S05-E05 is a first-rate, surprisingly suspenseful and exciting episode: a whodunit set in the hospital. While staking out the supplier for a major drug kingpin in San Francisco, Mac saves Sgt. Enright's life after pushing him back from an oncoming bullet, getting shot in his side. He's rushed to the hospital but, while awaiting surgery, Mac sees two faceless people in green doctors' smocks smother a man to death with a pillow in an adjacent room. Nobody believes his story two days later when he's recuperating in bed, though Sally gives him the benefit of the doubt (and that's really all Susan Saint James is required to do here, aside from questioning patient Liam Dunn whilst wearing a perplexing short wig). It's strange now (and kind of sad) seeing Rock Hudson near-death in the hospital, being wheeled around on a gurney, but he gives a good performance here. The roster of suspicious-acting doctors and nurses make for a fine list of maybe-murderers, the supporting cast (including Michael Constantine and Lola Albright) is solid, and writer Richard Danus delivers a neat denouement. Good show!
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