The series only ran for four seasons so you can imagine the effect on the viewer watching first run episodes as well as reruns and seeing these guys multiple times. Dapper star Anthony Sherwood only played a different character in each of three episodes. Kay Tremblay played a different character in each of six episodes including this one. Those of us in the audience weren't supposed to notice that the same people kept popping up but how we could we not? Great Canadian character actor Cec Linder appeared here in one of four separate roles he played in different episodes of the series as did Jack Creley, his co-star in this episode. To subsist they would accept a walk on a season after having played a more sizable role on the same series a year earlier. These actors became flexible via things every Canadian actors know all too well - humility and unemployment. What that meant for a show like 'Night Heat' was a steady procession of guest stars who had already portrayed, or would go on to portray different characters.

Under the surface, and specifically in the 1970s and 1980s, Canada's screen acting community used to be positively microscopic. On the surface Canada's screen acting community looks small. There may be more lives lost if the police can't figure out who is doing what and stop it. The owner of the place doesn't care one way or the other about the people there and has gone out of his way to avoid noticing anything. The very decrepit potential witnesses living there appear either to not remember anything or to think they saw something they didn't see. He sees a fiendishly clever criminal conspiracy with unlikely participants.

Undercover narcotics cop Dave Jefferson (Clark Johnson) thinks he knows who committed the murder and why. Midsouth precinct police Detective Kevin O'Brien (Scott Hylands) and his partner Detective Frank Giambone (Jeff Wincott) investigate after an elderly man is viciously strangled with piano wire in the garden of the seniors home he lived at.

Those happy golden years