Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- (as Noah Beery)
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- (as Harriet Matthey)
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- TriviaAlthough Beth Davenport (Jim's lawyer) is seen in the opening credits, she doesn't appear in this episode, nor is she mentioned. This forces Jim to defend himself in court in the opening sequence, and later make out 3 crucial legal documents.
- GoofsThere is no reason for Angel to distract the hospital front desk guy because Jim didn't use the distraction. It's just a plot device for Angel to recognize the patient.
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[last lines]
Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: I'm just glad the Agency didn't find out about my gun running days because of all this. I could have been in big trouble. I can't say anything more.
[Rockford looks on, bewildered]
Dr. Alan J. Adler: Don't give into your fears of other people and stop concocting these phony stories that evade the real issues of your life.
Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: I don't have to make up phony stories. Didn't you hear what I said? I said I was glad the Agency closed the books on us. Otherwise they might have found out about the time I was running guns down to the rebels in Guatemala, me and another guy, dead now.
[while Angel talks agents of the NIA are outside in a van, listening and recording him while he talks]
Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: That's right. We used to buy these Italian carbines from this contact in Mexico and then we'd sneak them across the border in ambulances and sell them to the guerrillas in Guatemala. Got twice for what we paid for them. That's right. The guns were rickety old things that would blow up in your face if you shot them or just sneezed...
[End theme music begins]
Before things are done both the National (Central) Intelligence Agency and a prominent Mafia crime family is involved due to the ravings of Ed Lauter and what kind of things he's spouting. Walter Brooke as the field office head of the NIA and George Loros of the crime family are an interesting pair of adversaries for Rockford. Loros especially, you feel sorry for him. Lauter is his brother-in-law and his father wants him killed, but his sister says spare him. That's why he's in the asylum in the first place.
Once again Stuart Margolin comes through for James Garner even though he has to be dragged kicking and screaming. It's the way it is for Rockford and Angel, can't live with him, can't live without him.
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- Jan 19, 2015