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A Draining Experience
Simone’s involvement in the FBI sting against Joey Salvo jeopardizes his career; a psychiatrist insists on implicating his patient’s father for her murder; a haughty mugging victim irks the detectives. Simone: Jimmy Smits. Sipowicz: Dennis Franz. Dr. Wentzel: Stanley DeSantis. Highsmith: Leland Orser., Simone (Jimmy Smits) regrets his covert participation in an FBI sting against Joey Salvo when he is suspended from the force by Internal Affairs. An arrogant journalist who earlier wrote an article smearing the New York Police Department continues rubbing people the wrong way after he is mugged. And the detectives investigate a particularly vicious murder which, suggests the victim’s psychiatrist, may have been perpetrated by the dead woman’s father. This final episode of NYPD Blue’s fourth season comes to a characteristically jarring climax when Simone and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) are caught in the crossfire of a mob hit.
