Season 2, Episode 21 · Episode 32 of 79

Eruption

First aired Saturday, April 6, 1985

Synopsis

As Mount Catherine erupts, a rival community leader uses the chaos to plot the mayor's murder.

Episode recap

Mount Catherine begins to erupt, and while everyone else evacuates, one man sees opportunity: with ash falling like a curtain, the town's mayor can be murdered and the mountain will take the blame. "Eruption" pairs the series with the great 1980s disaster-movie tradition — nature as the loudest character in the story — and threads a small, cold-blooded crime through the middle of the chaos. The team ends up fighting on two fronts at once, rescuing the endangered and unmasking a killer using catastrophe as camouflage. Five years after Mount St. Helens, no American audience needed the danger explained.

Transcript

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