Tropical Heat
Nick Slaughter, an ex-RCMP and DEA agent who dropped out of society after being fired from his job, relocates to the Florida town of Key Mariah to start a detective service. In the process he meets local travel agent Sylvie Gerard and they form a strong partnership, and quite the detective team. However, the local police squad never makes it easy so they often require help from their friends: Ian, Spider (owners of the Tropical Heat Bar at different times), and local police mortician Rollie. The town of Key Mariah will never be the same thanks to Nick Slaughter and Company.
- 1991-1993
- 3 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Nick Slaughter, an ex-RCMP and DEA agent who dropped out of society after being fired from his job, relocates to the Florida town of Key Mariah to start a detective service. In the process he meets local travel agent Sylvie Gerard and they form a strong partnership, and quite the detective team. However, the local police squad never makes it easy so they often require help from their friends: Ian, Spider (owners of the Tropical Heat Bar at different times), and local police mortician Rollie. The town of Key Mariah will never be the same thanks to Nick Slaughter and Company.
Season 3 Episode Guide
36 Episodes 1992 - 1993
Episode 1
Twice as Dead
49 mins
Linda Stone engages Nick and Sylvie to find the truth about her deceased husband. It seems that the FBI has identified, through fingerprints, Stone who was just shot to death in the classy restaurant that he owned. Linda explains that though it is unusual that such a bold shooting take place in front of so many witnesses, the real mystery lies in the fact that her husband was killed in a fiery car crash about a year previously and, with him, evaporated any chance of recovering the three million dollars that he stole. Nick begins by questioning Jenny Nolan, Stone's current girlfriend, however, is unsatisfied with her claims to know nothing of his previous life or the existence of the stolen money. Nick the enlists Spider to aid in a B and E intended to unearth secreted information that might shed some light on the missing millions.
Episode 2
Deadly Switch: Part 1
49 mins
A woman dies under suspicious circumstances at her dentist's. Her business partner receives the money from her life insurance. Then the money goes missing and more dead bodies turn up.
Episode 3
Deadly Switch: Part 2
49 mins
Nick is finally able to put the pieces of this complex case together, but he may have met his match this time.
Episode 4
Over My Dead Body
49 mins
Nick gets seriously injured and Sylvie must care for him.
Episode 5
White Hot
49 mins
Nick is hired to find a little girl whose father took the girl from her mother and fled with the child to Israel.
Episode 6
Stranger in Paradise
49 mins
Nick and Sylvie are hired by Vera Springate, headmistress of Hawkwell school for girls, and her husband Charles, to investigate the murder of Laurie, one of their students. They are to go into the school under-cover, she as a secretary, he as a drama teacher. Prior to her departure, Sylvie briefs Spider, in the Slaughter office, on his need to pick up daily phone messages and meet with Alicia Simmons with the intent of putting off her case until Friday, if possible. Immediately after she leaves, Spider lays claim to the office, donning one of Nick's shirts and playing with a pistol. Enter, the beautiful Alicia who is convinced that Spider is Nick and after a couple of feeble attempts to state otherwise, he eventually succumbs to her pleas for help to recover the emeralds that the 'fat man' has stolen from her father. Their adventure has begun. Meanwhile, at Hawkwell, Nick and Sylvie are settling into their roles. Sylvie meets the hard-as-nails English teacher Lyle Glasco while Nick develops a relationship with Sandy, the murdered girl's best friend. It is then that they encounter Sgt. Gregory who is disappointed to learn that they have been hired to investigate and admonishes them to stay out of his way. Having overheard this exchange, French teacher Paula Keller arranges to meet Nick at her apartment at eleven that night. Arriving at the appointed time, Nick and Sylvie discover that Paula has been brutally murdered before she could pass on what she knows. Sgt. Gregory soon arrests Jimmy, the mentally slow school janitor that Nick has befriended, charging him in both murders.
Episode 7
The Pro and the Con
49 mins
Nick wants to prove that a famous football player did not kill one of the financial advisers who ruined him financially.
Episode 8
Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby
49 mins
Spider's ex girlfriend shows up out of nowhere and asks him to protect her from her abusive boyfriend. When the boyfriend is found dead, and stolen money comes into the picture, Nick is the only one who can straighten this mess out.
Episode 9
Ocean Park
49 mins
Sgt. Gregory has arrested Julie Morrison for the murder of her husband but is compelled to release her on bail. Matt Grady, owner of Ocean Park, a research facility, working primarily with dolphins, where the two were employed, hires Nick and Sylvie to find the real killer. The body had been discovered submerged in an observation tank, having been bludgeoned by a training pole from Julie's lab. Julie, now back on the job, only reluctantly accepts involvement of the private investigators, insisting that they not interfere with her research. An attempt on Nick's life fails when Napoleon, Julie's favored dolphin, brings her to rescue Nick who is lying unconscious on the ocean floor. Then, this already confusing case gets a nasty twist with the murder of Matt Grady. Nick and Sylvie are up to the challenge as they proceed to unravel the sordid facts.
Episode 10
Jack of Diamonds
49 mins
Nick's deadbeat con artist father is arrested for the murder and robbery of a local socialite. Nick, although quite jaded about his dad, decides to look into the matter.
Episode 11
His Pal Joey
49 mins
Joey Gibson is rifling through drawers in an upstairs bedroom of a luxury home in her latest break-and-enter conquest when she is interrupted by a man and a woman arguing in the main hall. Joey hides as the couple continue the dispute while climbing the stairs towards her very location, with the woman threatening to go to the police. Joey is right beside the pair when the man grabs a candlestick and beats the woman to death. She pushes by the surprised man and is narrowly able to escape, leaving behind her acquisitions and her ID. She immediately goes to Nick Slaughter who, it turns out, has been her benefactor and has pulled her out of scrape-after-scrape since she was sixteen. Nick takes her to his associate, Sylvie Girard to hide. Nick then contacts Sgt. Gregory and together with other members of the Key Mariah police force, search the house in question. Once inside they find Doreen who says she has been there for hours hoping to surprise her boyfriend, owner of the house. She states emphatically that there has been no murder, there is no body, no blood, and no sign of any kind of a scuffle. Nick and the police depart from the scene with only Nick still believing Joey's story.
Episode 12
Grasping at Shadows
49 mins
Nick saves the new Tropical Heat bar waitress from being kidnapped by Middle Eastern spies. He and Sylvie contact an expert on the matter which turns out not to be such a great idea.
Episode 13
The Last of the Magnificent
49 mins
One of Nick's favorite actors is shooting a western. After some strange accidents, he hires Nick and Sylvie to go on the set undercover and try to determine what is going on. Spider joins them on the job.
Episode 14
The Patsy
49 mins
An Englishman is being blackmailed, possibly by his vengeful former partner in crime. He and his wife hire Nick to get to the bottom of things.
Episode 15
May Divorce Be with You
60 mins
A couple filing for divorce hires Nick and Sylvie separately. The husband hires Sylvie to prove his wife's infidelity, while the wife hires Nick to prove her husband's infidelity.
Episode 16
Feedback
51 mins
A woman who's cheating on her husband with a young lover is being blackmailed. She hires Nick to help her, but it might be too late to prevent a tragedy.
Episode 17
Basic Black
49 mins
When Nick's old P.I. colleague is found dead, he gets the dead colleague's strange case that involves a wealthy property developer.
Episode 18
Born Tomorrow
49 mins
A businessman hires Nick to find his missing wife. The man's colleagues may know something about her disappearance.
Episode 19
Object of Desire
50 mins
An eyewitness falls for Nick when he stops an armed robbery at a store. She decides to help him identify the robber she saw fleeing from the store. There's just one problem - she might be seeing things.
Episode 20
Royal Pain
49 mins
The 6th Duke of Stowbridge accidentally murders his lover. No one knows about it except his wife who, fearing for her own safety, asks Nick for help.
Episode 21
Poison Ivy
49 mins
Nick is hired to find a woman who got hold of a new deadly drug. As his search progresses, Nick begins to wonder if he was actually hired to find the drug itself.
Episode 22
Massage in a Bottle
49 mins
A nurse has been murdered. Doctor who worked with her may be the perpetrator. Nick is on the case, but someone is one step ahead of him.
Episode 23
Mutiny and the Bounty
49 mins
Spider gets involved with an unstable bounty hunter couple.
Episode 24
Seen at the Crime
50 mins
Nick and Sylvie are hired to protect a food critic whose life may be in serious danger. Unfortunately, they fail. Then a psychic shows up claiming to have seen more deaths that are in connection with this case.
Episode 25
You Stole My Heart
50 mins
Everyone are after the transplanted heart of a powerful crime lord.
Episode 26
Gunshy
49 mins
Sylvie shoots and kills a perp. Her world shatters when she is told that the dead man was an undercover cop and she ends up in jail. Nick refuses to believe that the shooting was unjustified and investigates the cop's background.
Episode 27
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
49 mins
Nick must stop a contract killer.
Episode 28
Spider's Tale
50 mins
While in the company of friends, Spider tells a tale of one of Nick and Sylvie's cases the way he remembers it.
Episode 29
Turning Screws
49 mins
A gang tricks Nick into helping them commit a robbery. He gets arrested immediately. While Sylvie and Spider ask around outside, he looks for members of the gang among the other prisoners.
Episode 30
Tess
49 mins
A woman uses Nick to get rid of her husband - permanently.
Episode 31
Deal of a Lifetime
50 mins
A man whom Nick knows and distrusts shows up and wants him to help him with a job. When Nick refuses, he takes Sophie hostage and threatens her if he doesn't. They leave and he leaves someone to keep an eye on Sophie. So they go and they meet a girl whom they both know. And it seems that the guy also wants her to help him but she doesn't want to. Nick tries to get word to Spider so that he could help Sophie.
Episode 32
Katie's Secret
49 mins
Katie, Sylvie's niece, arrives in town. She is supposed to work as a model. The murder of her ex-boyfriend interrupts her plans.
Episode 33
Slumming It
50 mins
A woman who owns local slums hires Nick to investigate her son's girlfriend. Nick soon questions whether he's working for the right people.
Episode 34
Man with the Midas Touch
50 mins
A con man cheats one of Nick's friends out of his retirement fund. Nick decides to help his friend return the favor. What they don't know is that the mob is involved.
Episode 35
Forbidden Fruit
50 mins
A successful businessman fights with his wife a lot. When she is found dead, he is the prime suspect, so he hires Nick and Sylvie to prove his innocence. His business partner and even his kids are among the other potential suspects.
Episode 36
Smut and Nothin' But
49 mins
Nick and Sylvie are hired by an insurance company to investigate a porn mogul who bought life insurance for one of his girls just before she was murdered. As Nick and Sylvie soon find out, the hole goes much deeper than that.