Tina Gayle

Ponch becomes the training officer of a new rookie, Bobby Nelson, as they try to catch a pair of health-club thieves and find a runaway teenage mother who has stolen back the baby she sold.

Getraer's new car is stolen, and Ponch is saddled with trying to whip the Police Explorer Scouts into a winning basketball team--minus his star player due to bad grades.

Ponch and Bobby's assignment as security guards for Moloch, a satanic rock singer, turns into near tragedy when the singer's car takes on a life of its own, and a taped message states that the devil is going to take him. Bobby thinks it's just a publicity stunt, but Ponch believes the threat is real and questions why Moloch's manager is so unconcerned.

While attempting to break a case involving a ring of thieves using an answering service as a front, Ponch meets a kindergarten teacher who is campaigning against drunk drivers. They fall deeply in love and Ponch announces their engagement. However, their plans are shattered by a tragic event.

Ponch takes a part-time job as a model for a jeans company, but he finds that he doesn't like being an instant celebrity. He discovers stardom takes him away from his real work, the rewarding job of catching a pair of diamond thieves as well as putting behind bars a sleazy photographer who's been involved in child pornography.