Season 3, Episode 12 · Episode 45 of 79

Half-Pint

First aired Saturday, December 21, 1985

Synopsis

Hawke meets his young nephew and uncovers a cocaine operation disguised as a mercy flight.

Episode recap

Just before Christmas 1985, the series gave Hawke the last thing anyone expected him to have: family. "Half-Pint" introduces a young nephew — a small, stubborn new branch of the Hawke family tree — and wraps the reunion inside an ugly discovery: a cocaine operation flying under the flag of a mercy mission. The episode balances warmth and rot deliberately; the boy is everything the Hawke brothers lost, and the smuggling plot is a reminder of what the world does with sentiment. For a man who owns nothing but a cabin, a cello and a war's worth of grief, the stakes have never been smaller or larger.

Transcript

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