Magnum is hired by the parents of a teenage girl who escaped from captivity. They want to know what happened to her, but she insists she remembers nothing.
Tropes:
- Commonality Connection: Amanda's parents hire Magnum because of his past experience as a POW, thinking she might be more willing to talk to someone who understands what she went through. She isn't, but she does open up to Higgins.
- Damsel out of Distress: Amanda was abducted some weeks prior, but escaped. Now her parents want to know who took her.
- I Have Your Wife: Amanda was taken to blackmail her father. After her escape, the blackmailer takes her mother Mari, presumably because the spotlight on Amanda makes retaking her too risky.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Rare heroic version. After Amanda's mother, Mari, is taken, Magnum beats her location out of a suspect.Magnum: Where is she?
Higgins: [Pulls Magnum away] There's another way. [To Suspect, sympathetic] Your friends are dead. H.P.D is on the way. This is your one chance to do the right thing.
Suspect: Screw you!
Higgins: [To Magnum] Proceed.
