Homicide: Life on the Street · SEASON 7
Lines of Fire
Episode 20 · 1999-05-07

- Mystery
- Drama
- Crime
Episode overview
Emmet Carey is holding his two children hostage in the apartment of his wife's sister. He sees MGee on television and decides that he will talk only to him and occasionally Gharty who is also on the scene. The wife also shows up on the scene and gets past the security. Her screaming sets of Emmet, who fires two shots out that window that strike his wife dead. MGee has to keep the information from him as they continue to negotiate. The crisis ends when Emmet releases his stepdaughter, but makes a deadly choice for himself and his son.
45 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. La Famiglia1998-09-25
2. Brotherly Love1998-10-16
3. Just an Old Fashioned Love Song1998-10-23
4. The Twenty Percent Solution1998-10-30
5. Red, Red Wine1998-11-06
6. Wanted Dead or Alive (1)1998-11-13
7. Wanted Dead or Alive (2)1998-11-20
8. Kellerman, P.I. (1)1998-12-04
9. Kellerman, P.I. (2)1998-12-11
10. Shades of Gray1999-01-08
11. Bones of Contention1999-01-15
12. The Same Coin1999-01-29
13. Homicide.com1999-02-05
14. A Case of Do or Die1999-02-12
15. Sideshow (II)1999-02-19
16. Truth Will Out1999-03-26
17. Zen and the Art of Murder1999-04-02
18. Self Defense1999-04-09
19. Identity Crisis1999-04-30
20. Lines of Fire1999-05-07
21. The Why Chromosome1999-05-14
22. Forgive Us Our Trespasses1999-05-21