Internal Affairs and a hostile district attorney investigate Kojak when a thief claims the lieutenant took a bribe.
A young woman hires Intertect to do a background check on her boyfriend. Mannix believes she is surrounded by shady characters who seek to drive her back into a mental hospital.
Mannix's former girlfriend sees a man she met on vacation but he flees, so she asks Mannix to track him down. However, things take a turn when it turns out the man is an assassin.
A Briton and a group of youths snatch a wounded boy who uttered a cryptic message to Mannix before passing out.
A burglar steals notebooks from a psychiatrist, then double crosses his accomplice and takes the notebooks for himself. One of the patients hire Intertect after being blackmailed.