Episode guide
Wiseguy: Season 1
22 episodes · premiered Sep 16, 1987
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- Episode 1: Wiseguy (1) Sep 16, 1987 · 1h Vinnie is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco. Greco is killed…
- Episode 2: Wiseguy (2) Sep 16, 1987 · 1h Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, has a run-in with the cops causing Vinnie to be arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and…
- Episode 3: New Blood Sep 24, 1987 · 1h In an attempt to take over Sonny Steelgrave’s business, mob head Paul Patrice frames Sonny for several murder attempts he makes on the life of the special prosecutor investigating Sonny.
- Episode 4: The Loose Cannon Oct 1, 1987 · 1h A psychopathic murderer posing as Sonny's nephew double-crosses Sonny and holds Vinnie's girlfriend Gina hostage.
- Episode 5: The Birthday Surprise Oct 8, 1987 · 1h Vinnie nearly blows his cover when he becomes obsessed with finding out who killed his cousin, causing Frank to threaten him with dismissal. Frank desperately wants Vinnie to concentrate…
- Episode 6: One on One Oct 15, 1987 · 1h After several deals go sour, Sonny starts suspecting Vinnie may be a plant. Frank orders Vinnie to drop the case when he finds out the local police have an informer in Sonny's operations…
- Episode 7: Prodigal Son Oct 22, 1987 · 1h After his mother is mugged in Brooklyn, an enraged Vinnie sets out to find the punk who did it, but when he visits his mother in the hospital, it breaks his heart that she still won't…
- Episode 8: A Deal's a Deal Oct 29, 1987 · 1h Sonny’s cruel punishment of a lounge singer who wants out of his contract triggers a cascade of events that leads to Vinnie’s being photographed with McPike — a photo that is to be…
- Episode 9: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Nov 5, 1987 · 1h Sonny’s impending marriage to a syndicate boss’ daughter begins a supposedly businesslike realignment of “families,” but Vinnie learns that the wedding is a pretext for a bloody gang war.
- Episode 10: No One Gets Out of Here Alive Nov 12, 1987 · 1h An outraged Sonny Steelgrave accuses Vinnie of betraying him to his arch-rival, then realizes the devastating truth — that his paisan is an undercover Federal agent.
- Episode 11: Last Rites for Lucci Nov 19, 1987 · 1h In the aftermath of the Steelgrave case, Vinnie tries to vindicate himself of his lingering feelings of betrayal and disloyalty by risking his life to save an old friend from the Brooklyn…
- Episode 12: Independent Operator Jan 4, 1988 · 1h Vinnie’s assignment to check out a contract killer leads him into a huge global contraband syndicate — an operation that far exceeds the scope of the Steelgrave family — overlorded by…
- Episode 13: Fascination for the Flame Jan 11, 1988 · 1h Vinnie, now a bodyguard for the Profitts, gets his first trial by fire when Mel Profitt, the brilliant but paranoid overlord of an international crime empire, disrupts the wedding of an…
- Episode 14: Smokey Mountain Requiem Jan 18, 1988 · 1h Vinnie tells Mel Profitt he is leaving to go home to New Jersey, but Mel offers him the biggest cocaine distribution network in the country — a plum that Vinnie feels is too juicy for any…
- Episode 15: Player to be Named Now Jan 25, 1988 · 1h Mel’s desire to buy a baseball franchise is two-fold: he wants to play on it, and he wants to take it away from an old business associate who cheated him in a Mexican drug deal. When Mel’s…
- Episode 16: The Merchant of Death Feb 1, 1988 · 1h When some of his munitions contacts begin drying up, Mel decides to blackmail a French Deputy Minister of Defense into supplying him with the weapons he needs.
- Episode 17: Not For Nothing Feb 8, 1988 · 1h Hiding out in Vancouver after the fall of the Steelgrave empire, Aldo Baglia sees a photo of Vinnie in the paper and decides to even the score, sending Vinnie into a coma from two serious…
- Episode 18: Squeeze Feb 15, 1988 · 1h After his munitions operation starts falling apart, Mel orders Vinnie to set up a meet with the mob to use his immense cocaine trade to regain financial power.
- Episode 19: Blood Drive Feb 22, 1988 · 1h After rejecting an offer to finance a coup d'etat in the Caribbean, Mel Profitt becomes obsessed with a supposed voodoo death curse, and Vinnie, horrified, can only watch as Mel’s…
- Episode 20: Phantom Pain Mar 14, 1988 · 1h After Susan is arrested for Mel’s murder, Vinnie refuses McPike’s order to pull out of the Profitt case, because Susan, who has seemingly lost her grip on reality, has told him she is…
- Episode 21: Dirty Little Wars Mar 21, 1988 · 1h With Mel and Susan Profitt undone, McPike begins dismantling their empire, but Vinnie demands to stay on the case to get to the bottom of Roger Lococco’s ties to a rogue CIA operation to…
- Episode 22: Date With an Angel Mar 28, 1988 · 1h Roger Lococco in effect signs his own death warrant by testifying to a Senate committee about a cabal within the U.S. intelligence community, but to back him up he needs Vinnie to testify…