Forney is hampered in his pursuit of a robbery suspect by a sergeant who claims she's after gunrunners.
One of Forney's parolee's seeks revenge when his friend is killed. Forney must save one of his charges from a destructive path.
Forney and the parolees try to flush out a thief who is trying to bankrupt fashion shop owner Sam Strawn (Eddie Barth).
Harriet helps Forney infiltrate a posh country club where one of the members may be trading classified defense plans for diamonds.
Dennis leads an eager newsman on a hunt for a vanished criminal, interfering with Forney's search for a skid-row slayer.
Harriet is taken hostage during a bank robbery, and Delia has to coerce Kiner to allow Forney to work on the case.
A killer of young, pretty women strikes again and a police artist's sketch makes Dennis Shothoffer look like Forney's Michael Nouri) chief suspect on a special edition of "Downtown". The killer is known to frequent singles bars to select his victims, whom he later binds with tape before strangling them. When a lonely Shothoffer visits a singles bar and stumbles upon the killer's latest victim, everyone but Forney believes he is the killer.
Forney's pursuit of a brutal gang gets him suspended, but when an innocent person takes a bullet intended for Forney, he takes action.
Jesse's excitement about her marine brother finally coming home from Beirut turns sour when she finds out why he's late.
Kiner is obsessed with proving that a senator friend of his did not commit suicide but was murdered.
A blind street vendor's daughter is the target of a recently released convict after she runs into one of his men leaving a market right before it explodes.
A rock singer attempting a comeback is attacked by a mysterious gunman, and Forney is assigned to the case.
John Forney, an LA detective, has a confrontation with his superiors and ends up watching four parolees. He is tracking two dangerous killers and his parolees come in handy to trap them.