Overview
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: The Illusion (1)
Sep 09, 1996
When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie t...
Episode 2: The Illusion (2)
Sep 09, 1996
When a beautiful actress helps frame movie special effects master Rollie Tyler for a vicious crime, he finds himself on the run from the law. Rollie t...
Episode 3: Zero Hour
Sep 16, 1996
While a huge bomb ticks away somewhere in the city of New York, the right-wing terrorist leader, who is in police custody, refuses to divulge it'...
Episode 4: High Risk
Sep 23, 1996
A group of desperate ex-cons attempt to rob a gold exchange on the top floor of a downtown high rise. The robbery goes sour and the crooks take a grou...
Episode 5: Payback
Sep 30, 1996
Tensions are high when Rollie decides to work on a gangster flick being directed by a director whom Angie believes was responsible for the on-set acci...
Episode 6: The Ring
Oct 07, 1996
A murderous boss of a stolen car ring slips through Leo's fingers yet again. With the help of Angie and Lucinda they get into the ""hot...
Episode 7: Dingo
Oct 14, 1996
A family reunion between Rollie and his charming con-man father, Dingo, could be their last when a ruthless bookie leans on dad to pay off a huge gamb...
Episode 8: White Light
Oct 21, 1996
When her friend, a UFO buff, is murdered, Angie gets Rollie to enlist Leo to find the killer. With the help of Lucinda, their search leads them to a t...
Episode 9: The Brotherhood
Oct 28, 1996
Rollie and Leo discover a deadly group of Irish Terrorists hatching a plot to steal the Crown Jewels of England from a New York museum where they are ...
Episode 10: French Kiss
Nov 04, 1996
A powerful bomb kills an investment banker scheduled to testify against a Colombian drug-money laundering operation, and Rollie's good friend, an...
Episode 11: Eye of the Dragon
Nov 11, 1996
Romantic sparks fly when Rollie is reunited with a beautiful Hong Kong woman while working on a martial arts action movie. But Leo suspects she's...
Episode 12: Target
Nov 18, 1996
After a protected witness is murdered, Leo enlists Rollie to help him trap a mysterious sniper who can hit a target from more than a mile away. But th...
Episode 13: Supernote
Nov 25, 1996
When a fellow cop is killed in a drug bust by a mid-eastern dignitary who claims diplomatic immunity, Leo gets Rollie to help expose the diplomat'...
Episode 14: Medea
Jan 20, 1997
Rollie works on a major Broadway show that is plagued by suspicious accidents, and it looks like the star, a fading Hollywood actress attempting a com...
Episode 15: Shivaree
Jan 27, 1997
Five years ago, three men staged a daring armored car robbery in which a young man was crippled for life. They then hid the money in a place that requ...
Episode 16: Gemini
Feb 03, 1997
When Leo sees disturbing similarities between the science fiction movie for which Rollie is providing the special effects, he begins to suspect the mo...
Episode 17: Double Image
Feb 10, 1997
Learning that a wealthy computer magnate is going to be hit, Leo calls on Rollie so he can masquerade as the intended target and thwart the assassinat...
Episode 18: Quicksilver
Feb 17, 1997
When Rollie discovers a sinister international arms smuggler named Victor Loubar has stolen his identity, he teams up with FBI agent Elena Serrano to ...
Episode 19: Get Fast
Apr 21, 1997
When a drug dealer and hopped-up movie star get Rollie fired from his movie job, he teams up with Detective Francis Gatti and an embittered Narcotics ...
Episode 20: Bad Influence
Apr 28, 1997
Rollie is helping students make a video for a class project when a band of armed men invades the high school and takes over. Trapped and badly wounded...
Episode 21: Reunion
May 05, 1997
An innocent meeting with an old school chum becomes a race against death for Angie when she is mistaken for a woman who possesses proof of a prominent...
Episode 22: Script Doctor
May 12, 1997
Weary of having his work ruined by others, Rollie jumps at the chance to direct a low-budget ""heist"" movie. But he and Leo disco...
