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Episode 38 (Season 2, Episode 16)

A Distant Shore

A Distant Shore  (airdate: April 14, 1989).  Catherine is at a record studio trying to locate a man called Adam Gold who is helping out the D.A.'s office in breaking up an illegal tape duplication and counterfeiting ring.  She is sent to the recording booth but Adam is not there.  Without letting anyone know who she really is, she returns to the office.  There, Joe explains why she hasn't found Gold.  He gives her photos of Gold, sprawled out on the floor, dead.  He has died of a massive drug overdoes.  There were drugs everywhere in the apartment.  Joe suspects that Gold was killed due to his involvement with the D.A.  They have Gold's phone record and it seems that he made six calls to LA the night he died.  Catherine is to go to California and track down the witness.  Rita goes with Catherine to help her pack and senses her reluctance to go on the trip.  Rita asks her who she is leaving behind but Catherine is silent.  Vincent comes to the balcony later that night.  She tells him about the trip but promises that it will only be for a few days.  Catherine goes to California and leaves messages on the answering machine of the number Gold was calling.  Catherine decides to go to the record company's offices.  A woman tells her that the lady she wants to speak with is Gina Barrett but she is on a shoot and won't be back for days.  Catherine goes that night to the beach to watch the sun set.  She picks up a nautilus shell and thinks of Vincent.  She goes the next day to the shoot on the beach to find Gina Barrett.  She is pointed out to Catherine and she approaches her.  It is the same lady who told her who to look for.  Gina tells Catherine that she has nothing to do with the counterfeiting case and she should talk to Adam Gold.  Catherine tells her about Adam's death and Gina tells her that Adam did not do drugs.  Catherine asks about the messages Adam left for Gina and they go to her apartment to listen to them.  When they open the door a man in a leather jacket rushes out.  The apartment has been ransacked and all the messages erased.  Gina remembers that Adam had said that one of the tapes had a "print".  Gina has a copy of one of the pirate tapes.  They take it and a tape that Catherine has of the recording to a studio.  The technician informs them that the tapes have been made from the master tape.  The counterfeiters have to involve Gold's group's manager.  Gina is persuaded by Catherine to testify in New York for the Grand Jury.  Vincent is at the mirror pool thinking of Catherine when Mouse brings him a package from Catherine.  Inside is sand and the nautilus shell.  Gina and Catherine start to leave for the airport when Gina remembers she didn't turn on her answering machine.  She goes to turn it on and Catherine continues towards the car.  In the parking garage she starts loading the trunk.  Meanwhile, Vincent is having a dream of Catherine walking on the beach.  She nears a promontory and Vincent calls her name as the waves crash around her.  In the parking garage, Catherine hears her name and turns around.  She finds the man in the leather jacket sneaking up on her.  He has a tire iron but she decks him and hides beneath a car.  With the tire iron in hand, she waits until he comes near her, then hits him in the knee.  Catherine gives him a blow to the head and Gina comes into the garage.  On the plan Catherine reminisces about her and Vincent together.  She is happy to be returning to him.  Vincent senses Catherine's presence in New York and goes to the apartment to wait for her.  Catherine takes Gina to Joe's office then leaves to see Vincent.  They embrace and she tells him that she heard him call her name.  Both are amazed that their bond could be felt that far away.

Guest Cast: Andy Bloch as Mel Rae, Debra Engle as Gina Barrett, Sal Jenco as Richie, Tina Andrews as the woman in the booth, Carolyn Finney as Rita Escobar, Stewart Zully as cabbie, Tracy Burns as receptionist, Alan Berger as Danny, Artie Ripp as engineer, Charles Dougherty as man in the hallway, Andrew David Miller as PA, Brad Sevy as the musician.

Writer: Marie Therese Squerciatti

Director: Michael Switzer.

Song: The First Time I Loved Forever - vocals by Lisa Angelle, lyrics by Melanie Melody, theme music by Lee Holdridge.