About
The mysterious Mr. Chapel helps others to gain vengeance against criminals… VENGEANCE UNLIMITED was an American crime drama series broadcast during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen and Kathleen York. The show originally aired Thursdays at 8:00 pm up against NBC's Top 5 hits Friends and Jesse.
Cast
Kathleen York
as KC Griffin
Michael Madsen
as Mr. Chapel
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Cruel and Unusual
A secretary discovers evidence of her boss' drug smuggling operation. She is murdered before the evidence can reach the police. Her widower is then set up as the killer. Soon the husband is contacted by a mysterious Mr Chapel, who promises that the real culprit will be brought to justice. Chapel collects the favour of a former client, KC, who works at the DA's office, in order to get more information on the lawyer who helped to set the real villain free. Chapel proceeds to threaten the lawyer, using an explosive car, a mirror and two keys. KC is then set up as a hooker and sent to the drug smuggler. Chapel takes pictures of them, and then dumps a dead hooker in the drug smuggler's bath tub. He then uses the old divide and conquer technique to really get things going.
Victim of Circumstances
FBI catches a suspected serial murderer through identification of his shoes. But after he's been jailed, evidence surfaces that exhonorates the suspect, and claims that the real serial murderer is dead. The FBI profiler, Dr Walker, doesn't want to admits his mistake and buries all evidence. When Mr Chapel finds out about this, he and KC, blackmails the second in command at the FBI profiling division. Chapel then starts to harass Dr Walker over the phone, and teasing him about catching the wrong man. He uses the favour of a client to make it appear that the killer has struck again, just to tick Dr Walker off, but Walker is no fool, and uses his knowledge to profile Chapel.
Eden
A young couple is framed for drug dealing, just so that the local sheriff can confiscate their boat. The husband protests and is shot. A deputy who doesn't like being involved in bloodshed is murdered and the body is hidden. Then Chapel enters the picture. He starts by trying to sow dissension in the group - claiming that another deputy is talking to the feds, while the mayor's phone records say that he also has been talking to the police. Soon the group starts making demands on Chapel to back up his story, which may result in Chapel having to kill his client.
Bitter End
The only witness to a murder, Pam Broder, is stalked by the killer from inside the prison through anonymous threat letters. Then the killer is set free. Chapel decides she needs protection, and enlists the help of Chuck Bidally, an ex-cop. But the killer, Hix, soon discovers that he's followed by Chapel, and evades him. He makes an attack on Pam, but in reality it's only a warning to Chapel. The warning turns into reality when Pam's brother is framed, and then killed - inside the police station. Chapel seems always to be two steps behind, and Hix has only begun his mission...
Justice
During the protection of a witness and his wife in a arms deal trial, the wife is kidnapped. Now the witness isn't equally motivated to testify. Chapel plans to put the claustrophobic arms dealer in a box to make him talk, but a zealous cop instead puts him in jail. Chapel enlists a guard inside the prison (from Bitter end) to help him play with the drug dealers mind. But can a crooked guard really be trusted? And where will the racist gun buyers fit into all this?
Ambition
One of KC's closest friends calls to tell KC that she's pregnant with married senator Hayworth. When she later tells Hayworth the news, he doesn't want anything to do with her. Crying, she drives off the road. The senator doesn't help her, but lets her die. KC is set up at the senator's headquarters as a campaigne worker. At the same time the senator recieces a letter from someone who claims that he/she knows about the baby. Chapel poses as a trouble shooter sent from a friend of the senator's family Things get worse for the senator after KC manages to copy miltary secrets, and makes the senator a suspect. Later Chapel contacts a known arms dealer to sell the secrets...
Security
KC and Chapel accidentally oversees a woman who claims that a man she meets on the street is colonel Oscar Ponce, a former war criminal from South America. Ponce tries to kill her. Chapel saves her, but she doesn't want Chapel's help - she's done hiding, she claims, so Chapel has to lock her up. He enlists a State Department agent to trace Ponce's superior, general Romano, and says to Ponce that he's out to save their lives. But Chapel hasn't counted on how strongly the south american woman wants revenge, and how cunning she is. Can he keep up?
Dishonorable Discharge
Two captains in the army rapes a woman, but somehow manages to escape conviction. Chuck Bidally, a former client of Chapel's, can't even convince the DA to reopen the case after the fingerprints get a match, since the statute of limitation has expired. Bidally takes the case to Chapel, who gives the rapists a taste of their own medicine, by first making them feel isolated from the rest of the soldiers with a phony gay love letter. Later he sends a hooker after one of them in search for a ""Clinton corsage"". Together with Bidally's planted evidence in one of their houses, and a colonel's crashed car, the rapists face a dire situation.
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