Urban Angel

Seasons

1991

Canada

8

Ex-con Victor Torres is hired by Francine Primeau, the editor of The Montreal Tribune, to be their source for crime stories, since he can use his connections within the city's criminal underworld to get scoops as well as the truth.

Episode List

S1 • E1

New Kid on the Block

Victor pursues a vicious pimp, Le Copain, through the Montreal underworld. Someone, probably Le Copain, beats crusading priest Father Laplante into a coma. But the cops investigating, Officers Drake and Leduc, suspect Victor because of his record. As Victor deals with Christina, from whom he's just moved out, and a group of Western and Quebec hog farmers protesting subsidies who just won't go away, he realizes he needs a picture of the pimp. But when Christina poses as a hooker to set up Le Copain for a photo, Marrone says the "pimp" Le Copain is a cop.

S1 • E2

Taking Care of Business

Victor discovers the cops White and Leduc meeting with Le Copain. It could be undercover...as long as Le Copain's really a cop. But Drabek, his conscience twigged, finds that Le Copain is a former cop. Victor has uncovered a racket. He also finds that a colleague, Alex Noble, took a bribe to suppress a story about a popular rock star's drug addiction. Victor snares the crooked reporter, but a risky tactic to trap Le Copain and the bent cops backfires. In a shootout at the church, the dirty cops set up and kill Le Copain, becoming "heroes" who save the priest and Victor.

S1 • E3

Postcards from the Past

Victor sees ghosts from his past as he tracks a kid's claim of abuse in a group home. Misled, Victor loses his job when he's arrested in a corner store robbery triggered by the "abused" kid, Wolf. Along the way, he messes up the Tribune's new publicity campaign and jeopardizes Christina's career by deflating a story pushed by her boss. Victor prints the truth about Wolf and regains his job, then turns in Wolf to the authorities and saves a younger boy, Jamie, from the street.

S1 • E4

Old Boys

The Tribune's publisher and staff are unsettled by rumours of a hostile takeover by Montreal financier, Claude Cormier. Following a tip, Victor probes health problems reported at an electrical parts plant owned by Cormier. Moorcraft and Francine want the story badly and pair Victor with experienced environmental reporter Denise Vincent. They don't get along, but they're attracted to each other. Meanwhile, Victor and Marrone organize a reunion of the group home. When the party turns ugly, Victor realizes his past is behind him. He teams up with Denise and discovers the "health problems" were a false story planted by Cormier to undermine Moorcraft.

S1 • E5

Fire & Ice

Victor discovers a powerful new drug on the streets of Montreal: "ice". Frustrated by the Tribune's lack of interest, he goes undercover to get the story. Meanwhile, Francine hires a corporate psychologist to boost morale at the paper, then tries to obtain the confidential information to use against slackers like Bill Rack. Victor follows the "ice" trail to the source but things go awry when a group home buddy, Luc, turns out to be the main supplier. He is ready to kill Victor until Drabek, following a homing device he arranged with Victor earlier, comes to the rescue. In a shootout finale, Luc gets iced.

S1 • E6

Damned if You Do

Victor is angered to discover Marrone is passing counterfeit money on the street. But Marrone has been coerced into it by the bent cops, White and Leduc. Worse, Marrone owes money to a notorious Montreal criminal, Serge Cote. They're all leaning on him. Victor straightens out his personal life with Christina, who has been ready to cut off their relationship. Victor saves Marrone by enlisting him, unknowingly, into a counterfeit money buy to which Victor tips Drabek. Drabek, hungry for Marrone, makes the bust but catches the cops White and Leduc instead.

S1 • E7

Battered Lives

Torres is distressed when the woman returns to her "remorseful" hubby - only to wind up in the hospital. Haunted by memories of his own violent father, Torres winds up in jail when he angrily explodes at the sexist judge who lets the husband off for a second time.