A race-car hero is under pressure: an amateur he was drag-racing lies critically injured, and the mob that finances him is upset at his lackluster racing record.
When Hardcastle and McCormick return home from the funeral of McCormick's former girl friend, they listen to a message from her on their answering machine and learn she's alive.—Leroy Philips
Hardcastle's niece Warren (McCaslin) files suit against her law school to prevent the demolition of an on-campus nightclub. Her car and apt. are vandalized by thugs looking for compromising evidence she has unknowingly gathered as part of her case prep.—Lare Watson-Haley
A hotel mogul's death reunites Hardcastle with a former movie star he once planned to marry, and involves both of them in the subsequent murder of a reporter.
Two cops kill a known drug smuggler. The son of an old friend of Hardcastle's pulls him over and asks for help in speaking to the commissioner about it, but the commissioner isn't accepting his calls. When Hardcastle brings him and Lt. Frank Harper to the meet to speak to Rafael, they find him dead. So they send McCormick in undercover as a police officer.—BUCSnCOWBOYS