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Please is it true ... ( with spoilers )


that Frank Cannon had a wife and child ( son or daughter ? ) when he was still working as a police officer ? ( I read this on the MeTV Website ) . I just started watching this show a few months ago on the MeTV Channel and haven't seen every episode of this show either . If it is true was there ever an episode where they showed a picture of his wife and child and what were their names ?

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That went back to the original Cannon pilot episode. His wife and daughter - I believe the child was a daughter - were killed and in the finale episode Cannon caught their killer, a corrupt politician. That killer then killed himself when a tearful Frank Cannon confronted him about it all.

MGD

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Wow that seems like a deep and sad episode but a good one . I don't think I ever saw the original pilot episode ( I wished I had seen it ) . I only just recently started watching CANNON episodes on the channel MeTV . Thanks so much Moviegoer Dan for your reply .

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The episode is actually "Nightmare". Opener for the final season.

I would like to know why they haven't shown the episodes for final season. Not a huge difference, except they have a short preview of each episode during the opening credits.

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It looks like they won't be showing the 5th season episodes when the 4th season ends on Wednesday, the cable guide shows them starting at episode 1 on Thursday.

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The Nightmare episode answered a big question about the deaths of Cannon's wife and son. A lot of sources say that they were killed in a car accident...not true! They died in the explosion of the apartment that they were living in (Frank was not home at the time). It was a case of mistaken identity...the hit man who planted the bomb meant it for the apartment's previous tenant, a 'lady of the evening' who was blackmailing the Senator who hired the hit man.

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