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Best Case Worst Case

109 | Tony Denison: The Ultimate TV Cop (Part 2)

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ultimate TV Cop and Actor Tony Denison talks about the most difficult case his The Closer character worked.


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The first victim I came across was this young girl, probably like around eight years old, seven years old.

0:10.0

And the blood in the... it just was horrific.

0:15.0

You call it sanity. I mean, they don't have human empathy.

0:31.0

Hello, and welcome to Best Case Worse Case. This is Jim Clemente Retired FBI Profile of

0:41.7

Forming the XC Prescutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today in the

0:46.2

studio is... Hi everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor. Jim, we are back in

0:51.5

the studio and I admit it, I'm fangirling out because we still have with us our very special

0:59.2

guest. Tony Denison.

1:01.4

Actor. Tony Denison.

1:04.2

Actor, formerly Ray Luca, who was how I first was introduced to Tony Denison and really just blown away

1:13.2

by not only your acting ability and the stories from crime story back in the day and Michael Mann,

1:21.4

you know, this characteristic neon and music and everything was just very compelling about that

1:27.4

series and any of our listeners who haven't seen it, you should go out and find it because it's

1:32.4

really an amazing series. It went on for how many years? Two years. Two, I thought it was... it was

1:37.8

only two. Less than it shows on the... 86 to 88. Well, 86 to 87 and 88. It wasn't three seasons.

1:46.5

No, two years, two full years. So four seasons when you think about it, they used to use to

1:51.6

split up a year and two seasons. It was the full season and then the spring season.

1:55.3

Right. So yeah, so it was four seasons between 1986 and 88 and it happened to be exactly when I

2:05.5

applied to the FBI and when I was working in the FBI when I was first working in the FBI that this

2:12.1

series came out and I thought it was an amazing series. Well, it was. And of course, as our listeners

2:17.8

know, Jim has a lot of admiration for the character you played who was a murderous killer. Me, on the

2:23.7

other hand, I like you as the detective. Well, thank you very much. I like playing that the

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