What episode was it where they picked up an elderly woman whose daughter shut her away in a home, and she asked Malloy's girlfriend 'do you let your mother live with you?' and she replied 'actually it's the opposite, she lets me live with her' and the woman says there's got to be a better way to raise the children, implying so that they don't throw their parents away when they get old?
shareMalloy & Reed weren't the ones who pick up the older woman. This episode "Light Duty" is when Malloy has a hurt wrist and has to work the shift in the station at the front desk. A female officer is assigned to work there as well (Reed is picked to work with other officers at a student protest in a park). The older lady, who was found loitering at the train or bus station, wouldn't give them any information so the officers brought her to the station (she hadn't broken any laws, so she wasn't arrested). Anyway, the female officer is the one who talks to the woman and they have the conversation you describe about living with the mother. But the woman lived in LA with her adult child, not in a "home."
Anyway, it's in season 2, called Light Duty. As usual, Pete is adorable and charming.
I liked Light Duty, but the most memorable aspect of the episode is that here we are deep into Season 2 and when Reed is asked by the female officer how long he's been on the force he replies something along the lines of less than a year! Kent McCord's delivery of that line always struck me as a bit embarrassed given that the show had been on for some time at that point and his character was still a rookie!
There were 26 episodes a season, and each episode usually covered one day, two or three days at most. So, even deep in the second season Reed could have been onlyon duty for a year.
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