Barney Miller


Barney Miller Menu


  Experience

  Doomsday

  Evacuation

  Bus Stop

  Fire 77

  Atomic Bomb

  Graveyard Shift

  The Architect

  Lady & the Bomb



  More Barney

  Cartoon Junkies

  Message Boards

  Fiction Stories

  Submissions

  HOME



The Architect (#124)
"Don't do anything stupid, or we will."

Poor Deitrich is on an episode of restricted duty for the shit he pulled in the aptly titled "Dietrich's Arrest", and he's pretty sensitive about it, so don't bring it up.

This is a key episode in regards to Wojo's late for work excuses. Even the audience wonders if he's dying before he reveals the reason he lied is because he is sick of Barney's dumb lectures.

The Architect

It's a pretty low day for everyone really, since Barney's building is going condo and Harris can't get enough snow for a decent vacation. In this episode, architech Howard Spear sabotages the end-construction of his own building, due to a massive redesign by the owners. Intellectual superhero Deitrich - aka Literature Man - recognizes Mr. Spears reference to "The Fountainhead" and realizes he has planted a bomb in his own building.

Also, a couple of thugs stop by to spring their friend from jail, only to find out he isn't there. Most importantly, in this episode Barney asks Harris to bring him a souvenir Bola tie from his vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In the next episode, The Inventor, a hypnotized Wojo lets the captain know what they all really think.