The show follows the adventures of Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Detective Raymond Vecchio of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes, assisted by Fraser’s companion Diefenbaker, a deaf white wolf.
The premise of such a working relationship is established in the pilot episode when Fraser requests to be posted to Chicago, to ensure that the Chicago Police follow his leads in the investigation of the murder of Fraser’s father while there is still a higher probability of catching the killer. He meets Detective Vecchio, the officer assigned to the case, who had initially dismissed said case until he meets Fraser. In the process of their investigation, Fraser also exposes an environmental corruption scandal involving some members of the RCMP, causing much embarrassment and loss of jobs in his native Northwest Territories, which leaves him persona non grata in Canada and within the RCMP, and posted permanently to Chicago.
| 2.10 Starman | Air Date: February 23, 1996 |
Ray and Benton once again encounter Ian MacDonald, the compulsive liar, this time a free man and claiming a woman he loved and proposed to, has been abducted by aliens.
