80s/90s TV episode involving a Chinese student/political activist

February 9, 2019 8:56 PM

I have a memory of an episode of 21 Jump Street in which police go undercover at a university, and there is a Chinese foreign student who, it turns out, is also a political activist and is worried that he is being spied on by other Chinese students. However, Googling shows no such episode as existing, so I must be mixing 21 Jump Street up with some other show. What might I be thinking of?
posted by Bugbread to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

That feels Law and Order-y to me.
posted by PistachioRoux at 4:03 AM on February 10, 2019

I have a vague memory of a MacGyver episode with a similar plot.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:39 AM on February 10, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Wait, never mind, it was 21 Jump Street, it just wasn't the main part of the episode, so it was missing from the plot synopses. For reference if anyone comes across this post in the future: Season 4, Episode 13, "Research and Destroy"
posted by Bugbread at 6:49 AM on February 10, 2019 [1 favorite]