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13. Pas de Deux

A terminally ill bank robber (Charles Rocket), who is angered by the ravages of his illness, exerts what little control he has left in life by manipulating the unwitting accomplices he enlists to assist him with committing his final robberies. Goren and Eames are forced into a race against time to foil his plan for suicide-by-cop that will take both his life and that of his latest accomplice.

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A bank robber with terminal cancer, Donny DePalma ( Charles Rocket, in his final acting role), enlists lonely unwitting accomplices into committing bank robberies with fake bombs strapped to their chests which may eventually replaced with real bombs which could kill them. Goren and Eames track him down through his latest accomplice and victim, Margie Timmons ( Enid Graham ), whom he chatted up at a dance class. When the detectives catch her and Donny in the process of preparing to stage a bank robbery which he planned as a suicide by cop, they have to convince her to give evidence against him.

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