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The Tontine
Barney Miller - S8 - E8
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
Barney Miller: Season 8 - 22 Episode s
8x1 - Paternity
October 29, 1981
Wojo's proven innocent of a paternity suit, but at a cost; a beauty queen is robbed; an irate theater patron vandalizes the theater.
8x2 - Advancement
November 5, 1981
Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal.
8x3 - The Car
November 12, 1981
A car thief's conscience gets the better of him ... after twenty-five years; Levitt saves a child from a precarious fate; an overzealous sanitation officer goes to extremes.
8x4 - Possession
November 19, 1981
A husband is assaulted for forcing his wife into designer jeans; a disorderly conduct report leads to a man who swears he's possessed by an evil spirit.
8x5 - Stress Analyzer
November 26, 1981
A job fair brings out the worst in a Peace Corps recruiter; Dietrich volunteers for a department stress experiment.
8x6 - Games
December 10, 1981
A manufacturer of computer game processors is accused of espionage; a WAC supplements her income on the street.
8x7 - Homeless
December 17, 1981
The 12th is overrun with homeless vagrants on Christmas; a greeting-card writer snaps; a cattle prod is the weapon of choice for a local merchant.
8x8 - The Tontine
January 7, 1982
The penultimate survivor of a tontine attempts suicide in order to concede the money to his cousin.
8x9 - Examination Day
January 14, 1982
The detectives don uniforms while Levitt and the others take sergeant's exams; Luger, working with the squad, is overly rough with a collar, and later with Barney.
8x10 - The Clown
January 21, 1982
Street clowns fall prey to a serial mugger; a hundred inmates are sneaked out of holding in the middle of the night.
8x11 - Chinatown (1)
February 4, 1982
A murder witness is uncooperative, so he, Harris and Dietrich are forced to share an apartment in seclusion until he talks; Lieutenant Scanlon falls for a wealthy mugging victim.
8x12 - Chinatown (2)
February 11, 1982
Unless he confesses soon, Harris and Dietrich's unwilling roommate may witness another murder. Meanwhile, harassment charges are pressed against Lieutenant Scanlon.
8x13 - Hunger Strike
February 18, 1982
Dietrich aids an elderly psychiatric patient who may be speaking a foreign language; a nuclear activist goes on a hunger strike to end nuclear arms; Barney declines a deputy inspector nomination.
8x14 - Arrival
February 25, 1982
Luger's mail-order bride arrives; an elderly woman mugs a man.
8x15 - Obituary
March 11, 1982
A newspaper obituary causes a stir when the subject turns up alive; the detectives snag a modern-day chicken thief.
8x16 - Inquiry
March 26, 1982
Internal Affairs is called in when a charge of excessive force is leveled against Wojo; an angry parent takes action when his child is declined admission into an exclusive kindergarten.
8x17 - Old Love
April 2, 1982
Dietrich's old flame pays a visit; a former child actor clubs an agent with a telephone.
8x18 - Altercation
April 9, 1982
Harris and Arnold come to blows; a mugging victim confesses to a twenty-five year old crush on Barney.
8x19 - Bones
April 29, 1982
A museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit; a scoutmaster catches a mugger.
8x20 - Landmark (1)
May 6, 1982
Wojo's discover of an ancient weapon puts the 12th Precinct up for sale.
8x21 - Landmark (2)
May 13, 1982
The 12th Precinct is sold; Dietrich arrests the head of a crime school; Luger tries to duck out on his mail-order bride.
8x22 - Landmark (3)
May 20, 1982
Friends, foes and felons alike drop by to pay their last respects as the detectives prepare to leave for new assignments; Harris contemplates his resignation when he's assigned to Flushing Meadows; Barney recalls friends departed before he turns out the squad room lights for the last time.