The concept for Burt Reynolds's first TV series character for 20 years sounds fascinating: he plays a police detective whose method of cracking cases by thinking along the same lines as the criminal brought so much pressure that he quit the force. Hopes were soon dashed that subsequent stories would be faster-moving and have more plot than this pilot feature about a nasty psycho who rapes the daughters of rich families and dares the police to unmask him. Reynolds, though he and Tom Selleck were executive producers, approaches this interesting role too casually, and certainly gets as much acting competition as he can handle from Kristy Swanson as a feisty teenager. Helen Shaver is also good as the psychiatrist who falls for Stryker in one of the story's several unlikely turns.


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