'Last Dance Before an Execution' Story Code '66411' by Deborah Pratt Story by Bill Bigelow, Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt

12th May 1971: Sam leaps into the body of convicted murderer Jesus Ortega, strapped into an electric chair in the last moments of his life. Luckily for Sam, Jesus is given a last-minute reprieve in response to an appeal, and granted a forty-eight hour stay of execution while an investigation is conducted into his claims that evidence was omitted from his trial. While Jesus’ attorney, Tearsa Lorrea, is overjoyed, District Attorney Theodore Moody is far from pleased, concerned that this unexpected turn of events will affect his chances of becoming Governor in a forthcoming election. After Sam is escorted back to his cell on Death Row, All arrives on the scene and explains that Jesus and his accomplice, Raul Casta, have been accused of robbing a church and killing a priest – but while they both admit to carrying out the theft, they deny committing murder. Sam must find a way to prove Jesus’ and Raul’s innocence – but with Jesus currently lying comatose in the Waiting Room, it looks like Sam’s chances of escaping death are hopeless…

Scott Bakula (Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett), Dean Stockwell (Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci), James Sloyan (Theodore Moody), Jenny Gago (Tearsa Lorrea), Julio Oscar Mechoso (Raul Casta), Christopher Allport (Alan Ripley), Leonard C. Lightfoot (Officer Little), Jack Jozefson (Officer Hudson), Michael Holden (Herb Stein), A. J. Freeman (Bart Manners), Irene Olga Lopez (Tia), Krista Muscare (Maria), Charles Woolf (Priest), Wendy Jill Gordon, Andrew Amador (Reporters), Harry Fleer, Neil Barton (Men in Jail), Stephen Domingas (Jesus Ortega / Mirror)

Directed by Michael Watkins
Executive Producer Donald P. Bellisario

TX (US): 1st May 1991

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Samuel ‘Sam’ Beckett and Rear Admiral Albert ‘Al’ Calavicci