Henry Olek

Amy Hearn is an elderly Walnut Grove resident whose children don't seem to be trying hard enough to visit her. In an act of desperation, Amy decides that staging her own funeral is the only way to see them again, but it's a scam that she can't pull off by herself.

Distracted by his son's accident, Sgt. Getraer mistakenly releases a narcotics suspect.

Dillon finds himself in the revengeful hands of a half-crazed widower who plans, with the aid of his four surviving sons, to hunt Dillon down and kill him to revenge the death of his son, a wanted murderer.

Kathleen Nolan guest stars as a widow who falls in love with a wounded prisoner of Matt Dillon at a remote way station.

Mannix can't find the lady who he saw being attacked in her yard by 2 men, but he does find out that a woman was murdered there under the same scenario a year before.