show on televisionevery story was to be continued.
Every episode required knowledge of previous episodes.
It made you take it seriously.
(Adamsons experiences pursuing a thief named McCauley would later inspireHeat.
Crime Storyalso featured the breakout performance of John Santucci as Pauli Taglia, Ray Lucas go-to guy.
A former jewelry thief and career criminal, Santucci had actually been one of Farina and Adamsons busts.
Takedown, until he was arrested in 1996for breaking into the vending machinesat a Hyatt in Chicago.
His characters speak the secret languages of their professions.
Its gritty realism would be carried on by the likes ofHomicide: Life on the StreetandNYPD Blue.
