Recap / The F.B.I.

NOTE: Plot descriptions are adapted from the series' episode guide at Wikipedia.

Season One

1. "The Monster": Erskine and Rhodes are assigned to track down Francis Jerome (Jeffrey Hunter), an extortionist who has escaped from a federal prison in Pennsylvania. Erskine must also confront a number of personal issues when a woman involved in the case takes a liking to him.
2. "Image in a Cracked Mirror": Erskine and Rhodes are assigned to track down a bank embezzler (Jack Klugman). The title stems from the fact that Erskine recognizes traits he shares with the embezzler, such as the fact both men served during the Korean War and both are fathers whose wife has died.
3. "A Mouthful of Dust": Joe Cloud, a Native American who served under Erskine during the Korean War, kills a man who was trying to rape his wife. Cloud flees custody and Erskine attempts to bring him in while trying to keep Cloud from harm.
4. "Slow March Up a Steep Hill": Erskine faces problems in his personal life and at work at the same time. His 19-year-old daughter, Barbara, insists on marrying his partner, Rhodes, right now. Meanwhile, assistant director Arthur Ward questions Erskine's approach to catching a bank robber; a man has already confessed to the crimes, but Erskine is convinced the illegitimate son (Pete Duel) of another bank robber is the real culprit.
5. "The Insolents": Rhodes must confront his own emotions about an incident in his past as he investigates a spoiled young playboy accused of a murder on a cruise ship.
6. "To Free My Enemy": A pornographer that Erskine has been pursuing is about to flee the country, but is kidnapped before he can do so. Now the FBI man has to smash the kidnapping plot, although it will mean helping the pornographer escape.
7. "The Problem of the Honorable Wife": Erskine and Rhodes investigate a group of saboteurs in San Francisco. The title refers to the wife of one of the saboteurs; the wife, who is Japanese, is unaware of her husband's illegal activities.
8. "Courage of a Conviction": In St. Louis, Erskine and Rhodes arrest a man they think is a notorious check forger. The arrest has been made with the assistance of an old friend of Erskine's, but the FBI investigator has doubts they've really arrested the right man.
9. "The Exiles": Exiles from a South American country are trying to organize a coup of their former land. What they don't know is they have a mole among them: Erskine is assigned to infiltrate the exiles, who are based in Miami, by pretending to be a mercenary.
10. "The Giant Killer": A deranged man (Robert Duvall) is planning on destroying an American test rocket. He has left a series of cryptic radio messages across the U.S.
11. "All the Streets Are Silent": In California, a gang led by the Murtaugh brothers (Burt Reynolds and Joe Maross) has stolen weapons from the U.S. military. Erskine and Rhodes are assigned to capture the gang.^note This is the episode featured in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
12. "An Elephant Is Like a Rope": A young man (Beau Bridges) drives to FBI headquarters from Virginia. He is carrying a large amount of cash and has been shot. He also can't remember his own identity. The title stems from the story of blind men trying to establish what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of the animal; that story summarizes the challenge facing Erskine and Rhodes as they try to reconstruct what happened. On top of that, a pair of hit men are stalking the boy.
13. "How to Murder an Iron Horse": A disturbed young man blows up a freight train. He is now blackmailing the railroad — he'll do the same to a passenger train unless he is paid $100,000.
14. "Pound of Flesh": The wife of a U.S. military chaplain (Leslie Nielsen) is murdered. The accused (Bruce Dern) is a soldier with a shaky record. The town surrounding the base is on edge, complicating the investigation of Erskine and Rhodes.
15. "The Hijackers": Erskine and Rhodes are sent to Milwaukee to investigate a truck hijacking. The FBI thinks it is the work of an interstate hijacking ring. In reality, it was organized by an employee of a trucking company who was forced to retire. At the same time, Erskine tries to make time to visit his uncle, who suffers from being alone.
16. "The Forests of the Night": In Oregon, members of a religious colony have incurred jealousy and ire from residents of a town. The young son of the colony's leader has reported he was beaten. Erskine and Rhodes are thrust into the middle of the situation, which is as combustible as the nearby forests which have endured a 97-day drought.
17. "The Chameleon": Erskine and Rhodes are tracking a man who seduces and then kills wealthy widows. Can they reach him before he kills again? It turns out the killer has deep psychological issues about being adopted. Erskine is able to use that fact to his advantage in the investigation.
18. "The Sacrifice": A defecting Soviet diplomat informs the FBI that a major Southern California defense contractor is the source of a security leak. Erskine and Rhodes assume cover identities. Meanwhile, the leader of a Soviet spy ring prepares to sacrifice one of the collaborators to throw the FBI off the scent.
19. "Special Delivery": The FBI investigates a group that transports fugitives out of the country. Erskine, again assuming an undercover identity, is sharing a ride with a wounded criminal and his girlfriend.
20. "Quantico": An FBI trainee, one of the best who has ever gone through the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, discovers a cousin is the man who is trying to blow up a federal building in Washington.
21. "The Spy-Master": A U.S. diplomat is approached by the Chinese government to provide sensitive information; the Chinese are specifically seeking the contents of a document known as the Forsythe Memo. Erskine impersonates the diplomat to infiltrate the spy ring.
22. "The Baby Sitter": A mentally ill woman who is babysitting an infant, abducts the child. Erskine and Rhodes track the woman across several states. The FBI agents must figure out the kidnapper's motivation and why the date of April 2 is so significant to her
23. "Flight to Harbin": A man hijacks a plane bound for Seattle. He forces it to fly to Alaska, where it is to refuel before heading to Harbin, China. The hijacker turns out to be a U.S. scientist. Assistant Director Ward tells Erskine the man and his knowledge must not be allowed to reach China — at any cost.
24. "The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake": Chicago businessman Mark Tabor, who has ties to organized crime, is about to go on trial for fraud. Tabor narrowly escapes a hit attempt, and has himself committed to an asylum. Erskine poses as a patient to prove that Tabor is faking.
25. "The Divided Man": Roger Leroy Mason (Bradford Dillman), a research chemist, cracks under pressure from both his job and personal life. He has sabotaged one facility of a chemical company that is interested in bidding on a process his firm has developed. That incident resulted in a massive fire. The FBI races to find Mason before other chemical facilities are destroyed.
26. "The Defector: Part 1": Dr. Gregory Holman is in Washington playing in a chess tournament. He is also an intelligence operative for an Eastern European country and may be ready to defect to the United States. Seemingly killed in an explosion, Holman is actually alive and on the run, and both countries are trying to find him.
27. "The Defector: Part 2": Erskine and his team finally track down Holman, who won't defect until he's sure that his children, who are still in his home country, are safe.
28. "The Tormentors": Dan Winslow (Kurt Russell), the son of a rich man, is kidnapped by the mentally unstable Dupree (Wayne Rogers), who wants $300,000 and has no intention of letting Dan go free. Erskine must contend with Dan's bull-headed father (Lew Ayres), who wants to do things his own way, which includes offering a large reward for information about the kidnapping.
29. "The Animal": The murderous Earl Clayton (Charles Bronson) leads four other criminals in an escape from a New Mexico jail. Erskine and Rhodes are sent after Clayton, who is in a remote lodge with hostages.^note No relation to the ninth season episode with the same title.
30. "The Plunderers": A bank in Baltimore is robbed. The crime was obviously well planned, yet the criminals only steal $12,000 when much more could have been taken. Erskine and Rhodes dig deeper to find a deceased bank robber in the 1940s would rob a small bank as a practice run before striking a richer target. Now, the FBI must comb through all the dead robber's cell mates to find who is adopting his tactics. A missing button from the Baltimore robbery will prove to be a major clue.
31. "The Bomb That Walked Like a Man": Dale Hillman kidnaps and kills the daughter of a police chief. The reason: Hillman had been rejected while applying for a position with the department because of an eye defect. The FBI is called into the case. In the meantime, Hillman joins an extremist group. Erskine infiltrates the group to get the evidence needed to put Hillman away for good.
32. "The Hiding Place": Erskine and Rhodes are sent to a small town in Oregon with a predominant Asian American population. Evidence has surfaced that one of its residents may have been a traitor during World War II, serving as a Japanese officer without ever renouncing his U.S. citizenship. The one-time officer also was involved in torture during the war. To find the man, the agents eventually must seek the aid of one of the torture victims from the war.

Season Two

1. "The Price of Death": A gang of kidnappers preys on middle-class families; based in Reno, they identify men who have won money gambling, then kidnap their children.
2. "The Escape": A convicted murderer (Roy Thinnes) is freed during a brazen escape that results in the deaths of three law-enforcement officers, one of whom was a good friend of Inspector Erskine.
3. "The Assassin": Bishop John Atwood, a peace activist, is coming to the U.S. to deliver a speech. He has been targeted for assassination by Anton Christopher (William Windom), who has never been photographed. Neither the FBI nor the bishop knows that one of the bishop's closest friends is part of the plot.
4. "The Cave-In": The FBI is called in to investigate a case of sabotage at a tungsten mine in New Mexico; the bureau is concerned because the metal is vital for U.S. defense and aerospace efforts. But the sabotage has nothing to do with the Cold War. Rather, it is the work of Tom Rule, whose son was killed at the mine, and who wants to prevent his grandson from working there.
5. "The Scourge": Erskine and Rhodes are investigating Johnny Albin (Robert Duvall), a "juicer" who makes loans to desperate businessmen and then uses his leverage to take control of their companies for Cosa Nostra boss Mark Vincent. Erskine hopes to use Albin to get to Vincent, who controls a savings-and-loan and other legitimate business fronts.
6. "The Plague Merchant": A chemist, facing escalating medical bills because his daughter may lose her leg, steals flasks he thinks contains a new lotion. In reality, he has taken a powerful bacteria that will wipe out all forms of life within a certain area. A spy wants to sell the bacteria to a country hostile to the United States. Erskine and Rhodes are dispatched to track down the missing flasks which have the potential to wipe out millions of lives.
7. "Ordeal": Thieves steal an experimental form of nitrogylcerin, which is especially volatile. A guard is killed in the robbery and one of the thieves is also killed because he can't take the stress. The thieves recruit Carl Munger, an experienced truck driver who has hauled nitrogylcerin before and needs the money. Rhodes, posing as an out-of-work truck driver, wins Munger's trust and joins him in hauling the explosive chemical.
8. "Collision Course": Frank Schroeder (Jack Lord) is hitchhiking, and is picked up by a motorist in the Southwest. Schroeder then kills the motorist in cold blood. Now, the FBI has launched a manhunt for Schroeder and puts him on the agency's Ten Most Wanted list. Erskine and Rhodes try to trace Schroeder's bloody trail, which will result in the death of a pawn broker.
9. "Vendetta": Otto Mann, a Nazi hunter, wants to help Erskine capture Karl Schindler, former Nazi officer and current Communist spy. However, Erskine wants to capture Schindler alive because of his knowledge of U.S.-based agents, and Mann may want him dead because Otto's wife died in a concentration camp under Schindler.
10. "Anatomy of a Prison Break": A dying inmate in a Colorado federal prison tells the warden that a break-out is going to happen; because the prison houses some of the worst criminals in U.S. custody, the FBI is called into the case. Erskine goes undercover as the new cell mate of Fritz Moline, who's suspected of organizing the escape.
11. "The Contaminator": A Communist spy has stolen secrets from an atomic laboratory in Idaho; in the course of the theft, he caused an accident involving atomic materials and is now contaminated with radiation. Erskine is on his trail, unaware of his condition.
12. "The Camel's Nose": A company aircraft of Colton Industries, a Detroit-based defense contractor, explodes in mid-air, killing one of the partners of the company; he was headed to Washington because he was going to blow the whistle about defective aircraft components that Colton Industries was shipping to Vietnam. As Erkine and Rhodes investigate, Assistant Director Arthur Ward takes an interest in the case because he's a friend of Elyse Colton, the wife of the surviving partner (Fritz Weaver).
13. "List for a Firing Squad": Istvan Sladek, an agent for a Communist Eastern European nation who is operating in the U.S., has obtained a coded list of opposition leaders in his country. But in getting the list, he fatally shot the editor of a newspaper for Slavic Americans. Erkine and Rhodes lead the FBI's hunt for Sladek. At the same time, Sladek knows agents of his country will liquidate him the moment he gives up the list. Complicating all of this is the fact Sladek, during the preceding six months, fell in love with a woman (Suzanne Pleshette) who immigrated from his country.
14. "The Death Wind": Jennerson (Ralph Bellamy), the captain of a freight ship, loses his vessel when it hits what appears to be an old mine. The event is viewed as a tragic accident, which cost the life of one of Jennerson's crew. However, the FBI, led by Erskine and Rhodes, is following up indications the incident was deliberately staged.
15. "The Raid": A phone call from a mortally wounded ex-convict puts the FBI on the trail of The Iceman, a killer who's part of a gang of bank robbers.
16. "Passage into Fear": A witness in a trial against an intelligence operative of a Communist nation panics and flees to Quebec, unaware that assassins are on the train with her. Erskine and Rhodes manage to get aboard and try to protect her.
17. "The Courier": The agents look for proof that humanitarian Juliet Sinclair (Ruth Roman), recently arrived from her orphanage in Asia, is a Communist courier.
18. "A Question of Guilt": Erskine investigates the murder of a drug addict allegedly beaten to death by a veteran police detective. Complicating the case is a newsman's inflammatory charges of police brutality.
19. "The Gray Passenger": Investigating a shipboard murder, the agents undercover a plot to aid guerrillas in a strife-torn Latin-American republic.
20. "The Conspirators": While investigating a Communist-inspired murder, Erskine uncovers a plot to blow up a military supply ship bound for the Orient.
21. "Rope of Gold": Erskine becomes involved in international intrigue when he learns that stolen truck cargoes have surfaced behind the Iron Curtain.
22. "The Hostage": Enemy agents kidnap an esteemed European statesman in a plot to exchange him for a captured Communist spy.
23. "Sky on Fire": After George Bellamy (Bradford Dillman) accidentally kills a man (Charles Grodin), he desperately starts a fire, which he knows will set off a broader blaze, to cover up the crime. He proceeds to set off even more fires to make the FBI think they're after a firebug.
24. "Flight Plan": The FBI searches for an art thief trying to kill the one person who can identify him: a woman who wrecked his intricate escape plan.
25. "The Executioners: Part 1": Double dealing within the sprawling crime syndicate known as La Cosa Nostra causes a major war for control.
26. "The Executioners: Part 2": A Cosa Nostra czar plots the death of a possible witness (Telly Savalas) against the crime syndicate.
27. "The Satellite": The agents probe a kidnapping with a cruel twist: the victim's parents are also being plagued by an extortionist.
28. "Force of Nature": The agents race a killer and a hurricane to an abandoned house, where the criminal's terrified wife has fled from her ex-husband.
29. "The Extortionist": A bigot (Wayne Rogers) is trying to extort money from a Mexican-American rancher.

Season Three

1. "The Gold Card": Erskine joins a syndicate poker game that may cost him his life: All the players have been marked for death.
2. "Counter-Stroke": Operating undercover, Erskine poses as a Red courier to reach the top Communist in the U.S. Nearing his quarry, the G-man finds himself trapped in a bloody Moscow-Peking power play.
3. "Blood Verdict": The F.B.I. moves to thwart jury tampering by the father of a man on trial for murder when a juror dies under mysterious circumstances and the wife of another juror is threatened.
4. "Traitor": Erskine uncovers a plot to steal top secret missile data that involves two estranged brothers and the woman they both ended up marrying.
5. "By Force and Violence: Part 1": Erskine connects the kidnapping of a teenage boy to a heist planned by the boy's long-lost father, a criminal who's being forced by his son's kidnappers.
6. "By Force and Violence: Part 2": Trailing the kidnappers, Erskine uncovers plans for a three-million-dollar robbery by the boy's father.
7. "A Sleeper Wakes": The murder of a civil servant brings the FBI into an espionage case involving a Communist news service in Mexico City.
8. "Overload": The FBI searches for an ex-convict bent on murdering the girl whose testimony sent him to prison. Their efforts are hindered by a blackout that has left most of the eastern states powerless, including the Baltimore area, where their investigation leads them.
9. "Line of Fire": The F.B.I. tracks one of the 10 most-wanted criminals (Henry Silva). Trapped in the manhunt: a nurse held hostage by the wounded fugitive.
10. "Blueprint for Betrayal": A murder investigation implicates a Communist embassy, leading Erskine to suspect that a spy ring is operating in Washington.
11. "False Witness": As Erskine tries to clear Lynn Hallet of bank robbery, her boyfriend (Pete Duel) plans a theft in which she will play a pivotal role.
12. "The Legend of John Rim": In a Gulf Coast city, Erskine runs up against a stone wall of prejudice in his pursuit of murderer John Rim (Tom Skerritt). A local hero, Rim enjoys the sanctuary afforded by an impenetrable swamp and townsfolk who refuse to co-operate with the FBI.
13. "The Dynasty": A millionaire refuses to pay the ransom to kidnappers (Edward Asner and Martin Sheen) for his brother, forcing the F.B.I. to move fast in order to save the victim's life.
14. "The Daughter": A long-lost daughter (Julie Sommars) helps the F.B.I. unmask a Communist spy (Michael Rennie) who has taken the identity of a dead American.
15. "Act of Violence": Two murders, ten years and 3,000 miles apart, put Erskine and Colby on the trail of Cosa Nostra boss John Duquesne (Burt Reynolds).
16. "Crisis Ground": An unsolved homicide ignites a town's hatred for a nearby job training camp into a riot.
17. "Ring of Steel": The unexplained death of a race car driver places Erskine on the trail of a stolen car ring.
18. "The Homecoming": John Streyer, a scientist who'd defected to East Germany 15 years earlier after participating in an espionage ring, has decided to return to the U.S. Two representatives of a nation "unfriendly to the United States" attempt to detain Streyer at JFK International Airport, but he gets away. Assistant Director Arthur Ward, already in New York on FBI business, works in the field with Erskine and Colby on the case.
19. "The Phone Call": An Army sergeant who has just returned from service in Vietnam finds his wife had died under mysterious circumstances the night before his return.
20. "Region of Peril": Erskine sends a secret radio message to a woman (Anne Baxter) who was kidnapped during a house robbery to aid her rescue.
21. "Southwind": The F.B.I. and a mob hitman both try to catch up with a bank embezzler (Bradford Dillman) who has fled to the Caribbean.
22. "The Messenger": During the holdup of a Wall Street brokerage firm, a guard is killed and a messenger with a briefcase is taken hostage; the messenger's life was spared only because he was recognized by one of the robbers as the nephew of a Cosa Nostra crime boss.
23. "The Ninth Man": The F.B.I. hunts down a $2,000,000 treasure and the armored car robbers who buried their ill-gotten loot.
24. "The Mechanized Accomplice": Erskine races a time bomb for the life of a kidnapped youth (Bobby Sherman).
25. "The Predators": A vessel has been revamped by the Cosa Nostra into being a cruise ship, with illegal gambling. But the mob is after bigger game: a promising politician is being set up to be blackmailed, so the mob can gain control of a state. Erskine goes undercover as a passenger on the cruise ship. But a member of Cosa Nostra's high commission is also aboard... and he can recognize Erskine.
26. "The Tunnel": The F.B.I. goes after bank robbers who use a tunnel to penetrate the vault.
27. "The Mercenary": Erskine uncovers a Communist spy whose pretty wife is the lure in a plot to acquire top secret information via blackmail.

Season Four

1. "Wind It Up and It Betrays You": A dead man's hearing aid containing microfilm has the FBI uncovering an espionage ring.
2. "Out of Control": Erskine, Colby, and Assistant Director Ward track down an oil field killer.
3. "The Quarry": Erskine must prevent the murder of syndicate errand boy Mike Riley (Dean Stockwell), who is needed by the FBI to net a bigger fish.
4. "The Runaways": A killer picks for his robbery victims a happy family of four living on a farm.
5. "Death of a Fixer": Erskine poses as a vacationer to nab a syndicate captain at a resort.
6. "The Enemies": The FBI follows a trail of blood in the hunt for a deadly Communist spy (Jeffrey Hunter) who's out to steal a top secret rocket fuel.
7. "The Nightmare": Erskine hunts down a bank embezzler (William Windom), and also tries to protect him from criminals (Bruce Dern and Lane Bradbury) helping in his escape.
8. "Breakthrough": Erskine gambles that Vincent Gray, a marked man in the syndicate, will turn stool pigeon in exchange for FBI protection.
9. "The Harvest": A holdup man's love for a woman forces him into a shootout with a crew of FBI agents.
10. "The Intermediary": Erskine is the go-between for a jeweler seeking the return of stolen diamonds.
11. "The Butcher": Erskine hunts down a wartime SS colonel (Charles Korvin) who is still promoting Nazi ideals.
12. "The Flaw": Erskine snares a spy ring and in turn is trapped by them in a deserted mountain cabin.
13. "The Hero": A con man wears a US Air Force uniform to entice women to marry him. He then murders or otherwise cheats them.
14. "The Widow": Erskine traps a go-go dancer who conspires to marry military service men and collects their insurance money when her boyfriend murders them.
15. "Eye of the Storm": Erskine and Colby search for a kidnapped African-American baby who is hiding in a plague-infested ghetto.
16. "The Fraud": Erskine fights the Mafia's entry into selling fake masterpiece paintings.
17. "A Life in the Balance": Blood at the sight of a kidnapping drives Erskine to act immediately without waiting for the ransom payment from the kidnappers.
18. "Caesar's Wife": Erskine trails a Parisian suspected of using her charms to extract state secrets from a widowed diplomat, which raises the suspicions of his son (Harrison Ford).
19. "The Patriot": As a syndicate kidnapper dogs his trail, a publisher declines FBI protection, unaware that his best friend is working with the mob.
20. "The Maze": In San Diego, a fugitive dodges G-men and syndicate executioners to avenge the narcotics-induced death of a friend's daughter.
21. "The Attorney": The FBI spent five years trying to bring a hood to trial, only to be confronted with a plot to kill the man's defense attorney that's masterminded by a man who is embittered toward the attorney for declining to defend his condemned son who was later executed.
22. "The Catalyst": A hijacked airliner crash lands on its forced flight to Latin America, involving Erskine in a drama of survival with a female defector. He's escorting her to a congressional hearing in Washington; the hijacker is a Communist ordered to stop her.
23. "Conspiracy of Silence": The FBI searches for three missing murder witnesses who are unaware that they're marked for execution by the syndicate.
24. "The Young Warriors": Murder on an Indian reservation sparks an FBI probe that could ignite an explosion between young braves and encroaching miners.
25. "The Cober List": A syndicate family is rocked by an internal struggle, providing a crack in mob security that could lead the FBI to a chain of numbers racketeers.
26. "Moment of Truth": A banker runs a loan-sharking ring from his bank, specializing in ripping off ex-servicemen who have been rejected for a normal loan at his bank. The crime that garners the attention of the FBI is the murder of a serviceman on a government reservation who could not pay the outrageous interest on a "loan."

Season Five

1. "Target of Interest": Erskine poses as a lovelorn diplomat to provide fresh bait for an extortion ring suspected of having blackmailed a diplomat to suicide.
2. "Nightmare Road": Erskine spearheads a manhunt for a fugitive (Robert Duvall) who gunned down an FBI agent. Caught up in the hunt are an engaged couple with criminal records who were frightened into helping the gunman escape to Mexico.
3. "The Swindler": The FBI picks up the trail of a bank cashier's murderer. A man of rare ingenuity and charm, the killer has already begun to involve a female banker (Vera Miles) in an extraordinary embezzlement scheme.
4. "Boomerang": Terry Shelton (Jeff Bridges) fakes his own kidnapping in an attempt to extort money from his hated father. The plot boomerangs into a knotty case for the FBI when an accomplice makes the abduction real and the elder Shelton insists on handling the ransom drop his own way.
5. "Silent Partners": A juror who took a Mafia bribe repents too late. With the FBI probing his sudden affluence, Steve Harber falls prey to a blackmailer who saw him take the bribe. Meanwhile, the Mafia begins its deadly work to avoid prosecution.
6. "Gamble with Death": An honest man takes a dangerous gamble to clear his imprisoned brother of murder.
7. "Flight": Erskine urges the hijacker of a Cuban-bound plane to land immediately to save the life of a wounded passenger.
8. "The Challenge": The unhappy wife of a top-security engineer becomes a dupe in an amorous master spy's (Fritz Weaver) efforts to sabotage a sensitive American industry.
9. "Blood Tie": On the run from the FBI, Ricky Kriton takes shelter with his brother, a staid businessman ignorant of Ricky's criminal past.
10. "The Sanctuary": FBI agent Harry Dane leads a treacherous ghetto search for an ex-football star (Billy Dee Williams) wanted for robbery and murder.
11. "Scapegoat": A young woman is killed on U.S. government property. The M.O. is identical to an earlier crime — except a man (Harrison Ford) was arrested and convicted of that crime. Erskine and Colby investigate whether the wrong man was convicted in the earlier death.
12. "The Inside Man": Erskine and Colby uncover the "inside man" in a series of jewelry heists from New York City's diamond district.
13. "The Prey": One of the FBI's most wanted men uses a beautiful nurse as his accomplice in a cruel con game aimed at the aged and infirm. She draws a bead on her patients' assets — then he strikes.
14. "Journey Into Night": Escaped federal prisoner David Starret (John Vernon) kidnaps his own son from the son's foster parents in Albany and takes him to Texas.
15. "The Doll Courier": The FBI goes after Communist agents who use the head of a porcelain doll to transport top secret microfilm.
16. "Tug-of-War": The murder of a stockbroker unearths a new syndicate enterprise: using certificates, extorted from stockbrokers, as collateral for large bank loans.
17. "Fatal Impostor": A tense chase begins when a widow and her son (David Cassidy) are taken hostage by a fugitive.
18. "Conspiracy of Corruption": A sheriff is Erskine's chief suspect in a shooting linked to the illegal transportation of foreign laborers.
19. "The Diamond Millstone": Big-time fences and gem cutters are put under surveillance after the theft of a 33-carat diamond. The well-laid plan goes haywire at a crucial rendezvous: the fence is captured, but the thief and the gem get away.
20. "Deadly Reunion": Matt Bernhardt is a member of a spy ring under investigation, and when he is apprehended his nephew is wounded. Erskine goes undercover as the nephew and his investigation leads him to West Berlin and a plot to get the ringleader's wife out of East Berlin.
21. "Pressure Point": An up-and-coming gambling operator works himself into a dangerous bind between his syndicate protectors and the FBI.
22. "Summer Terror": With the FBI far behind, a kidnap victim has only one hope: one of the abductors is growing fond of her.
23. "Return to Power": Erskine capitalizes on a blood feud between half-brothers to lead him to secret Mafia financial records.
24. "The Dealer": Erskine goes undercover driving big rigs to obtain evidence against an interstate hijacking ring. Colby also goes undercover as a shipping clerk; he is injured in the line of duty when an ex-con reveals that Colby was not a convict.
25. "Deadfall": False leads hamper the FBI's search for the kidnapped wife of a sports-arena cashier.
26. "The Quest": Walker Carr, who allegedly murdered his wife, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, convinced that she's alive. Carr has no memory of the crime, a body was never found, and even Erskine doubts Carr's guilt as the manhunt quickens.

Season Six

1. "The Condemned": Erskine and Colby pursue two Philadelphia bank robbers (Martin Sheen and Tim McIntyre) across the country.
2. "The Traitor": After a portion of a top-secret formula is found concealed on the body of a technical publication editor for a major research firm who died in an elevator accident, Erskine searches for evidence of espionage and discovers an employee (Bradford Dillman) has accepted money from a traitor (Wayne Rogers).
3. "Escape to Terror": A fugitive who jumps bail after being indicted for fraud, but the plan goes wrong when his pregnant wife runs into trouble and the Mafia wants his cousin's husband to kill him.
4. "The Architect": Three prisoners (Monte Markham, Billy Dee Williams and Dabbs Greer) escape the bus en route to the prison, with the trio plotting a Miami bank robbery that could kill innocent people.
5. "The Savage Wilderness": A teenage girl is kidnapped and taken by a mentally disturbed man into the California National Forest Preserve.
6. "Time Bomb": The plan of young revolutionaries to set off a bomb in a crowded courthouse results in a frantic search by the FBI.
7. "The Innocents": A seven-year-old boy is kidnapped and held for ransom by an emotionally unstable woman (Lois Nettleton) and her alcoholic husband.
8. "The Deadly Pact": Loan sharks that are backed by a Mafia figure (Robert Loggia) are out to take over companies in an African-American section of Los Angeles.
9. "The Impersonator": A suave ex-convict who preys on wealthy, lonely women has proposed marriage to a young widow while he's the target of an FBI manhunt.
10. "Antennae of Death": A major crime syndicate is under investigation for moving large shipments of heroin across the United States border, but a rogue operator (William Shatner) with his own drug problem hijacks a payment.
11. "The Target": A foreign agent (Eric Braeden) enters the United States to abduct the daughter of a top Communist minister who has defected to Western Europe.
12. "The Witness": The spoiled son of a wealthy businessman is being used by a crime syndicate after he inadvertently causes severe injuries to a soldier.
13. "Incident in the Desert": A gang of jewel thieves heads to a New Mexico hideout after robbing a wealthy Texan and his guests during a party.
14. "The Inheritors": An embezzler and his beautiful accomplice (Suzanne Pleshette) head to California wine country in order to fleece an aging millionaire wine grower, with the wine grower's son suspicious of the woman's relationship with his father.
15. "The Unknown Victim": Kidnappers abduct a girl that they mistakenly believe is a wealthy heiress.
16. "The Stalking Horse": An executive of a major research group that's working on top-secret government projects becomes involved with an espionage ring.
17. "Center of Peril": Erskine poses as an art expert to penetrate a gang of thieves (Vic Morrow, Gary Collins, Susan Howard) who are attempting to sell a million-dollar painting back to the museum from where it was stolen.
18. "The Eye of the Needle": The abduction of a surgeon by extortionists leads to a search through Washington's Cascade Mountains.
19. "The Fatal Connection": The FBI seeks to discover the identity of a crime lord that ordered the murder of a crusading newspaper columnist.
20. "The Replacement": Erskine goes undercover to pose as a Communist agent who's entered the country to replace an important American-based spy.
21. "Death Watch": A gang that's selling stolen military weapons to extremist groups is the focus of an intense FBI investigation, with the leader of the gang forced to deal with his girlfriend (Diane Keaton), who's against his motives.
22. "Downfall": A former college athlete uses daredevil tactics to steal gems for a crooked jeweler, while also secretly dating the jeweler's daughter (Anne Archer).
23. "The Hitchhiker": An AWOL Army private (Michael Douglas) uses a pair of hippies as decoys after robbing a bank.
24. "Turnabout": The only survivor (Warren Oates) of a half-million dollar robbery that was engineered by a crime syndicate is the focus of an FBI manhunt.
25. "The Natural": The bribery of college basketball players by a New York crime syndicate is investigated.
26. "Three-Way Split": The FBI attempts to find three criminals (Peter Haskell, Albert Salmi and Richard O'Brien) who went their separate ways after splitting nearly $1 million from a Denver bank robbery.

Season Seven

1. "Death on Sunday": A professional football player who's being victimized by extortionists seeks the help of the FBI.
2. "Recurring Nightmare": The abduction of an 18-year-old girl leads to the discovery that she had been with her father 10 years before, when he was killed after hiding $400,000 from a payroll robbery. The abductors turn out to be her father's partner in the crime and the partner's cellmate.
3. "The Last Job": A prison escapee is intent on planning a military payroll robbery.
4. "The Deadly Gift": A con artist (Fritz Weaver), in concert with a scheming assistant, attempts to bilk $100,000 out of a widow who convinces her that her missing son is still alive.
5. "Dynasty of Hate": A wealthy rancher's son hires a hit man (Henry Silva) to kill his younger brother in order to have the family inheritance all to himself, but the hired killer instead decides to hold the younger son for ransom.
6. "The Mastermind: Part 1": A traveling salesman masterminds the robbery of $1.8 million from an amusement park by four men disguised as entertainers, but then doublecrosses his cronies by fleeing with the money.
7. "The Mastermind: Part 2": The race to find a thief who cheated members of his gang out of money from a robbery takes place between the disgruntled cronies and the FBI, with the thief having resumed his everyday job.
8. "The Watch-Dog": Foreign agents make a concerted effort to steal plans to a top-secret project, with one using a former flame, which results in Erskine and the FBI entering the case.
9. "The Game of Terror": Two prep school students (Richard Thomas and Jerry Houser) lock a fellow classmate in a deserted mine shaft and demand a ransom for his safe return.
10. "End of a Hero": A former war hero agrees to pilot a getaway helicopter to aid in a robbery gang's quick escape.
11. "Superstition Rock": The investigation into the attempted murder of an Indian Affairs agent uncovers the fact that the agent was on the verge of discovering the identities of the people responsible for a series of mine accidents.
12. "The Minerva Tapes": Erskine infiltrates an espionage network and ends up getting caught in the middle of a power struggle.
13. "Bitter Harbor": An attempt by an organized crime leader to take over a fisherman's union involves providing money to the union's leader and results in the FBI stepping in to put an end to the threat.
14. "The Recruiter": A fugitive who is already being sought in connection with a bank robbery sets out to plan one more caper before he leaves the country, but decides to try rekindling a relationship with an old flame (Jessica Walter).
15. "The Buyer": Erskine goes undercover to serve as a representative of a fence who is contacted by a gang that stole $1 million worth of platinum.
16. "A Second Life": A hired killer (Martin Sheen) is being sought by both the FBI and the organized crime boss that is seeking to murder him for messing up an assignment. However, while hiding out, he finds love with a pregnant, hippie artist (Meg Foster).
17. "The Break-Up": A bank robber who's attempting to go straight is prodded by his wife to attempt one more big job on their behalf by a fence.
18. "Judas Goat": The purchase of a singer's contract by an organized crime loan shark draws the attention of Erskine and the FBI.
19. "The Hunters": A scientist who happens to be carrying vital defense secrets is the subject of a dual manhunt by the FBI and foreign agents.
20. "Arrangement with Terror": The theft of securities from a brokerage office by the wife of a heroin-addicted architect becomes a bigger concern when the involvement of organized crime comes to light.
21. "The Set-Up": In the midst of a search for the leader of a gang that pulled off a bank robbery, the man plots to rob and kill a wealthy aristocrat (Jessica Tandy).
22. "The Test": A young man (Robert Foxworth) who sets out to pay the ransom for his kidnapped father (Harold Gould) is the subject of surveillance by Erskine.
23. "The Corruptor": A man who is en route to a mysterious destination across the country is on a crime spree along the way.
24. "The Deadly Species": In order finance an effort to steal away her eight-year-old son from her ex-husband, a woman pulls a string of robberies.
25. "Dark Journey": A con man, with the help of his daughter (Lindsay Wagner), impersonates a famous "invisible" tycoon in order to sell stock in a fake company. However, his smooth talk comes back to haunt him when a loan shark forces him to set up the robbery of an illegal casino.
26. "Escape to Nowhere": While searching for escaped convict Mike Durgom (John Vernon), who's taken a widow and her young son hostage, Erskine discovers that an organized crime boss has put out a contract to have Durgom killed in order to prevent him from giving testimony at a trial.

Season Eight

1. "The Runner": While being pursued by the FBI, an escaped prisoner (David Soul) kidnaps a woman and takes her into the vast Oregon wilderness.
2. "The Edge of Desperation": A businessman masterminds his own kidnapping and uses the ransom money obtained from his father-in-law to flee with his mistress to New York.
3. "The Fatal Showdown": The heist of a valuable statue from a Manhattan art auction puts the FBI in pursuit of Ken Meade and his gang.
4. "The Franklin Papers": Con artist Christine Minton and her accomplice attempt to sell an amateur historian some forged documents.
5. "The Gopher": To crack a loan shark operation, the FBI sets out to find who stole a key book containing the borrower's names.
6. "End of a Nightmare": Escaped prisoner Darryl Ryder (Dean Stockwell) seeks to exact revenge on the people that were responsible for the annulment of his marriage.
7. "The Engineer": An unemployed aerospace engineer plots a $3 million robbery.
8. "A Game of Chess": Erskine impersonates a blind foreign scientist in an attempt to recover stolen American plans.
9. "The Wizard": A bank employee (Ross Martin) embezzles funds with the idea of using it to fund a much bigger heist of $3 million.
10. "The Loner": The FBI is pursuing John Morgan, who's pulled off a series of bank holdups by himself. However, along the way, Morgan runs afoul of a small-town racketeer.
11. "Canyon of No Return": Erskins attempts to catch up with a raft containing three holdup men (Henry Darrow, Albert Salmi and Jack Ging) and their hostages. The group is headed down the Rogue River toward a deadly waterfall.
12. "Holiday with Terror": 18-year-old Karen Collins goes away with two new friends on a vacation, unaware that they're demanding a ransom for her safe return.
13. "The Jug Marker": During the investigation of a bank robbery, the FBI is able to get a lead on Elias Devon (William Windom), a smooth operator who plots crimes.
14. "The Outcast": Paul Prentiss is a hijacker who's plotting one more big job before he leaves the United States for good. In the meantime, he's being pursued by Erskine.
15. "Dark Christmas": A hired killer takes a family hostage on Christmas Eve as he waits for the return of his intended victim.
16. "The Rap Taker": After a crime boss commits assault, he pays a young man to admit to the offense, which results in the FBI searching for a witness to the crime.
17. "A Gathering of Sharks": A couple (David Hedison and Jessica Walter) steal a valuable diamond and then try to re-sell it back to the owner. Erskine, going undercover as a golf pro, serves as the go-between in the proposed transaction.
18. "The Disinherited": A young man (Martin Sheen) believes that he should inherit an oil millionaire's wealth and commits extortion and attempted murder in order to try and make it happen.
19. "Desperate Journey": John Stahl (Vic Morrow) is an escaped prisoner who's being pursued by Erskine through rugged wilderness territory,
20. "The Double Play": Two con men (Stuart Whitman and Robert Foxworth) are attempting to fleece a young record industry tycoon, with Erskine and the FBI in hot pursuit of the duo.
21. "The Wedding Gift": A mother with a 12-year-old daughter who has been masterminding robberies meets a man and seeks to give up her past life.
22. "The Detonator": A prosecutor is marked for death, with Erskine tasked with finding the hit man who seeks to kill him.
23. "Sweet Evil": In the aftermath of a robbery, a pair of thieves go visit the woman's sister, who convinces them to take her along. The younger sister then evolves into a vicious criminal.
24. "Memory of a Legend": A retired safecracker (Pat Hingle) goes to visit his son and ends up getting talked into undertaking one last job.
25. "Night of the Long Knives": Erskine goes undercover as the caterer for the wedding of the daughter of a crime boss after rumors surface that a series of killings within an organized crime family are planned.
26. "The Loper Gambit": The son of a wealthy realtor is kidnapped and held in a deserted fort in the Florida Keys by a group led by a demented egomaniac. Soon after, a woman in the group begins to suspect that the leader plans on killing the victim.

Season Nine

1. "The Big Job": The FBI enlists the help of a computer to turn up suspects in a precise multi-million dollar robbery of an armored car firm.
2. "The Confession": The manager (Hal Linden) of a singing star blames her for the death of his son and kidnaps her daughter in retaliation.
3. "Break-In": Escaped convict Harlan Slade is the object of an FBI manhunt, with Erskine receiving a tip that he's planning a bank robbery.
4. "The Pay-off": Frank Rodman (Earl Holliman), who was bribed by organized crime to keep quiet about a shooting, is being sought by both the FBI and the mob, who plan on killing him to ensure his silence.
5. "The Exchange": Erskine poses as the head cashier of a race track who's been implicated in a robbery in order to set a trap for the thieves.
6. "Tower of Terror": After a man plants a powerful bomb in an office building, Erskine has 31 hours to try and find where he placed it before it detonates.
7. "Fatal Reunion": With Erskine in pursuit, a bank robber returns to the hometown where he was a football star and glamour boy and where he rekindles a romance with his high school sweetheart.
8. "Rules of the Game": The son of an organized crime leader attempts to kill a federal witness against the father, causing the FBI to conduct a manhunt for him.
9. "Fool's Gold": Nick Parrish (Lou Antonio) steals a valuable religious cross, but then loses possession of it to ex-convict Edward Hudson (Leslie Nielsen).
10. "The Killing Truth": Intent on revenge against Judge Nelson Harper, Joe Holloway fails on his first attempt but plans on trying again.
11. "The Bought Jury": When the trial of organized crime figure Mario Dracas results in a hung jury, Erskine investigates threats that were made against jurors.
12. "Ransom": Erskine suspects that kidnapped college student Tish Lemaire is actually colluding with her captors to get back at her stepmother.
13. "A Piece of the Action": Organized crime has infiltrated a trucking company, which subsequently leads to a series of hijackings.
14. "Selkirk's War": An embittered ex-Army officer helps two men break out of the stockade in order to help him rob both a bank and an Army payroll convoy.
15. "The Betrayal": Erskine searches for an escaped prisoner in order to not only save him from revenge-minded organized crime members, but also in an effort to get him to become an informant.
16. "The Animal": The FBI searches for Ben Sillman, a deranged enforcer for organized crime, before he's able to use his connections to get safely out of the country.^note No relation to the first season episode with the same title.
17. "The Two Million Dollar Hit": A plane that's carrying $2 million in travelers' checks is hijacked by a gang.
18. "Diamond Run": After James Danzer steals a fortune in diamonds, he's pursued by not only Erskine, but Gustave Becker (Eric Braeden), a ruthless mercenary who's employed by the diamond company.
19. "Deadly Ambition": After pulling off an armored car robbery, Ernie Cahn (Harvey Keitel) is the object of pursuit by both the FBI and organized crime.
20. "The Lost Man": An escaped convict (Robert Foxworth) abducts his former partner in a blackmail scheme.
21. "The Vendetta": A former crime boss, Rudy Keppler (John Vernon), is lured back from his hideout in Haiti by his former girlfriend, who's helping set up his execution by three of his former lieutenants.
22. "Confessions of a Madman": Erskine investigates the attempted murder of a college coed, with the main suspects being the woman's college professor (Daniel J. Travanti) and an aide to a swimming coach.
23. "Survival": Trying to get the seriously injured Chris Daniels to a doctor while in the rugged Arizona wilderness, Erskine is forced to contend with an escape-bent prisoner and a mysterious woman.

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