I've been watching the first season of "Cannon" on DVD and I must say this is the first episode I really hated. The first 80% of the show is fine--the last 20% is pure crap! The show begins with a criminal (Daniel J. Travanti) trying to evade the police. He then pours fuel on his car and ignites it--and the cops think he's inside. However, this dirt-bag put some poor schmuck in the car and used the fire to hide the fact it wasn't him. Only one cop on the force (Martin Sheen) believes the crook is still alive and he goes to Cannon to get his help tracking the guy down. The trail leads to a bunch of bikers and they manage to capture him hiding among them. However, and here is where the show gets REALLY bad, Cannon and the cop have the prisoner and they run to the prisoner's girlfriend's restaurant to hide. Okay. Then, the woman REPEATEDLY does things to help the bikers outside kill Cannon and his client! And, each time, neither of them hurt her, tie her up or shoot her!! In this situation, I would have shot her (perhaps not fatally) and then DEFINITELY shot the wanted man, as he was wanted for several murders and it wasn't like they needed to bring him back alive! Yet, again and again, the duo let him and his girlfriend nearly get them killed!! I just wanted to scream, as none of this made any sense. Sure, the unwritten TV detective code said (at the time) not to kill prisoners, but in a case like this, I sure as heck would have roughed 'em up a bit at the very least!! One of the dumbest endings I could have imagined. What's equally ridiculous in this show? Twice, Cannon made shots with his snub-nosed .38 that would have gotten him a gold medal in the Olympics!! Insanely difficult shots to say the least!! Overall, the show looked shoddy and silly and isn't worth seeing unless you are a Travanti or Martin Sheen groupie.