This episode of "Mannix" seems pretty mundane at the beginning. A father and mother are involved in a custody battle and the mother has hired Mannix to track the boy down, as the father has run off with him. However, after seeing the boy and his father, someone nearly runs the boy down--and it looks deliberate. The father grabs the boy and disappears again. Later, when Mannix is able to find them again, someone once again makes an attempt--this time on the father. A third time this occurs--and the idiotic father seems a lot less concerned than I'd be!! Who wants to kill these two and why? They aren't rich, they aren't famous and the father's record is clean!
This is a pretty interesting episode of the series and pretty unique. I liked the plot but did find it odd that the father was such a butt-head about the whole thing. Still, it is very good--and a nice chance to see Christopher Knight (as the boy) in his days before playing Peter on "The Brady Bunch" as well as a chance to hear Mike Connors speak what sounds like fluent Armenian.
By the way, for about the 6 or 8th time in the show so far, Mannix suffers a head injury. According to IMDb, he ended up getting knocked out over 50 times during the series and here he smashes his head against a curb. He SHOULD have had pretty massive brain damage after just a few of these--yet, like magic, he remained in his faculties and was as effective as ever later in the series. I guess Mannix was like the Energizer Bunny...he just kept going and going and going.