An over-zealous Emergency Task Force Leader (Leslie Nielsen) is sent in to back-up Raitt and Olsen during a tension-filled hostage-taking incident during which the hostage and her captor develop a warm relationship.

Comedian Jack Duffy takes on a dramatic role as a hired killer who mistakenly murders a community lawyer, triggering an investigation by Raitt and Olsen. This leads them to uncover a string of fraudulent dealings within the upper-class society.

In this episode, to prevent an unwanted horse from being destroyed, Sgts. Raitt and Olsen claim, and enter him in Quarter Horse Competition. At the Quarter Horse Show, Raitt and Olsen run up against a con artist and a pretty young woman who has double-crossed.