Frank Riker is an ex-cop who, unbeknownst to all, plays the renegade’s role as a front for some undercover work for the deputy attorney general Brice Landis, who happens to be Riker’s former partner. In tonight's debut, Riker goes to the aid of an old girlfriend, Marlene, whose brother, Jack Sheridan, is being blackmailed by crooked liquor dealers Brennan and Massey. Craig is a cop with a chip on his shoulder. Riker comes to the aid of Jack Sheridan, a bar owner who is being threatened by the mob because the bar owner's sister, Marlene, is Riker's former girlfriend. He'll get involved “for old time's sake,” he tells her. That's how at least half the detectives on TV get involved in cases. In the first episode, there are a couple of car chases, fist fights, terroristic threats, arson, shootouts, beatings, and that good old reliable standby, murder. (The "victim" is the bar owner, of course, and Riker is wrongly suspected.) The criminal setup concerns itself with how the Latigo Co. headed by an oily character named Massey, is trying to push contraband liquor on nice taproom owners. Jack Sheridan (Ed Begley Jr.), a former rodeo cowboy with a bum leg, decides he can stand up to the mob (on his one good leg) because he has some photographs that incriminate Massey and the bad cop. That explains why he gets beaten to death with his cane. The bad cop is Lt. Craig. Frank Riker's boss in the attorney general's office is Brice Landis, who tells things as: “Damn. I see Big Syndicate written all over this.” Marlene is the ex-girlfriend who's out to see her brother’s death avenged.
Written by TVgy1960wXc on May 23, 2025