An end-of-the-year crackdown by police in and around The Deuce sparks Vincent and Bobby. Candy tries to persuade Harvey, her adult-film director, that she can do more than act. Rudy witnesses a pivotal lower-court ruling on obscenity, and enlists Frankie and Big Mike to protect his interests in the peeps. Alston tries to convince Sandra that he's not just a “source.”
Keywords: 1970s , new-york-city , porn-industry , pornography , prostitution , drug-use , sex-trade , sexual-exploitation , times-square , 1980s , brothel , corrupt-police-officials , film-directing , hiv-aids-epidemic , peep-show , pimps , sex-shop , sex-show , sex-workers , street-walker