Even as it superficially started to resemble a more conventional procedural – with a more conventionally good-looking cast – Homicide continued to produce standout episodes. Sixth series episode, Subway, written by James Yoshimura, starred Vincent D'Onofrio as a man who is pushed under a subway train; conscious and lucid but fatally injured with less than an hour to live, he talks with Pembleton, as the latter tries to work out who is responsible. "That one was basically a two-character play," says Fontana.
