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A Man Called Hawk Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1989 - 1989
Episode 1
The Master's Mirror
Sat, Jan 28, 1989
Hawk searches for an old friend and fellow Vietnam War vet turned stressed-out government operative named David Tracton, who has become a killing machine. Hawk's old boss Colonel Edward Stoller, the director of covert field operations in U.S. Intelligence, asks Hawk to look for Tracton and bring him in before it's too late. Hawk enlists the help of Tracton's half-Vietnamese daughter to save his friend. Tracton is ultimately shot to death at the Jefferson Memorial after Hawk, unaware that he's being followed, leads him there.
Episode 2
A Time and a Place
Sat, Feb 4, 1989
The police are pointed in Hawk's direction for the murder of a policeman. He gets into a fight with a cop.
Episode 3
Hear No Evil
Sat, Feb 11, 1989
Hawk is called upon to investigate a series of brazen burglaries, but this seemingly simple case of a cat burglar with a southern accent quickly spirals into a dangerous affair. His path crosses with a teacher from a renowned school for the deaf and hard of hearing, just as he is hired to protect two of her students. The teens, one deaf and the other struggling to accept his own progressive hearing loss, are the sole witnesses to a brutal murder and are now being hunted by a relentless killer. As Hawk shields the boys, he must also navigate their volatile friendship, their parents' conflicting wishes, and a skeptical police lieutenant who distrusts his methods, all while suspecting a sinister connection between the original burglary and the conspiracy now threatening his young clients.
Episode 4
Passing the Bar
Sat, Feb 18, 1989
When legendary defense attorney Jeff Adams takes on the case of a troubled young man falsely accused of murder, he calls on an old friend for help: Hawk. The case seems hopeless, as the defendant, the son of Adams's and Hawk's former civil rights comrade, was found at the scene with the murder weapon. As Hawk navigates a wall of silence and delves into a violent underworld of loan sharks and brutal enforcers, he and Adams's daughter, Cynthia, become increasingly concerned for the celebrated lawyer, whose acumen and sharp memory are beginning to fail him. The pressure mounts to a breaking point when the case takes a turn, and Adams himself is implicated in a crime that could destroy his career and legacy, forcing Hawk to untangle the conspiracy before his friend is disgraced forever.
Episode 5
The Divided Child
Sat, Feb 25, 1989
The Kirkpatricks hire Hawk to protect their family after the attempted kidnapping of their son. Hawk's job is made harder when their son tries to understand why a kidnapping attempt was made.
Episode 6
Vendetta
Sat, Mar 4, 1989
Hawk's cousin has a contract put on his head after romancing the girlfriend of a member of the mob. He comes to the rescue.
Episode 7
Choice of Chance
Sat, Mar 11, 1989
When a federal witness is gunned down in his home, the unfortunate family living next door get caught in the gunfire.
Episode 8
Poison
Sat, Mar 25, 1989
While he is tracking down the source of heroin laced with strychnine, Hawk is repeatedly disrupted by a dogged reporter.
Episode 9
Never My Love
Sat, Apr 1, 1989
Hawk is bothered by two violent brothers, one of whom seems intent on causing trouble for him.
Episode 10
Intensive Care
Sat, Apr 15, 1989
When Hawk and Old Man's sister are taken hostage in the hospital by armed men, Hawk has an idea to make the situation go his way, not as the gunmen would like it to go.
Episode 11
If Memory Serves
Sat, Apr 29, 1989
Hawk is hired to protect a Haitian historian from someone he believes is trying to use voodoo to learn of a secret.
Episode 12
Beautiful Are the Stars
Sat, May 6, 1989
Hawk comes into the possession of some South African diamonds and, in doing so, gains the attention of a hit man.
Episode 13
Life After Death
Sat, May 13, 1989
Hawk helps a young man to prove that he did not shoot his pregnant girlfriend.