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Screencaps for Ep 3.17 added

I have just added theĀ screencaps for Endgame to the episodes' page. When veteran street cop John Baker is found dead, the police department as well as the D.A.'s office are alerted since the suspected self-murder is just another one in a row recent suicides (or what looked like) among the force, suspecting a mole in the department since Baker had made an agreement to make a testimony in front of the Grand Jury about local mobster Al Doyle's businesses and corrupted people, including police officers, involved. Due to Baker's primary district, the red-light patch around Broadway, young vice officers Rogers and Hill are being involved in the investigation. When Mike and Steve are going to see and to talk to a hooker who had offered information on Doyle, the prostitute is also found dead in her apartment - but Mike spots the killer, and in the following chase Steve is side swiped by the fleeing henchman. To Mike's surprise, Jeannie is showing up in the hospital after she heard on the radio about the severe injury of Steve - but she is not allowed to see him. Little does Mike's daughter know that her father and Captain Devitt contrived a plan to have Mike being downgraded to street service for a faked disobedience and making him look a disgruntled cop looking for compensation against the department he served for decades. Mike immediately needles all the businesses Doyle is involved in and soon receives the response they wanted. Their entire plan is put in danger when unsuspecting Jeannie discovers that Steve is actually doing well, playing cards by himself under police protection in his hospital room. It is her intuition, though, which finally provides the decisive proof that cops Rogers and Hill are involved and performing as moles to Doyle. Nonetheless, an unsuspected move of the young vice officers puts their plan - and the life of Mike - in immediate danger.

This episode provides a good insight into San Francisco red-light district of the 1970's around Broadway. In the opening scene, Sergeant Baker talks is Doyle in the heart of his district. Apart from several other street scenes filmed around Broadway, we are taken to Russian Hill where Baker's apartment is located, as well as to Romolo Place where Mike and Steve find hooker Lily Marlene dead in her apartment. Doyle's yacht is anchored at the Marina Yacht Club, and Steve is hidden at the San Francisco General Hospital. We are also taken to Mike's house on Potrero Hill, and Mike is picked up - allegedly drunk - by Rogers and Hill in a bar after they left Roland's Cocktails at Lombard and Fillmore Streets. The key scene in which Rogers discovers that Mike and Captain devitt are obviously trying to set a trap for the mole was filmed inside the actual San Francisco Police Department headquarter building on Bryant Street.

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