Lots of people loved it, and lots of them hated it. Without question, this episode is a pivotal turning point for the Moonlighting television series.
With this episode, Moonlighting takes a number of new directions. Among other things, it stops being episodic. Prior to this episode, each episode stood on its own, and it was possible to watch that episode without knowing much about what had happened during the series prior to that time. Beginning with this episode, that's no longer the case. Starting with this episode, and concluding with A Womb with a View, the relationship between David and Maddie becomes a continuing storyline, as well as becoming the principal focus of the series. From this point on, the cases that David and Maddie solve as Blue Moon investigators become supporting storylines, playing almost in the background, often mirroring the relationship in ironic ways, but always playing secondary to it.
This episode is the first part of a four-episode storyline which introduces the more intimate relationship between Maddie and David, which continues with the episode Sam & Dave and concludes with the episode I Am Curious … Maddie.
Maddie is restless, and she is not herself. David can't help but notice, and he is concerned for her, and wants to know what's wrong. They talk, and although she is reluctant to open up to him, finally she tells him that she feels "restrained", "alone, and surrounded at the same time". Then she admits that she feels "reckless", and that she'd "like to go out there and find some man, not even ask his name – and just go to a hotel or something and not even know his name, and just be bad!" This shocks David visibly, and his reaction makes her angry.
In her anger, she storms out of the office, and David is frantic. With Bert, he follows her as she leaves, eventually following her into the Metropolis, a nightclub which Bert describes as "the hottest place in town. You can't walk in there without getting hit on. If you're ever in the mood to meet somebody just for a night, this is the place." Needless to say, this does nothing to calm David. While there, David loses track of Maddie, and mistakenly follows another blonde woman (played by Donna Dixon), all the while thinking he is following Maddie.
It's now two in the morning. David follows her and another man into a hotel room, where David realizes his mistake – too late. After a struggle with the man, David is struck unconscious, and wakes to find the man has been murdered and David is alone with him in the room.
The police take him in for questioning, where he again meets the blonde woman, whose name is Joan Tenowitz. It turns out that the dead man was her husband. He committed armed robbery for $1,600,000, and she killed him for the money.
While David and the woman talk, she convinces him that his concern for Maddie means that he loves her, and she urges him to find Maddie and tell her so. At first he denies that he loves her, but finally he agrees that the time has come to confess his love for Maddie.
It's now four in the morning. In the rain, flowers in hand, he rushes boldly to Maddie's house, knocks on her door, eager to share his new-found revelation – only to find that her door is answered, not by Maddie, but by another man (played by Mark Harmon).
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