The Thingborrowed authentic scientific equipment from Cal Tech (the Geiger-Muller counter, for example) o supplement its crude special effects, and electronics companies were consulted before filming.John Taggart (John Ashton).The new, brash Beverly Hills Police Chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), only interested in impressing Mayor Ted Egan (Robert Ridgely) with his crime-fighting efforts, dressed down his officers - he called the "Alphabet Crimes" a local case (when he learned that Rosewood followed a hunch and called the FBI to help solve the case), and suspended commanding officer Bogomil for being an inept supervisor over his men.He had been assigned by the courts to Dr.Lecter for therapy as his patient, and during a social meeting at his home (told through flashback), he pervertedly engaged in a S&M session, including sexual asphyxiation (by hanging), drug use (under the influence of amyl nitrite), and after Lecter""s suggestion peeled the skin off his own face with a mirror shard ("It seemed like a good idea at the time") after which Lecter fed the pieces of flesh to the dogs.) A bomb device had been seen in a parked car on Parking Level 1 (in the basement) of the evacuated International Control Systems Inc.